Stay within limits, GB CM tells media men SKARDU: PPP leader and Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan Sayed Mehdi Shah warned the national and local media men that they should remain within limits, as he was not dependent on media coverage by them. He lashed out at the journalist community while addressing a ceremony to mark the anniversary of PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal in Skardu on Saturday. After the statement of the…
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UN resolutions on AJK still stir controversy MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 5: Rallies were held in Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) to mark the January 5, 1949 UN Security Council resolution on Kashmir, which gave the Kashmiri people the right, through adult franchise, to either chose India or Pakistan. Although it was never implemented. Some groups in AJK out rightly reject the resolution, while others support it. Activists of pro-independence National Students Federation (NSF) held a rally here…
‘Jihad can resolve Kashmir issue’: by Tariq Naqash in Dawn, Jan 6 MUZAFFARABAD: United Jihad Council chairman and Hizbul Mujahideen ‘supreme commander’ Syed Salahuddin said on Saturday that those calling for settlement of the Kashmir issue through peaceful means were in fact deceiving the innocent Kashmiris, adding that an armed struggle was the only way to resolve the dispute. Addressing a press conference, he said that experience of the past 65 years should convince any…