by Anwar Iqbal in Aug 30, 2019 WASHINGTON: The military has retained a dominant influence over foreign and security policies in Pakistan, according to a US congressional report released on Wednesday. But it also noted that the country’s army chief is a non-political professional. The report, prepared for US lawmakers by the bipartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS), comes amidst growing concern in Washington over the Kashmir dispute. Last week, a US think tank warned that…
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report in Dawn, August 24th, 2019 KARACHI: The office of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has distanced the head of state from remarks regarding India-held Kashmir as well as mediation offer between Pakistan and India, as mentioned in a press release issued by the Pakistan High Commission in Sri Lanka. The press release was issued on Wednesday after a meeting between Pakistan High Commissioner retired Maj Gen Dr Shahid Ahmad Hashmat and President Sirisena, which…
by Sabir Shah in The News, August 16, 2019 LAHORE: With the exception of China perhaps, which nourishes a longstanding enmity with India for decades and has a historic friendship bond with Pakistan, not many major world countries have aired anything substantial on the worsening human rights situation in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) and the atrocities being meted out to the freedom fighters by the well-equipped state forces deployed in the occupied Valley, the bloody…
AP report in Dawn, August 16th, 2019 DUBAI: Gulf Arab countries have remained mostly silent as India’s government moved to strip Jammu and Kashmir of its limited autonomy, impose a sweeping curfew in the disputed Himalayan region and cut off residents from all communication and the internet. This muted response is underpinned by more than $100 billion in annual trade with India that makes it one of the Arabian Peninsula’s most prized economic partners. Regional…
by Tariq Naqash in Dawn, August 14th, 2019 MUZAFFARABAD: To the dismay of Kashmiris, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi painted a rather grim picture and said on Monday that no one was waiting at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to garland Pakistan and that the climate might not be conducive to resolution of the Kashmir issue. Addressing a press conference along with Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan, he said many…
by Umber Khairi in TNS, Aug 11, 2019 The author is a former BBC broadcaster and producer, and one of the founding editors of Newsline. What do you call making a territory part of your own country? An annexation? An occupation? An invasion? Whatever you want to call it, it’s what India did last week to the disputed territory the world knows as Indian-administered Kashmir. India revoked its special constitutional status and made it a…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, August 10th, 2019 WASHINGTON: The United States said on Friday that there has been no change in its policy on Kashmir, as Washington continues to regard it as a territory disputed between India and Pakistan. At a US State Department news briefing, spokesperson Morgan Ortagus described Kashmir as “certainly an incredibly important issue” that the United States continued to “follow closely”. “No,” said Ms Ortagus when asked if there has…
report in Dawn, July 30th, 2019 LAHORE: The Sikh diaspora has baulked at Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar’s assurance of giving 14 times more land for preservation around the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur. In a letter to the governor, American Sikh Council’s office-holders Dr Gurdas Singh, Mrs Jasbir Kaur and Kavneet Singh, president, vice president and chief advocacy officer, respectively, on behalf of the world Sikh community bemoaned that multiplying three-acre Gurdwara complex 14 times to…
By Hasnaat Mailk in The Express Tribune, July 17, 2019 ISLAMABAD: The next couple of months are crucial for Pakistan’s cases at international legal forums, The Express Tribune has learnt. According to Foreign Office sources, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has recently closed proceedings to determine the quantum of the damages to be awarded against Pakistan in the Reko Diq mines case and may announce a decision either towards the tail…
The writer is a former editor of The Express Tribune. This month a teenage Hindu girl, Payal Kumari, was abducted by her teacher from district Thatta. Police looked the other way as Payal went missing for several days before appearing to record her statement at a madrassa. Payal joins the thousands of Hindu girls in Pakistan who are either abducted or leave of their own accord and end up converting to Islam and marrying a…
by Imran Ali Kundi in The Nation, June 14, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has no hope to receive its pending amount from United States under Coalition Support Fund (CSF) receipts in next fiscal year, as the government has excluded it from the budget estimates. The government had kept the CSF amount under non-tax revenues in previous budgets. The government has targeted to generate Rs 894.5 billion from the non-tax revenues during FY2020 as against budgeted…