SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Indian revenue authorities in the occupied Kashmir have ordered that power and water supply for 409 Muslim Rohingya refugee families be cut off. This is part of an ongoing crackdown aimed at eventually deporting them to their troubled homeland in Myanmar. A revenue document outlines the private properti...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Unknown attackers shot dead two members of a government-funded civilian militia in the Jammu province of Indian-occupied Kashmir. Kuldeep Kumar and Nazir Ahmed were abducted from Kishtwar area by members of Kashmir Tigers pro-liberation outfit. The incident evoked condemnation from the region’s Lt. Gove...
SRINAGAR, Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – The newly elected government in the Indian-occupied Muslim majority territory of Kashmir has passed a resolution asking India to restore the disputed region’s special autonomous status that was scrapped in 2019 by the ruling Hindu nationalist government. More than 50 members of the 90-member le...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India and China have reached an agreement on patrolling arrangements along the disputed border in Indian occupied Ladakh, according to a senior Indian Foreign Ministry official. “Over the last several weeks, Indian and Chinese diplomats and military negotiators have been in close contact with each other, and as a result ...
ANKARA (AA) – India has revoked direct rule in occupied Jammu and Kashmir ahead of the formation of a new elected government in the region. According to a notification signed by President Droupadi Murmu, the order dated October 31, 2019 in relation to the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir shall stand revoked immediately before [&helli...
Although Kashmir may be voting in large numbers, systematic disenfranchisement of the majority Muslim community population not only undermines democratic principles but also risks further eroding their trust in the democratic process and governance By Iftikhar Gilani The democratic framework of many nations, including in South Asia, is modeled...
Approximately 20,000 people attended the 61st annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America or ISNA at Dallas’ Anatole Convention Centre over Labor Day weekend. It was the first time ISNA has held the annual conference in Dallas, which featured more than 100 speakers, interfaith events, and panels focused on critical issues ...
SRINAGAR, Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Five Indian soldiers, including an officer, were killed during a military exercise in the eastern Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir when their tank was swept away by the raging waters of the Shyok river, officials said. The soldiers from the occupying Indian army in the region […...
KARACHI / NEW DELHI (AA) – Pakistan has rejected the Indian parliament’s legislation on the future of the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, dubbing it a “farce.” India’s parliament on Wednesday passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Amendment) Bill 2023 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill 2023....
Canada denied visa to Indian security officials after finding that a military officer implicated in the murder of a senior Kashmiri lawyer had been facilitated entry into Canada By Iftikhar Gilani Diplomatic tensions between India and Canada have taken new proportions in recent days with the expulsion of diplomats and retaliatory measures. The...
