Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that terrorist incidents such as the attack on Delhi’s embassy in Kabul were intended to harm friendship with Pakistan, but he also urged Islamabad to do more to thwart them.
“Our goal in South Asia is to seek a peaceful, stable and prosperous neighbourhood,” Mr Singh said in […]
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Singh says terrorists harming friendship with Pakistan
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Pushing Kashmir toward Pakistan
Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar
When I first visited Kashmir in 1981, the pros and cons of accession to India or Pakistan inevitably cropped up in conversation. One government official argued that the Kashmiri economy, highly dependent on fruit, had suffered because the state had become part of India rather than Pakistan.
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Indian Army admits involvement of its personnel in human rights violations in IHK
The Indian Army while admitting that its personnel are involved in human rights violations in occupied Kashmir said punitive action was taken against 80 personnel.
Media reports quoting General Officer commanding Srinagar-based 15 corps, Lt Gen Mukesh Sabarwal speaking at a seminar in Srinagar said 26 accusations of human rights abuses against the troops have been […]
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Kashmiris angry, distrust Pakistan’s parties
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Kashmiris accused Pakistani political parties on Monday of turning their back on them and their struggle against Indian occupation after last month’s elections in Pakistan.
Anger simmered in Kashmir after Asif Ali Zardari, leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), told an Indian television channel that relations between India and Pakistan should […]
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‘Indo-Pak ties can progress if Kashmir issue is kept aside’
Contending that the Kashmir issue was already on the “back-burner”, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Ahmed Mukhtar onn Monday expressed confidence that Indo-Pak relations can progress if it was kept aside.
Mukhtar, one of the contenders for the Prime Minister’s post, told NDTV, “we should leave that issue (Kashmir) on a side and then work. […]
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Love messages to Pakistan on Valentine’s day
Jammu: A rubber tube decorated with flowers and messages of love was set afloat on river Chenab for people in Pakistan on Valentine’s Day by members of a political party in a Jammu and Kashmir town Thursday morning.
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Salahuddin smells Indian agents in Hurriyat (M)
Syed Salahuddin, Chairman of United Jihad Council – in his latest interview has said that the militants would support the revival of Hurriyat Conference under Mirwiaz Umar Farooq as long as the forum remained committed to the right of self-determination and realizing the goal for which the sacrifices were offered. He has also regretted Shabir […]
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Division of Kashmir not acceptable, Gilgit Baltistan part of Kashmir: Attique
MUZAFFARABAD, June 30 (Online): Declaring Gilgit Baltistan part of Kashmir, Prime Minister Azad Kashmir Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan has categorically stated that division of Kashmir would not be accepted at any cost. Winding up the budget debate in AJK Legislative Assembly, Sardar Attique Ahmed said that State of Jammu and Kashmir consisted of five parts […]
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Kashmir Int’l Film Festival in Local Cocoon
Srinagar: They seem to have gone cyber without remembering to take off on the ground. How else does one explain an upcoming event being splashed on the internet, but deprived of a matching effort in publicity at the local level ? except for a laudatory press release a day or two earlier?
Amazingly, the promoters were […]
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Qayyum contradicts Pak’s claims about J&K terror camps
The former prime minister of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir Sardar Abdul Qayyum has admitted there were and could still be terror camps in the part of Jammu and Kashmir usurped by Pakistan at the time of Partition.
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