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Date: 17 May 2012

Hameed Shaheen

ISLAMABAD - Sardar Khalid Ibrahim, President of Jammu and Kashmir People Party (JKPP), has said that the Kashmiris would accept the democratic solution of Kashmir dispute which is based on their aspirations in the light of the relevant UN resolutions.



Date: 16 May 2012

NEW YORK, May 16 (Agencies): A diamond-platinum ring with a 8.99 carat Kashmir sapphire sold for $527,500 (Rs 2.86 crore) at an auction in New York at more than double of its pre-sale estimate.

The identity of the buyer of the ring that had a pre-sale estimate of $250,000-350,000 was not immediately known.

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Date: 16 May 2012

NEW DELHI, May 16 (INP): The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been vilifying Indian secret agencies and security services, Indian media reports said.

According to reports Pakistani spy service is vilifying the Indian agencies by feeding wrong information through various means.



Date: 16 May 2012

Srinagar May 16: (VMS) Jama’at-e-Islami, Tehsil Pampore is going to hold its annual one day Tehsil congregation on 20th May, 2012(Sunday) with great enthusiasm and fervor at Zantrag field, Drangabal in which the central leadership of Jama’at-e-Islami, J&K will deliver lectures on different topics to make an awareness amongst the esteemed listeners about the ever practicable teachings of Islam,



 
Date: 15 May 2012

SRINAGAR, May 15 (INP): Mysterious posters, supposedly pasted by the militant outfits have sent the security forces into tizzy in north Kashmir. Two youth have been picked up as part of the investigations to unravel truth behind the alleged militant 'hit list'.



Date: 15 May 2012

NEW DELHI, May 15 (INP): Ahead of the India-Pakistan home secretary-level talks, Pakistan high commissioner Shahid Malik on Tuesday met home secretary R K Singh and discussed with him various aspects of the proposed meeting during which an accord for a liberalised visa regime is expected to be inked.



Date: 15 May 2012

Srinagar, May 15 (KNS): The Jammu & Kashmir Bar Association Tuesday issued a statement terming the UN resolutions as the only solution to the vexed Kashmir issue.

The Bar Association held a meeting of the executive members here and discussed the recent statement issued by some leaders including Prof Abdul Gani Bhat and resolved that the UN solutions



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Features   Opinions
Date: 15 May 2012

Kashmir the only place in world where lies are told in an organized manner, Justice Kirmani

Ahmad Kashmiri

Srinagar: Sham’a Foundation, a Valley based, NGO, conducted here a symposium in collaboration with Govt. College of Education Srinagar in its auditorium



Date: 14 May 2012

The frail old man feels that the instant rush of tourists in Pahalgam has affected the natives in a manner that is threatening their existence now. “They have turned the entire area into cemented jungle. There were hardly any buildings here. Only a few shops in the main market that too mostly owned by traders from Peshawar and Lahore,” he claims.
According to Bhat even the annual rush of pilgrims to Amarnath cave was limited to a few hundred only.

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Date: 15 May 2012

By Zaheerul Hassan

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has been invited to attend a Chicago conferee. According to President’s spokesman Sectary General of Nato has called President Zardari on Phone and officially invited him for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).



Date: 15 May 2012

HASSAN ZAINAGAIRI

Professor Abdul Gani Bhat is on fire. Many of his own faction-ridden Hurriyat (M) Conference constituents, besides others, have pulled their knives out. There is a furious uproar on his speech he delivered in his native village Botingo last Sunday.



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Interviews   Human Rights
Date: 14 May 2012

Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani talks about his family background, hardships he faced to attain education and his journey from a north Kashmir hamlet to Srinagar. In an exclusive interview to Greater Kashmir Senior Editor Javaid Malik, Geelani reveals how he first became a reporter then a teacher and a politician.



Date: 7 May 2012

Senior National Conference leader and Member Parliament from south Kashmir Dr Mehboob Beg believes that 2010 unrest was not a law and order problem. He summed it up as genuine protest held for the resolution of Kashmir issue. In an exclusive interview to GK Senior Editor Javaid Malik, Dr Beg discussed various aspects of Kashmir situation and the compulsions of the coalition government.



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Date: 13 May 2012

By Abdul Majid Zargar

The Supreme Court judgment in Pathribal fake encounter case constitutes a severe assault on the right to life of common people living in conflict areas like Kashmir.



Date: 13 May 2012

• Denies prosecution sanction under AFSPA citing faulty investigations
• Questions veracity of witness accounts
• Says conclusions drawn under pressure from militant sympathizers to malign Army’s image

Wasim Khalid



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AJK   Asia
Date: 17 May 2012

In light of the judgment, two posts of judges in AJK High Court stand vacant and are to be filled within the stipulated time.

MIRPUR: In a historical judgment on Wednesday, the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Supreme Court dismissed an appeal of two judges appointed by former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf requesting their reinstatement.



Date: 14 May 2012

TARIQ NAQASH

Muzaffarabad, May 13: Young Kashmiri migrants staged a rally here on Sunday to pay tributes to Kashmiri mothers.

Coinciding with the World Mothers’ Day, the rally also drew attention of the United Nations towards its seemingly forgotten responsibilities to resolve the longstanding Kashmir issue and thus bring the sufferings of Kashmiris to an end.



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Date: 16 May 2012

By Anna Malindog

Are efforts made by the Philippines at resolving impasse with China over Scarborough Shoal futile and ambiguous?

“I again saw under the sun that race is not to the swift, and the battle is not to the warriors”



Date: 15 May 2012

Hameed Shaheen

ISLAMABAD - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has shown concern over what he perceives as "the rising tensions and disruption of daily life in parts of Nepal" stemming from the debate over its future federal system and "at the failure, so far, of political leaders to forge a consensus on their outstanding differences



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Europe   World
Date: 13 May 2012

By: Gwynne Dyer

Last year, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel warned: “Nobody should believe that another half-century of peace in Europe is a given. If the euro collapses, Europe collapses. That can’t happen.” But there is now a risk that the euro, the 10-year-old common European currency, might indeed collapse. The trigger could turn out to be last weekend’s election in Greece.



Date: 10 May 2012

Hameed Shaheen

ISLAMABAD - Nato's aerial dominance initiative received Thursday an initial set-back when the German lawmakers vetoed their government's push for funding its drone project, international reports said. Germany is one of the members of Nato.



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Date: 15 May 2012

Sajjad Shaukat

Although in the past few years, the United States has been following an elusive policy towards Pakistan, yet it has intensified after May 2, last year when US killed Osama Bin Laden in a covert operation. In these terms, clear-cut paradoxes could be noted in the statements of American high officials.



Date: 14 May 2012

By Bill van Auken

[opednews.com]

One day after publicly announcing that the CIA had foiled an Al Qaeda plot to bomb a commercial airliner, US officials revealed Tuesday that the would-be bomber was in fact an informant working for the CIA and Saudi intelligence.



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