RAWALPINDI - Arif Shahid, chief of All Parties National Alliance (APNA), was gunned down by unknown persons on the night between Monday and Tuesday.

Media reports said unidentified persons killed Arif Shahid, 62, when he was coming home from his office. Muhammad Rizwan, driver of the deceased,

Syed Jafar Aksari

Karachi: War is nothing but destruction while table talk is the only solution to the Kashmir issue.

Pakistan Muslim League (N) wants Kashmiri people to fight their legal case by their own will, said PML-N Vice President Azad Kashmir, Kashan Masood while having special talk

Hameed Shaheen

ISLAMABAD - The chief of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples' Party (JKPPP), Sardar Khalid Ibrahim Khan has criticised AJK President Haji Sardar Mohammad Yaqub Khan who had, a few days ago, announced to visit IHK if the Srinagar administration sends him a formal invitation.

MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed dismissed on Monday Indian allegations of Pakistan’s interference in held Kashmir and reminded Delhi that Pakistan is a key party to the dispute as determined by the United Nations Security Council resolutions.

MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 28 (INP): Deputy Commissioner Neelum Valley, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Raja Saqib Muneer died when landslide buried his vehicle here on Thursday.

According to details, DC Raja Saqib Muneer while on way to Muzaffarabad from Neelum valley was trapped under landslide in Gamsar area of AJK.

By Zulfiqar Ali

The army in Pakistani-administered Kashmir says it is investigating the alleged torture of a local youth that led to his death last week.

Ali Murtaza's family say he died while held by the army's secret service near a border checkpoint in Kotli sector.

POONCH, Feb 26: Security officials today deported 75-year-old visitor Ghulam Hassan to Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PAK) from whose possession a live AK-47 round was recovered at Chakan-Da-Bagh, yesterday.

MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 19 (INP): The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Jock Conly and Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, awarded scholarships to 150 students studying education from AJK University in Muzaffarabad.

MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 16 (INP): Former prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and president of Muslim Conference Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan Saturday denounced the inhuman and brutal killing of Afzal Guru by India in Tihar Jail as a cowardly act.

ISLAMABAD: Indian troops shot and killed a Pakistani soldier who crossed the makeshift border separating Indian and Pakistani held Kashmir, officials said on Friday.

Islamabad: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) allowed overruling of objections raised by the system in sales tax refund claims where suppliers are registered with Azad Kashmir and manual verification is done by tax authorities in the same region. Sources said on Saturday that the FBR had drafted a Sales Tax General Order on the over-ruling 'system objections' related to sales tax refund claims.

-- CJ says sans active participation of bar goal of speedy justice at door step of public at large cannot be fulfilled

ISLAMABAD, Jan 23 (INP): A 13-member delegation of Supreme Court Bar Association, AJ&K headed by its President Raja Fazal Hussain Rubani, and comprising other office bearers called on the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Wednesday in the Supreme Court, Islamabad.

Hameed Shaheen

MUZAFFARABAD - The Azad Kashmir government will observe Black Day on January 14 in response to unprovoked firing from Indian troops on Line of Control (LOC) which resulted in martyrdom of two Pakistani soldiers. Addressing a protest rally against the recent incident of firing on LOC in Central Press Club here, the AJ&K Premier Ch. Abdul Majeed said that protest

Srinagar: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan-administered Kashmir (PaK) and president of Muslim Conference Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan has warned of a “fresh struggle by Indian Pathans to liberate Kashmir.”

“I am looking at the matter in the context of a new theory which is that the Pathans living in India will disrupt the peace in India if steps for resolving Kashmir issue are not taken,” Khan was quoted as saying

ISLAMABAD, Dec 23 (INP): Federal government has invited applications from Master Degree Holders of Gilgit-Baltistan, FATA and Azad Jammu and Kashmir for one year internship programme.

The last date for the receipt of application is 31st December. Selected candidates would be given monthly stipend of Rs 10,000.

Srinagar, Dec 15: A feature film on Kashmir is set to be released in Pakistan capital Ismalamabad on 16 December. Political leaders and activists of Pakistan Administered Kashmir and journalists were present on the occasion.

Intra-Kashmir Cross LoC Women’s Dialogue, Muzaffarabad, 2012

Mrs. Nayyar Malik

Embracing the J&K ladies when they crossed over Kaman bridge, at the LoC crossing in Chikothi, some 73 km South of Muzaffarabad, was unbelievable and overwhelming; the realization of a promise made at the end of the second Intra-Kashmir Cross LoC Women’s Dialogue at Gulmarg in Sept 2011.

Muzaffarabad: The Prime Minister AJ&K Chaudry Abdul Majeed has said that Pakistan has always been the center of hopes and ultimate destination for Kashmiris adding that Kashmiris would achieve their goal whatever the hindrances may come. He expressed his views during an address to a plot distribution ceremony among the Kashmiris refuges in Muzaffarabad.

MUZAFFARABAD: Cross-border fire from Indian troops has killed a man and wounded three other civilians in two Pakistani villages, local officials said Monday.

The shooting was reported along the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border that separates Indian and Pakistani-administered zones in the Himalayan region of Kashmir.

PML-N & JKPP to work jointly in AJK

LAHORE, Dec 4 (INP): Pakistan Muslim League President Mian Nawaz Sharif has said that his party would continue to support te resolution of Kashmir issue in line with the aspirations of Kashmiri people.

IT is a great pity that a unique conference in Muzaffarabad, held early last month, has not received the attention which it so richly deserves. On Nov 5, the first-ever delegation of women civil activists crossed the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir to attend a conference.

Kashmir avalanche search resumes

At least 18 people are missing, including eight Pakistani soldiers, after being hit by an avalanche in the disputed Kashmir region, officials say.

The avalanche struck in the mountainous Neelum Valley, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 27 (INP): The Azad Kashmir High Court on Tuesday accepted the writ petition filed by the Kashmir Virsa Bachao Committee regarding the return of precious antiques of Sharda, alleged to have been illegally removed from Neelum Valley to Muzaffarabad, for regular hearing.

Women delegates at an Intra-Kashmir cross-Line of Control (LoC) dialogue held in Muzaffarabad (Nov 5-7 2012) have issued a consensus statement calling on the governments to ease the cross-LoC travel regime.

The dialogue was the third in a series that seeks to bring women's agency into the peace process across LoC.

Mirpur -Azad Kashmir (Agencies): The first foreign policy issue Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government will solve is the Kashmir problem, its chairman Imran Khan said Thursday.
Speaking to a gathering in Mirpur area of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Imran said his government will solve the problem through dialogue as military solutions have failed in the past.