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The Indian Express Kamaldeep Singh Brar August 23, 2019  Pakistan has stopped trade with India at Integrated Check Post Attari as well as scrapped the Samjhauta Express service after India scrapped Article 370 that granted special status to J&K. India Pakistan relations, indian traders, Quarantine inspection, India trade with pakistan, Pakistan, Attari-Wagah, Attari-Wagah checkpost, Attari-Wagah border, Pakistan army, indian army.  Around 44,000 trucks come from Pakistan to India via ICP each year, loaded with goods from Pakistan and Afghanistan. WITH TRADE between India and Pakistan via Attari-Wagah having virtually come to a standstill, transporters, truck drivers, conductors and mechanics are struggling to make ends meet. Pakistan has stopped trade with India at Integrated Check Post Attari as well as scrapped the Samjhauta Express service after India scrapped Article 370 that granted special status to J&K. “After the Pulwama attack, the ...

The Wire Manoj Joshi Dated March 25, 2019 Three Recent Events Prove the Alarm Bells Are Ringing Louder Than Ever in Kashmir The most alarming of these events was the custodial death of a Jamaat member and school principal – likely due to torture.   We know that events in Jammu and Kashmir have been sliding backwards for some time now. The rising death toll in the Valley, the increased recruitment of Valley inhabitants into the armed militancy and the repeated crackdowns and curfews have been signalling this for a while. But three events in recent weeks are ringing the alarm bells louder than ever. The first was the custodial death of Rizwan Asad Pandit earlier this month. He was reportedly a Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu & Kashmir (JIJK) activist and school principal, who had been arrested by the National Investigation Agency. The second was the banning of the JIJK itself and the third, the ban on the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front. These events seem ...

The Telegraph July 12, 2018 Imran Ahmed Siddiqi The Union home ministry has voiced doubts over the utility of persisting with Dineshwar Sharma as the government's interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir in a situation where separatists have been refusing to meet him since the state came under governor's rule last month. Even civil rights groups and common people are reluctant to engage with the former Intelligence Bureau chief. Sources said Sharma had in a report to the home ministry expressed anguish over the political fallout in the state and its impact on his efforts to carry forward the dialogue process with all stakeholders. "The role of Sharma is now in a limbo. In the absence of a government in the state, people who had earlier engaged with Sharma have now refused to hold any dialogue with him," a ministry official said. "He was in touch with some of the separatist leaders and was looking forward to a meeting with them but things have now beco...

NDTV July 10,2018 ANI A Canada-based Pakistani Imam has claimed that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein was in constant touch with him while preparing his recent report on alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir. The report tears into both India and Pakistan for human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Based in Toronto, Zafar Bangash is an Imam at the Islamic Society of York Region's mosque. While speaking at a conference on Kashmir in Canada's Mississauga, Mr Bangash said, "I can say it to you, and I say it with all humility, but with great pride that we 'The Friends of Kashmir' also have a role in the production of this report. In fact, I had personal correspondence with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, e-mail correspondence in which he responded to my personal letter and e-mail saying that he would like to have access to both sides of Line of Cont...

The Indian Express Arun Sharma February 13, 2018 Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said “we will be providing evidence to prove that the handlers are back in Pakistan and they are the mastermind, influencing all this”. Blaming Masood Azhar’s Jaish-e-Mohammad for the attack on the Sunjuwan military station in Jammu and warning Pakistan that it “will pay for this misadventure”, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said “the demography of the cantonment and adjoining areas indicates the possibility of local support to the terrorists”. “All evidences which have been collected are now being compiled and, definitely, these will be given, as always, to Pakistan. Yet Pakistan, in spite of being given dossier after dossier, has not taken any action,” Sitharaman told reporters in Jammu. “On the contrary, we find that people who were directly responsible for the Mumbai attack and many others, particularly Mumbai attack, are free, and are happily roaming in Pakistan,” ...

Dawn Munir Akram August 20, 2017 WHILE celebrating the nation’s 70th independence anniversary, we cannot forget that the ‘K’ in Pakistan’s name — Kashmir — is not (yet) part of our country. The men, women and children of India-held Kashmir (IHK) are even now engaged in a heroic David and Goliath struggle for freedom from India’s brutal occupation and oppression. Pakistan has done very little to support them. An equitable solution to the Jammu and Kashmir dispute will not be easy. However, for political, strategic, moral and legal reasons, Pakistan cannot resile from its position on Kashmir. By any objective criteria, Kashmir should have been part of Pakistan. The Kashmiris demonstrate each day their desire for integration with Pakistan. Pakistan has a political and moral obligation to support their aspirations and the political vision that inspired its own creation. Some among Pakistan’s elites appear to have lost the will to support the occupied territory’s struggle. ...

The Times of India IANS, February 03, 2018 NEW DELHI:  Pakistan  is offering scholarships to Kashmiri students to prepare a generation which will be inclined towards it and most of the youth on student visa in the neighbouring country were relatives of terrorists, the National Investigation Agency said in its chargesheet in the terror funding case. "During the course of investigation, it was ascertained that students who were proceeding to Pakistan on student visas were either relatives of ex-terrorists or relatives of families of active terrorists who had indulged in various anti-national activities and had migrated to Pakistan or they were known to  Hurriyat  leaders," it said. The probe agency also claimed that their visa applications were recommended to the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi by various Hurriyat leaders including hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The chargesheet filed in a court here on January 18 reveale...