An India-Pakistan peace conference to lay a road map for resolving disputes, including Kashmir, turned into a vociferous exchange of ideas when many voices from different regions and ethnic groups of the divided state raised their concerns about being ‘left out’.
Emotions and tensions ran high in the track-II diplomatic effort here Monday as participants and [...]
Srinagar, Jan 1 (IANS) Amid intelligence reports that he figures on the target list of militants, separatist leader Yasin Malik was taken into a preventive custody Friday when he was on way to a south Kashmir village to address a rally there, police said.
Malik, who is the chief of the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation [...]
Islamabad, Jan.1 (ANI): Reiterating its concerns over the alleged interference of India in Pakistan through Afghanistan, Pakistan Foreign Office has said that the situation in the region can not improve unless New Delhi stops its covert activities.
Addressing a press conference here, Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit said Pakistan wants stability in the region, but is [...]
Islamabad, Dec.30 (ANI): The United States has rebuffed reports that said that Washington is brokering talks between India and Pakistan to resolve the long pending Kashmir issue.
Responding to an article published in a local daily, which quoted President Barack Obama’s Special Envoy to Afghanistan [...]
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Pakistan Thursday described India’s announcement of troop withdrawals from Jammu and Kashmir as an attempt to divert the attention of the international community from the basic problem of the Kashmir dispute.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Abdul Basit expressed the views during a chat with Online news agency and state-run PTV.
Indian Defence [...]
Washington, Dec 16 (IANS) Richard Holbrooke, US Special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, says he is not working on the Kashmir issue even as he keeps India closely informed of his effort in the region where ‘India is hugely important factor.’
‘Let me be very clear. I am not working on that problem,’ he said at [...]
Jammu, Dec 11(ANI): Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai on Friday said that Pakistan has continued to encourage infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir from across the border.
Addressing the media in Jammu, Pillai said: “Infiltration continues and that is something which we have [...]
Washington, Dec.11 (ANI): The United States has clarified that the long pending Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan should be resolved bilaterally with active participation of the people of Kashmir.
Addressing a regular briefing, US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley said Washington has been discussing the decades-old issues with both the [...]
Srinagar, Dec 11 (IANS) Senior Hurriyat Conference leader Fazal Haq Qureshi, who was critically injured in a murderous attack last week, is making steady progress, a doctor said Friday.
‘He is improving and making steady progress. He also spoke to his relatives and attendants today (Friday),’ a senior doctor at the Sher-e-Kashmir Medical Institute Soura (SKIMS) [...]
Washington, Dec 11 (IANS) Ruling out a mediatory role in Kashmir, the United States has said that while it understood the importance of the issue to both India and Pakistan, it was ultimately between the two nations to resolve.
‘We understand the importance of the Kashmir issue to both Pakistan and India, and it is something [...]
Washington, Dec.9 (ANI) : US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen has said that he has discussed Pakistan’s allegations regarding India’s involvement in fanning insurgency in Balochistan with the Indian leadership.
Mullen told a private television channel here, that he has discussed Islamabad’s reservations with both his former and present Indian counterparts, including the [...]
Srinagar, Dec 7 (IANS) Senior Hurriyat Conference leader Fazal Haque Qureshi, who was in a critical condition since Friday after he was attacked by unidentified men here, was taken off life support systems, doctors attending on him said.
A team of neuro-surgeons examined 66-year-old Qureshi Monday afternoon in the Soura medical institute and said the separatist [...]
Srinagar/New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Senior Hurriyat Conference leader Fazal Haq Qureshi, a known Kashmir peacenik, was struggling for life in a Srinagar hospital Saturday after a murderous attack on him by unidentified men, as a protest shutdown against the attack hit life in the Kashmir Valley.
Qureshi, a senior leader of the moderate Hurriyat group [...]
Srinagar/New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Senior Hurriyat Conference leader Fazal Haq Qureshi, a known Kashmir peacenik, was struggling for life in a Srinagar hospital Saturday after a murderous attack on him by unidentified men, as life remained paralyzed in the Kashmir Valley in the wake of a separatist-called shutdown.
Qureshi, a senior leader of the moderate [...]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) The murderous attack on moderate Hurriyat leader Fazal Haq Qureshi will not be allowed to derail the peace process in Jammu and Kashmir, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Saturday while condemning the ‘cowardly’ assault on one of the known peaceniks of the state.
‘I am deeply distressed by the attack on [...]
Srinagar, Dec 4 (IANS) Unidentified men shot and critically injured Fazal Haque Qureshi, the senior most separatist leader and an important executive member of the moderate Hurriyat Conference, in this Jammu and Kashmir capital Friday evening, police said.
A senior police officer said guerrillas fired from pistols at Qureshi near his house in Soura locality, injuring [...]
Lahore, Dec.4 (ANI): Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has said that the US would need to step in to resolve pending issues and improve ties between India and Pakistan.
Talking to media persons during a meeting of Muslim League-Q leaders here, Kasuri said Washington should play its role in improving relationship between both [...]
New Delhi, Dec 1(ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said that he was waiting for the response of the Union Government after Chinese Army’s objection to the project of road construction in Ladakh.
Addressing the media outside the Parliament House [...]
Srinagar, Nov 26 (ANI): European Union (EU) delegation has described Jammu and Kashmir as an integral and important part of India, but also stated that it needs a solution through peaceful talks between India, Pakistan and concerned people in Kashmir.
A five-member EU delegation, which is on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday [...]
Lahore, Nov.25 (ANI): At the time when Islamabad is pushing for resolution of the Kashmir issue in accordance with the UN resolutions of 1948 and 1949, Pakistan Muslim League -Quaid (PML-Q) Secretary General Humayun Akhtar Khan has revealed that the PML-Q government was involved in back-channel diplomacy with India to resolve the long pending issue.
Addressing [...]
New Delhi/Srinagar, Nov 20 (IANS) Moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is slated to travel to China, has said Beijing has a ‘direct link with Kashmir’.
The Mirwaiz, who is set to visit China on the invitation of an NGO, said China has ‘a huge influence in the region and has a direct link with [...]
New Delhi/Srinagar, Nov 20 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir’s separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was free to travel anywhere he wanted to, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said here Friday. The chief of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference plans to visit China and Pakistan after Eid on Nov 28.
‘He (the Mirwaiz) is free to [...]
Washington, Nov.20 (ANI): Stressing that pending issues between India and Pakistan should be resolved amicably by both countries, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that a resumption of bilateral talks is very important.
In an interview with the BBC, the transcripts of which was released by the State Department here, Clinton said Washington is [...]
Srinagar, Nov 13 (IANS) Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was released on bail here Friday evening, hours after he was hospitalised while in detention.
Geelani was arrested from outside the Kashmir University on Wednesday, and was shifted to the high security central jail by the authorities’ Thursday evening.
He had to be hospitalised Friday morning [...]
Srinagar, Nov 12 (IANS) Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was Thursday evening shifted to the central jail in Srinagar, a day after he was arrested from outside the University of Kashmir campus where he met students and asked them to continue ‘peaceful struggle for the resolution of the Kashmir issue’.
Police arrested Geelani Wednesday immediately [...]
Islamabad, Nov.12 (ANI): Polling for 23 legislative seats in the Gilgit-Baltistan province concluded at 4 p.m. local time on Thursday, eight hours after voting commenced. The first votes were cast at around 9 a.m.
A total number of 256 candidates [...]
Islamabad, Nov.3 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Islamabad’s principled stance on the long pending Kashmir issue would remain unchanged, and that it would continue to extend political, moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmiris.
During a meeting with Pakistan occupied [...]
Lahore, Nov. 2 (ANI): Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer has reassured newly elected prime minister of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Raja Farooq Haider Khan, that Pakistan will continue to support the freedom struggle of the Kashmiris.
The Daily Times quoted Taseer as saying [...]
Lahore, Oct.30 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif has urged US President Barack Obama to deliver on his promises of addressing the Kashmir issue.
Sharif met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton here and told her that Obama, during his presidential campaign, had promised to work towards promoting peace in the region and help [...]
Anantnag (J-K), Oct.28 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said he is ready to hold talks with all sections of society in Jammu and Kashmir to find a political and a diplomatic solution of the issue.
Addressing a public rally here before inaugurating the railway section [...]
