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Nawaz Sharif’s Kashmir remarks: A bid to boost popularity or a genuine concern?

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Nawaz Sharif's Kashmir remarks: A bid to boost popularity or a genuine concern?

Nawaz Sharif has made the right overture by saying he wants to reach out to India. But he needs to get permission from the Pakistan Army before any initiative. Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif marked his homecoming with a mega rally in Lahore’s Minar-e-Pakistan. The 73-year-old Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) supremo raised the Kashmir issue while addressing his party workers. Sharif, who ended his self-imposed exile in London, also said there was a need to have an effective foreign policy and ‘good relations’ with neighbours, without mentioning India. What…

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UK MP’s PoK Visit, A Diplomatic Gamble: Calls for UN-Monitored Plebiscite in Kashmir

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UK MP's PoK Visit, A Diplomatic Gamble: Calls for UN-Monitored Plebiscite in Kashmir

UK MP’s Visit to PoK Sparks Diplomatic Tensions Between India and the UK The recent visit of UK Member of Parliament (MP), Andrew Gwynne, to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), along with his call for a UN-monitored plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), has ignited a diplomatic dispute between India and the UK. Mr. Gwynne’s visit on September 26 included meetings with several Pakistani officials, including the Prime Minister of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. He also engaged with representatives of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a separatist group active in J&K. During his visit,…

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Garcetti: Kashmir Issue Must Be Resolved by India and Pakistan, Not Third Party

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Garcetti: Kashmir Issue Must Be Resolved by India and Pakistan, Not Third Party

US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti was responding to questions on US ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome’s multi-day visit to Gilgit-Baltistan Days after the US envoy to Pakistan made a low-profile visit to Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the US ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, said on Tuesday that the Kashmir issue can only be resolved by New Delhi and Islamabad. Donald Blome, the US ambassador to Pakistan, made a multi-day visit to Gilgit-Baltistan that concluded on Sunday. He toured different parts of the strategic region and met several officials,…

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Turkish President Erdogan urges India-Pakistan talks on Kashmir at UN

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Turkish President Erdogan urges India-Pakistan talks on Kashmir at UN

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again raised the Kashmir issue saying that resolving it through dialogue by India and Pakistan will lead to regional stability. “Developments that will pave the way for regional peace, stability and prosperity in South Asia will be the establishment of a just and lasting peace in Kashmir through dialogue and cooperation between India and Pakistan,” he said on Tuesday at the high-level UN General Assembly meeting. “Turkiye will continue to support the steps to be taken in this direction,” he added. His latest comment…

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Kashmir Issue: Farooq Abdullah says India, Pakistan must hold talks with ‘Open Mind’

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Kashmir Issue: Farooq Abdullah says India, Pakistan must hold talks with 'Open Mind'

National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said promoting border tourism or holding rallies in Jammu and Kashmir is only a tamasha which will go on until India and Pakistan hold talks with honesty on the Kashmir issue. “The hearts of both the countries should be pure. There has been enough show-off,” the Srinagar MP told reporters here when asked whether the situation in Kashmir had changed as border tourism is being promoted and Tiranga rallies are being organised across the valley. India and Pakistan should talk with pure…

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Portrayal of Kashmir Human shield incident in ‘Baaghi 2’ is a new low for Bollywood

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In 2018, the industry still uses Pakistan-bashing and vein-popping bursts of patriotism as crutches. Tone-deaf, problematic, ignorant and insensitive are all epithets that can describe the garden variety Bollywood potboiler. Tiger Shroff’s latest “action movie” Baaghi 2 manages to tick all the boxes with just one scene. In an exceptional display of callousness, this new Sajid Nadiadwala film decided to address an issue that has continued to be contentious since April 2017, when Farooq Ahmad Dar, an innocent Kashmiri voter, was forcibly used as a human shield by Major Nitin…

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Kashmir Continues to BLEED; 01 Killed, 12 Injured in Larkipora forces action

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5 dead since morning, Death Toll 65 This has taken the toll to 65 in 38 days of the ceaseless ferment. Nearly 30 persons were injured in forces action since this morning. In a further deterioration in the situation, five people have been shot dead by the forces since morning. Four died during clashes at Beerwah, Budgam in central Kashmir and one was killed at Larkipora, Dooru in south Kashmir. This has taken the toll to 65 in 38 days of the ceaseless ferment. Nearly 30 persons were injured in…

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