The contrast between Kashmir and PoK is impossible to ignore. One side protests for food and electricity, while the other talks about growth and education.
BJP’s Sudhanshu Trivedi alleges ‘PoK and Aksai Chin were missing from map of India in posters put up by Congress’ at venue of CWC meet in Karnataka’s Belagavi.
The situation reflects broader concerns about governance in PoK where local authorities and civil society frequently clash over issues of autonomy and human rights.
Ahmad Farhad is a 38-year-old poet and journalist from Bagh district of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Until the day of his abduction, he was reporting extensively on the protests in PoK.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
Ilyas comes from the PTI party of former Pakistan PM Imran Khan, who has been locked in a political wrangling with the government that succeeded him in Islamabad.
India has raised concerns over US’ increasing strategic alignment with Islamabad, conveyed objections to US envoy Donald Blome's visit, meetings in Pakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir.
Indian authorities had declined Pakistan's request to allow the journalists to travel to Islamabad through Wagah as the border crossing is virtually closed due Covid, sources said.
Niazi won the recent legislative assembly election from Abbaspur-Poonch area. Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf will form a government in PoK for the first time.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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