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.
Troops also fired a few rounds after detecting suspicious movement of some persons trying to infiltrate from across the border in Keri sector but they fled towards PoK.
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.
Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a free pass.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.
Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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