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Posts Tagged ‘Azad Jammu and Kashmir’

Kashmir is Bleeding

By ahsan • Jul 18th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Almost half a decade back, while passing through the Garhi Dopata, Hattian and finally Chokati Bazar of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) to attend a briefing being given by Pakistani Army authorities to journalists on Kashmir issue, I had a belief that this time we are going to solve the [...]



Why Not Kalabagh Dam?

By Guest Blogger • May 15th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The minister for water and power has said that the government cannot build Kalabagh dam. He did not say why. A minister must never talk in thin air, he must have cogent reasons for what he says. Does he think that Punjab will take more water from Kalabagh dam because the dam is located in [...]



Withering intolerance!!!

By Tazeen Javed • Mar 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Pakistan always has the dubious distinction of being a country where intolerance is rampant, but this incident takes the cake. In what was possibly the first incident of its kind in the history of the legislative assembly of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, an opposition lawmaker Muhammed Tahir Khokar of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), was [...]