Geneva, October 04 (KMS): Pakistan has urged the UN Human Rights Council to speak and stand up for people struggling to free themselves from occupation, including Kashmiris, and to realize their right to self-determination. Ambassador Khalil Hashmi, the permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN offices speaking in the 47-member …

Srinagar, October 04 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Qasim Sajjad, brother-in-law of prominent leader of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League (JKPL), Zahoor Ahmad Sheikh, passed away in Islamabad town, today. He was 75. Qasim Sajjad was a well known journalist, writer and poet of the occupied territory. …

Dehradun, October 4 (KMS): The Hindutva terrorists vandalised a church and injured several Christians in Indian disturbed state Uttarakhand. Over 200 men and women of Hindutva right-wing groups, vandalised a church in Roorkee-Dehradun area of the state. Several people who had assembled for morning prayers in the church were injured. …

Srinagar, October 04 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Peoples Democratic Party President, Mehbooba Mufti, on Monday lashed out at Modi government in India for ‘welcoming’ Chinese troops while using iron fist on its own people. She was commenting in reference to the Uttar Pradesh government’s move …

Srinagar, October 04 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the south Kashmir’s Kulgam district once known as the rice bowl of Kashmir, has lost fifty percent of its paddy land to non-agriculture uses in the last two decades. In most of the paddy land, we see commercial structures …

Srinagar, October 04 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, over-pricing and sale of expired medicines by chemists is going on unchecked in the Kashmir valley. Muhammad Arif, a consumer from Srinagar said that a chemist shop had tampered the expiry date of a health device (Glucometer strips) used …

New Delhi, October 04 (KMS): There is an interesting book; “To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism” by Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, published by Oxford University Press (2021) dealing with the steady decline of democracy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule. The authors Debasish Roy Chowdhury, a …

New Delhi, October 04 (KMS): A citizens forum in India has written a letter to the police demanding action against members of Hindu outfit Bharat Mata Vahini’s after they threatened to disrupt Friday congregational prayers of Muslims in Gurgaon in Indian state of Haryana. A delegation of Gurgaon Ekta Manch …

In Indian occupied Kashmir, the media has been under fire for the past several years. In addition to the Indian government’s control of the communication process, the unwanted and uncalled for curbs on media such as surveillance, formal/informal investigations, harassment, intimidation, restrictions in all the processes of news-gathering have hugely hampered the journalistic activities in the region besides undermining the role of free media.

Srinagar, October 04 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the incarcerated Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Masarrat Aalam Butt, has hailed the unwavering commitment of the freedom-loving Kashmiri people to face India’s arrogant military power. Praising sentimental attachment of the people of Kashmir to the resistance movement, …