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Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party (JKAWP) calls to raise voices for the safety of political activist, human rights defender Shah Nawaz Ali Sher arrested by the authorities in Pakistani-occupied Jammu Kashmir.
Shah Nawaz Ali Sher has been released and send messages of thanks to all those who (...)
Dear people and oppressed nationalities and working class of the Subcontinent,
We are facing terrible times here in Kashmir. The line of Control (LoC) once again converted into a living hell by both states, India and Pakistan. After Pulwama attack, India advanced its military in the Jammu (...)
Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party (JKAWP ) central organizer Shah Newaz Ali Sheer Advocate was booked under sedition charges and revolt against state by local police of Nakyal Pakistan control Azad Kashmir. A criminal case has been registered against him Under Section 123,124 of AJKPC, he will (...)
Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party organized a demonstration at national press club Islamabad against the state created ecological crises facing the citizens of Muzaffarabad, the capital city of Azad Kashmir.
The main crisis is the catastrophic reduction of water in the Neelam River flowing (...)
A new party with the name of Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party is formed to organize the progressive and democratic forces of Jammu Kashmir to construct the movement on new lines.
On the occasion of the announcement of the new Party, Transitional Chairman of JKAWP Nisar Shah Advocate demanded (...)
At a suicidal attack on district courts in Islamabad, one comrade of Kashmir Labour Party, Raja Basharat, was seriously injured by the firing of the religious fanatics. A bullet hit his stomach and was rushed to hospital by comrade Nisar Shah, information secretary Awami Workers Party. (...)
Kashmir: The Case for Freedom, by Arundhati Roy, Pankaj Mishra, Hilal Bhat, Angana P. Chatterji, and Tariq Ali, Verso, London. Paperback, 160 pages ISBN: 9781844677351. October 2011. $14.95 / £9.99 / $18.50 CAN.
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In the summer of 2010, protests erupted throughout Kashmir, (...)
It was indeed ironic that Islamabad, crying hoarse ever since 1947 for the Kashmiris’ right to self determination, denied Kashmir under its control even the right to elect its Legislative Assembly until 1970 and snatched even this symbolic right in 1977.
On June 26, the electorate in Azad (...)
Retreat of socialism, particularly in former Soviet Union, and rise of “Ziaism” in Pakistan depressed the progressive (Leftist) and secular forces in the country which resulted in fading of “battle of ideas” in media and educational institutions. The consequences are the general intellectual (...)
(ATTOCK CANTT - JUNE 25, 2011) The policy statement on the subject CPP as to why supporting LPP Chief Nasir Shah in the Election of Legislative Assembly of Azad Kashmir scheduled on tomorrow Sunday 26th June, 2011 as issued by the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of Pakistan (...)
Kashmir Labour Party, a sister organization of LPP in Kashmir, is going to contest from four seats in the general election of AJK Assembly 2011 to be held on 26th June. The nomination papers of all 4 candidates have been accepted. All the four electoral constituencies have over 90,000 voters (...)
THOSE who believe on either side of the India-Pakistan equation that Kashmir is a Muslim entity are sadly missing out on the contribution of Kashmiri Pandits to the limitless enrichment of the subcontinent’s secular culture, chiefly of the Urdu language and the aadaab-i-majaalis, social (...)
Introductory Note: About a decade back, the Centre for European Studies, Jadavpur University, organized an international seminar around identity politics. Dr. Nandinee Bhattacharya (Calcutta Girls College) and I presented a paper entitled Imagined Authenticities: National and Supranational (...)
Kashmir: A Brief Background
David Finkel for the ATC editors
KASHMIR WAS DIVIDED between India and the newly created Pakistani state in the chaotic division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947-48, with little reference to the wishes of Kashmir’s people. The larger part is occupied by India, (...)
Kashmir serves as jackboot to kick civilian rulers every time they dare assert their control over Pakistan’s foreign policy.
A report highlighted by Indian daily, The Hindu, informs about an increase in ’infiltration’ at the Line of Control (LoC). If one goes by the report, the year 2009 ‘’saw a (...)
(New York, July 1, 2008) – The Jammu and Kashmir state government should protect Parvez Imroz, an award-winning human rights lawyer who survived an armed attack on June 30 in Srinagar by alleged security forces members, Human Rights Watch said today. The state government and Human Rights (...)
Brussels,
The two day Conference on Gilgit Baltistan has concluded yesterday in the European Parliament under the auspices of International Kashmir Alliance. The conference was attended by the different groups leading Members of the European Parliament while Baroness Emma Nicholson was the (...)
UA-403-2006: PAKISTAN: A book on Kashmir was banned and writer is threatened with death by Islamic fundamentalist government of a province
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PAKISTAN : violation of freedom of speech & movement; unconstitutional provincial order
Dear friends,
The Asian Human (...)
“Although ‘azad’ means ‘free,’ the residents of Azad Kashmir are anything but.” Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch
(Islamabad, September 21, 2006) – In Azad Kashmir, a region largely closed to international scrutiny until a devastating earthquake hit last year, the Pakistani government (...)
(Srinagar, September 12, 2006) - The Indian government’s failure to end widespread impunity for human rights abuses committed both by its security forces and militants is fueling the cycle of violence in Jammu and Kashmir, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The 156-page report, (...)
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