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Is the Hurriyat Losing Its Relevance?
The Kashmir Valley’s separatist conglomerate, the Hurriyat Conference, might claim to be the true representative and voice of the Valley’s people but this claim is sounding increasingly discordant as well as desperate.Full article...
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"In truth everything and everyone
Is a shadow of the Beloved,
And our seeking is His seeking
And our words are His words...
We search for Him here and there,
while looking right at Him.
Sitting by His side, we ask:
'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'"
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Hafiz Saeed Arrested In Pak
Date: 18 July 2019
Chief of Jamaat-ul-Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Saeed was arrested Wednesday on terror financing charges by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab Province, just days ahead of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's maiden visit to the United States. Saeed, a UN designated terrorist whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, was travelling to Gujranwala from Lahore to get pre-arrest bail in terror financing cases registered against him there when he was arrested, a CTD official told PTI. The JuD chief was going to Gujranwala from Lahore on Wednesday morning when a CTD team intercepted him near Gujranwala city.
[courtesy: Agencies]
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Second OHCHR Report on Jammu & Kashmir perseverates with the same flaws as the first
In its recently published commentary, “Second OHCHR Report on Jammu & Kashmir' perseverates with the same flaws as the first”, the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) comments. The OHCHR’s second on Jammu & Kashmir after its specious and tendentious maiden effort last year, makes no attempt to address or rectify the various and momentous shortcomings that were obtrusive in the first report.
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