Sunday, August 11th, 2019
Call waiting: Kashmiris queue for two-minute phone access
Srinagar: (DNA) – Outside a guarded government office in Occupied Kashmir´s main city, an interminable queue forms every day for a near-priceless opportunity: a two-minute phone call to the outside world. Residents of Srinagar and the Kashmir Valley have been starved of phone and internet use for a week as India snuffs out opposition to its military lockdown in the Himalayan region. Only two mobile phones with an outside line are on offer in the deputy commissioner´s office, but so desperate are people to contact families in the rest ofRead More
British Christian leader rejects change in IHK situation
LONDON: (DNA) – United Kingdom’s (UK) Christian community leader James Shera has voiced deep concern over the latest interlinked troubling developments in the Indian Held Kashmir (IHK), besides using of cluster ammunition against innocent Kashmiris by brutal Indian occupation forces. James Shera, in a letter to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said, “We are deeply concerned at several interlinked troubling recent developments in Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir.” He said, “We have noted increased ceasefire violations across Line of Control, additional deployment of 38,000 troops, heightened state-sponsored repression againstRead More
Babar Azam hits ton in English ‘Vitality Blast’ T20 league
SOUTHAMPTON (DNA) – Pakistani star-batsman Babar Azam scored a match-winning century against Hampshire in the Vitality Blast T20 league in England. According to ICC, Babar, the no.1 batsman on the MRF Tyres ICC T20I Rankings, carried his bat for a career-high 102* in 55 balls in Southampton on August 9. The milestone came with a last-ball six over square leg – one of six sixes he struck in the innings, along with seven fours. The second fifty came in just 23 balls. It took his side to 202/4. Babar thenRead More
Kashmir unrest: Pakistan bans screening of all Indian content
ISLAMABAD (DNA) – Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has announced to impose ban on the screening of all kind of Indian content due to escalating unrest in occupied Kashmir. In a tweet, Firdous said, “No Indian cinema will be screened in any Pakistani cinema. Drama, films and Indian content of this kind will be completely banned in Pakistan. She expressed that every step will be taken to heal the wounds and increase the unprecedented morale of the Kashmiri people. She went onRead More
Ijaz Shah condemns oppression on unarmed Kashmiris by Indian occupied forces
NANKANA SAHIB (DNA) – Federal Minister for Interior Ijaz Ahmad Shah condemned the oppression on unarmed Kashmiris by the hands of Indian occupied forces. Addressing a ceremony held for minorities, he said Hitler government is ruling India and Pakistan is not less than a heaven for minorities. He said the role of minorities in making and progress of Pakistan cannot be forgotten. He said in India discriminatory behavior with Sikhs, Muslims and Christians prevail. The minister said Pakistan belongs to Baba Guru Nanak who’s teachings can lead us towards theRead More