SRI NAGAR (DNA) – Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement (JKPM) politician and activist Shehla Rashid, a vocal about the human rights’ situation in Kashmir, yesterday revealed the current condition of Indian-occupied Kashmir where people have been oppressed and forced to live in miserable circumstances. In a series of tweets, Rashid stated that four men were tortured by Indian armed forces in Shopian and a microphone was kept close to them, so that the entire neighbourhood could hear their screams “and be terrorised.” “This created an environment of fear in theRead More

VENICE (DNA) – The star-studded Venice film festival opens Wednesday with a row raging about the inclusion of controversial directors Roman Polanski and Nate Parker. With only two women directors out of 21 in the running for its Golden Lion top prize, campaigners have lashed the festival — now the launchpad for the Oscars. Director Alberto Barbera said last year that he would rather quit the 11-day event — where three of the last five Oscar best picture winners were premiered — than give in to pressure for quotas. ButRead More

ISLAMABAD (DNA) – An accountability court in Islamabad on Monday adjourned hearing of money laundering through fake bank accounts and Park Lane references till September 5. As hearing of the references resumed, former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sibling Faryal Talpur appeared before the court. Park Lane reference’s copies were given to 11 accused persons, while copies could not be provided to other six suspects in the case. Advocate Lateef Khosa argued that despite of the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) assertion, copies were not provided. Judge Muhammad Bashir issuedRead More

The Director General (SA & SAARC), Dr. Mohammad Faisal, summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner Mr. Gaurav Ahluwalia today and condemned the unprovoked ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces along the Line of Control (LoC) on 18th August 2019. On 18 August 2019 in Hot Spring and Chirikot Sectors of LoC, two elderly innocent civilians, 75 year old Lal Muhammad s/o Muhammad Din, and 61 year old Hassan Din s/o lal Din, residents of village Nagrai, were martyred; while a seven year old minor boy, Saddam s/o Noor, got seriously injured. TheRead More

ISLAMABAD (DNA) – A meeting of the All Parties Conference (APC) will be held today (Monday) in Islamabad to devise a joint strategy over Kashmir issue. The APC will be chaired by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman. The meeting will talk about the situation of the occupied Kashmir and a joint strategy will be devised by the opposition parties on Kashmir matter. Leader of Opposition in National Assembly and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shahbaz Sharif and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will notRead More