Most were killed in flash floods and collapsing houses, while at least 120 others were injured, as Pakistan experienced more ...

The sudden cloudburst in Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, caused heavy flooding and widespread destruction. Floodwaters washed ...

The current weather system is active over the Pakistan region and may cause heavy to very heavy rainfall during the next 24 ...

Amid recent heavy rains, landslides, and a cloudburst in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), the regional government has announced ...

MIRPUR (AJK), Aug 17 (APP):Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister (PM) Chaudhry Anwarul Haq, has urged the journalists to highlight the Kashmir Freedom Movement and the issues of the common man.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has expressed his heartfelt condolences following the devastating floods that have caused significant loss of life and property in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ...

Azad Kashmir was again in the cross-hairs of armed conflict. Against this backdrop, Pakistan under Gen Ziaul Haq decided to legally separate the geographically much larger Northern Areas of Gilgit ...

Extending for nearly 400 miles from the upper reaches of the Indus River to the glacial highlands of the Himalayas, the ...

The contested territory of Kashmir, split with a de facto border between India's Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan's Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has been the subject of countless deadly skirmishes and ...

Azad Kashmir has its own constitution, the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Interim Constitution Act of 1974, and a locally chosen parliamentary form of government, as described above (see Chapter II ...

In Azad Jammu and Kashmir: Polity, Politics and Power-Sharing (OUP 2020), author Javaid Hayat raises some questions worth giving some thought. Hayat is a “pracademic” whose career journey has taken ...

Under Azad Kashmir’s constitution, which Pakistan imposed in 1974, election candidates are prescreened to ensure that only those who support Kashmir’s union with Pakistan can contest elections.