By AH Nizami

Luke went over 300-minute allowance, increasing his bill from the usual 28 pounds a month to over 900 pounds.

Mirpur, the most affluent city in Azad Kashmir, is known to many as ‘mini London’.

Hameed Shaheen

RAWALPINDI: More VVIPs including Lt-Gen Khalid Nawaz Khan, Commandant 10-Corps, PPJK President Sardar Khalid Ibrahim and ex-Minister Attiyya Inayatullah on Saturday visited separately the ailing veteran leader Mujahid-e-Awwal Sardar Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan in AFIC and enquired about his health.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, said that the future of Kashmir is linked with Pakistan and settlement of the dispute is crucial to maintain peace in the region. United Nations Organization has failed to implement its resolutions regarding Kashmir and understand that future of Kashmir and Pakistan is inter-linked.

ISLAMABAD - Former Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister and Pakistan People’s Party central leader Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry said on Monday that German people and members of German Parliament could better understand the stance of Kashmiri people than other European nations, as they have experienced division of families because of Berlin Wall.

ISLAMABAD - Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, ex-Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir/President Muslim Conference, has issued the following statement on the Kashmir remarks of Senator Syed Zafar Ali Shah, the latter made during the course of a Senate Committee meeting here Sunday. Talking to Pakistan Observer here Monday he said: “I was shocked to learn of the remarks of Senator Syed Zafar Ali Shah Sahib on Kashmir.

Muzaffarabad, Jan 28: A senior Kashmiri origin Pakistani journalist, Zulfiqar Ali working for BBC Urdu and World Service, has been awarded for best reporting in the region.

RAWALPINDI, Jan 29: Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Azad Jummu and Kashmir (JIAJK) Abdur Rasheed Turabi has said that the only solution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute was to give the people of the state the opportunity to exercise their right through impartial, free and fair plebiscite, a right not only conceded by India and Pakistan, but also the world community through UN SC resolutions on Kashmir.

ISLAMABAD: The former Premier of AJK and President of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan along with his party has joined the first ever Defence of Pakistan Council (DoPC). The first formal DoPC’s leadership meeting comprising heads of participating parties would be held on January 20, 2012 here.

ISLAMABAD: Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan President AJKMC/ex-Premier AJK has appealed to the people of Jammu and Kashmir across the Line of Control and world over to observe January 5 as the United Nations Mandate in Kashmir Day to draw the attention of the global forums towards unmet pledges of UN to settle Kashmir via open, honest and international plebiscite.

MUZAFFARABAD - There is no substitute for life and no financial assistance, no matter how great it is, can bring back a dear departed soul. Since the devastating Kashmir earthquake of 2005, with the national and international monetary help pouring in and somehow reaching those affected with it, there has been a sense of commitment and devotion aimed at the prosperity of Azad Jammu and Kashmir region.

RAWALPINDI: Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan President Muslim Conference/ex-Premier of AJK has appealed to the political parties of Pakistan to rally their energies and abilities around the banner of defence of Pakistan and economic vibrancy of the country without losing even a fraction of a second.

ISLAMABAD: Mr Shaukat Majeed Mallick, a senior DMG officer in AJK civil service has been promoted/posted as Secretary Information and IT. He wields vast administrative experience and mellifluous literary taste, hailing from a highly educational background. He has a huge catalogue of administrative and updation trainings at his credit.

RAWALPINDI: December 10 each year would be observed as Solidarity with Armed Forces of Pakistan Day (SAFPD) in AJK, in Pakistan and abroad by J&K citizens as part of “focused security” in the region. This was declared by the President of the Muslim Conference/ex-AJK Premier Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan in a large devotional public meeting held at Faizababad here Sunday to observe the death anniversary of noted Kashmiri leader Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas Khan, the 1932-founder-General Secretary of the Muslim Conference, later its supreme head. Veteran Kashmiri politician Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan also addressed besides others.

MUZAFFARABAD: In the backdrop of the November 26, 2011, brutal attacks by the Nato and Isaf forces on the two Salala check posts of Pakistan in the Mohmand Agency martyring 24 officers and soldiers of Pakistan Army, on the call of the ex-PM & President of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference

ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister of AJK and President of Muslim Conference Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan has declared December 10, 2011, as the Day of Solidarity with the armed forces of Pakistan. In his media announcement the MC chief said that it was proper time to observe Solidarity with Armed Forces of Pakistan Day in an enthusiastic way to inspire the masses towards greater commitment to the territorial and ideological defence of Pakistan.

BARAL/PALLANDERI: The Al Awan Welfare Association (AAWA) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in a resolution condemned the brutal attacks of the NATO and ISAF on the two border posts of Pakistan in Mohmand Agency on November 26, 2011, declaring that the defence of Pakistan and accession of Kashmir with Pakistan are an article of faith of the Association.

ISLAMABAD: The AJK assembly in its meeting on Wednesday in Muzaffarabad through a unanimous resolution condemned the recent attacks by the Nato and ISAF forces on two border posts inside Pakistan territory at Salala in Mohmand Agency,

KARACHI: Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan, President, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has welcomed Pakistan’s plan to give most favoured nation (MFN) status to India, but said that Kashmir issue should be resolved on priority basis.

MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 24: The Azad Kashmir cabinet on Thursday censured elements who the ministers said were involved in “negative activities” against Pakistan in foreign lands.

ISLAMABAD: Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Azad Kashmir Abdul Rashid Turabi has urged President Asif Ali Zardari and PM Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani to repeal the decision of granting Most Favoured Nation's status to India.

DADYAL,(AJK), Oct 13 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Thursday said that Kashmir cause was close to his heart and vowed that the Pakistan Peoples Party’s government would continue to raise the issue at international fora till its resolution.

MUZAFFARABAD: The first session of the newly inducted AJK Assembly will start on October 18, 2011, here. AJK President Sardar M Yaqub Khan has formally summoned the session which will debate over the latest occupied Kashmir situation.

ISLAMABAD: The PPP-AJK has won both the Kashmir Council seats in elections held in Muzaffarabad today. Messrs Engineer Rafaqat Awan (Muzaffarabad) and Ali Zulkernain Khan (Bhimber) returned with bagging 18 and 17 votes respectively. PML-N candidate Mr Naveed Sadiq could get 11 votes in the contest.

ISLAMABAD: To help millions of Sindh flood sufferers the AJK President Sardar Muhammad Yaqub Khan has set up an immediate Flood Relief Fund, appealing the affluent Kashmiris, traders and industrialists within and without country to donate generously for their affectee brothers and sisters in Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD: The highly emotions-laden fissiparous month long election campaign in the Muzaffarabad capital Assembly seat comes to a grinding halt by mid-night tonight, September 20, 2011.