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8 police personnel on election duty kidnapped by banned JAAC: SSP Rawalakot

RAWALAKOT (Kashmir English): Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rawalakot Khawar Ali Shaukat on Thursday said that the banned Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) has kidnapped and tortured eight police personnel. Addressing a press conference, the police spokesperson alleged that the JAAC attacked security forces deputed on election duty in the region and abducted eight highway

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AJK: PML-N invites Chairman Awami Dast-o-Bazoo Sajid Iqbal to join govt

Kashmir, Must Read / Tahir Chaudhary

BAGH (Kashmir English): PML-N has invited Sardar Sajid Iqbal Abbasi, Chairman of Awami Dast-o-Bazoo party to join the government. Abbasi had defeated Muslim Conference President Sardar Attique Khan from LA-14 West Bagh in the Monday elections. PML-N central leader and Member of the Legislative Assembly Dr. Mustafa Bashir Abbasi went to the home of

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Restrictions, surveillance intensified across IIOJK ahead of Aug 15

Kashmir / Tahir Chaudhary

SRINAGAR (Kashmir English): Indian authorities have intensified restrictions, surveillance and checking across Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir(IIOJK) ahead of India’s Independence Day on August 15. Extensive deployments, checkpoints, frisking, drone monitoring and cordon-and-search operations (CASOs) are reported in different parts of the occupied territory. According to Kashmir Media Service, Srinagar’s Bakshi Stadium, the

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PML-N’s total strength expected to reach 30 in AJK Assembly: Tariq Fazal

Kashmir / Kashif

ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Tariq Fazal Chaudhry on Wednesday said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has won 24 seats after the completion of the three phases of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) election, with its total strength expected to rise to 30 after the allocation of reserved seats. In

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Latif Akbar challenges EC order, LA-31 result in Supreme Court

Kashmir, Must Read / Kashif

MUZAFFARABAD (Kashmir English): Acting President Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) candidate, Chaudhry Latif Akbar, on Tuesday challenged the Election Commission’s order regarding the election result of LA-31 Muzaffarabad-V (Khawra) before the Supreme Court of AJK. In the second phase of the election in the region, PML-N candidate Saqib Majeed Raja

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Re-polling at 23 polling stations in Bagh’s LA-15, LA-16 ordered

Kashmir, Must Read / Areeba

MUZAFFARABAD (Kashmir English): The Azad Jammu and Kashmir Election Commission has announced re-polling at 23 polling stations in LA-15 Bagh-II and LA-16 Bagh-III constituencies on August 15. According to the Election Commission spokesperson, the decision was taken in light of reports submitted by the respective returning officers. Re-polling will be held on August 15, from

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