Ershad Mahmud

US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome’s visit to Azad Jammu and Kashmir attracted major national and international attention as no other US ambassador had visited AJK over the last six years. In the context of the steadily improving Pakistan-US relations, this visit was given great importance in diplomatic and political circles. The American ambassador lavishly praised the beauty of the ...

Since the revocation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution three years ago on August 5, 2019, Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir has become a land where the silence of graveyards, not of peace, reigns supreme. Indian authorities are content that daily demonstrations and political activities have come to an end. But the efforts to ensure peace in the region involved ...

For the first time in the last eight years, the BJP government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has succumbed to foreign pressure and removed two spokespersons for making derogatory and hateful remarks regarding Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in the last week of May. Indian Muslim leaders and human rights activists had been demanding the prosecution of these spokespersons for their ...

The life imprisonment sentence given to Yasin Malik by an Indian court has brought the Kashmir conflict back into the international spotlight. The sentence has renewed the Kashmiris’ political aspirations for a life without fear of losing loved ones or shadows of alien forces. Despite curfew and the fear of reprisal, a large number of people gathered around Yasin Malik’s ...