kashmir issue

Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court under the UAPA. Her associates, Fehmeeda and Nasreen, received 30-year sentences in the same case. The convictions stem from charges including waging war against India and promoting enmity.

A Delhi court has handed down life imprisonment to Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi for conspiring against the state. Her associates, Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen, received 30-year sentences. The court found they plotted Kashmir's secession from India, using speeches and social media to advocate for its merger with Pakistan and portray it as under illegal occupation.

Britain has ruled out any third party intervention in resolving the kashmir issue saying that it was for India and Pakistan to find a lasting resolution which takes into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people.

Raising the kashmir issue at the UN, China has told the General Assembly that the "dispute" should be peacefully and properly addressed in accordance with the UN Charter, Security Council resolutions and the bilateral agreement. China, a close ally of Pak, also stressed that no actions should be taken that would unilaterally change the "status quo".

Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid M Kasuri has said that India and Pakistan are moving towards the settlement of the kashmir issue.

On the second day of special lectures on kashmir issue at Allahabad University, political analysts deliberated on the process and possible solution for the Kashmir crisis.

Advocating a tripartite dialogue for resolving kashmir issue, Moderate Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq on Sunday said the amalgam will extend "fully support" any process which can help in finding a solution to the vexed problem.

Pakistan wants a "sustained and result-oriented" engagement with India to find a permanent solution to the kashmir issue that could usher in peace and stability in the region, President Asif Ali Zardari told a visiting Hurriyat delegation today.

Washington DC is the world capital of lobbying. Ghulam Nabi Fai arrived here sometime in the early 1990s as the face of "kashmir issue", shilling for the Pak viewpoint.

Repeated aggressive actions by the Pakistani security establishment and irregulars with its blessings reflects a long-term strategy, and could be aimed at reviving kashmir issue as South Asia awaits US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan next year.

Pakistan prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said kashmir issue is part of the national agenda of the country which "can never forget it."

Pakistan's attempt to internationalise the kashmir issue through the United Nations has again "come to naught", after a UN Security Council meeting, convened by China to discuss the matter, ended without any outcome, a top Indian diplomat said on Thursday.

Pakistan on Thursday sought unconditional resumption of wide-ranging talks including the kashmir issue with India, days after New Delhi offered a limited dialogue to Islamabad.

Pakistan said it wanted an expeditious and peaceful solution to the kashmir issue, in line with the "aspirations" of Kashmiris and hoped that India would reciprocate positively in this regard.

Taking note of 'major and significant developments' in the Indo-Pak ties, US President George Bush has said the kashmir issue is 'ripe' for resolution.

PPP chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said the new government will continue with the confidence building measures on the kashmir issue, initiated by the previous regime.

PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, whose party is set to take reins of Pakistan, has expressed readiness to set aside the kashmir issue to improve Indo-Pak relations.

The topic of discussion during the meeting included the composite dialogue and the need to resolve the kashmir issue.

The US administration has categorically ruled out involving itself in the kashmir issue but expressed desire to help India and Pakistan build more trust and confidence.

North Goa BJP MP Shripad Naik alleged on Sunday that efforts were on by some Congress leaders in Goa to establish their "dynasties" in their strongholds by promoting and grooming their kin to assume the mantle of political leadership.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday invited India to engage in a “comprehensive, sustained and result-oriented” dialogue with Pakistan to resolve the kashmir issue.

The all-party meet on the kashmir issue organised recently by the Union government came under fire from Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray here on Thursday.

Pakistan has once again raised the kashmir issue at the UN security council, seeking mediation from the world body and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to resolve the issue.

Imran Khan, Pakistan's jailed former prime minister, criticized India's Supreme Court verdict upholding the abrogation of Article 370, stating that it would further complicate the kashmir issue. Khan's party, the Pakistani Tehreek-e-Insaf, said that the ruling violated UNSC resolutions. Khan vowed to continue supporting the Kashmiri people, emphasizing that the kashmir issue is the main contention between Pakistan and India. He mentioned that his government strongly reacted to India's attempt to alter the special status of Kashmir in 2019, leading to the downgrading of diplomatic ties.

Pakistan raked up the kashmir issue at the OIC Contact Group meeting held on Wednesday on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly. "We always note with regret that the matter which is very internal to Indian affairs was again discussed at the OIC," MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.

China is again understood to have requested a discussion in the UN Security Council on the situation in Jammu & Kashmir on Tuesday but sources said the issue will not be discussed in the Council. "Our position has been very clear: kashmir issue has to be discussed bilaterally. We have highlighted this several times recently, including in the UN," a source said.

On Wednesday, Indian ambassador to the US, Harshvardhan Shringla, briefed the House Foreign Affairs Committee in a closed-door conversation on the kashmir issue in an attempt to step-up its outreach on the subject given the continued rumblings of criticism in Capitol Hill. The meeting meant to relay the current situation in J&K and the road ahead for the state.

Giving credit to the leaders of India and Pakistan for "carrying the ball forward" to resolve the kashmir issue, the US has said it had no direct role in the process except to "nudge" them.

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said she will "work sincerely" to resolve the kashmir issue if voted to power.