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By Zafar Iqbal Prominent historian and philosopher Noam Chomsky and a dozen other leading authors and activists have appealed for immediate release of five Pakistani political prisoners who have languished behind the bars in country’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region for raising voice of the victims of climate change. Noam Chomsky and other 12 major personalities of academia, politics, activism and journalism have called on the Government of Pakistan to drop the charge it has manufactured against a leftist political worker Baba Jan and his four fellow activists. The petition urges Pakistani regime ‘to treat them as political prisoners-not the terrorists.’  Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian, Simon Crithcley R C Young, Farooq Tariq and others issued the appeal in order to highlight the miseries of Pakistani campaigners who have allegedly suffered from state torture in the jail and access of their lawyers has been restricted. Progressive Youth Movement Chief Organi...

GNS Srinagar May 13 : Former Minister and Member AICC Abdul Gani Vakil today said that no single party can claim to be in possession of a readymade solution to vexed Kashmir imbroglio. To resolve this issue people of different thoughts from three regions of the state have to be taken on board, Article 370 is to be strengthened and those communal forces bent upon dividing the state are to be kept at bay, Vakil added. While addressing a party workers meeting at Srinagar, he said divisive forces favoring abrogation of Article 370 were the enemies of state and were trying weakening state's relation with Centre but he asserted that Congress will leave no stone unturned in defeating evil designs of those forces who are conspiring to weaken Article 370. "We need to have a consensus on Kashmir situation after which something concrete and an acceptable solution could be hammered out", he asserted. He said no single party can claim to resolve this issue for the reason that ever...

GNS  Srinagar  May 13:Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohammad   Sayeed has said Jammu & Kashmir has become a victim of trust deficit between the people of the state and rest of the country and the gap has to be bridged to facilitate a lasting solution to the problem. Addressing a public meeting at Khumriyal in Lolab, about 100 kilometers from here today he said efforts have to be redoubled to remove apprehensions on both sides that have marred chances of reconciliation resulting in untold miseries to the people of the region, J&K being the worst sufferer. Mufti said it was unfortunate that over the past six decades of relationship the state and rest of the country have lost confidence of each other a fact that has to be publicly recognized in order to be able to find a remedy. “The security establishment in New Delhi is unable to come out of its doubts that Kashmir can ever become a partner in the idea of India without being tet...

                                             Muzafarabad 13 May (KNS): JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik has said that the LoC dividing the two Kashmirs, drawn with the blood of Kashmiris will go one day and meet the fate of Berlin Wall. While addressing a public gathering in the Bagh district of Pakistan Administered Kashmir Malik said,”Kashmiris across the border are one and the Line of Control has neither been able to separate us nor will it able to do so in the future.”“ It has been proved that despite the passage of 66 years the LoC has not been able to divide us”, he said and added “The artificial barrier between us will Inshallah go and fall like the Berlin Wall”He further urged people across the globe to come forward for the solution of Kashmir issue and opined that a stable and peaceful sub continent will not become a reality unless Kashmir issue is solved.

                                        GNS JAMMU MAY 13:  UPA's coalition partner Nationalist Congress Party today demanded the resignation of Congress minister Manohar Lal Sharma for his alleged involvement in a multi-crore scam in the Jammu and Kashmir Cooperative Housing Corporation.   "Sharma should resign and keep away from the ministry till he comes out clean in the matter," NCP state chief T hakur Randhir Singh told reporters here. Terming the allegations against Sharma and other officials as "serious", Singh said the issue needs to be thoroughly investigated by a high-level committee. The alleged scam is worth Rs 5,000 crore and stern action should be initiated against the people responsible, he added. "The cooperative movement has miserably failed in Jammu and Kashmir over the past few years and the main cause behind it is the rampant corruption in the department," ...