The sudden cloudburst in Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, caused heavy flooding and widespread destruction. Floodwaters washed ...

Flash floods caused by heavy rainfall and cloudbursts devastated the country’s northern areas on Friday, with over 300 lives ...

Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan dispatched the first convoy of relief goods comprising eight ambulances, three mobile health ...

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has expressed his heartfelt condolences following the devastating floods that have caused significant loss of life and property in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ...

Amid recent heavy rains, landslides, and a cloudburst in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), the regional government has announced ...

Azad Kashmir was again in the cross-hairs of armed conflict. Against this backdrop, Pakistan under Gen Ziaul Haq decided to legally separate the geographically much larger Northern Areas of Gilgit ...

Extending for nearly 400 miles from the upper reaches of the Indus River to the glacial highlands of the Himalayas, the ...

The contested territory of Kashmir, split with a de facto border between India's Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan's Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has been the subject of countless deadly skirmishes and ...

In Azad Jammu and Kashmir: Polity, Politics and Power-Sharing (OUP 2020), author Javaid Hayat raises some questions worth giving some thought. Hayat is a “pracademic” whose career journey has taken ...

Azad Kashmir has its own constitution, the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Interim Constitution Act of 1974, and a locally chosen parliamentary form of government, as described above (see Chapter II ...

Under Azad Kashmir’s constitution, which Pakistan imposed in 1974, election candidates are prescreened to ensure that only those who support Kashmir’s union with Pakistan can contest elections.