Radio Pakistan harps on Kashmir, again

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, who heads the United Jehad Council (UJC), an alliance of Kashmiri militant groups, has said that gifting 43,180 sq km land belonging to Jammu and Kashmir to China in 1963 by Pakistan is a violation of territorial integrity. "Yes, it is the violation of territorial integrity of Jammu and Kashmir.

September 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has decided to take up the Kashmir and Afghanistan issues during the upcoming United Nations General Assembly session, Online news agency reported. Pakistan would inform the international community about its reservations on India's intentions to resolve the Kashmir issue as well as on the war against terrorism in Afghanistan.

August 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor today said Pakistan was following a dichotomous policy against terror. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a seminar here, General Kapoor said that he finds it rather odd that on the one hand Pakistan was operating against militants within the country on the other hand, it is perpetuating terror by sending in infiltrators into Kashmir.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Balawaristan National Front (BNF) chairman, Abdul Hamid Khan has said that India should involve the people of Gilgit Balistan, Chitral and Shhenaki Kohistan regions in the peace dialogue process of Kashmir. Talking to reporters here on Thursday, Khan said, " A dialogue on Kashmir between India and Pakistan should not ignore the strategic importance of Balwaristan".

July 28th, 2009 ABOHAR - India has time and again stated that Pakistan should stop allow its territory to be used by terrorists against India, before any serious dialogue could commence. Radio Pakistan seems to be worried that forces in Pakistan would continue their terrorist acts, and the possibility of an India-Pakistan dialogue would recede.

July 18th, 2009 MUMBAI - The US does not want to get involved in the India-Pakistan row over Jammu and Kashmir, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in remarks telecast Saturday. Asked by Times Now TV if Washington felt it had a role to play in the decades-old dispute, Clinton said any final decision over Kashmir had to be between India and Pakistan.

July 13th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Security forces arrested two militants of Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group, who planned to blow up a dam in Kashmir. Mohammad Shafakat and Mohammad Adnan were arrested from the forests of Shamashabari range in Kupwara district, 120 km from Srinagar.

June 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The National Conference, which is part of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), Friday asked the government to resume dialogue with Pakistan for estabilishing "permanent peace" in the region. "We should restart dialogue with Pakistan to establish permanent peace," said Mirza Mehboob Beig, while participating in the debate in the Lok Sabha on the president's speech to the joint session of parliament.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Tuesday termed as "regrettable" the release of Hafiz Saeed, founder of the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) that India has blamed for the 26/11 Mumbai carnage.

June 1st, 2009 JAMMU - Members of a 12-strong Kashmiri traders' delegation, about to visit Pakistan and Pakistan Administered Kashmir Monday to hold talks for promoting cross-border trade, were denied visa by Pakistani authorities at the last minute, officials said. Ram Sahai, president of the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said they were told Sunday evening that the Pakistan government had denied visa to the delegation "due to turmoil and violence".

May 20th, 2009 JAMMU - India and Pakistan should take steps to augment the cross-border trade between the two countries in Jammu and Kashmir, an industry lobby said Wednesday. Though the trade across the Line of Control (LoC) - the de facto border in the state - is picking up, there was 'an urgent need to redress the long identified problems', Ram Sahai, president of the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industries, told the media.

March 17th, 2009 JAMMU - Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed Monday welcomed the Pakistan government decision to reinstate sacked judges and thereby avoid a major political crisis in the neighbouring country. Mufti Sayeed, the patron of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said he was concerned at recent events in that country, as 'a stable Pakistan is must for the resolution of Kashmir crisis'.

March 14th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The crisis in Pakistan has triggered concern among people in Jammu and Kashmir. According to people in Srinagar, anything happening in Pakistan has a direct impact on India and subsequently on Kashmir.

February 12th, 2009 JAMMU - It's the eve of Valentine's Day, and a political group in Jammu and Kashmir has decided to say it with flowers to Pakistan to convey the message of peace. Socialistic Democratic Party (SDP) activists put roses on small boats on the waters of river Chenab at Akhnoor, 30 km north of Jammu, Friday afternoon.

February 8th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The Jammu and Kashmir police Monday said they have arrested the chief operational commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen, dealing a severe blow to the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit. Muzaffar Ahmed Dar alias Ghaznavi alias Ali was arrested from his hideout in Hazratbal, close to the University of Kashmir, on the outskirts of Srinagar, B.