Jammu & Kashmir

Over 300 pupils attend school at earthquake-resistant building .

Loss of father and two siblings thrust school-going Waleed into the role of family breadwinner.

Children study under the open sky and in tents outside their devastated schools.

Mirza Javed Iqbal has been impressed with the ideology and philosophy of MQM’s chief Altaf Hussain.

Premier assures audience his government believes in strengthening institutions including legal fraternity.

They were booked for thrashing journalists, ransacking the Central Press Club.

Rights activists say revised treatment costs are unaffordable for a majority of the people.

Govt believes in indiscriminate development across the state: PM Majeed.

Hundreds take to the streets in Mirpur and Bhimber, give govt one week to arrest the killers.

"The government aims to make Muzaffarabad a model city," says PM Chaudhry Abdul Majeed.

18 men arrested; police uniforms, fake government licence plates, weapons and looted items seized.

Lenders are reluctant to give loans in absence of sovereign guarantee.

2,270 new posts created in the State Health Department.

Recommends holding judicial probe into the killing of an opposition party activist.

Journey will take approximately eight days: Officials.

AJK Supreme Court had directed the government to fill vacant posts within three months but government failed to comply

Say inclusion of their areas in the district will pose economic, administrative problems.

Speakers say govt insincere in criminalising torture.

Commuters travel free-of-charge between Mirpur and Muzafarrabad.

The schoolchildren offered special prayers for durable peace in conflict zones across the world.

Large processions, mostly peaceful, organised throughout AJK, Swat and Attock.

The Dadyal police book the three wounded men on charges of murder and Section 109 of the AJK Penal Code.

In Haveli, two men drowned while passing through a flooded stream in Aliabad village of Forward Kahota.

Police used baton, fired teargas shells to quell protesters, opposition PML-N workers.

Demand schedule of rehabilitation, resumption of work in New Mirpur City.

Marble industry battling for survival.

Electricity, road, telecommunication networks remain suspended.

Traders, civil society say weekly price increases affecting businesses, creating food insecurity.

Says PPP govt could do this with simple majority, but will take all parties along.

Roof collapsed because the condition of the school building was poor.

Local advert­ising associ­ation concer­ned over remova­l of hoardi­ngs, threat­en protes­t.

Eyewitnesses confirmed that a male leopard was shot in Bhimber district’s Kass Khadora village.

Industrialists demand 10-year tax holiday, uninterrupted supply of gas, power and water.

Residents will be accommodated in its next transit on August 27.

Public servants laud decision; police, other departments to observe one holiday.

Hundreds of thousands of UK-based overseas Kashmiris playing a pivotal role in the economic progress of AJK.

Different religious parties held rallies in different parts of AJK after Jumma prayers

Leaders threatened to take to the streets if the three-gazetted holidays for celebrating Eid were not revived

Mirpur commissioner lauds services of the centre.

AJK Accountability Bureau directed heads of all development departments working in AJK to submit progress reports.

Drivers of all two busses and a passenger van arrested.

Over 600 springs have dried up due to boring of two tunnels for the Neelum-Jhelum power project.

Inquiry report blames former Indus Water commissioner for delaying deliberation.

Assures that affected people will be provided all promised incentives.

Warn of widespread protests if attackers not arrested immediately.

Give govt till Eid to complete rehabilitation process; threaten to lay siege to offices of Wapda, MDRO and AJK PM.

Government’s failure to accept the radio sector has led to financial constraints for FM stations in AJK.

Opposition leader emphasises the need for immediate constitutional amendments.

Mirpur Division Commissioner given additional charge of MDA director general.

Express satisfaction over the academic and extra-curricular facilities.