Archives for June 27, 2017

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said on Tuesday that the US State Department’s statement following India’s Prime Minister’s visit gave the impression is if the American government did not care about the lives of innocent Kashmiris. Nisar expressed his concerns a few hours after the US declared Syed Salahuddin, the supreme commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, […]

Muzaffarabad: United Jihad Council – an alliance of the militant groups – on Tuesday dubbed the decision of the Trump administration decision to tag Syed Salahuddin as “global terrorist” as a “mockery of international laws, the UN charter as well as the ground realities.” “Syed Salahuddin is a symbol of the legitimate freedom movement in Kashmir. […]

ISLAMABAD:The Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday slammed the designation of supporters of the Kashmiri right to self-determination as terrorists, terming it ‘completely unjustified’. The FO statement comes a day after the United States (US) State Department designated Hizbul Mujahideen’s supreme commander Syed Salahuddin as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) and imposed sanctions on him.