The federal government has halted funding for health insurance services in Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, the Federal ...

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 ...

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

The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has issued a warning for heavy rainfall in Azad Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...

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 ...

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.

“If the [Indian] parliament wants [Azad] Kashmir to be a part of India, then we will take the necessary action to achieve that goal,” the newly appointed Indian army chief told the media.

The troops foiled the infiltration bid in Churunda area of Uri in Baramulla district of north Kashmir. The operation is going ...

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 ...

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 ...