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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi telephoned his Saudi counterpart Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf to discuss the grave situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Talking to him, Shah Mahmood Qureshi said occupied Jammu and Kashmir is under curfew for the last 25 days and all communication has been blocked in the area, Radio Pakistan reported. He said international media and human rights organizations are pointing towards gross human rights violations in the occupied region. The minister underlined that innocent Kashmiris Muslims have not been allowed to offer Eid and Juma prayers and mosques are locked in the held territory. He said the international community will have to play an effective role in saving the innocent Muslims of occupied Jammu and Kashmir from Indian barbarities. Qureshi also apprised his Saudi counterpart of the recent contacts made with foreign ministers of various countries and the details of letters written to the United Nation Secretary-Gener...

TOBA TEK SINGH: At least ten passengers got injured when the engine and four bogies of the Rehman Baba Express derailed in Toba Tek Singh in the wee hours of Friday. According to details, Karachi to Peshawar bound train met an accident near Toka Tek Singh, resulting in injuries to at least 10 passengers. The injured were shifted to District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) for treatment. According to the sources, the incident took place due to negligence of driver Sagheer Ahmed, who was the driver of freight train actually. Following the incident, rescue teams reached the spot and managed to restore railway traffic after repair of the track. On July 11, At least eleven people were killed and more than sixty injured when Quetta bound Akber Express collided with goods train at Walhar near Sadiqabad. Read more:  Collision between two trains kills 10 in Sadiqabad According to DPO Rahim Yar Khan Umer Salamat, the rescue operation was carried out soon after the derailment. The bod...

SRINAGAR: Azad Jammu Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan says Kashmiris are determined to get their right to self-determination and the sacrifices rendered by them for this right would never go in vain. Addressing a seminar in Islamabad, he said the whole Kashmir valley is completely under siege, and the carnage of innocent civilians is continuing at the hands of Indian troops. Read More: Occupied Kashmir: BBC reports shocking stories of torture, violence by Indian troops Masood Khan said the constant curfew has created a starvation-like situation in occupied Kashmir where Indian troops are torching grain stocks. Earlier on August 27, Azad Kashmir President Masood Khan said that the entire world community has rejected the false Indian narrative on Occupied Kashmir. Addressing a news conference in Islamabad along with a delegation of the British parliament, he said India is committing genocide in occupied Kashmir which is being condemned far and wide. Read More: South Korean FM ...

KARACHI: Pakistan Met Office has warned of heavy rainfall in Karachi and issued red alert over likely urban flooding in the city on Friday, ARY News reported. Pakistan Meteorological Department has forecast around 50 to 70mm rainfall in the port city along with heavy rainfall in coastal districts of Badin, in eight districts of Sindh. According to the PMD, the prevailing spell of rain in Sindh is very likely to intensify, producing moderate to heavy rains in the province particularly in Karachi, Thatta, Jamshoro, Dadu, Kambar-Shahdadkot, Nausheroferoz, Badin, Sanghar and Larkana districts till Friday evening. Due to likely heavy rainfall, the situation of urban flooding in Karachi may further be aggravated on Friday, with water logging in low lying areas of the city and isolated places in other parts of Sindh, the met office said. The weather department had advised concerned authorities in Karachi and other parts of Sindh to take the precautionary measures accordingly. Monsoon cu...

International media is finally waking up to narrate the horrors inside occupied Kashmir, as British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on Friday the accounts of innocents Kashmiris being mercilessly tortured by Indian troops.  “Security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir have been accused of carrying out beatings and torture in the wake of the government’s decision to strip the region of its autonomy.” The BBC said several villagers told the publication that they were beaten with sticks and cables and given electric shocks. In the occupied valley, “doctors and health officials are unwilling to speak to journalists about any patients regardless of ailments, but the villagers showed me injuries alleged to have been inflicted by security forces,” wrote the BBC correspondent. In one village, residents said that the army went from house to house just hours after India announced the controversial decision that upended a decades-old arrangement between Delhi and Kashmir. Two...

Mehwish Hayat appreciated international media’s coverage of the situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370. Taking to Twitter, the actress shared an article by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) titled ‘Kashmiris allege violent army crackdown’ and thanked the publication for highlighting the brutal reality. The report highlights beatings and torture carried out by the Indian army on innocent Kashmiris. The Kashmir valley remains cut off from the rest of the world since August 5 after a curfew was imposed. The actress said she is glad that world media is finally reporting the truth. “ Thank you @BBCWorld for highlighting what we have been saying for so long.. Glad that world media is finally waking up to see what is really happening in Kashmir. This is only the tip of the iceberg. #SaveKashmir ,” she wrote. The starlet has been quite vocal lately about human rights violations in occupied Kashmir. She has also called out Bollywood and Ho...

South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha has voiced concerns over human rights violations in Indian occupied Kashmir. She expressed the sentiments during her phone conversation with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi who apprised her about the latest situation in occupied Kashmir, Radio Pakistan reported. The South Korean Foreign Minister said her country is keeping a close eye on developments in the region. She said breach of human rights is a serious issue which needs to be addressed. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the international community will have to play its role to get stopped Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir.  He said the world media is continuously bringing to fore the Indian oppression. The human rights organizations have already expressed their fears of a massacre of Kashmiri people, Qureshi added. He said the people in occupied Kashmir are facing shortages of food and medicines due to curfew. “Indian forces barge into the houses and are d...