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Washington: The prestigious American magazine Foreign Policy has, in its latest report, hailed Pakistan’s governmental and military diplomacy, declaring the country the diplomatic victor of the region.

According to the Kashmir Media Service, the report emphasizes that Pakistan’s balanced and pragmatic foreign policy has reshaped the regional landscape and opened new horizons in global diplomacy. Over the past six months, Pakistan’s diplomatic initiatives have introduced innovative approaches to regional engagement and garnered significant international attention.

In just six months, Islamabad has achieved what Robert A. Manning in Foreign Policy magazine called “a tsunami of near -Kissingerian diplomacy.”

Manning wrote: “It’s hard to say which is a bigger achievement for Islamabad’s diplomacy: U.S President Donald Trump’s shift toward Pakistan or the buzz over the recently announced Saudi-Pakistani ‘Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement’, both reverberating across Southwest Asia.”

This “tsunami” includes a full reset of ties with Washington at India’s expense, stronger defense and trade bonds with Turkey and Malaysia, a new energy pact with Iran, and expanded cooperation with China after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s September visit to Beijing.

The revival of ties with the United States, strategic agreements with Turkey, Malaysia, and Iran, and the deepening partnership with China have collectively marked a new chapter in Pakistan’s foreign relations. Meanwhile, the strategic defense pact signed with Saudi Arabia has set off a new diplomatic momentum across the region, underscoring Pakistan’s emerging influence.

Foreign Policy noted that US CENTCOM Commander General Michael Kurilla described Pakistan’s counterterrorism cooperation as “extraordinary and effective.” The renewed US-Pakistan engagement, the magazine observed, has caused visible discomfort in New Delhi, as India fears that President Trump’s tilt toward Islamabad could unravel decades of painstaking diplomatic groundwork.

Following a tense phone call between President Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Washington-New Delhi ties reportedly grew strained—an opening that Islamabad capitalized on skillfully. President Trump’s subsequent offer to mediate on the Kashmir dispute further highlighted Pakistan’s growing diplomatic relevance in regional stability efforts.

A two-hour meeting between President Trump and Field Marshal Asim Munir in June reportedly rekindled warmth in bilateral relations. Later interactions between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Trump, coupled with Pakistan’s active participation in the Gaza Peace Conference, reinforced the country’s expanding international stature.

During the Trump administration, Pakistan secured a landmark trade package—widely regarded as a milestone achievement in its modern diplomatic history. Additionally, under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s leadership, a major American company announced a $500 million investment in Pakistan, reflecting renewed investor confidence.

As a non-NATO ally, Pakistan has adeptly balanced relations with the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia—demonstrating rare diplomatic dexterity in an era of global polarization. This effective and multi-dimensional foreign policy has firmly established Pakistan as a vital and influential player on the international stage. KMS-1S

Srinagar: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti has expressed her hope that the three National Conference (NC) candidates elected to the Rajya Sabha will effectively represent the people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and raise their voices in the Indian parliament.

According to Kashmir Media Service, taking to X, Mehbooba congratulated Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan, Sajjad Kichloo, and Shami Oberoi on their success in the Rajya Sabha elections.

“I hope they will use this platform to strongly represent and speak up for the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” Mehbooba said.

Earlier on Thursday, Mehooba Mufti had announced her party’s support to the NC candidates, saying that PDP MLAs would vote for the first three candidates in a bid to “to keep the BJP away”. However, PDP legislators didn’t vote for the fourth seat as had been stated by Mehbooba a day earlier.

Brussels, : A week-long photo exhibition has been inaugurated at the Embassy of Pakistan in Brussels to raise awareness about the grave human rights situation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The event coincides with the annual observance of Kashmir Black Day on October 27.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the exhibition titled “Kashmir Black Day: A Forgotten Tragedy” was formally opened by Ambassador Rahim Hayat Qureshi, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg. The exhibition will remain open for public viewing at the Embassy throughout the week.

The exhibition showcases powerful images and documented evidence depicting India’s crimes against humanity and the decades-long sufferings of the Kashmiri people under occupation. The exhibits, based on reports by the United Nations and international human rights organizations, vividly portray the continued denial of fundamental freedoms and human dignity in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Speaking at the inauguration, Ambassador Rahim Hayat Qureshi said that October 27 marks a dark chapter in history—the day India forcibly occupied Jammu and Kashmir, unleashing a pattern of repression and violence that continues unabated till today.

Qureshi urged the international community to urgently take notice of the ongoing human rights violations in the occupied territory and hold India accountable for its actions.

Srinagar, August 12 (KMS): The All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders have felicitated the people and government of Pakistan ahead of their Independence Day to be observed on Monday, the 23rd March.

According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC Vice Chairman, Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar, in a statement issued in Srinagar said Pakistan’s Independence Day on 14th August is the day of thanksgiving and day of rejoice for the Kashmiris whereas the Indian Independence Day on 15th August is black day for them. He said the Kashmiris consider Pakistan as their benefactor and ambassador whereas they regard India as an oppressor and imperialist state.

Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar maintained that the Kashmiri people are highly grateful to the government and people of Pakistan for their continued moral, political and diplomatic support to their just struggle for right to self-determination. He said the Kashmiri people pray for the stability, prosperity and progress of the country as strong Pakistan is a guarantee to the success of Kashmir freedom movement.

The APHC Vice Chairman said the Kashmiris’ struggle is the continuation of the Pakistan Movement, which will complete only when Jammu and Kashmir gets freedom from the Indian occupation and becomes a part of Pakistan. He pointed out that alongside the supreme sacrifices of valiant Kashmiris, Pakistan’s intense diplomatic efforts have highlighted the Kashmir dispute and exposed Indian ugly colonial face at the international level.

Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar termed the Indian Independence Day as a black day for Kashmiris and appealed to the people of IIOJK to observe strike. He said that India has no right to celebrate its Independence Day as it has usurped all basic rights of Kashmiris. He urged the people of the occupied territory to boycott functions of so-called Indian Independence Day and hoist black flags on the day. He also appealed to the Kashmiri and Pakistani diaspora to organize protest rallies in different countries in front of the Indian high commissions, embassies and other historical places against the Indian illegal occupation over Jammu and Kashmir.

Meanwhile, other APHC leaders and organizations including Abdul Ahad Parra, Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Yasmeen Raja, Farida Bahenji, Abdul Samad Inqilabi, Maulana Musaib Nadvi, Prof Zuberi, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League, Jammu and Kashmir Political Resistance Movement, Jammu and Kashmir Youth Social Forum, Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Youth Forum, Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Movement, Jammu and Kashmir Pirpanchal Movement, and Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Hurriyat Front extended their warmest wishes to the Pakistani nation ahead of their Independence Day. They said that the Kashmiris were grateful to Pakistan for its continued political, moral and diplomatic support to the Kashmir cause.

They said that durable peace cannot be established in South Asia without settling the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris’ aspirations and the UN resolutions.

On the other hand, posters appeared in different areas of occupied Kashmir, congratulating the people and government of Pakistan ahead of their Independence Day. The posters displayed in Srinagar contain pictures of Quaid-e-Azam, Allama Iqbal and Army Chief General Syed Asim Munir.

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Srinagar, August 12 (KMS): Indian troops, enjoying unbridled powers under black laws, are openly targeting innocent youth in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing struggle for securing their right to self-determination.

According to a report released by Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of International Youth Day, today, Indian forces’ personnel are brutally murdering Kashmiri youth for demanding their fundamental rights, including their inalienable right to self-determination as per the United Nations.

It said the youth in the occupied territory are being targeted, killed and arrested during cordon and search operations by Indian troops, paramilitary and police personnel on a daily basis.

The report said that the Indian troops had intensified extra-judicial killings of the Kashmiri youth since 5th August 2019 when Narendra Modi-led Indian government repealed the special status of IIOJK and imposed military siege in the territory. It pointed out that the Indian troops have martyred 60 Kashmiri youth and arrested as many as 2774 this year so far while 96,225 Kashmiris, mostly youth, had fallen to the Indian bullets since 1989 till date in IIOJK.

The report said thousands of Kashmiri youth along with Hurriyat leaders, Ulema, women, journalists and human rights activists are facing illegal detentions since long time in different jails of India and IIOJK.

The report said that the Modi regime must understand that no amount of brutalization, military might and anti-Kashmiri policy will be able to subjugate the Kashmiris. It said, India can kill the Kashmiri youth but it cannot defeat their stand and sentiment for freedom. The people of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to continue their struggle till complete success, it said.

The report said history is witness to the fact that freedom movements and political future of the people cannot be suppressed through the use of military might and state terrorism. It said the world community, particularly the United Nations, is duty-bound to stop injustice, brutalities and merciless killing of youth in IIOJK and it must come to the rescue of the Kashmiris. India must be held accountable for its heinous crimes and continued human rights violations in the occupied territory, it added.

Srinagar, August 12 (KMS): An Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) man has committed suicide in Pulwama district of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the CRPF man identified as Ajay Kumar ended his life by shooting himself with his service rifle in Sail Awantipora area of the district in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.

This incident raised the number of such deaths among Indian troops and police personnel to 576 since January 2007 till date in the occupied territory.

Says situation in present day India is worst for Muslims

Bangalore, August 11 (KMS): Renowned Indian author and commentator Arundhati Roy has expressed serious concern at the rise in violence against women – that too encouraged by women who look at the faith of the perpetrators to decide whether to support them or not.

According to Kashmir Media Service, Arundhati Roy after receiving the Navamalayali Cultural Prize in Thrissur city of the Indian state of Kerala said, “Today we are in a situation where women are justifying rape, where women are telling men to rape other women. I am talking about not just Manipur. I am talking about so many cases – whether it’s in Hathras, whether it’s in Jammu and Kashmir.”

“Depending on who is raping who, the women stand up for that (particular) community. This means we have gone psychotic. There is something very wrong,” she said, calling upon every citizen to stand up before it is too late.

The Booker Prize winner said, “You have a situation where the police are handing over women to a mob to be raped. You have a situation where an officer of the Railway Protection Force is walking down bogies shooting Muslims and saying you must vote for Modi.” She was referring to the July 31 incident in which RPF constable Chetan Singh gunned down three Muslim men and a senior officer in a Jaipur-Mumbai train.

Arundhati Roy cautioned about accepting the theories being spun that the RPF constable was mentally unstable. “And it is a mistake to think this person is mad. This person is sane. This person is absorbing all the propaganda day and night that’s coming out at him.”

The author of The God of Small Things recalled how scary it was to live in Delhi. “I live in Delhi. I am so scared on the road. One little thing happens and 50 men with orange scarves will come. They know who I am,” she said, while referring to members of Hindutva organizations.

She drew attention to how a member of the Muslim community would feel in a similar situation. “I am just not talking about me. Imagine if you are a Muslim. You might have a parking problem that might end in your death, in your lynching. You might be going home from Delhi to Aligarh to see your parents, and you might end up dead. This is the country we are living in now.”

She went on to describe herself as a “failure” since her writings could not make much difference. “You know I am very happy that I am getting awards. But everything I’ve written is a huge failure. I am a huge failure because nothing that I said has made any difference other than getting awards and earning me a lot of royalty.”

“People say she is a very elite person. I am. The only place my eliteness comes from is the royalty from my books. That’s the only money I have. It’s a lot, but what’s the point if it doesn’t matter?”

Arundhati Roy described the unabated violence in Manipur as “ethnic cleansing” in which the Indian Central government is complicit. “It’s a kind of ethnic cleansing because the Centre is complicit, the state is partisan, the security forces are split between one partisan lot, the police, and the others with no chain of command,” she noted, with a word of caution as to how other states need to be careful.

“From Manipur to Haryana to all the other states that are going to stand for elections… it’s like a fuse is being lit,” she warned, appealing to everyone to stand up for peace and harmony.

She took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not doing enough to end the Manipur violence. “There’s a war, women are being raped, paraded naked, colonies are being burnt. Muslims are having cross marks on their doors, they are fleeing, and he is tweeting ‘I had appam last night for dinner’.”

She was alluding to Modi’s tweet dated August 3 where he wrote: “Last evening, I had a wonderful meeting with NDA MPs from Southern India, followed by a great dinner in which a variety of South Indian dishes were served including Paniyaram, Appam, Vegetable Korma, Pulihora, Pappu Charu, Adai Aviyal and more.”

Arundhati Roy added: “I don’t think any of us should be in any doubt about what is waiting even outside the borders of our state, waiting to come in.

“Sometimes when I come to Kerala, you know, it’s so wonderful to be here. But do people know the fire is burning so close? We have a different universe here (in Kerala). It’s a beautiful universe. But it’s being threatened.”

Ranchi, August 11 (KMS): An Indian paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) head constable was killed and another injured in a clash in the Indian state of Jharkhand, today.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the head constable of CRPF’s 60th Battalion, Sushant Kumar, was killed and another Munna Kumar injured during clash with Maoist guerrillas when Indian forces launched a search operation in Kolhan area of West Singhbhum district in the state.

The CRPF Jharkhand IG, V K Birdi, said that there was an exchange of fire and two of the CRPF personnel sustained bullet injuries. He said, they both were airlifted to Ranchi for treatment however one of them lost his life while the other one is stable. The operation has been continuing in the area since August 08, he added.

Islamabad, August 11 (KMS): Speakers at an event here have said that Narendra Modi-led Indian government is attacking the unique identity and culture in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir after usurping all their basic rights of the Kashmiri people.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the speakers highlighted the current grim situation of occupied Jammu and Kashmir. They said the Modi regime has destroyed the future of the Kashmiri youth and after the unilateral and illegal action of August 05, 2019, making nefarious attempts to change the demographic composition of the occupied territory.

They urged the Pakistani youth to play their role in promoting the Kashmir cause and in the development and prosperity of the country.

The speakers included Vice Chairman of Friends of Kashmir International, Abdul Hameed Lone, Dr Sander Schroevers, Station head of Snow News Islamabad Waqar Hassan, and social worker and owner of Centaurs Mall Islamabad, Sardar Ilyas.

Muzaffarabad, August 11 (KMS): A rally was held in Muzaffarabad, today, to pay homage to prominent Hurriyat leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, on his martyrdom anniversary.

According to Kashmir Media Service, a large number of people participated in the rally organized by the Jammu and Kashmir Young Men’s League.

Addressing on the occasion, the speakers said that Sheikh Abdul Aziz was a sincere leader who dedicated his life to the Kashmir freedom movement and even made the ultimate sacrifice for this cause. They said that the martyrdom of Sheikh Aziz infused a new spirit in the Kashmir freedom struggle. Those participated in the rally included Younis Mir, Qari Bilal Ahmad Farooqui, Iqbal Khan, Muhammad Ishaq, Parvez Khan Durrani, Aslam Inqalabi, Tanzeer Iqbal, Ishtiaq Liaquat Awan, Rana Muhammad Yasin, Riyaz Awan, Muhammad Naeem War, Chaudhry Ashfaq, Waqas Mir, Usman Ali Awan, Basit Sajjad Butt and Ehtsham Ali Awan.

On the other hand, All Parties Hurriyat Conference AJK chapter and Kashmir Action Committee Pakistan organized a protest on Mall Road, Lahore, to pay homage to Sheikh Abdul Aziz and other Kashmiri martyrs.

A seminar was also held in Lahore which was presided over by the APHC-AJK leader, Engineer Mushtaq Mehmood, abd was attended among others by the President of Bhagat Singh Federation Muhammad Iqbal Pir, Peoples Party leader Muhammad Abbas Mir, Coordinator of Kashmir Action Committee Pakistan Farooq Azad, and others. In their speeches, they said that Sheikh Aziz was a dedicated leader who strived for the freedom of Jammu and Kashmir from Indian illegal occupied throughout his life.