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Awaz Apni: SHARM EL SHEIKH: The foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India met here late Tuesday night on the sidelines of NAM summit in a bid to start the peace process and resolve other issues of mutual importance.Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir while briefing media after his one and a half hour long meeting with Indian counterpart Shiv Shankar Menon said Pakistan discussed it’s leadership and peoples’ desire to work towards constructive relationship with India. “We believe to get back to structural dialogue and arrived at what we need to resolve between the two governments,” he said. The Foreign Secretary said, “We talked about regional cooperation and I underscored the fact that despite differences we have allowed the regional cooperation to go along.” He said Pakistan was not shy of addressing the issued of terrorism and there was a great clarity and great determination on part of the government and the nation. He said Pakistan had been giving India periodic update of the investiga...

CNews SRINAGAR: Central leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said detentions and house arrests are part and parcel of a freedom movement adding that Indian authorities could not suppress the movement by force. Talking to media, Mirwaiz said that India has stepped up atrocities in Kashmir during last two months to suppress the freedom movement with brutal use of force. Mirwaiz said Kashmiris with peaceful protests have raised the issue on global level. Thousands of people attended protest rallies in the valley throughout last month, he added. To a question, Mirwaiz said the movement couldn't be crushed now as it has also gained support from the Indian Intelligentsia which is stressing for peaceful solution of the longstanding dispute. He stressed the need to engage people of Kashmir in the ongoing composite dialogue between India and Pakistan to work out the solution of the dispute.

CNews SRINAGAR: Security forces enforced a strict curfew in the occupied Kashmir on Sunday and detained Yasin Malik to prevent him from holding a pro-independence rally.The curfew was in force in the summer capital Srinagar and other Muslim-majority towns ahead of Monday's planned rally at the main city's Red Square, or Lal Chowk. According to Kashmir Media Service, policemen used loudspeakers to urge residents to stay indoors. Thousands of troops have been deployed around the venue, with all entry points blocked by fencing and barbed wire. Police sealed off many neighbourhoods in Srinagar with barbed wire and warned people against defying the curfew.Late Saturday night police detained senior separatist Yasin Malik in a raid near Red Square. Meanwhile, leader of All Parties Hurriat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has appealed to people to reach Lal Chowk by defying curfew. Police said Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq were placed under house arrest and several second rung...

CNews ISLAMABAD: In an apparent bid to divert attention away from the impeachment threat looming over him, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday night condemned the "human rights violations" in Jammu and Kashmir. In an address to the nation during the "Azadi Show" event at the presidency here on the eve of Pakistan's Independence Day, Musharraf raked up the issue of the ongoing violence in Jammu and Kashmir that claimed several lives, whom he described as "martyrs". "Every Pakistani is with our brothers and sisters in Srinagar. Kashmir beats in the heart of every Pakistani," Musharraf said. Condemning "human rights violations" in Jammu and Kashmir, he said the recent violence over Amarnath land row also claimed the life of Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz. Mushrraf's comments seemed to be an apparent attempt to divert attention of his countrymen from the impeachment threat he was facing in parliament. The PPP-led rul...

CNews SRINAGAR: Indian police say they have issued orders to shoot protesters defying a curfew in Indian-controlled Kashmir.Senior police official Hemant Lohia said the order was given Wednesday following widespread curfew violations the day before in which 15 people were martyred including APHC leader, Shaikh Abdul Aziz.Violence has roiled the Himalayan region since June 23 when Muslims and Hindus began tit-for-tat protests over a government proposal to transfer land to a Hindu shrine in India's only Muslim-majority state."Curfew has to be implemented fully and we've ordered shoot at sight to discourage protests," says Lohia. "This last option becomes the first in order not to let the situation go out of hand."