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Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) receives lesser attention. ON  SEPTEMBER 28, 2017  BY  NARESH SAGAR LEAVE A COMMENT EDIT Naresh Kumar Sagar In contrast to developments in Pakistan and India Pakistan relations, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) receives relatively lesser attention. In the case of both its units – ‘Gilgit Baltistan’ and Ázad Kashmir’ India has however vital interests. Recent developments in India Pakistan relations, tensions on the LOC and finally, domestic developments in Pakistan itself have impacted this constituent part of Jammu and Kashmir in different ways further highlighting the anomalies of its juridical and constitutional status. The strategic dimensions of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) as a whole are also changing with the qualitatively new interface that has developed between Pakistan and China in recent years. New Delhi, September 26th, 2017: Ananta Aspen Centre organized an int...

India has slammed Pakistan for using a "fake picture" in the UN General Assembly to push a "completely false narrative", a day after its Permanent Representative presented an image of a girl from Gaza as a victim of pellet guns in Kashmir. Paulomi Tripathi, an Indian diplomat at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, yesterday took the floor of the General Assembly, UNGA, to exercise India's right to reply to the attack by Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN, Maleeha Lodhi. Tripathi said the Lodhi misled this Assembly by displaying a fake picture to spread falsehood about India and to divert attention from Pakistan's role as the hub of global terrorism. She said the picture was taken by an American photographer Heidi Levine and was published by New York Times on 24th March 2015 under the caption 'Conflict, Courage and Healing in Gaza'. Tripathi, showing a picture of Lieutenant Umar Fayaz in the UNGA said that in view of ...

2nd India-Indonesia Biennial Trade Ministers’ Forum Meeting ON  SEPTEMBER 26, 2017  BY  NARESH SAGAR LEAVE A COMMENT EDIT 2nd India-Indonesia Biennial Trade Ministers’ Forum Meeting agrees to early meeting of Working Groups on Trade & Investment and Trade Facilitation & Remedies The 2 nd  Biennial Trade Ministers Forum (BTMF) meeting was held at New Delhi between delegations led by the Minister of Commerce and Industry of India, Shri Suresh Prabhu and the Minister of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia, Mr. Enggartiasto Lukita. The meeting was preceded by a Senior Official’s meeting where ground work was done for the BTMF meeting.  Both Ministers agreed for convening early meeting of the Working Group on Trade & Investment and the Working Group on Trade Facilitation & Remedies, to address the issues impeding trade and identifying means of facilitating trade and investment between India and Indonesia.  These Working Groups wi...