Imran says no country can become a dignified nation when it keeps relying on aid. Picture via PTI s Twitter account
MUZAFFARABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday praised the courage and valour of the Kashmiri youth, particularly those gallantly facing atrocities in India-held Kashmir, and said they could not accept any “cowardly, gutless, corrupt and liar” as their leader.
He expressed these views at his first election-related public meeting in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), held on the premises of a college in Bagh.
“I want to give a special message to the great people of occupied Kashmir,” he said, adding “Pakistani nation appreciates and feels proud of you for the way you are showing self-respect while braving atrocities as well as the way youngsters like Burhan Wani are sacrificing their lives”.
SRINAGAR: The Indian government has ordered authorities in held Kashmir to ban the slaughter of all animals in the Muslim-majority region for Eidul Azha.
The order by the Hindu nationalist government, released late on Thursday, is likely to heighten tensions in India-held Kashmir, where anxiety has deepened since New Delhi revoked its special autonomous status in August 2019.
Cows are considered sacred by many Hindus and their slaughter is banned in the region and many Indian states, but the new order extends the ban to all animals for the first time.
The Indian government’s animal welfare board ordered the police and authorities to “take all preventive measures” to halt the “illegal killing of animals and to take stringent action against offenders.”
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AS the campaign for elections in Azad Kashmir heats up, political rivals are hurling all kinds of accusations at each other on matters that should remain insulated from partisan one-upmanship. PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz is leading her party’s campaign and drawing large, impassioned crowds at her rallies. The PTI has announced that Prime Minister Imran Khan will also soon be hitting the campaign trail in AJK to help the party cross the winning line. Tradition holds that the party in power in the centre usually wins in AJK though the opposition this time is claiming it would defy this tradition and vanquish the PTI. The PPP’s Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari also delivered fiery speeches at his rallies often times taking a dig at the PML-N leadership too but has now travelled to the United States with less than two weeks to go till the Kashmir elections.
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