The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has warned of further rainfall from 18 to 22 August. Moderate to heavy ...

MUZAFFARABAD: Villagers have been thronging the Nauseri Dam on the Neelum River for the past two days to collect floating ...

Amid recent heavy rains, landslides, and a cloudburst in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), the regional government has announced ...

In Zafarwal, Nullah Dek is experiencing high flood levels with 22,000 cusecs of water flowing—just 8,000 cusecs short of maximum capacity. Villages including Lehri Kalan and Dioli have been submerged, ...

The sudden cloudburst in Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, caused heavy flooding and widespread destruction. Floodwaters washed ...

“If the [Indian] parliament wants [Azad] Kashmir to be a part of India, then we will take the necessary action to achieve that goal,” the newly appointed Indian army chief told the media.

Azad Kashmir was again in the cross-hairs of armed conflict. Against this backdrop, Pakistan under Gen Ziaul Haq decided to legally separate the geographically much larger Northern Areas of Gilgit ...

The contested territory of Kashmir, split with a de facto border between India's Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan's Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has been the subject of countless deadly skirmishes and ...

Extending for nearly 400 miles from the upper reaches of the Indus River to the glacial highlands of the Himalayas, the ...

Azad Kashmir has its own constitution, the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Interim Constitution Act of 1974, and a locally chosen parliamentary form of government, as described above (see Chapter II ...

Under Azad Kashmir’s constitution, which Pakistan imposed in 1974, election candidates are prescreened to ensure that only those who support Kashmir’s union with Pakistan can contest elections.