Human rights group welcomes new Pakistani law for women protection
Region: PakistanReport: Zafar Iqbal Islamabad, Thursday, November 05, 2009: Press for Peace (PFP) has hailed the government of Pakistan for incorporating an important change in the criminal justice regulations in the country for... more
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Self Rule For Gilgit Baltistan
Region: PakistanBy Zafar Iqbal The people of Pakistan controlled Giglit Baltistan are going to exercise their right of vote to elect 24 members of Legislative Assembly on November 12. This significant move is c... more
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Media Repression in Iran
Region: IranBy Zafar Iqbal Iran is amongst those unfortunate countries of the Middle East where authoritarian regimes frequently use unyielding measures to gag the press in order to prevent free flow of information. Media wa... more
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Post Traumatic Earthquake Scenario of Kashmir
Region: Pakistan
Post Traumatic Earthquake Scenario of Kashmir By Zafar Iqbal zafarjournalisl@gmail.com The shattered hopes of one and half million Kashmiris living in the earth-quake affected areas have again lifted b... more
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Kashmiri peace groups seeks help of world community
Region: Pakistan
Muzaffarabad, Jammu and Kashmir, Tuesday, 14, 2009: A Kashmir based none governmental organization has called upon the international community to campaign for the protection of its activists who are being attacked a... more
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Kashmiri Peace organization urges Pakistan to bar activities of banned groups
Region: Pakistan
Muzaffarabad(Jammu and Kashmir) Tuesday,, 30 June, 2009 A local peace group has urged government of Pakistan to prevent reorganization operations of some banned militant groups in different areas of P... more
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Banned Islamic Militants groups reorganize operations in Kashmir
Region: Pakistan
Banned Islamic Militant groups reorganize operations in Kashmir Muzaffarabad: June 29, 2009 Report: Zafar Iqbal Pakistan based Jihadi outfits have started their operations in Pakistani administrated Ka... more
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NGO launched in Kashmir for human development
Region: PakistanMuzaffarabad: Saturday, June 27, 2009, Report: Zafar Iqbal An NGO has been launched in Azad Kashmir in order to strengthen the efforts for the betterment of social- economic conditions of populace of rural and m... more
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Two Pakistani soldiers killed in Kashmir
Region: PakistanTwo Pakistani soldiers killed in Kashmir Report : zafar iqbal Muzaffarabad: June 26, 2009 Two Pakistani soldiers have been died and three were injured in a suicide bombe attack near an army vehicle here ... more
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Press Freedom in Pakistan
Region: Pakistan
Relentless struggle in enduring danger By Zafar Iqbal Images: Saeed Ur Rehman Swat, (Northern Pakistan): On superficial glance, he seems to have nexus with Taliban, or a Taliban commander with long disheveled bea... more
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Zafar Iqbal
Zafar Iqbal is a peace and human rights activist and freelance journalist working in Pakistani part of Kashmir. After completing his Masters in Media & Globalization from Nottingham Trent University, UK he is working for a human rights organization, Press For Peace (PFP) which strives for protection of civil liberties and promotion of peace and tolerance in South Asia.
He has been a passionate and ardent supporter of change in his social and political milieu. Highlighting the miseries of marginalized and voiceless elements of society, promoting peace and supporting various issues of human concern have been the major areas of Zafar’s contributions .As a writer, he has specifically been interested in patterns of globalization and regionalization in contemporary South Asia.
He could be contacted at:
zafarjournalist@gmail.com
blog: http://pressforpeace.blogspot.com/
Website: http://pressforpeace.org.uk/
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