AJK Youth urge political leaders to encourage their participation in the political process

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Video Link of Muzaffarabad Policy Dialogue

Youth Voices:
Centre for Peace and Development and Reforms (CPDR) organised a daylong policy dialogue on role of political parties in promoting decision-making spaces for young people of AJK in the context of upcoming elections. Almost 350 young people actively participated in the interactive discussion. Here is what youth stated about event.

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Freedom in our lifetime

It’s a feeling induced in me from a very tender age that the relationship between the state subjects of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir isn’t a political or national relationship but a relationship of pain and common suffering. It’s a relationship of lost identities.

This pain of separation has had various forms of expression.

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Youth of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan resolve to jointly work for the empowerment of both regions

Report: Durresameen Mirza, member Youth Core Group, CPDR | Published 5 Feb 2016
A heated debate is going on regarding the long-awaited constitutional rights of people of Gilgit-Baltistan nowadays in the national as well as regional media. Differing narratives and shades of opinion are being expressed, which are gradually intensified and got hype.

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