Working as health workers under the Maternal Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) Programme these women are surviving on merely a monthly remuneration of 8,000 Pakistani Rupees.
People from all walks of life in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK) took to the streets in a region-wide protest against a range of issues they have been grappling with for an extended period.
The main bone of contention is the government's decision to increase the retirement age for doctors to 65, a move the protesting doctors deem draconian and unjust.
The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that India's position regarding the entire Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir being an integral part of the country is well known and New Delhi has raised its concerns with US side regarding US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome's recen
Shops in Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Rawalakot, Kotli and other major cities remained shut and trades and locals carried out protest marches with slogans against the Pakistan government.
The demonstration was organized by the Jammu Kashmir National Independence Alliance (JKNIA) and to raise voice against the crackdown by Pakistani security forces on protesters raising issues of high electricity bills and inflation.
Union Minister and former Army chief General VK Singh on Sunday said that the day is not far when Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) will merge with India "again".
The Forum's National Coordinator and a member of the Minority Education Institution Council, Shahid Akhtar, said that a peaceful protest march against Pakistan will be organized in Delhi on October 1.
In his intervention during the 54th Session of UN Human Rights in Geneva, Junaid Qureshi said, “In the worst migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea, a boat carrying 750 people capsized in June this year. At least 300 people from Pakistan, including 135 from Pakistan-administered Jamm
Political activists from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir raised the issue of terrorism in the region and informed the United Nations that youth in PoK are forced to join banned extremist groups who take up arms training to carry out terror attacks.
A political activist from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has informed the United Nations that extremist and radical groups in the region are often overlooked by security forces, even being facilitated into becoming political parties and register in the local election commission.