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Introduction
A two-day international conference on “Emerging Security Order in Asia Pacific and its Impact on South Asia” were organized by the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) on November 17-18, 2015 at Marriott Hotel, Islamabad.…
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پانچ جنوری کو دنیا بھر میں یومِ ’’ حق خود ارادیت‘‘ کشمیر کے طور پر منایا جاتا ہے کیونکہ 1949 میں اسی دن اقوام متحدہ کی سلامتی کونسل نے اتفاق رائے سے یہ قرار داد منظور کی تھی کہ کشمیری عوام کو…