It is for the first time that political parties in AJK have formally agreed to unite and take up 'pre poll', 'during poll' and associate 'engineered' rigging of elections. The blame has been duly laid at the steps of federal government.

Musharraf Government seems to have made a fool of itself by claiming to have taken an 'out of the box' position on Kashmir in her deliberations with India and at home has been caught red handed while taking the boxed 'corruption' out of the box and play with it at will. It proves that Vote or no Vote does not make any difference in Azad Kashmir elections and more so in the 12 Assembly seats reserved for refugees in Pakistan.

Eight explosions in Bombay and Five in Srinagar on 11 July have resulted in an enormous loss of life, a wide spread of injury to members of public and a threat to intra state relations between India and Pakistan and intra-community relations between Muslims and Hindus within India. Bombay is a leading commercial seat in Indian life and Srinagar is a tourist attraction in Jammu and Kashmir.

Ghulam Nabi Azad sat patient as per the power-sharing agreement reached between the PDP and the Congress after the Assembly polls in 2002.Soon after taking his turn as Chief Minister he seems to have set his heart and soul to translate into practice the 30 ELEMENTS OF A COMMON MINIMUM PROGRAMME FOR A CONGRESS - PDP COALITION GOVERNMENT IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR.