Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiChairmanWorld Forum for Peace & Justice January 26, 2026 India is celebrating its 77th Republic Day to honor a constitution that came into force on January 26, 1950. Yet for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, this celebration has little meaning. The world’s largest self-proclaimed democracy has never extended the same democratic...
January:A Month of Tragedy for Kashmir
Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiChairmanWorld Forum for Peace & Justice January 22, 2026 January should have been a month of hope for the people of Kashmir. It was in January 5, 1949 when the United Nations established that the final status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall be determined in accordance with the will...
Systematic Inhumane Persecution in Jammu & Kashmir
Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiChairmanWorld Forum for Peace & Justice January 22, 2026 This written communication draws the attention of the United Nations and its human rights mechanisms to persistent and grave violations in Jammu and Kashmir, which cumulatively raise serious concerns under international human rights law and international criminal law, including the threshold of crimes...
Kashmir and the Criminalization of Dissent.
Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiChairmanWorld Forum for Peace & Justice January 16, 2026 The recent conviction of three prominent Kashmiri women leaders—Asiya Andrabi, Fahmeeda Sofi, and Nahida Nasreen—by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Delhi underscores a disturbing trend in India’s governance of Jammu and Kashmir: the systematic criminalization of peaceful political dissent under the...
Children’s Rights in Times of Conflict:The Case of Kashmir
Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiChairmanWorld Forum for Peace & Justice January 14, 2026 The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its one hundredth session in Geneva from 12 to 30 January 2026 at a moment of profound concern for children worldwide. In his opening statement, Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Director of the Human Rights Council and...
Pakistan shifting focus of relations with US from geopolitics to geo-economics: Ambassador Rizwan.
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (TW News) __ Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh has said that from a national security perspective, Pakistan’s focus is shifting from geopolitics to geo-economics, adding that the scope of the bilateral cooperation would be further expanded in 2026. Ambassador Rizwan Sheikh said this during a meeting with...
Kashmir: A Forgotten Land, a Forgotten People —And the Cost of Disunity.
Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiChairmanWorld Forum for Peace & Justice January 9, 2026 For more than three decades, Kashmir has lived through one of the gravest, yet least acknowledged, human rights crises of our time. Over 150,000 Kashmiris have lost their lives in the past 35 years alone. Between 8,000 and 10,000 people have been forcibly...
Digital Billboard Campaign in Washington Calls on United Nations to Honor Kashmiris’ Right to Self-Determination.
Washington, DC. January 5, 2026 (TW News) __ The World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF), a Washington-based advocacy organization, launched a mobile digital billboard campaign across Washington, DC, calling on the United Nations to fulfill its commitment to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and ensure their internationally recognized right to self-determination. The brightly lit mobile...
Meeting with Dhaka-based SAWAB Delegation in Washington, DC.
Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiChairmanWorld Forum for Peace & Justice January 4, 2026 Today was a deeply meaningful day. We had the honor of welcoming a delegation from the Social Agency for Welfare and Advancement in Bangladesh (SAWAB), led by my dear friend of many decades, S.M. Rasheduzzaman, to Washington, DC. The gathering felt less like...
Kashmir:A Promise the World Chose to Forget.
Dr. Ghulam Nabi FaiChairmanWorld Forum for Peace & Justice January 2, 2026 It was on January 5, 1949, seventy-seven years ago when the world promised the people of Kashmir that their future would be decided by their own voices. It was a solemn pledge — written into UN resolutions, affirmed by world leaders, and declared...









