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<loc>https://kashmirtimes.com/news/govt-moves-to-take-over-1200-kanals-of-paddy-fields-in-pulwama-farmers-ask-why</loc>
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<image:caption>Local farmers, joined by Pulwama MLA Waheed Ur Rehman Para transplant paddy saplings in a disputed agricultural field in Padgampora-Dangerpora on 8 June 2026. The re-sowing campaign was undertaken days after farmers alleged that revenue authorities had uprooted freshly transplanted paddy and restricted cultivation on the land.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Pulwama MLA Waheed Ur Rehman Para drives a tractor while helping prepare a paddy field for transplantation alongside local farmers on disputed agricultural land in Padgampora and Dangerpora villages of south Kashmir's Pulwama district.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>A receipt reviewed by Kashmir Times showing payment of Aabiyana (irrigation water charges) to the Jammu and Kashmir Irrigation and Flood Control Department. Farmers cite such records as evidence of their long-standing cultivation and use of the disputed agricultural land in Padgampora and adjoining villages of Pulwama district in Kashmir.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>A receipt reviewed by Kashmir Times showing payment of Aabiyana (irrigation water charges) to the Jammu and Kashmir Irrigation and Flood Control Department. Farmers cite such records as evidence of their long-standing cultivation and use of the disputed agricultural land in Padgampora and adjoining villages of Pulwama district in Kashmir.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Signboard put up on a tree trunk, declaring the agriculture fields as government land in a village of Pulwama district in Kashmir by the Revenue Department of the government.</image:caption>
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<news:publication_date>2026-06-17T11:05:47.102Z</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Govt Moves to Take Over 1200 Kanals of Paddy Fields in Pulwama, Farmers ask Why</news:title>
<news:keywords>Land Rights, State Land, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Kashmir, Cultivation, Politics, Pulwama, Dispossession, Disenfranchisement, Revenue, Paddy Season, Farmers</news:keywords>
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<loc>https://kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comment-articles/pajk-crisis-kashmirs-selective-bleeding-hearts-and-pakistans-blind-spots</loc>
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<image:loc>https://media.assettype.com/kashmirtimes/2026-06-15/uj65vh3r/Unrest-and-crisis-in-PaJK.png</image:loc>
<image:caption>Unrest and crisis created by the agitational programme called by the Jammu and Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee is impacting the normal lives of the civilian population in the region. Image is representational.</image:caption>
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<news:publication_date>2026-06-16T13:09:22.309Z</news:publication_date>
<news:title>PaJK Crisis: Kashmir’s Selective Bleeding Hearts and Pakistan’s Blind Spots</news:title>
<news:keywords>Kashmir, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan administered Jammu &amp; Kashmir, JAAC, Pakistan, India, Kashmiri, Politics, Economy, Natural Resources, Rawalakot</news:keywords>
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<loc>https://kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comment-articles/in-the-rocky-mountains-everyone-still-cares-where-you-are-from</loc>
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<image:caption>The author, Dr Aditi Parimoo with two Anands by the river side in the backdrop of snow-clad mountains, during a trip to Ladakh region.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Valley with a river in Ladakh region.</image:caption>
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<news:publication_date>2026-06-16T12:03:57.660Z</news:publication_date>
<news:title>In the Rocky Mountains, Everyone Still Cares Where You are From</news:title>
<news:keywords>Nature, Ladakh, Kargil, Mountains, Himalayas, Kashmir, Kashmiri Pandit, Home, Nagpur, Kerala, Tamil Brahmin, Malyali, Punjabi, Nagpur </news:keywords>
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<loc>https://kashmirtimes.com/news/pajk-unrest-exposes-gap-between-govt-claims-and-implementation-of-demands</loc>
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<image:loc>https://media.assettype.com/kashmirtimes/2026-06-15/etkp8ydq/Protests-demonstration-in-Rawalakot-on-Sunday.jpg</image:loc>
<image:caption>People of Pakistan administered Jammu and Kashmir staging a sit-in protest demonstration in Rawalakot, northern town of PaJK on Sunday, 15 June 2026.</image:caption>
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<image:loc>https://media.assettype.com/kashmirtimes/2026-06-15/uj65vh3r/Unrest-and-crisis-in-PaJK.png</image:loc>
<image:caption>Unrest and crisis created by the agitational programme called by the Jammu and Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee is impacting the normal lives of the civilian population in the region. Image is representational.</image:caption>
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<image:loc>https://media.assettype.com/kashmirtimes/2026-06-15/bl0xsns9/Demand-and-implementation-status-of-agreement-with-JAAC.png</image:loc>
<image:caption>Demand Implementation status at a glance signed between members of the Jammu and Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) and Pakistan government in October 2025.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Demand and implementation summary at a glance.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Copies of the agreements signed on 4 October 2025 between the Government of Pakistan, the Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and the Joint Awami Action Committee.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Copies of the agreements signed on 4 October 2025 between the Government of Pakistan, the Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and the Joint Awami Action Committee.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Copies of the agreements signed on 4 October 2025 between the Government of Pakistan, the Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and the Joint Awami Action Committee.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Copies of the agreements signed on 4 October 2025 between the Government of Pakistan, the Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and the Joint Awami Action Committee.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Copies of the agreements signed on 4 October 2025 between the Government of Pakistan, the Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and the Joint Awami Action Committee.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Copies of the agreements signed on 4 October 2025 between the Government of Pakistan, the Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and the Joint Awami Action Committee.</image:caption>
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<news:publication_date>2026-06-16T00:00:00.000Z</news:publication_date>
<news:title>PaJK Unrest Exposes Gap Between Govt Claims and Implementation Of Demands</news:title>
<news:keywords>Kashmir, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Pakistan administered Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Human Rights , Pakistan administered Kashmir, Police Firing, Bank, Scheduled Bank, Pakistan, October Agreement, Hydropower Projects, Rawalakot, Violence</news:keywords>
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<loc>https://kashmirtimes.com/opinion/comment-articles/kashmirs-rivers-and-missing-stakeholders</loc>
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<image:caption>Chenab River at Ramban.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Indus River near Leh, Ladakh.</image:caption>
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<news:publication_date>2026-06-15T11:36:37.230Z</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Kashmir’s Rivers and Missing Stakeholders</news:title>
<news:keywords>Indus Water Treaty, Indus River, Punjab, Kashmir, Kashmiris, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Climate Change, India, Pakistan, Indo-Pak Peace Talks</news:keywords>
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<loc>https://kashmirtimes.com/news/blackout-bullets-and-bodies-withheld-crackdown-on-pajks-rights-movement</loc>
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<image:loc>https://media.assettype.com/kashmirtimes/2026-06-15/iu3ao0bm/Food-stuff-coming-from-Pakistan-to-Muzaffarabad-and-other-cities-of-Pakistan-administered-Jammu-and-Kashmir-has-been-stopped-on-the-border-by-Pakistan-security-forces-Voice-of-Kotli-FB.jpg</image:loc>
<image:caption>Food stuff coming from Pakistan to Muzaffarabad and other cities of Pakistan administered Jammu and Kashmir by the Pakistan security forces on the border on Sunday, 14 June 2026.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Thousands of Overseas Kashmiris' Long March in London on Sunday, 14 June 2026.</image:caption>
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<news:publication_date>2026-06-15T11:11:16.078Z</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Blackout, Bullets, and Bodies Withheld: Crackdown on PaJK’s Rights Movement</news:title>
<news:keywords>Blackout, Communication Blockade, Human Rights, Politics, Dialogue, Crisis in PaJK, Violence, Police Firing, civilian killings</news:keywords>
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