MALAKAND: A fully representative jirga of Baizai and Swat Ranizai tribes held at Batkhela … yesterday [June 16] condemned the formation of a ‘Constituent Assembly’ in Kashmir as the majority [there], who were Muslims, had never accepted the Dogra domination, and it amounted to setting up a despotic government run by a Hindu minority… .

They also protested … the delay in settling the Kashmir problem and resolved that unless the United Nations bring about an early solution they would be justified … to resume the jehad to liberate their Muslim brethren … from the Hindu domination… . — News agencies

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies from Khatmandu,] Ten people including seven girls, were arrested by the Nepal Police yesterday [June 16] at the Gauchar Aerodrome while they were waving black flags at Bharati Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, on his arrival from New Delhi. The leader … a 14-year-old school girl, said they belonged to the Nepali Mahila Sangh, women’s section of the Praja Parishad, which has been organized under the leadership of the wife of Nepal’s Minister for Commerce and Industry. She said the Sangh was protesting against … Nehru’s interference in the internal affairs of Nepal.

Published in Dawn, June 18th, 2026