Tag: India Pakistan Tension

About ties with countries, particularly India, Mujahid said the Taliban desires good ties with all nations, including India that is an important part of the region.

United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on India and Pakistan to exercise “maximum restraint” and offered to mediate in the face of rising tensions following the attack at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir that claimed the lives of 40 CRPF troopers. Guterres, through a spokesman, said that the UN is deeply concerned about […]

Hanoi: US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he has received “reasonably attractive news” from Pakistan and India and hoped that tensions between the two countries could end. “We have, I think, reasonably attractive news from Pakistan and India. We have been going at it and we have been involved in trying to have […]

Bhubaneswar: Following escalation of tension between India and Pakistan, high alert has been sounded in Odisha with security being tightened at strategic installations and locations including airports and sea ports in the State. This was decided today at a high-level meeting held at the Secretariat which was attended by senior officials of several central agencies […]

Sonepur: Two non-Odia youths faced the ire of co-passengers for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans while travelling in a government bus near Mahadevpali on Binika-Sonepur road in the district on Thursday  evening. The two youths, whose identities are yet to be established boarded the bus from Barpali in Bargarh district. But after travelling for some kilometers, […]

New Delhi: The closure of Pakistan air space resulted in cancellation of 11 international flights to and from the national capital’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Friday. Pakistan has banned Indian aircraft from using its airspace and Pakistan’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) has banned flying of any aircraft below 32,000 feet. However, the commercial […]

New Delhi: With the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation adopting resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir, India on Saturday said that the state is an integral part of India and its matters are strictly internal. Answering a query regarding India’s participation at the OIC in Abu Dhabi and resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson […]

Washington: Fifty nine Nobel laureates have written letters to the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan urging them to “defuse the rising tensions” between the two countries, according to a statement. A letter signed by the Nobel laureates, under the aegis of the Laureates and Leaders for Children — a platform founded by Nobel peace […]

London: Pakistan is an ideological state that must always defend the “two-nation” theory that led to its creation, while its nuclear umbrella has enabled it to engage in sub-conventional warfare with India, according to a security expert. Dr C. Christine Fair from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at the Georgetown University said […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday wrote a letter to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi offering dialogue to reconcilable problems. In a letter to Modi congratulating him on his second term as the Prime Minister, Khan wrote that Pakistan desires the resolution of all problems, including that of the disputed Kashmir region, the […]

Islamabad: Pakistan has suspended the Lahore-Delhi friendship bus service, after suspending two cross-border trains, in the wake of India’s decision revoking Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and bifurcating the state into two Union Territories, a senior Pakistani minister has said. The bus service was first started in February 1999 but suspended after the 2001 Parliament […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Friday conveyed the importance of India and Pakistan reducing tensions through bilateral dialogue on the Kashmir issue during a phone call with Prime Minister Imran Khan, the White House said. The phone conversation between Trump and Khan took place before the close-door-consultation of the 15 members of the UN […]

United Nations: India’s Permanent Representative Syed Akbaruddin dramatically extended the hand of friendship to the hostile neighbour through a Pakistani journalist who complained on Friday about lack of dialogue between the two countries. At his news conference here, he stepped away from the podium and walked up to the senior Pakistani journalist who asked, “When […]

New Delhi/Washington/Islamabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with US President Donald Trump over phone during which he conveyed that “extreme rhetoric and incitement to anti-India violence by certain leaders in the region was not conducive to peace”, in an obvious reference to the Pakistani leadership spewing anti-India venom over the Kashmir issue. Days after the […]

Dabangg star Salman Khan is well known for his enmity and friendship as well as his controversies in the industry. While friends of Salman don’t leave a chance to praise him and his enemies even don’t stop blaming him, in a recent incident Salman has been reportedly warned following the escalating tensions with Pakistan. Movie […]