New Delhi: Taiwan on Friday made a strong pitch for India’s inclusion in the UN Security Council (UNSC), saying it needs to be reconstituted as the veto power is with very few countries which is disproportionate to the membership of the United Nations. Taiwan Economic and Cultural Centre (TECC) Representative, Ambassador Chung-Kwang Tien said India […]
New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested a member of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror outfit from Srinagar, a police officer said on Tuesday. Adul Majeed, who was absconding and took shelter in Srinagar, was arrested by a team of the Special Cell on Sunday after a raid at his hideout. He was brought to Delhi on transit […]
Islamabad: The Asia-Pacific Group (APG), a regional affiliate of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), has raised questions on Pakistan’s seriousness in its campaign against terror financing and money laundering, the media reported on Friday. A 10-member delegation led by Finance Secretary Mohammad Younas Dagha represented Pakistan at the two-day APG meeting in Guangzhou, China, […]
Islamabad: Pakistan is ready to hold talks with the new Indian government to resolve all outstanding issues, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said. Addressing an Iftar dinner in Multan on Saturday, Qureshi said both India and Pakistan should sit on negotiation table to solve issues for the sake of prosperity and peace of the […]
Bhubaneswar: Odia Jawan Naik Ajit Kumar Sahoo was martyred following an IED blast in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday. He was reportedly injured in the blast at Arihal yesterday, and succumbed to his injuries today, confirmed sources in Indian Army. Sahoo, a resident of Badasuala village in Kamakhyanagar block of Dhenkanal district in […]
Rawalpindi: A Pakistani Twitter user has claimed that there was a blast at a military hospital in Rawalpindi where Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar has been admitted. “Huge blast at Military Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. 10 injured shifted to emergency. Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azahar is admitted here,” Ahsan Ullah MiaKhail, a social activist and […]
New Delhi: After a UN human rights report on Jammu and Kashmir said the number of civilian casualties in the state since May 2018 could be the highest in over a decade, the Indian government on Monday trashed it as “a continuation of the earlier false and motivated narrative” on Kashmir. Responding to the Update […]
New Delhi: The Delhi Police have arrested a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist from Srinagar, it said on Tuesday. The terrorist has been identified as Basir Ahmad Ponnu, carrying a reward of Rs 2 lakh, said Sanjeev Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special cell. Ahmad along with three other JeM terrorists — Shahid Gafoor, Fayaz Ahmed Lone, […]
New York: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has acknowledged that some terrorists in Pakistan had fought in Kashmir while asserting that he had the army’s support for disarming them and for overtures to India. Speaking at the US Institute of Peace in Washington on Tuesday, he tried to make the case that the army and […]
Srinagar: Another youth allegedly involved in the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, that left 40 CRPF troopers dead, was taken into custody by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), an agency statement said on Monday. An NIA statement said that it has taken into custody 25-year-old Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat, of Monghama village in Tral area of […]
New Delhi: A Pakistani commando who was behind the capture of Commander Abhinandan Varthaman when his IAF jet crashed in Pakistani territory in February this year, and had reportedly tortured the IAF pilot, has been killed in firing by Indian forces along the Line of Control. According to reports, Ahmed Khan, a subedar with the […]
Pune: An “underwater wing” of Pakistan- based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) is training people to carry out attacks but the Indian Navy is fully prepared to thwart any such attempt, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh said here on Monday. He said all stakeholders in coastal security are ensuring that there is no intrusion […]
New Delhi: Pakistan is again considering closing its air space for traffic from India, Pakistan’s Science and Technology Minister Fawad Khan tweeted on Tuesday. “PM is considering a complete closure of air space to India, a complete ban on use of Pakistan land routes for Indian trade to Afghanistan was also suggested in cabinet meeting, […]
Islamabad: Amid tensions with its neighbour India following its decision to abrogate the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan asserted that his country would never ever start a war with India and even not use nuclear weapons first. “We will never ever start the war. Both Pakistan and India are […]
Srinagar: Fruit growers and traders linked to the business are on the “specific” radar of Pakistan-based terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed who have been threatening them for the last one month to stay away from the trade. The Jammu and Kashmir Police and intelligence agencies have received inputs that the terror groups, through their […]