Tag: Pakistan

Islamabad: Pakistan has rejected India’s request to swap Kartarpur with another piece of land in order to make it a part of India. “There is absolutely no question of any land swap,” said Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal here on Thursday, on being asked whether his country would consider handing over the Kartarpur land […]

Mumbai: Indian actress-filmmaker Nandita Das says she is disappointed that her film “Manto” will not be releasing in Pakistan. “Disappointed that ‘Manto’ will not be seen in theatres in Pakistan. I was keen as he belongs to both countries equally,” Nandita tweeted on Saturday. With “Manto”, Nandita traced the life of writer Saadat Hasan Manto. […]

Srinagar: Indian and Pakistani armies traded heavy fire on the Line of Control (LoC) on Thursday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, defence sources said. The Pakistan Army used automatics and mortars to target Indian positions on the LoC in Kamalkote area of Uri sector late on Wednesday, the sources said. “Indian positions retaliated effectively. […]

Hyderabad: India won’t attend the proposed Saarc Summit in Pakistan and there will be no dialogue with Islamabad until it stops sponsoring terrorism, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced on Wednesday. Sushma Swaraj made it clear that New Delhi will not participate in the Saarc summit and it was not responding to an invite from […]

Attari (Punjab): Union Ministers Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Puri on Wednesday crossed over to Pakistan through the Attari-Wagah joint check post between India and her neighbour for the Kartarpur Corridor ceremony, and termed it a “historic step”. Both Ministers will represent India when Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will later perform the ground breaking […]

New Delhi: Pakistan has issued over 3,800 visas to Sikh pilgrims ahead of the 549th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak, the Pakistan High Commission here said on Tuesday. “The Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi has issued over 3,800 visas to Sikh pilgrims from India to participate in the 549th birthday anniversary celebrations of […]

Islamabad: A Pakistani government official of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has been missing from the capital, officials said on Friday. Muhammad Ayaz, Deputy Director of CDA, went missing from the G6 sector of Islamabad after he left his office at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, the authority officials were cited as saying by Xinhua news […]

London: Four authors of Indian origin and two of Pakistani, whose novels bring alive a spectrum of themes and emotions relevant in contemporary South Asian life were short-listed on Thursday for the US $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018. They are Jayant Kaikini for “No Presents Please” (Translated by Tejaswini Niranjana, HarperCollins India); […]

Islamabad: Around 69 per cent Pakistanis between the ages of 15 and 65 do not know what the internet is, an information communication technology (ICT)-based survey has revealed. The survey was conducted by LirneAsia, a think-tank based in Sri Lanka that carries out ICT research, Dawn news reported on Monday. The report is based on […]

Providence (Guyana): Seasoned batter Mithali Raj cracked a half century to guide India to a facile seven-wicket win over arch-rivals Pakistan in the ICC Women’s World T20 here on Sunday. Raj held fort from one end to make short work of India’s run chase with a 47-ball 56 which she made with the help of […]

Georgetown (Guyana): On a high after a resounding 34-run winning start over New Zealand in their ICC Women’s World T20 campaign, a confident India will aim to continue their domination over arch-rivals Pakistan when they face off at the Providence Stadium here on Sunday. India and Pakistan women have played each other 10 times with […]

Chandigarh: Border Security Force (BSF) troopers exchanged sweets with their Pakistan Rangers counterparts at the Attari-Wagah joint checkpost and celebrated Diwali on Wednesday along the border outposts of Punjab’s international border with Pakistan. BSF officers and troopers offered sweets to their Pakistani counterparts at the border gates between both countries at the Attari-Wagah joint check […]

Islamabad: Pakistan on Saturday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner J.P. Singh over alleged ceasefire violations by Indian forces across the Line of Control (LoC) in its administered Kashmir, which it said left a woman dead. Mohammad Faisal, who heads the South Asia wing in the Foreign Office, summoned the Indian envoy and “condemned the unprovoked […]

Muscat (Oman): Indian and Pakistan were declared as the joint winners of the 5th Men’s Hero Asian Champions Trophy Muscat 2018 hockey tournament after the final was abandoned due to bad weather conditions here on Sunday. India were looking to defend their title which they won back in Kuantan, Malaysia in 2016 when they beat arch-rivals […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has described a $6 billion Saudi bailout package as a “big relief” for the country and vowed to mediate between Riyadh and Yemen to end their ongoing conflict. Accusing the previous two governments of plunging the country into its worst financial crisis, Khan in his address to the nation after […]