Tag: Pakistan

New Delhi:After the BSF launched Operation Arjun following intermittent firing and ceasefire violations from across the border in Jammu region, Pakistani forces spoke to the Indian side and sought peace along the border, BSF Director General K.K. Sharma said here on Wednesday. Speaking at an interaction with members of the Indian Association of Foreign Affairs […]

Beijing: Chinese-funded enterprises doing business in Pakistan should avoid flaunting economic and technical superiority and instead value the common interests of both countries, Chinese experts have said. Wu Menglin, an associate researcher, and Liang Haiming, chairman and chief economist with China Silk Road iValley Research Institute, said in a state-run Global Times article that the Chinese-funded […]

Beijing: A Chinese daily has slammed India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj for her strong criticism of Pakistan for harbouring terrorists, saying it is “politically imbecilic and unsophisticated” to think that Islamabad exports terrorism. The editorial in state-run Global Times defending Pakistan against its failure to flush out terrorists is not surprising as China has always lavished […]

New Delhi: India on Tuesday ruled out deploying troops in troubled Afghanistan even as it asserted along with the US that there will be no tolerance for safe havens for terror. “There shall not be boots from India on the ground in Afghanistan,” Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said at a joint media conference with visiting US […]

United Nations: India hit out at Pakistan saying it has callously exploited the picture of an injured Palestinian girl to spread falsehoods about India and to divert attention from Islamabad’s role as the hub of world terrorism. Paulomi Tripathi, a First Secretary in India’s UN Mission, on Monday held up both the fake picture used […]

Islamabad: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan from London on Monday, a month after he went to the UK to be with his wife Kulsoom Nawaz, who is undergoing cancer treatment. Sharif arrived at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport here at 7.30 a.m. where he was received by senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party […]

United Nations: In an attempt to take on India at the UN General Assembly, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi goofed up while displaying a picture taken from Gaza and labelled it as the “face of Indian democracy”. Lodhi was responding to Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s description of Pakistan as a “pre-eminent export factory […]

United Nations: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday launched a stinging attack against Pakistan at the UN, saying India had grown as an IT superpower while Pakistan has emerged as a pre-eminent factory for the export of terror in the 70 years of the independence of the two countries. “We are fighting poverty. But […]

Islamabad: Two young women were killed by their father “in the name of honour” in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, police said on Saturday. According to Bala Mani Deputy Superintendent of Police Fazal Wahid, Abdul Gani killed his daughters — 20-year-old Shamim and 10-year-old Noreen — in Peshawar’s Achar Kali area on September 20 and confessed to […]

New York: Exercising its right of reply in the general debate at the ongoing UN General Assembly Session here, India slammed Pakistan for its support to terrorism, labelling it as “Terroristan”. “In its short history, Pakistan has become a geography synonymous with terror,” Eenam Gambhir, First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, said […]

New York: Pakistan has developed short-range nuclear weapons as a counter to the “Cold Start” military doctrine allegedly adopted by the Indian armed forces, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said here. Addressing an event organised by the Council on Foreign Relations, Abbasi, who is currently in New York for the UN General Assembly, said: “We […]

New Delhi: The cross-LoC surgical strike last year was carried out by Indian troops to send across a “strong message” to Pakistan, which could not have been conveyed through other means, former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army’s Northern Command Lt. General D.S. Hooda (retd) has said. Hooda, who oversaw the September 2016 attack across […]

Washington: Two days of talks here between India and Pakistan amidst the current chill in bilateral ties failed to break the deadlock on the design of two hydro-electric power plants in Jammu and Kashmir. The September 14-15 secretary-level talks under the auspices of the World Bank on the technical issues of the Kishenganga and Ratle hydro-electric […]

Jammu: Pakistan rangers on Saturday violated ceasefire along the international border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir targeting Indian positions, killing livestock and damaging several properties. The rangers resorted to shelling and firing in Arnia sub-sector of Jammu district using mortars, automatics and small arms, a police official said. They targeted Sai, Treva and Jabowal forward […]

Lahore: Pakistan defeated World XI by 33 runs in the Third and final Twenty20 international match to seal the Independence Cup series 2-1 here on Friday. A brilliant batting display from the hosts saw them posting a challenging score of 183/4 in the allotted 20 overs. In reply, World XI only managed to score 150 […]