Tag: Pakistan

Jammu: Indian and Pakistani armies traded heavy fire on the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, police said. The firing exchanges started in Chakan Da Bagh area. “Mortar shelling and small arms firing continued between the two sides,” a police officer said. As two shells fired from Pakistan landed […]

New York: The fate of the proposal to designate Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed’s chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN Security Council will be known in less than 24 hours when the deadline to raise objections to the bid expires. The proposal to designate Azhar under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee […]

Jammu: Heavy firing exchanges took place on Saturday between Indian and Pakistani troopers on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, a defence official said. “At around 1.30 p.m. today, the Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation by shelling mortars and firing of small arms along the LoC in the […]

Houston:The Houston chapters of Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora (GKPD) and Friends of India Society International took out a protest against Pakistan’s state policy on terrorism that has penetrated deep into India and spread its tentacles globally. The strong diaspora contingent met on Saturday here carrying banners like — “Global Terrorist State – Pakistan”, “Pakistan – […]

Islamabad: Three persons were killed and six others injured after a blast at a passenger train in Pakistan’s Balochistan area on Sunday, police said. District Police Officer Irfan Bashir said that suspected miscreants planted an improvised explosive device at the rail track to target the Jaffar Express, the Dawn reported. As the train, coming from Rawalpindi […]

New Delhi: Sharing his views on the demand to boycott Pakistan in the upcoming 2019 World Cup in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack, former India opener Gautam Gambhir on Monday said a conditional ban on the neighbouring country will not work. Known for being forthright, Gambhir also said that India should even be […]

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday sought details from the Indian Embassy in Pakistan following reports of two Hindu teenager girls being abducted on the eve of Holi in Sindh province. “I have asked Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan to send a report on this. @IndiainPakistan,” Swaraj tweeted tagging the media report. […]

New Delhi: China on April 1 claimed that “positive progress” has been made to resolve the issue of designating Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN and accused the US of scuttling its efforts by taking the matter directly to the Security Council. China last week defended its repeated attempts […]

Jammu: Indian and Pakistani troops traded mortars and gunfire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri and Poonch districts on Tuesday. The first violation of the ceasefire by the Pakistan Army took place in Rajouri and it then spread to Poonch district, officials said. Defence Ministry spokesman Lt Col Devender Anand […]

Lahore: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) could blacklist the country due to “lobbying by India” and that Islamabad would face $10 billion loss annually if it remained in the watchdog’s grey list. The inter-governmental body which combats money laundering and terror financing among other things had […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal has said that Islamabad will never accept India repealing Article 370 of its Constitution that gives autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir. Faisal made the remark during his weekly press briefing on Friday here, reports Radio Pakistan. “Pakistan will never accept the repeal of Article 370 of the […]

New Delhi: With Pakistan opening its airspace partially from Thursday, national passenger carrier Air India has started saving on time and fuel for its US and Europe-bound flights, said an airline official on Saturday. The national carrier re-routed some of its flights which had to take a longer flight path over Mumbai to reach the […]

New Delhi: India on Sunday rejected as “irresponsible and preposterous” Pakistan’s statement that New Delhi will attack it again and accused Islamabad of trying to whip up war hysteria in the region. “India rejects the irresponsible and preposterous statement by the Foreign Minister of Pakistan with a clear objective of whipping up war hysteria in the […]

United Nations: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s assertion that India was going to “annex” Kashmir has failed to evoke any reaction from the UN’s leadership. Asked during a briefing on Tuesday by a Pakistani journalist for reactions on Khan’s statement, Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said: “I have not seen those comments and […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to resolve the Kashmir issue and that the two nuclear-armed neighbours could only settle their differences with dialogue, the BBC reported on Wednesday. His comments came as India goes to vote in the general election on Thursday. The cricketer-turned-politician told the British […]