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Delhi: Police arrest 2 men planning to go to Pak for weapons training

Feb 26, 2023, at 05:26 am

New Delhi: Two men were arrested on Saturday near the Red Fort on the suspicion of planning to travel to Pakistan for receiving arms training, police said.

After backlash, Pakistani actor Ali Zafar slams Javed Akhtar's 'Mumbai attack' comment

Feb 24, 2023, at 09:24 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Pakistani actor-singer Ali Zafar has slammed Javed Akhtar for saying the Mumbai attackers are roaming freely in Islamabad after the former faced backlash at home over hosting the celebrated Indian lyricist-poet, media reports said.

Mumbai attacks perpetrators are still roaming freely in Pakistan, says Javed Akhtar in Lahore

Feb 21, 2023, at 09:21 pm

Lahore: Popular Indian lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar slammed Pakistan during his recent visit to the neighbouring nation over the issue of terrorism and said the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks are still roaming freely.

Jammu and Kashmir: Police arrest 4 drug peddlers with contraband substance

Feb 20, 2023, at 09:46 pm

Srinagar: Police on Monday claimed to have arrested four drug peddlers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district and recovered huge quantities of contraband substances from them.

Balochistan: Cycles of Repression and Reaction

Feb 20, 2023, at 09:28 pm

On February 10, 2023, two Army personnel were killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion in the Kohlu area (Kohlu District) of Balochistan.

Pakistan: 14 die as bus falls into ravine in Kallar Kahar

Feb 20, 2023, at 08:51 pm

Kallar Kahar: At least 14 people, including women and children, died as a bus in which they were travelling fell in a ravine in Pakistan's  Kallar Kahar town on Sunday.

​Centre declares Pak-based BKI associate as ‘terrorist’, KTF and JKGF as ‘terrorist outfits’

Feb 18, 2023, at 04:43 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The Centre on Friday declared a Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) associate, currently based in Pakistan and involved in various terrorist activities, especially in Punjab, as a terrorist under the amended provision of the UAPA Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs said on Friday.

The Curse of Frankenstein

Feb 06, 2023, at 09:16 pm

We did not need to make Mujahideen. We created Mujahideen and then they became terrorists - Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah while addressing the Senate on January 31, 2023.

'Pak action forced...': India issues notice over Indus Water Treaty

Jan 28, 2023, at 06:36 am

New Delhi/IBNS: India had, on Jan 25, issued a notice to Pakistan for modification of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of September 1960 following the Islamic country's "intransigence" on its implementation, media reports said Friday.

Delhi: Man killed, chopped to pieces on camera, 37-sec video sent to Pak

Jan 15, 2023, at 11:05 pm

Delhi/IBNS: The dismembered body found in North Delhi on Saturday was of a 21-year-old youth, his murder accused told the police.

HRCP expresses concern over Pakistan flour crisis

Jan 14, 2023, at 12:11 am

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed concern over the flour crisis in the country after several people were injured in different regions during a stampede over buying the food item.

'Won't allow terrorism to force us to the negotiating table': India's EAM Jaishankar in message to Pakistan

Dec 31, 2022, at 06:44 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has once again sent out a strong message to the country's hostile neighbour Pakistan stating New Delhi "won't allow terrorism to force us to the negotiating table".

Balochistan rises in revolt, reminds Pakistan of its Bangladesh loss

Dec 30, 2022, at 06:28 am

Fifty-one years on, Pakistan gets sharp reminders of its Bangladesh loss as yet another province, Balochistan, rises in revolt.

After Hindu woman's killing in Sindh, India calls on Pakistan to protect minorities

Dec 30, 2022, at 03:37 am

New Delhi/IBNS: India Thursday called on Pakistan to protect the minorities after the killing of a Hindu woman Daya Bheel in Sindh province of the neighbouring country.

Drone sighting along border with Pakistan tripled in one year: Reports

Dec 27, 2022, at 10:16 pm

New Delhi: The India-Pakistan border is witnessing a three-fold rise in  drone sighting incidents, media reports said on Tuesday.

Indian Coast Guard apprehends Pakistani boat carrying arms, drugs worth Rs 350 crores off Gujarat

Dec 27, 2022, at 04:47 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG), acting on the basis of intelligence input by ATS Gujarat, has jointly apprehended a Pakistani boat with six crew in Indian waters carrying approximately 50 kgs of heroin worth Rs. 350 crores.

Bannu Division: Terrorist Ferment

Dec 26, 2022, at 11:07 pm

Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management

Jammu and Kashmir: Police unearth Pakistan-linked drug module, 17 arrested

Dec 23, 2022, at 11:17 pm

Srinagar: In a major breakthrough in Jammu and Kashmir, police unearthed a Pakistan-linked module of narcotics smuggling by arresting 17 persons, including six policemen, and recovered drugs from twin north Kashmir districts of Kupwara and Baramulla.  

India-Pakistan should engage in constructive dialogue for betterment of people: US

Dec 20, 2022, at 04:28 pm

Washington: The US said it does not want to see India and Pakistan getting involved in 'war of words' but engaging in 'constructive dialogue' for the betterment of the people of both the nations.

Comment against Narendra Modi: BJP workers protest against Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto

Dec 17, 2022, at 11:39 pm

Kolhapur: BJP leaders and workers on Saturday staged a massive demonstration against Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Zardari Bhutto to express their anger at his objectionable remarks on prime minister Narendra Modi and burned his photo and Pakistan's national flag at busy Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Chowk here.

World sees Pakistan as an epicentre of terrorism: S Jaishankar

Dec 16, 2022, at 10:27 pm

New Delhi: Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar slammed Pakistan and urged the nation to be a 'good neighbour.

'Hosting Laden and attacking neighbouring Parliament...': Jaishankar hits back at Pakistan over Kashmir at UN

Dec 15, 2022, at 04:49 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has strongly responded to Pakistan's raising of the Jammu and Kashmir issue, the flashpoint between the two Asian countries, at the United Nations Security Council or UNSC.

'Multilateral platforms are being misused to justify, protect perpetrators of terrorism': S Jaishankar's veiled attack on China, Pak at UN

Dec 15, 2022, at 05:37 am

New York/IBNS: In a veiled attack on neighbouring China and Pakistan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said multilateral platforms are being misused to justify and protect perpetrators of terrorism during an open debate at the UN Security Council.

Sikh community members protest against sealing of Gurudwara in Pakistan

Dec 15, 2022, at 12:03 am

New Delhi: A large number of Sikh community people staged a protest in Indian national capital Delhi over the  sealing Gurudwara Shaheed Bhai Taru situated at Naulakha in Lahore in Pakistan, media reports said on Wednesday.

Women flogged into silence

Dec 13, 2022, at 01:30 am

On December 8, 2022, the Taliban publicly flogged nine women and 18 men in a football stadium in Charikar city, the capital of Parwan Province, for the crimes, variously, of robbery, being in premarital relationships and running away from home. Each of them received between 29 and 35 lashes. Local Taliban officials and hundreds of spectators witnessed the scene.

Dera Ismail Khan: Reviving Terrorism

Dec 13, 2022, at 01:20 am

On December 6, 2022, three terrorists were killed and another was injured in an exchange of fire during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) by the Security Forces (SFs) in the Girah Mastan area of the Daraban tehsil (revenue unit) in the Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

Russia refuses to give Pakistan same oil discount as India: Reports

Dec 12, 2022, at 05:21 pm

Moscow/IBNS: Russia has refused to sell crude oil to Pakistan at the rate at which it is sold to India by citing existing contracts with major buyers, media reports said on Saturday.

Security, aid, elections and traditional institutional interests: The challenges facing Pakistan’s new Army Chief

Dec 11, 2022, at 12:34 am

Last week marked the formal taking charge of Pakistan’s 17th Chief of Army Staff (COAS), four-star General Asim Munir, who replaced the now-retired Qamar Javed Bajwa as head of the Pakistani Army. Munir has become COAS at a time when Pakistan faces various political challenges, ranging from the escalating insurgency of the Pakistani Taliban (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan - TTP) along the border with Afghanistan, continued loan negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), economic downturn, the political standoff between the Sharif government and Imran Khan-led opposition, and the prevailing humanitarian response issues linked to the floods of the summer.

Shattered Hopes

Dec 05, 2022, at 11:24 pm

In a statement released on Umar Media, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP’s) official web site on November 28, 2022, Mufti Muzahim, the TTP’s ‘Minister of Defence’ announced an end to the seven months-long ceasefire. Muzahim “ordered” TTP forces throughout Pakistan “to launch attacks anywhere in the country” in response to Pakistani military operations. The outfit claimed that it chose to end the ceasefire after “the army and intelligence agencies continue to raid and attack” its forces. “And now our revenge attacks will continue in the whole country,” the TTP statement concluded.

Delhi Police arrests 'honey-trapped' MEA driver for espionage

Nov 19, 2022, at 05:19 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi Police Friday arrested a driver working with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for allegedly spying and passing on confidential information to a person in Pakistan, media reports said.