Will respond ‘at the time and place of our choice’: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday “strongly rejected” India’s claim” of targeting a militant camp near Balakot and causing heavy casualties even as it vowed to respond “at the time and place of its choosing” to what it called India’s “uncalled for aggression”. At a special meeting of the National Security Committee hours after Indian air strikes […]
Don’t want further escalation: India tells foreign ambassadors
New Delhi: Post India’s air strike in Balakote Pakistan, foreign envoys have been informed by the government that do not want to see any further “escalation”. ‘The Wire’ reported that immediately after the media appearance of foreign secretary about the air strike, Vijay Gokhale rushed to South Block. He held briefing with foreign ambassadors, including […]
EU, other counties urge for restraint
Brussels/ New Delhi: The EU and various other countries on Tuesday called on New Delhi and Islamabad to exercise “maximum restraint” after Indian warplanes attacked a militant camp in Pakistan, sending tensions soaring between the nuclear-armed arch-rivals. “We remain in contact with both countries and what we believe is essential is that all exercise maximum […]
Pak summons India’s diplomat
Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday summoned India’s acting High Commissioner here and condemned the “violation of its territorial sovereignty” by Indian fighter jets. In a statement, the Foreign Office said that at “approximately 02:54 hours (local time), 8 Indian aircraft were effectively intercepted by the Pakistani Air Force jets and forced” to return. The Indian jets […]
India is day dreaming about isolating Pak: Qureshi

Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Monday that India’s “dream” of isolating Pakistan will never be fulfilled, amidst simmering tensions between the two countries following the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF soldiers. Forty Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed on February 14 in Jammu and Kashmir when a suicide […]
Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remains closed for second day

Banihal/Jammu: The strategic Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed for the second straight day Tuesday following a major landslide triggered by incessant rains in Ramban district, officials said. Efforts are on to restore the 270-km highway – the only all weather road linking Kashmir with rest of the country – which was blocked near Moum-Passi in […]
NIA teams raid residences of senior separatist leaders

Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Yasin Malik’s house searched
Srinagar: The NIA Tuesday carried out searches on separatists in the Kashmir valley, including Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, in a terror funding case, officials said. The NIA sleuths accompanied by local police and CRPF personnel carried out searches at nearly nine places across the valley, which included the house of Nayeem Geelani, son of pro-Pakistan separatist […]
Totally new ball game, says Omar

Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah Tuesday said the strikes carried out by the Indian Air Force on JeM camps is a “totally new ball game” as it was first time that air power was used during peace time to hit militant targets in the neighbouring country. “We’ve entered a whole new paradigm with the […]
Let it end please, say people as tension escalates after air strikes

Srinagar: Unease and uncertainty might have become the subtext of the conflict that underscores their lives but thousands of people across Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday voiced one hope as tensions between India and Pakistan spiralled after IAF jets struck a JeM camp — let it end here please. Across the Kashmir Valley and in […]
Azhar’s listing as global ‘terrorist’ may figure at RIC Foreign Ministers meet

Wuzhen (China): The Pulwama terror attack and the listing of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar as a ‘global terrorist’ by the UN are expected to figure prominently at Russia, India and China (RIC) Foreign Ministers’ meeting being held here on Wednesday. Besides attending the annual trilateral meeting, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj would also hold […]