Around 6500 Pak militants still operating in Afghanistan: UN report
United Nations: An estimated 6,000-6,500 Pakistani militants are in neighbouring Afghanistan, most of them with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, posing a threat to both the countries, a UN report has said. The 26th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team concerning ISIS, al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities said that the terror group al-Qaida […]
60-hour lockdown in Jammu enters day two
Jammu: Jammu has gone into a 60-hour lockdown from Friday 6 pm in a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus cases that had witnessed a spike over the past week, officials said on Saturday. Jammu district sits atop the list among 10 districts in Jammu region with 14 deaths and 472 virus cases. It […]
Modi govt ensured equitable development of JK, Ladakh: Union Minister
New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said the Narendra Modi government has ensured equitable development of both the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. Rejecting the claims of regional discrimination by the opposition, he asked people alleging this to shed the baggage of past and liberate themselves from the cynicism that […]
CRPF personnel hailing from Udhampur kills senior, self in Delhi
New Delhi: A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Sub Inspector allegedly shot dead his senior before killing himself in the Lodhi Estate area of the national capital, officials said on Saturday. The incident took place around 10:30 PM on Friday at 61, Lodhi Estate, a bungalow allotted to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), they […]
Violence down in Kashmir, but ceasefire violations by Pak gone up: DGP
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbag Singh on Friday said the overall law and order situation in the valley had improved and violence had come down, but ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops along the Indo-Pak border had gone up by 50-60 per cent this year. The Director General of Police inaugurated two open air gymnasiums, […]
Pakistan bans over 100 textbooks for not showing PaK part of country
Lahore: Pakistan’s Punjab government has banned over 100 textbooks taught at schools after finding in them ‘blasphemous and objectionable’ content such as not showing Pakistan-administered Kashmir (PaK) as part of the country. Some books had not even printed the correct date of the birth of Pakistan’s founder Quaid-e-Azam’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah and national poet Allama […]
