Ahead of the crucial IMF deal, Pak FM Asad Umar quits
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Finance Minister Asad Umar abruptly quit the Cabinet on Thursday before securing a crucial multi-billion dollar IMF bailout package for the cash-strapped country, amid mounting criticism by the opposition and business community over the handling of the economic crisis. Umar, who recently returned from a trip to the US in which the details […]
Balakot air strike did not kill any Pak soldier, civilian: Swaraj
Ahmedabad: External Affairs Minister and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj Thursday said no Pakistani soldier or citizen died in the air strike carried out by the Indian Air Force across the border in response to the Pulwama terror attack in February. Addressing women party workers here, she stressed on a 2014-like full majority BJP-led government this […]
14 passengers shot dead in Pakistan’s Balochistan
‘The passengers were shot after being offloaded from buses’
KARACHI: Unidentified gunmen shot dead at least 14 passengers after forcing them to disembark from a bus on a highway in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, a media report said Thursday. According to Levies sources, around 15 to 20 unidentified gunmen in camouflage uniform reportedly stopped five or six buses travelling between Karachi and Gwadar. They […]
Rahul offering no comments on two PM’s in one country issue: Amit Shah
Says Kashmir is integral part of India, can't be separated
Raigarh: BJP president Amit Shah Thursday said Kashmir is an integral part of India and cannot be separated from the country till a single BJP worker is alive, irrespective of whether the party is in power or not. Addressing an election rally in Raigarh district headquarters in Chhattisgarh, he said when the Modi government is […]
Married on poll day, couple decides to vote after tying the knot
Udhumpur: A newly-married couple, not yet off their bridal wear, reached a polling booth of Udhampur parliamentary constituency here Thursday to cast their vote, underlining the importance of exercising one’s franchise. The couple reached the polling booth in a flower-decked sedan with groom Sourav Sharma sporting a headgear and a cream ‘achkan’ over red churidars […]
Migrant Kashmiri Pandits protest on finding names missing from electoral roll
Jammu: Several migrant Kashmiri Pandits could not exercise their franchise as their names were found missing from the electoral roll at the special polling stations set up for Srinagar constituency in Jammu during the second phase of Lok Sabha elections on Thursday. Miffed at it, they raised slogans against the administration and the Election Commission […]
Kashmir witnessing ‘Jungle Raj’: Mehbooba
Says people having a 'rethink' over state's accession to India
Srinagar: PDP President Mehbooba Mufti Wednesday claimed the situation in Kashmir has worsened to an extent that the people have begun rethinking over the state’s accession to India. “There is a law of jungle here. Yesterday an SDM and other staffers with him were beaten up by the Army. Prison inmates are beaten up, bodies […]
Omar, Mehbooba maintain Twitter niceties in poll time
Srinagar: He condemned the attack on her convoy and she did the same when a leader of his party was targeted with a grenade a day later. Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah may be arch political rivals but make sure to maintain civility when the other’s party is attacked. […]
