India-Pak faceoff: China admits creating ‘enabling atmosphere’ to defuse tensions
Beijing: China on Wednesday announced that Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou is in Islamabad to discuss the Indo-Pak tensions following the Pulwama terror attack, as it called for the creation of an “enabling atmosphere” for its close ally Pakistan to cooperate with “other parties”. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Vice Foreign Minister Kong’s […]
US official says Pompeo helped cool down tempers
Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo played an “essential role” in de-escalating tensions between India and Pakistan last week, according to a top State Department official. Tensions between India and Pakistan flared up after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror group killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel in Kashmir’s Pulwama district […]
UN chief spoke to officials, not PM’s: UN Officials
United Nations: UN chief Antonio Guterres has not spoken with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan, but discussed with officials from India and Pakistan the heightened tensions arising after the Pulwama terror attack, a top official has said. Tensions escalated between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Pulwama terror […]
Jamaat ban: Mehbooba leads rally, stages protest in her ‘bastion’
Srinagar: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti Wednesday led a protest rally of her party in Anantnag district against the Centre’s ban on Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) Jammu and Kashmir for allegedly having close ties with militant outfits and demanded revocation of the decision. The former state chief minister led scores of her party activists at the rally in […]
JK polls: EC to hold fresh round of discussions with MHA team
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) would call Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba and other top officials the Ministry of Home Affairs for consultation — second time in less than a month — to firm up its view on whether to hold Assembly elections and Lok Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir simultaneously, officials said. […]
Rafale case: Govt says documents related to the case have gone missing
New Delhi: The government Wednesday told the Supreme Court that documents related to the Rafale fighter jet deal have been stolen from the Defence Ministry and threatened The Hindu newspaper with the Official Secrets Act for publishing articles based on them. Those who put documents on the Rafale deal in the public domain are guilty […]
Follow up: After crackdown govt confiscates seminaries, assets of JuD, FIF
Islamabad: Pakistan Wednesday intensified its ongoing crackdown against the banned organisations and took control of several seminaries and assets belonging to Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa and its wing Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation. The confiscation of properties of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) comes after Pakistan formally placed the proscribed organisations in the list of banned organisations on […]
