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 […]
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 […]
OIC meet: Pak expresses reservation about invitation to India
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Tuesday that he has spoken to his UAE counterpart and “expressed reservations” about invitation to India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to attend the OIC meeting scheduled later this week. In a strategically significant development, India has been invited to the inaugural plenary of the foreign […]
Residents in Pakistan’s Balakot thought earthquake hit the area
Islamabad: Residents in the quake-prone Balakot town in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province Tuesday said they were woken by “loud explosions” and thought a fresh tremor must have hit the region when Indian Air Force jets pounded a large militant training camp. Balakot town in Pakistan’s north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was destroyed during the 2005 Kashmir earthquake […]
