‘Suspected movement’ along IB in Samba sends forces into tizzy
JAMMU: Security Forces conducted an overnight search operation near the International Border in Jammu’s Samba district following information about movement of three armed persons, a police official said Tuesday. The information about the movement of the suspected persons in the ManoharGopala area was received around 2130 hours Monday, the official said. Immediately, a joint search […]
India-Pak armies trade fire in Poonch
Jammu: Pakistani troops Tuesday violated ceasefire in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir by firing two rounds of rocket launchers towards an Army camp along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Krishna Ghati sector, an army officer said. Indian troops did not retaliate to the “deliberate provocation” to avoid civilian casualties across the border, […]
Taliban takes centre stage as Kabul cut out of peace talks
Kabul: President Ashraf Ghani is being pushed to the sidelines as the Taliban ignores his overtures for peace and negotiates instead with his friends, and enemies, over the future of Afghanistan. From Doha to Moscow, the insurgents are meeting an array of envoys with competing interests in Afghanistan, from the United States eager to withdraw […]
US national pays over $1 lakh to hunt Pak’s national animal
Islamabad: An American has hunted Pakistan’s national animal and rare wildlife species markhor after paying a record USD 110,000 permit fee during a trophy hunting season in the country’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region. Markhor, a distinctive species of wild goat identified by its long hair and spiralled horns, is a protected species in Pakistan unless permitted […]
Hold assembly elections before LS polls in JK: JKNPP
Jammu: The JKNPP Tuesday demanded that assembly elections be held before the LokSabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir, saying any delay in the state polls will amount to “subversion of democracy”. The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party also appealed to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take a decision about holding assembly elections […]
Musharraf sabotaged breakthrough on Kashmir: PML (N) Senator
Lahore: Pakistan’s former dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf was responsible for no breakthrough on the Kashmir issue as he launched the Kargil operation without the civilian government’s approval to “sabotage” the talks with India and topple the Nawaz Sharif government, a close aide of the then prime minister said Monday. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader and Senator […]
2018 saw 191 youth getting involved in militancy, say officials
Jammu: As many as 191 local youths joined various militant outfits in Jammu and Kashmir in 2018, 65 more than 2017, a senor Army official said Monday. The new recruits mostly hailed from the restive south Kashmir region, he added. “As many as 191 Kashmiri youths joined militancy in 2018,” the official told PTI. In […]
