Balakot camp has 5-star facilities, militants, trainers were caught sleeping: Sources
New Delhi, Feb 26 (PTI) Hundreds of Fidayeen and their trainers were shifted from Pakistan administered Kashmir to a five-star, resort style camp in a hilltop forest in Balakot after the Pulwama attack, providing Indian forces with “a sitting duck target” when they carried out an air strike early Tuesday, killing up to 350 militants, […]
Don’t want further escalation: India tells foreign ambassadors, including of P-5 countries
New Delhi: Post India’s air strike in Balakote Pakistan, foreign envoys have been informed by the GOI that do not want to see any further “escalation”. The Wire reported that immediately after the media appearance of foreign secretary about the the air strike, Vijay Gokhale rushed to South Block. He held briefing with foreign ambassadors, […]
China calls for ‘restraint’ after India claimed airstrikes across LoC
Beijing PTI: China on Tuesday urged India and Pakistan to “exercise restraint” hours after India claimed its fighter jets struck camp in Pakistan in a pre-dawn attack. When asked for China’s response to India’s airstrikes, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told the media here that we have taken note of relevant reports.” “I want […]
UK asks India, Pak to find diplomatic solutions
London, (PTI) The British government has called on India and Pakistan to pursue diplomatic solutions in the wake of the Pulwama terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir. UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt held telephonic conversations with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Monday, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office […]
Air strikes: Pak vows to respond ‘at the time and place of its choosing’
Islamabad,(PTI): Pakistan on Tuesday “strongly rejected” India’s claim” of targeting terrorist camp near Balakot and causing heavy casualties even as it vowed to respond “at the time and place of its choosing” to what it called India’s “uncalled for aggression”. At a special meeting of the National Security Committee hours after Indian air strikes in Balakot […]
JRL calls for two day shutdown on Feb 27, 28
Srinagar: Joint resistance leadership on Tuesday called for a shutdown on February 27 and 28 against the ‘colonial acts of Indian rulers’. According to statement issued here JRL said that widespread raids of NIA against almost whole resistance leadership, extensive spree of arrests in noks and corners of Kashmir valley during which thousands have been […]
Student leader shot dead in Varanasi
Varanasi,(UP) Feb 25 (PTI) A 22-year-old student leader of Uday Pratap College here was shot dead by unidentified assailants in front of his hostel in the campus on Sunday night, police said. Vivek Singh, a B.Com second year student and native of Jamundeeh village in Azamgarh district, was found lying in a pool of blood by […]
Guj on ‘high alert’ after IAF strikes destroy JeM camp in Pak
Ahmedabad, (PTI): Gujarat police on Tuesday issued a “high alert” across the state followingIndia’s preemptive strike on Jaish-e-Mohammed’s (JeM) biggest terror campin Pakistan. Gujarat’s Director General of Police Shivanand Jha cancelled a conference on crime-related issues scheduled at the Police Bhavan in Gandhinagar and asked all officers who reached here to attend it to return to […]
Police arrest drug peddler in Bandipora, recovers 70Kg charas powder
Bandipora: Police on Tuesday said that they have arrested a drug peddler and recovered 70 KG of Charas powder. According to police the arrest was made after they had laid a surprise naka Kathpora – Vijpara Link Road. “During naka, recovered around Seventy (70) kilogram of charas powder from one person namely Ishtiyaq Sadiq Parray […]
Totally new ball game: Omar Abdullah on IAF strike
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 terrorist targets in the neighbouring country. “We’ve entered a whole new paradigm with the […]
