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 Press Trust of India

‘Kashmir unrest’: Am willing to go and stay in Kashmir to find a solution, says Mamta

Kolkata: The feisty Chief Minister of West Bengal and Trinamool Congress Chief, Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that she wants restoration of peace in Kashmir. “All I want is peace in the restive state and for this I am willing to go and stay there to help find a solution,” said. She said that her […]

 Press Trust of India

Provide more details on JeM involvement in Pulwama attack: Pak to India

Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday sought “more information/evidence” from India on the involvement of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in the deadly Pulwama terror attack and the presence of camps of the UN-proscribed terror outfit in the country. The Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Foreign Secretary and the […]

 Press Trust of India

Pak man claims Hindu woman embraces Islam, marries him

FIR says she is minor, abducted

Islamabad: A Pakistani man has claimed that a Hindu woman, who authorities said was a minor and abducted by four armed men, has converted to Islam and married him in Sindh province, amidst uproar over a similar case involving two teenage girls from the minority community. His claim came a day after the provincial Minorities […]

 KV News

Pakistan opens its airspace: PIA resumes normal flight

Karachi: Pakistan Tuesday fully opened its airspace, nearly a month after shutting it for commercial flights following escalating tensions with India after the Pulwama terror attack and the subsequent aerial strike by Indian jets on a training camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Balakot. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced the complete opening of Pakistan’s […]

 Press Trust of India

Pakistan must ‘deliver outcomes’: US

Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told Pakistan that it must “deliver outcomes” to build confidence and trust between the two countries, the State Department has said. State Department Deputy Spokesperson Robert Palladino said this when asked about the recent remarks by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in which he identified Pakistan’s nuclear […]

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Forced Conversion: Court puts two Hindu girls in official protection

Forced Conversion: Court puts two Hindu girls in official protection

Islamabad: A Pakistani high court on Tuesday ordered official protection for the two Hindu girls due to concern about their safety as authorities widened a probe to ascertain if the teenage sisters were abducted, forcibly converted and married. The two girls, Raveena (13) and Reena (15), were allegedly kidnapped by a group of “influential” men […]

 Press Trust of India

Ensure justice to the two girls: Sushma to Pakistan

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj on Tuesday asked Pakistan to ensure immediate release of the two Hindu girls who were allegedly kidnapped and forcefully converted to Islam in Sindh province last week. “Justice demands that both these girls should be restored to their family immediately,” she tweeted. Reena and Raveena, hailing from village Hafiz […]

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‘Ill health’ gets Nawaz Sharif out on bail for six weeks

Islamabad: In a relief to ailing Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s Supreme Court Tuesday granted bail to the jailed former prime minister for six weeks for seeking medical treatment within the country. Sharif, 69, is lodged in the KotLakhpat jail in Lahore since December last year, serving a 7-year imprisonment in the Al Azizia Steel Mills graft […]

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Pak national held by BSF along Gujarat IB

New Delhi/Bhuj: A Pakistani national was apprehended by the BSF along the Indo-Pak International Border (IB) in Gujarat, officials said Tuesday. They said Muhammad Ali (35), who was speaking Sindhi, was apprehended by a Border Security Force (BSF) patrol from the ‘Kumar’ border post, at border pillar number 1015, in the frontier district of Banaskantha […]

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Two Bangla nationals linked to ‘terror’ arrested in Bihar: Police

Patna: Two Bangladeshi nationals with alleged links to terror outfits have been arrested near Patna Junction railway station and documents related to deputation of central forces in Jammu and Kashmir have been found from them, officials said Tuesday. Photocopies of orders pertaining to deputation of central forces in Jammu and Kashmir post Pulwama terror attack, […]