Omar pitches for Assembly polls immediately after LS elections
BY: M I Jehangir Srinagar, Mar 31: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah favours early Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and has expressed hope that the people of the state will give mandate for a single party rule, instead of a coalition government in the state as has been witnessed since 2002. In an interview […]
Farooq Abdullah faces political novices in Srinagar LS seat
By Inayat Jehangir Srinagar, Mar 28: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah will fancy his chances of entering Lok Sabha for the fourth time from the prestigious Srinagar Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir as archrivals PDP and BJP have fielded political greenhorns against the stalwart. Abdullah had lost to PDP candidate Tariq Hameed Karra […]
Mass shootings at New Zealand mosques leave 49 dead, scores injured
Australian extremist among 4 persons held
Christchurch, Mar 15 (AP) Mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers killed 49 people in New Zealand as authorities charged one person, detained three others and defused explosive devices in what appeared to be a carefully planned racist attack. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the events in Christchurch represented “an extraordinary […]
Indian pilot lands in Pak custody; tensions escalate
Videos of IAF pilot show him composed and stoic
New Delhi, Feb 27: An IAF pilot landed in Pakistani custody Wednesday when an Indian fighter jet was shot down there as tensions between the two countries escalated further with India also claiming to have shot down a fighter plane of the neighbouring country. Amid claims and counter-claims from two sides, the Pakistan Army retracted […]
UN chief, major world powers call for ‘maximum restraint’ by India, Pakistan
United Nations/Hanoi/London, Feb 27: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is following the situation in the subcontinent where the Indian Air Force struck a “militant base” inside Pakistan territory and is calling for “maximum restraint” by both countries, his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. Guterres is on his way back to New York from Geneva and […]
Amid tensions, Pak PM offers olive branch to India
“Let’s talk; escalation will take initiative out of my and Modi’s hands”
Islamabad, Feb 27: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday again invited India for talks and urged that “better sense should prevail” amid escalating tensions between the two neighbours. Khan’s comments came after an aerial engagement between the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in which New Delhi said it shot […]
Violence is not the govt’s policy: Pak FM
Says Pak ready to cooperate if India shares evidence
Islamabad, Feb 16: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said “violence is not the policy of the government” while referring to an attack on CRPF convoy in Kashmir on Thursday, in which 49 paramilitary soldiers were killed. “Violence is not a [strategy] nor is it our government’s policy,” Qureshi said in a video shared by […]
Protests continue in Kargil
BY: Mohammad Hussain Kargil, Feb 12: Despite sub-zero temperatures in Kargil, more than 20000 people are protesting in the town against the government’s SRO 110, demanding its revision and amendment so as to have divisional-level offices rotate between Kargil and Leh. The protestors were being led by all religious, political and social leaders including acting […]
Pak FM telephones Mirwaiz; discusses Kashmir
India reacts: telephonic talk reflects Islamabad's duplicity on ties with India
BY: Images News Network/PTI Islamabad/Srinagar/New Delhi, Jan 29: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Tuesday telephoned Hurriyat-M chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and discussed with him Islamabad’s efforts to highlight the Kashmir issue. Pakistan Foreign Office said Qureshi spoke with Mirwaiz and discussed with him the efforts of Pakistan’s government to highlight the Kashmir issue. Qureshi […]
PDP, BJP communalised J&K politics: Farooq Abdullah
Kolkata, Jan 21: Former chief minister Farooq Abdullah Sunday said the Valley went through its worst phase under the Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP-BJP government as the two parties in power communalised Hindus and Muslims. “The situation in Kashmir became the worst under the previous government we had of the PDP and BJP. One communalised the Hindus […]
