Indian, Pak NSAs hold talks in Thailand
Jan 01, 2018 National security advisors of India and Pakistan held a “secret” meeting in Thailand, a senior Pakistani official said Monday. A Pakistan’s national security division official, on the condition of anonymity, said the meeting between Pakistan’s National Security Advisor retired Lt Gen Nasser Khan Janjua and India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval took […]
Operation Lethpora over
Authorities have decided to call off operation Lethpora on Monday afternoon as they recovered from the debris of encounter site another militant. State DGP S P Vaid has tweeted about the recovery of the body of militant. Police has yet to identify the body of the slain militant. In Lethpora CRPF training centre attack five […]
Pakistan Hands Over List Of Indian Prisoners
January 01, 2018 The Pakistan government on Monday gave the Indian High Commission in Islamabad a list of 457 Indian prisoners held in the country and said that it would release 146 Indian fishermen on January 8. This, the Foreign Office said, “is consistent with the provisions of the Consular Access Agreement between Pakistan and India, signed […]
Taliban asks world community to urge US to quit Afghanistan
January 1, 2018 The Afghan Taliban has pressed the world community to ask the US and its Western allies to leave Afghanistan instead of asking the group to stop its armed struggle. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid’s comment came amid the latest call for peace talks by the Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan, China and Pakistan at a trilateral dialogue in Beijing on December 26. In a joint statement, the […]
Pakistan’s truce violations means no cricket with India
January 1, 2018 New Delhi, Jan 1 : External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has hinted that any bilateral cricket series between India and Pakistan is unlikely unless Pakistan stops cross- border terrorism and firing. Swaraj said this to Parliaments consultative committee on external affairs during a meeting which was also attended by Minister of State for External […]
Nuclear button is always on ‘my desk’: Kim Jong-un
January 01, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has warned the United States that ‘the nuclear button’ is always on his ‘desk’. “The entire mainland of the US is within the range of our nuclear weapons and the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office. They should accurately be aware that this […]
Mehbooba Mufti condemns killing of troops
JAMMU: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has condemned the killing of CRPF soldier, including an officer, in a past-midnight attack at a CRPF training centre at Lethpora in Pulwama district on Sunday. Terming the act as dastardly, the chief minister said, “Violence has taken a heavy toll of the society in the state in terms of […]
J&K budget session likely to begin on stormy note
Jammu, Jan 1: The budget session of the Jammu and Kashmir legislature is likely to begin on a stormy note tomorrow with opposition parties planning to protest the recent government order barring its employees from airing political views on social media and take up other issues. The rival parties are also expected to oppose forcefully the […]
Thousands attend last rites of slain militant Fardeen Khanday in Tral
Thousands of people on Monday took part in the funeral of slain Jaish militant Fardeen Ahmad Khandey in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Khandey was killed along with an associate Manzoor Ahmad Baba after they mounted an attack on CRPF training centre in Lethpora area of Awantipora. Men and women lined the streets […]
Both the Fidayeen were local militants says police
Police said that the two slain Fidayeen militants for the first time in the recent past were locals and had only joined the militants ranks few months back. Describing it as a huge security challenge said that one was from Drubgham village of Pulwama and identified him as Manzoor Ahmad Baba. He said another was […]
