Jammu-Srinagar Highway remains closed for second day
Banihal/Jammu: The strategic Jammu-Srinagar Highway remained closed for the second straight day Tuesday following a major landslide triggered by incessant rains in Ramban district, officials said. Efforts are on to restore the 270-km highway – the only all weather road linking Kashmir with rest of the country – which was blocked near Moum-Passi in Ramsu […]
JRL calls for shutdown on Feb 27, 28 against NIA raids, mass arrests
Srinagar, : Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) Tuesday called for a two day complete protest strike against raids of NIA against resistance leadership and mass arrests. JRL comprising of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Muhammad Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik as per a statement issued to KNS said, “Wide spread raids of NIA against almost […]
India has committed an aggression and Islamabad has the right to respond, says Pak. Foreign Minister
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday said India had committed an “aggression” by violating the Line of Control (LoC) and that Islamabad had the “right to respond”. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was chairing an “important meeting” to discuss the situation, sources in Islamabad said. India’s air strikes came 12 days after the Pakistan-based […]
Security installations in JK put on high alert after air strike across LoC
Srinagar, All the vital security installations across Jammu and Kashmir have been put on high alert in view of air strike across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-administered-Kashmir. “This is a normal procedure and all vital installations across India including J&K have been put on alert mode,” a top security official told Greater Kashmir. India […]
NIA Raids JKLF Chairman Yasin Malik’s Srinagar Residence
Srinagar, February 26: National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers on Tuesday raided the Srinagar residence of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Yasin Malik. The counter-terrorism agency men along with the state police and others cordoned off Malik’s residence at around 7.30 a.m., a JKLF source said. Yasin Malik, Separatist Leader, Arrested In Midnight Raid in Jammu […]
IAF strike across LoC: We have no information, says Defence Ministry
New Delhi – Twelve Mirage 2000 jets of the Indian Air Force are said to have crossed the Line of Control and destroyed a major terrorist camp, the ANI news agency reported on Tuesday morning, quoting an IAF source. There has been no official confirmation of this cross-LoC air raid by the IAF or the Defence Ministry so far. Here […]
Indian aircraft breach LoC, leave after PAF’s ‘timely’ response: DG ISPR
ISLAMABAD: Indian military aircraft violated the Line of Control (LoC) as they “intruded” from the Muzafarabad sector and were forced to return owing to the timely response of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), Pakistan Army spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor said early Tuesday. “Indian aircraft intrusion across LoC in Muzafarabad Sector within AJK was 3-4 […]
FM Qureshi summons emergency meeting at FO
SLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday summoned an emergency consultative meeting at the Foreign Office following a breach of the Line of Control (LoC) by Indian military aircraft. The meeting, which will be attended by former foreign secretaries and senior diplomats, has been summoned to hold consultations over the current situation. Indian military aircraft […]
Pakistan accuses India of launching strike across Kashmir border
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said Tuesday that Indian warplanes crossed into its airspace over the cease-fire line in Kashmir and dropped payloads, after tensions spiked between the nuclear-armed neighbors over the disputed region. “Indian Air Force violated Line of Control,” Pakistan military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor tweeted, referring to the de facto border between Indian- and […]
India Is Said to Conduct Airstrikes in Pakistan-Controlled Territory
NEW DELHI — Indian warplanes conducted airstrikes in Pakistan-controlled territory on Tuesday, Pakistan’s military said, after a suicide attack in the Kashmir region this month that India blamed on Pakistan. A spokesman for Pakistan’s armed forces, Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, on Tuesday posted on Twitter four images of a forested area pockmarked with small craters […]
