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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
OIC to hold Kashmir contact group meeting on Tuesday
VOV Desk Srinagar: The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) notified its members of an emergency meeting. On Pakistan’s request, OIC will conduct an urgent meeting to review the actions taken by the Indian government, post-Pulwama attack. The “urgent” notice sent to members of the contact group by the Organisation of Islamic Conference secretariat in […]
Former Pakistan diplomats urge govt to stay ready for aggressive action from India
VOV Monitoring Desk Islamabad: Amidst heightened India-Pakistan tensions, three of Pakistan’s former foreign secretaries have urged their government to be prepared to deter any “aggressive action” by India after the deadly Pulwama terror attack while engaging in “robust diplomacy” to end the crisis peacefully. In a joint article published in Dawn newspaper on Sunday, former […]
70 killed in Dhaka chemical, plastic warehouses’ fire
DHAKA, The blaze broke out at a chemical warehouse on the ground floor of a five-storey building, named Hazi Wahed Mansion, behind a mosque in Old Dhaka’s congested Chawkbazar area. Seventy people were killed on Wednesday night as a fire ripped through several multi-storey buildings, many of them housing chemical and plastic warehouses, in a […]
6 year old child murdered in alleged hate-crime in Medina, Saudi Arabia
Medina;Questions are being raised over the lack of public concern and proper investigation being done towards the brutal murder of a young Saudi boy in broad daylight in the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia last Thursday. According to sources close to the family, Zakaria Al-Jaber, around the age of 6, was traveling with his […]
Taliban kill 21 Afghan troops, injure 23 others in three different attacks
Kabul: Officials say a wave of Taliban attacks in western and northern Afghanistan the previous day has killed 21 members of the country’s security forces. Jamshed Shahabi, spokesman for the governor in western Badghis province, says the insurgents overran outposts there, killing six policemen. Council member Shamsul Haq Baeakzai in northern Baghlan province says seven members […]
Dialogue not war will resolve our issues, let us talk to resolve Kashmir: Pak army to India
(Agencies) Rawalpindi: The Pakistan army has invited India to table for dialogue to resolve all the pending issues including the 70 years long pending dispute of Kashmir, the News International reported on Thursday. Major General Asif Ghafoor, the army’s spokesperson, in an interview with a private news channel while inviting India to table said it […]
