Aden: A hospital in a rural area of northwest Yemen was hit by an airstrike killing seven people and wounding eight others, Save the Children said. The international aid organisation, which supports the hospital, said in a statement that four of those killed on Tuesday morning were children and two adults are unaccounted for. The NGO, […]
Srinagar: Afghanistan has recalled its ambassador to Pakistan over reported remarks by Prime Minister Imran Khan that suggested that Kabul should set up an interim government, calling the comments “irresponsible”. The premier had told journalists on Monday that forming an interim Afghan government would smooth peace talks between the United States and Taliban officials since […]
Lahore: Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was released from jail on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court granted him six weeks’ bail to receive medical treatment within the country. Sharif, 69, was lodged in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail since December last year, serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills graft case. The […]
Srinagar: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e- Mohammed (JeM) recruited the most number of locals from Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama both in 2018 and in 2019, according to a report prepared by security agencies and shared with the Prime Minister’s office, among others. Forty Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men were killed in Pulwama on February 14 when […]
Srinagar: The BJP hopes to perform better in Jammu and Kashmir in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls than it did in the 2014 parliamentary elections, party’s national general secretary Ram Madhav said on Tuesday. He exuded confidence that the BJP will win all the three seats in Jammu and Ladakh. The BJP is hopeful of getting […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Tuesday asserted that what good was achieved in his stint as chief minister was put into an abyss by the former PDP-BJP coalition government in the state saying that the state of affairs of the country too bore the brunt of the imprudent policies […]
Srinagar: Reiterating that muscular policies will only prove counterproductive in tackling the present crises in Jammu and Kashmir, former Chief Minister and President Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday that if her party comes to power, it will scrap the ban imposed by the government on JKLF and Jamaat-e-Islami. Addressing the workers […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief, Ghulam Ahmad Mir on Tuesday said that any decision to crush the militancy in Jammu and Kashmir will not be opposed by the Congress party. Mir on the sidelines of the presser in Jammu said that the party’s candidates from two constituencies in Jammu will emerge […]
Srinagar: Former chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday blamed National Conference (NC) for the current proceedings of National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Jammu and Kashmir. Mehbooba while talking to reporters at Baramulla on the sidelines of the party rally said that it was National Conference-Congress regime led by Omar […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh Tuesday said the police department was all set to ensure the smooth conduct of Lok Sahba elections scheduled to commence from next month. The polling for Lok Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir will be held in in five phases – April 11, April […]
