Any provocation by Pakistan will be responded in befitting manner: Army

Any provocation by Pakistan will be responded in befitting manner: Army

Srinagar: Army on Wednesday said that any further provocation or misadventure by Pakistan will be responded in a befitting manner with dire consequences. Army PRO, Lieutenant Colonel Mohit Vaishnava in an official statement issued to KNS said they are maintaining strict vigil along the Line of Control and International Border. “Post our warning to the Pakistan […]

Situation will get worse should India escalate, Pak army, ‘Kashmir flashpoint’

Situation will get worse should India escalate, Pak army, ‘Kashmir flashpoint’

Srinagar: The Pakistan Army believes that the ball is in India’s court now to de-escalate tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. In an interview with CNN, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Asif Ghafoor said it was up to New Delhi to follow Pakistan’s decision of releasing captured Indian pilot as a peace gesture […]

Tensions with India appear to be de-escalating: Qureshi, ‘thanks US for private diplomacy’

Tensions with India appear to be de-escalating: Qureshi, ‘thanks US for private diplomacy’

Srinagar: Tensions between India and Pakistan appear to be de-escalating, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday as he thanked the US for playing a role in defusing the crisis through “private diplomacy”. “Tensions between India and Pakistan appear to be de-escalating and this is a positive development,” Qureshi told the media here. “Pakistan […]

Two dead in road accident in north Kashmir’s Langate

Two dead in road accident in north Kashmir’s Langate

Srinagar: Two persons have died while several others have been injured in a road accident in northern Kashmir’s Langate area. Reports said that a passenger bus bearing registration number JK09A-1220 on way from Watergam to Handwara, turned turtle near main market Langate leaving two persons dead. Police and locals immediately rushed the injured to the hospital. […]

China sends Vice Foreign Minister to Pak to discuss Indo-Pak tensions

China sends Vice Foreign Minister to Pak to discuss Indo-Pak tensions

Beijing: China said Wednesday that it has despatched Vice Foreign Minister Kong Xuanyou to Islamabad to discuss the Indo-Pak tensions following the Pulwama attack. “He (Kong) is now visiting Pakistan. He is in communication with Pakistan on the India-Pakistan situation,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a media briefing here. Tensions escalated between India and […]

Militant hideout busted in south Kashmir’s Shopian village

Militant hideout busted in south Kashmir’s Shopian village

Shopain: A militant hideout was busted in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir and incriminating materials were recovered from there on Wednesday. Reports said that on a credible input on police busted a hideout of militants in Kungnoo village in Shopian district. Incriminating materials were recovered from the hideout and were seized, they said  Earlier on Wednesday […]

16 killed in attack on construction site in Afghanistan

16 killed in attack on construction site in Afghanistan

Kabul: An Afghan provincial spokesman says the death toll from a militant attack on a construction company near a main airport in the country’s east has risen to 16. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor in eastern Nangarhar province, says that along with the 16 killed, nine other people were wounded when the militants launched a […]

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