Srinagar: Pakistan Friday renewed its offer to hold dialogue with India to resolve contentious issues, including the Jammu and Kashmir dispute and terrorism, to restore peace in the region and address the problems confronting the people of the two countries. The offer was made by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in a letter written to his […]
Jammu: A self-proclaimed ‘peer’ was arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, police said on Friday. The accused, Qasim, 50, was evading arrest since he was booked on the charge of raping the teenager several times and impregnating her. A special team had tried to arrest Qasim […]
Srinagar: Government forces and militants exchanged fire briefly in Nowgam village of Verinag area in Anantnag district Saturday morning. Police sources said that acting on inputs about the presence of militants in the area, a joint team of government forces launched a cordon-and-search operation. While the cordon was being laid, contact was established with the hiding […]
Srinagar: Acting tough against drug menace, police authorities have booked four drug peddlers under Public Safety Act (PSA) in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday. A senior police officer while divulging the details said that four persons namely Abdul Majeed Munshi (43) of Munshi Mohalla Gulgam, Ghulam Rasool War (36) of Gonipora, Hyhama, Mohammad Hussain Lone […]
Srinagar: Reiterating demand for resumption of talks with all stakeholders, including Pakistan, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah expressed hope that the new dispensation at the Centre will use its massive mandate to usher in an era of peace in the state. Meanwhile, he asserted that protecting the unity and integrity of […]
Itanagar: The Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 aircraft with eight crew members and five other passengers onboard which went missing on Monday, could not be traced so far despite massive search operations. “Search and rescue operation by helicopters called off due to low light. Will resume tomorrow morning. No sighting of missing aircraft as yet,” […]
Srinagar: A 65-year-old man drowned in a nallah at Shirmal area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Friday. Reports reaching GNS said that the man Mohammad Ismail Kumar (65) son of Mohd Ramzan Kumar of Heff Shirmal slipped inside the nallah and drowned while he was performing the ablution. Soon after the incident, local volunteers rushed […]
Srinagar: The government forces on Friday allegedly blasted two houses, both three-storeyed, at Panjran area of Lassipora Litter in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district to neutralize four militants, two of them SPOs who deserted police to join Jash-e-Mohammad ranks. Both the houses were constructed recently and one of brothers– Ghulam Mohammad—had shifted only on just concluded […]
Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has advocated for talks between India and his country. In his letter to the Indian Foreign Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Thursday, Shah congratulated him for his appointment as External Affairs Minister. Dr Jaishankar, a former Foreign Secretary, has succeeded Sushma Swaraj. Earlier on June 5, Sohail Mahmood, […]
Kabul: Eighteen militants were killed and four others wounded following an anti-militancy operation in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province on Friday, the provincial government said. “The raid was launched by Special Operations Police Forces in Muhammad Agha district in the north of provincial capital Pul-e-Alam Friday morning. The slain terrorists were found to be involved in […]
