Srinagar: A fighter jet of Indian Air Forces on Wednesday crashed in Garend village of central Kashmir’s Budgam district. Reports said that the aircraft crashed in an open field in Garend, seven kilometers from Budgam town. They said the pilot was killed in the crash. Details emerging.
Srinagar: Heavy firing started on the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday between Indian and Pakistani troops in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri sector, defence sources said. Both sides were using mortars and small arms to target each other in Kamalkote area since earlier in the day, the defence sources confirmed, adding that the exchanges were […]
Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday raided residence of an active Jaish-e-Muhammad militant in southern Kashmir’s Tral area. Sources said that the sleuths of NIA in the wee hours raided the house of Mudasir Khan, an active militant of JeM.They said that besides Khan the sleuths also raided the residence of Suraj Manzoor Malik, a resident […]
Srinagar: An expert for the world’s most recognised defence monitoring media outlet, Jane’s Information Group, has questioned India’s claim that it has destroyed a major militant camp near the Line of Control (LoC) and killed more than 350 people. “What they hit is speculation for now — they say they hit a terrorist camp, but a […]
Srinagar: Pakistan on Tuesday alleged that Indian troops late evening resorted to indiscriminate shelling from across the dividing line, leaving at least four civilians dead and 11 others wounded in Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK). The machinegun, mortar and artillery shelling began at about 5:30pm simultaneously in Kotli, Bhimber and Poonch districts and was “intense and […]
Shopian: Two unidentified militants have been killed in ongoing encounter between militants and government forces in Memander area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. Reports said that two unidentified militants were killed in an encounter and operation is on. Earlier joint team of army, CRPF and SOG launched cordon and search operation in Memandar on specific inputs […]
Beijing: China on Tuesday urged India and Pakistan to “exercise restraint” and asked New Delhi to carry out its fight against terrorism through international cooperation, hours after Indian fighter jets struck Jaish-e-Mohammed’s biggest camp in Pakistan in a pre-dawn attack. When asked for China’s response to India’s air strikes on militant camps in Pakistan, Chinese Foreign […]
New Delhi: Post India’s air strike in Balakote Pakistan, foreign envoys have been informed by the GOI that do not want to see any further “escalation”. The Wire reported that immediately after the media appearance of foreign secretary about the the air strike, Vijay Gokhale rushed to South Block. He held briefing with foreign ambassadors, […]
Tehran: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif resigned without warning late Monday, offering an “apology” to the nation as the nuclear deal he negotiated with world powers is on the verge of collapse after the US withdrawal from the accord. Zarif’s resignation, if accepted by Iran’s relatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani, would leave the cleric […]
Srinagar: Pakistani villagers in the area where Indian jets struck what officials in New Delhi said was a militant training camp said they heard four loud bangs in the early hours of Tuesday but reported only one person wounded by bomb shards, Reuters reported. The report quoting a local who visited the site as saying: “We […]
