Tag: India-Pakistan
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Imran Khan writes to PM Modi; Sushma Swaraj to meet Shah Mehmood Qureshi in US
The spokesperson said the permanent missions of India and Pakistan in New York were in touch in connection with arrangements for the meeting.
September 20, 2018 -
India lashes out at Pakistan for maltreating minorities
The Indian official said Pakistan had the ‘dubious distinction’ of having more cases of persecution under Blasphemy laws than the rest of the world put together.
September 19, 2018 -
Pakistan has no business to talk about human rights: India
‘’Even as we approach 10 years of Mumbai terrorist attacks, their perpetrators continue to roam freely in Pakistan.
September 12, 2018 -
India, Pakistan discuss implementation of Indus Waters Treaty projects
"Both the countries agreed to undertake the Treaty-mandated tours of both the Indus Commissioners in the Indus basin on both sides," it said.
August 31, 2018 -
China welcomes India, Pakistan participation in anti-terror drill
The ties between India and Pakistan were strained after the terror attack on an Indian Army camp in 2016, which New Delhi says was backed by Islamabad.
August 27, 2018 -
‘Many Indians still languishing in Pakistan jails’
His grand-daughter Nikita told the media on Thursday that Sharma still needs to come out of the haunting pains he suffered during his long stay in the Pakistani jail.
August 17, 2018 -
India asks Pakistan to protect religious minorities
Pakistan must fulfil its international obligation of protecting religious minorities in the country, he added.
August 8, 2018 -
Pakistan has more nuclear warheads than India: SIPRI
Pakistan continues to be ahead of India when it comes to possessing nuclear warheads, with China having double the quantity, according to a report by a leading Swedish think-tank. Pakistan is believed to have 140-150 nuclear warheads this year, 10 more than last year. In contrast, India is said to have 130-140 nuclear warheads, according...
June 19, 2018 -
108 migrants from Pakistan get Indian citizenship
A total of 108 migrants from Pakistan received Indian citizenship here in Rajasthan on Sunday. Jodhpur District collector Ravi Kumar Surpur distributed the citizenship certificates to the former Pakistanis. Most of these migrant-turned-Indian citizens were teary eyed when they got the certificates. The surroundings of the Town Hall where they were given the certificates echoed...
June 18, 2018 -
UN releases first of its kind report on rights status in Kashmir, PoK
The UN on Thursday released the first of its kind report on alleged human rights violations in both “Indian-administered and Pakistan-administered Kashmir” and sought an international inquiry into these abuses. The global human rights watch body also asked Pakistan to end its “misuse” of anti-terror legislation to persecute peaceful activists and quash dissent. Asserting that...
June 14, 2018 -
India and Pakistan must talk on Kashmir, says CPI-M
India and Pakistan need to talk without putting preconditions in a bid to restore peace in Jammu and Kashmir, the CPI-M has said. The offer of talks with Pakistan that Home Minister Rajnath Singh has extended should be taken forward, an editorial in the CPI-M journal “People’s Democracy” said. “But it cannot be conditional …...
June 7, 2018 -
After much agony…
Sanity has eventually surfaced. That a cessation of hostilities along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir (Pakistan prefers to call it a ‘working boundary’) was jointly announced by the Directors-General of Military Operations at their respective Army Headquarters ~ rather than a statement by political leaders ~ could possibly have a more authentic ring...
May 31, 2018 -
Gilgit-Baltistan issue between India, Pakistan: China
China on Tuesday stayed away from commenting on Pakistan’s decision to declare disputed Gilgit-Baltistan as its fifth state, saying the issue is between New Delhi and Islamabad. India claims that the region is part of Jammu and Kashmir occupied by Pakistan. Beijing also maintained the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which passes through disputed Kashmir claimed...
May 29, 2018 -
Pakistan ‘rejects’ India’s protest against Gilgit-Baltistan order
Pakistan has “rejected” India’s protest against Islamabad’s move relating to administrative control over the Gilgit-Baltistan region, which is a part of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The “Gilgit-Baltistan Order 2018” was approved by Pakistan’s Cabinet on May 21 and it was also endorsed by the Assembly for the region. Pakistan Prime Minister Khaqan Abbasi announced enforcement of the...
May 28, 2018 -
Pakistan again raises Kashmir at UN Security Council
Pakistan has raised the Kashmir issue yet again at the UN Security Council, trying to twin it with the Palestinian problem. At a Council meeting on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Maleeha Lodhi said: “Crimes continue to be perpetrated in Palestine and Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir, two...
May 23, 2018 -
Revisit Kashmir policy, Pakistani daily tells India
A leading Pakistani newspaper on Tuesday urged the Indian and Jammu and Kashmir governments to revisit their Kashmir policy in a bid to restore peace in the troubled state. “Instead of using more violence to quell protests and fuelling a cycle of further bloodshed, both the administration in Srinagar and those who call the shots...
May 8, 2018 -
India rules out talks with Pak amid Track II initiative
India on Thursday asserted that there was no dilution in its stand on talks with Pakistan even as civil societies of the two countries revived the Track II diplomatic initiative by holding the ‘Neemrana Dialogue’ in Islamabad from 28-30 April after a hiatus of three years. ‘’Our stand is very clear and consistent…terror and talks...
May 3, 2018