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Tax amnesty prompts Indians to come clean on undeclared income
Oct 02, 2016 05:00A government amnesty on tax evasion in India has prompted tens of thousands of tax dodgers to disclose nearly 10 billion dollars in undeclared income.
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Pakistan stops screening Indian films over rising Kashmir tensions
Oct 01, 2016 17:45Major Pakistani cinemas have stopped screening Indian films as recent tensions between the two neighboring countries over the disputed Kashmir region spill into the world of Bollywood.
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India, Pakistan clash along disputed Kashmir border
Oct 01, 2016 05:37India and Pakistan have again exchanged gun fire across the disputed Kashmir border, Pakistani military authorities say as tensions mount between the neighboring nuclear-armed rivals in south Asia.
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Escalating India-Pakistan crisis fuels regional insecurity: Iran
Sep 30, 2016 14:56Foreign Ministry spokesman has warned against the continuation of tensions between India and Pakistan, urging both countries to exercise more self-restraint.
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Tensions rising as India ‘hits targets in Pakistan’
Sep 29, 2016 10:52India says it has conducted “surgical strikes” across the de facto borderline dividing the disputed region of Kashmir against militants preparing to infiltrate, with Islamabad denying any such attack and saying instead that cross-border fire from India had killed two of its soldiers.
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Karachi clergy body urges an end to pressures on Shia Muslims
Sep 25, 2016 05:05Karachi’s largest Shia clergy body, “Heyat Ulema-ye Masajed va Ulema-ye Imamiah Pakistan”, within a press conference, has announced its opposition to pressures piled up on Shia Muslims. This Pakistani Shia clergy body has pointed out that pressure should be piled up on Daesh terrorists, who are advancing in the southern Pakistani Province of Sind.
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India-Pakistan tension flares
Sep 25, 2016 04:53These pictures depict the consequences of the recent attack on an Indian military base in the city of Uri in the disputed region of Kashmir.
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India’s PM vows to isolate Pakistan internationally
Sep 25, 2016 03:37Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accused Pakistan of “exporting terrorism” in response to an attack on an army base that New Delhi blames on Pakistani militants.
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Police shoot dead man in Kashmir
Sep 24, 2016 03:18Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have shot dead a protester and wounded dozens of others.
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India seals deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France
Sep 23, 2016 10:01India has formally signed an agreement with France for the purchase of three dozen Rafale fighter jets worth a reported 8.8 billion dollars amid a long-running arms race with neighboring Pakistan.