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Pakistan-India tensions simmer despite pilot’s release
Mar 02, 2019 09:49Pakistan and India seem to have stepped back from the brink of a war following days of diplomatic tensions and deadly exchange of fire across their borders in the disputed region of Kashmir.
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Pakistan returns captured Indian pilot in ‘peace gesture’
Mar 01, 2019 14:53Pakistan has released an Indian pilot whom it had captured after shooting down his fighter jet, in “a peace gesture” aimed at deescalating dangerously high tensions with India.
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India-Pakistan tensions flare as gunbattles escalate in Kashmir
Mar 01, 2019 09:07India and Pakistan fired barrages of shells at each other across their angry Kashmir frontier Friday, leaving at least one dead as the troubled region braces for more violence amid renewed hostilities between the arch-rivals.
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US offers $1 million reward to find son of Osama bin Laden
Mar 01, 2019 04:07The US government is offering $1 million to help track down the son of Osama bin Laden, the former Leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist group, seeing him as an emerging face of extremism.
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Russia offers to mediate between India, Pakistan amid mounting clashes
Feb 28, 2019 15:33Russia says it is prepared to mediate between archrivals India and Pakistan, amid heightened cross-border tensions between the two neighbors and the threat of an all-out conflict.
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Zarif urges restraint as India, Pakistan come to blows
Feb 28, 2019 02:40Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has called on both Pakistan and India to exercise restraint, following recent tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
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People in Kashmir flee, prepare bunkers amid India-Pakistan escalation
Feb 27, 2019 16:49Kashmir is now witnessing large groups of people either fleeing their homes or taking shelter in ill-designed bunkers against the backdrop of recent flare-up of hostilities between India and Pakistan.
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Military: Pakistan not pushing towards war
Feb 27, 2019 12:26A Pakistani military spokesman on Wednesday said his country was "not pushing the environment towards war" with India.
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Pakistan military says it shot down 2 Indian jets after airspace violation
Feb 27, 2019 05:31Pakistan says it has shot down two Indian military jets, which violated its airspace, and captured a pilot amid escalating tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors over the recent developments in disputed Kashmir.
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Iran urges India, Pakistan to exercise restraint amid tensions
Feb 26, 2019 14:08Iran says India and Pakistan should exercise restraint and resolve tensions peacefully after New Delhi conducted airstrikes against what it called a militant training camp in Pakistani territory.