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Pakistan will not initiate armed conflict with India: Khan

Sep 03, 2019 04:24

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan says his country would not pull the trigger first in a potential armed conflict with India over the disputed Kashmir region.
Pakistan grants India access to alleged spy given death sentence

Sep 02, 2019 09:01

Pakistan said it would grant consular access to an alleged Indian spy on death row on Monday, weeks after the International Court of Justice called for a review of his sentence in a case that has stoked tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals.
Pakistan: Large Karachi rally demands more steps on Kashmir

Sep 02, 2019 07:34

People in the city of Karachi took to the streets in their thousands to show solidarity with Kashmiris. They demanded stronger actions from Pakistani government as well as the UN against recent moves by India in Kashmir.
Tens of thousands hold anti-India rallies in Pakistan over Kashmir

Aug 30, 2019 07:45

Cities across Pakistan came to a standstill on Friday as tens of thousands of people poured onto the streets in a government-led demonstration of solidarity with the disputed region of Kashmir, after India revoked its autonomy this month.
Iran, India hope to seal key trade deal by end of 2019: Envoy

Aug 29, 2019 13:20

Iran’s ambassador to India says a major trade deal between Tehran and New Delhi is almost there to be concluded by the end of 2019 as the two countries seek to bypass American sanctions imposed on Iran and to increase the size and scope of bilateral trade activities.
Kashmiris skeptic of India’s promises of equal rights

Aug 29, 2019 13:19

After New Delhi scrapped Kashmir’s autonomous status on august 5, it promised equal rights, opportunity and development in return. However, people of Kashmir are skeptic of their promises.
500 incidents of protests, hundreds injured in Kashmir lockdown: Sources

Aug 28, 2019 13:34

Hundreds of incidents of protest have erupted in Indian-administered Kashmir since the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi stripped the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of its autonomy and imposed a security clampdown more than three weeks ago.
Kashmiri leader calls for peaceful protests, blasts information blockade

Aug 25, 2019 07:32

A prominent pro-independence leader in the Indian-controlled Kashmir has called on people in the disputed region to continue holding “peaceful protests” despite attempts by New Delhi to stifle their voices.
India intensifies restrictions on Indian Kashmir after Friday clashes

Aug 24, 2019 11:57

Some three weeks after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi controversially stripped Indian-controlled Kashmir of its autonomous status, the Muslim-majority region’s main city of Srinagar looks like a ghost town scarred with military barricades, barely breathing under a massive lockdown.
Narendra Modi’s new-model India

Aug 23, 2019 12:02

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi likes to practice what American generals call “shock and awe.” The last time Modi stunned the country was when he announced, on a few hours’ notice, the demonetization of 96% (in value) of India’s currency.