Beijing: As Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived here Tuesday for talks with Xi Jinping ahead of the Chinese President’s important visit to India, China said the Kashmir issue should be resolved between New Delhi and Islamabad, significantly omitting its recent references to the UN and UN Security Council resolutions. Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang […]
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan told a visiting US Congressional delegation that talks with India were out of question in view of the situation in Kashmir after India revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s special status. Khan said there would be no talks with India during a meeting with US senators Chris Van Hollen and Maggi […]
Pune: India captain Virat Kohli on Wednesday proposed that points for an away victory in the World Test Championship should be doubled while reiterating that the ongoing inaugural edition has raised the standards in the five-day format. Currently, a team gets 120 points for a series clean sweep, irrespective of whether it’s a two-match series […]
United Nations: The United Nations is running a deficit of $230 million, Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, and may run out of money by the end of October. In a letter intended for the 37,000 employees at the UN secretariat and obtained by AFP, Guterres said unspecified “additional stop-gap measures” would have to […]
SRINAGAR: Describing the lifting of an advisory which had dissuaded tourists from visiting Kashmir valley as “half hearted initiative”, the National Conference on Tuesday asked how holiday makers can venture into the Valley, reeling under a communication blockade and breakdown of economic activity. Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Monday directed lifting of […]
New Delhi: BJP minister Jitendra Singh slammed certain activists on Monday for what he called unsubstantiated charges against government forces for “narrow and short-lived political gains”. This was conveyed by Singh when Special Director General (JK Zone) of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Zulfiquar Hassan called on him here, according to a press release. […]
New Delhi: Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said Jammu and Kashmir will not remain a Union Territory (UT) forever and the statehood to it would be restored once the security situation improves. Interacting with probationers of the 2018 batch of the Indian Police Service (IPS) here, Shah said “not a single bullet has been […]
Jammu: Three 81 mm mortar shells were on Monday found near a stream in a village in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The area has been cordoned off and efforts are on by the bomb disposal squad of the Army and police to neutralise the shells. Official said a villager noticed the […]
Islamabad: Pakistan on Monday objected to the recent remarks by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh that the FATF can any time blacklist the neighbouring country, describing it as India’s attempts to “politicise” the international money laundering watchdog’s proceedings. Pakistan was placed on the grey list by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in June last […]
Islamabad: Kashmir is in the blood of the Pakistani nation and the country and the army will stand by the Kashmiri people “no matter what,” the ailing former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has asserted, as he returned to active politics. General (retd) Musharraf, now based in Dubai, also referred to Kargil conflict, and alleged that […]