SRINAGAR: A prominent pro-India Kashmiri politician has resigned from India’s parliament and from his regional party to protest a government crackdown in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) that prevented people from offering Eid prayers for the first time in the region. Tariq Hameed Karra, a founding member of the People’s Democratic Party, said he quit on Thursday […]
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Indian troops kill seven Kashmiris
SRINAGAR: The Indian army claimed to have killed seven Kashmiri youth in three separate encounters in Kupwara district, taking death toll in the two-day operation launched by the Indian forces to seven, said police. A policeman was killed while two different gunfights also broke out in Poonch district of Jammu region on Sunday, with one […]
Five killed in fresh clashes in strife-torn Held Kashmir
SRINAGAR: A police officer and four militants were killed in separate incidents Sunday in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) as hundreds of residents clashed with security forces in the region hit by weeks of deadly unrest. “Indian soldiers shot and killed four protesters as they tried to cross the heavily militarised border that divides the disputed region […]
Kabul wants Wagah in exchange for transit route
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan has threatened to shut the Afghan transit route for Pakistani exports to Central Asia if Pakistan does not allow Afghan traders to use Lahore’s Wagah border for trade with India. “If Pakistan does not allow Afghan traders to use the Wagah border, Afghanistan will also not allow Pakistan to use Afghan transit routes […]
Global charity attacked in deadly wave of Kabul violence
KABUL: Taliban militants attacked an international charity in Kabul on Tuesday during an hours-long assault labelled a ‘war crime’ by Amnesty, as the capital reeled from a wave of violence that killed at least 41 and wounded dozens. The assault on the CARE International, a global confederation of 14 members working together to fight poverty […]
New Delhis ex-womens minister arrested on rape charge
NEW DELHI: The former women’s minister of the Indian capital — who was sacked over a “sex tape” — has now been arrested following a claim by a woman shown in the tape that he raped her, an investigator said Sunday. Sandeep Kumar was arrested on Saturday, days after he was dismissed as women’s and […]
Bangladesh summons Pak envoy over interference
DHAKA: Bangladesh on Sunday summoned Pakistan’s acting high commissioner to protest its interference in its affairs after Islamabad said it was ‘deeply saddened’ by the execution of a top Jamaat-e-Islami figure for alleged atrocities committed during the 1971 conflict. Mir Quasem Ali, 63, a key financier of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed on Saturday at […]
100 injured in fresh IHK skirmishes
SRINAGAR: Police say around 100 people have been injured as Indian government forces fired tear gas and shotgun pellets to quell thousands of protesters who pelted rocks and burned a government office in India-held Kashmir. A police officer said clashes erupted Sunday when police tried to stop the marchers heading to a village in Shopian […]
India shoots dead another Kashmiri
SRINAGAR: A teenager was shot dead in Indian-held Kashmir on Wednesday, as thousands of protesters engaged in fresh clashes with security forces after weeks of deadly violence, police and witnesses said. Indian paramilitary troops fired live rounds as residents demonstrated against an earlier raid by soldiers searching for protest leaders in the northern village of […]
Kerry reiterates do more mantra
NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that Pakistan made progress in the fight against extremism in recent months, but urged Islamabad to push harder against militants hiding within its borders, as tensions with neighbouring India rise amid more violence in Held Kashmir. “It is clear that Pakistan has work to do […]