NEW DELHI: India on Thursday alleged that the protests in India-held Kashmir during observance of ‘Kashmir’s Accession to Pakistan Day’ and ‘Black Day’ were led by UN-designated terrorists. “We have seen reports about rallies, events and statements related to Jammu and Kashmir over the last two days. We have also noted that the events were […]
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India charges principal with sedition over Kashmir map
NEW DELHI: An Indian school principal and two others have been charged with sedition for printing an incorrect map of Indian-Held Kashmir, police said on Wednesday, an offence technically punishable by a maximum of life in jail. The principal was arrested on Monday along with the school’s owner and a printing press owner following a […]
Events in Kashmir tragic, pose grave danger: Sonia Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday slammed the Narendra Modi government over the unrest in occupied Kashmir, saying the recent events there pose a “grave danger” to the country. She said that former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s government had done tremendous amount of good work in the occupied valley but that was no […]
Kashmir protests flare; army shoots dead three protesters
SRINAGAR: Indian soldiers fired on a crowd throwing stones defying a curfew in the Kashmir region, killing three people, police said on Tuesday, as unrest sparked by the death of a separatist militant flared. Authorities have imposed a curfew in Muslim-majority Kashmir for 11 days, blocked mobile phones and briefly ordered curbs on newspapers to […]
Kashmir curfew enters ninth day
SRINAGAR: The authorities in Indian-held Kashmir continued to impose curfew and other restrictions on Kashmiris on 9th consecutive day on Sunday to prevent them from protesting against the killing of protesters by Indian security forces. According to the Kashmir Media Service, the Internet service and mobile phone services remained suspended, aggravating miseries of the people […]
Information blackout in IHK to supress protests
SRINAGAR: Police seizes tens of thousands of newspapers in Indian-held Kashmir early Saturday and detained printing press workers, ramping up an information blackout after a week of unrest left 43 dead, officials and media outlets said. Teams of officers swooped on major newspaper offices in the restive region overnight, seizing printing plates in an attempt […]
Pakistan has no locus standi in IHK: India
NEW DELHI: India delivered another message to Pakistan on Friday, asking it to stop ‘interfering’ in its internal affairs after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced that the country would observe July 19 as ‘black day’ to express solidarity with Kashmiris. “We hope that Pakistan will desist from further interfering in India’s internal affairs and destabilizing […]
Security forces demolish homes of Afghan residents
JAMRUD: Security forces on Friday razed to the ground 10 vacant houses of Afghan citizens in Mulagori area of Khyber Agency, official sources said. The political administration in the tribal agency had asked the Afghan refugees in Mulagori to vacate houses constructed illegally. Most of the families had vacated their houses and left the area. […]
Bangladesh regulates Friday sermons after attacks
DHAKA: Bangladesh on Friday moved to regulate weekly sermons in hundreds of thousands of mosques as part of a stepped-up campaign to combat extremism, officials said. The move comes after the deadly attack in an upscale Dhaka cafe in which 20 hostages were brutally shot and hacked to death in the nation’s worst attack by […]
No plans to revive peace talks with Taliban, says Afghan govt
KABUL: Kabul has no plans to revive a peace process aimed at bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table after a four-nation effort earlier this year produced no results, the spokesman of the Afghan president said Thursday. Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria, responding to the remarks, reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to the four-nation group – consisting […]