A midst a veritable torrent of vitriol from across the border Pakistan appears to have held its nerve in the current stand-off with India. America has now stepped on to the stage by reminding both India and Pakistan on September 29 that nuclear-armed states ought not to threaten, however obliquely, to use atomic weaponry no matter the nature of the conflict. The US has also said that it considered the 18th September attack on the…
Posts published in “Day: October 5, 2016”
Nearly one and a half billion people in two countries — India and Pakistan — appear to be held hostage to conspiracy, rumour and reckless warmongering. That needs to stop, and it needs to stop immediately. On Thursday, 11 days after the Uri attack and seemingly an eternity in Pak-India sabre-rattling and diplomatic tensions, another layer of confusion and chaos was added to one of the world’s most complicated bilateral relationships.With the facts of the…
The rising tension between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, and the attendant, incessant war of words between the two in the media is spilling over to other fields too – as it was inevitably going too. Indian ultra nationalists and jingoistic media groups looked for newer avenues to continue their virtual war and before long their malevolent eye settled on the most visible representation of Pakistan in India – Pakistani artists. First Pakistani artists were…
Pakistani cinemas have stopped screening Indian films after an escalation of violence in disputed Kashmir between the nuclear-armed neighbours, theater owners said on Friday. Tension between India and Pakistan has been high since an Indian security forces crackdown on dissent in Indian-held Kashmir began in July. Relations worsened in September after suspected militants killed 18 soldiers in a raid on an Indian Army base, an attack New Delhi blames on Pakistan. “We have stopped screening…
ISLAMABAD: A commission constituted to examine a boat thought to have been used in the 2008 Mumbai attacks will visit Karachi on Oct 6, a date fixed by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Friday. Other than examining the boat, which is named Al-Fouz, the commission will also record the testimony of a witness who saw it being seized at the Karachi shipyard. The boat was allegedly used by the suspects in the Mumbai…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan yesterday rubbished India’s evidence on this month’s Uri attack as a mere ‘piece of paper’ as tensions between the two countries has touched its peak. Addressing a weekly media briefing here, Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said India was wrongly blaming Pakistan for the Uri attack. On the Indian ‘evidence’ given to Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit, the spokesman said there should be distinction between evidence and information. “It was…
ISLAMABAD – In the wake of escalation of tension at the Line of Control, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has convened a meeting of heads of parliamentary parties on Monday to discuss the situation with them and evolve a unified stance on the issue. The overall security situation in the country would be discussed in the meeting while the matters pertaining to the growing human rights violations by the Indian forces in Occupied Kashmir would also…
Defence circles have strongly objected to the draconian steps taken by Indian authorities in war fever like for instance, imposition of restrictions on media and Pakistani artistes and have also opined convincingly that “India can’t dare to carry out surgical strike” in line with their feverish sentiments and as per their own claims. Talking confidentially to The News, the sources within the security establishment have taken serious notice of aggressive anti-Pakistan narrative of majority of…
BEIJING: Special Envoys of the Prime Minister Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar, MNA and Mr. Alam Dad Laleka, MNA have arrived in Beijing. They are visiting China on the instructions of the Prime Minister to apprise the Chinese government of the deteriorating situation in Jammu and Kashmir. They met Liu Zhenmin, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. They also held a meeting with Mr. Cai Wu, Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of CPPCC. In their meetings…
LAHORE: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Friday said that any misadventure by the adversary will meet the most befitting response from Pakistan as Pakistan could not be coerced through any amount of malicious propaganda, says an ISPR press release. He was visiting a newly-developed Combat Reaction Training Facility in the close vicinity of Lahore Garrison. He was given a detailed briefing on the purpose-built environment/obstacles meant to impart module based…
ISLAMABAD: Supporting the military’s stance, the government on Friday firmly rejected India’s claim that it had successfully carried out surgical strikes across the Line of Control against alleged militants inside Pakistani territory. Chairing a meeting of the federal cabinet, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also decided to convene two back-to-back meetings early next week where the national political leadership will be taken into confidence over the sudden spike in tensions between Pakistan and India following the…