One of the subplots of the much-awaited men’s javelin throw final at the Paris Olympics on Thursday is the India vs Pakistan battle between defending champion Neeraj Chopra and Arshad Nadeem.The Stade de France arena will be buzzing under lights when the line-up of 12 of the world’s best throwers gets on the runway to…
ATTARI: Two extended Pakistani Hindu families entered India through the Attari border near Amritsar on Wednesday with all their belongings and travelled onward to Jodhpur and settle there, coinciding with the flight of minorities from Bangladesh in the face of a backlash accompanying the fall of the govt there.A Jodhpur resident identifying himself as Ashok…
NEW DELHI: Intelligence establishment sees the hand of Pakistan‘s external intelligence agency, ISI and its Chinese patron in escalating the protests and subversion that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee the country.Information reaching here point to the not-so-subtle hand of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the student wing of hardline Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh which is known for its…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, parliamentarians and hundreds of thousands of people offered funeral prayers in absentia on Friday for slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, condemning Israeli military actions in Palestinian territories.Haniyeh and his bodyguard were killed in a pre-dawn bombing at their accommodation in Tehran on Wednesday. Just hours before his assassination, Israel…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Friday he had written a letter to the Chinese govt requesting debt re-profiling for Pakistan in an apparent bid to secure the International Monetary Fund’s approval for a $7 billion economic bailout by next month.Islamabad has also asked Beijing to change imported coal-based projects to ones using…
A foreign journalist known for his work on the Middle East and someone who sought to seal an interview with jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan was deported back to his home country with a 5 hour ultimatum after his tourist visa was revoked, according to local media. The American Author and journalist, Charles Glass…
The Bangladesh government has received a request from the country’s cricket board to provide a security consultant for their upcoming tour of Pakistan, as reported by Cricbuzz.The development comes while the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has repeatedly raised concerns about the Indian team’s safety during the ICC Champions Trophy next year…
DRASS: Warning Pakistan that its nefarious designs in fuelling the proxy war will be crushed with full force by the Indian security forces, PM Narendra Modi on Friday said the “patrons of terrorism” across the border could hear his voice loud and clear from the heights of Kargil.“Pakistan has not learnt any lessons from its…
NEW DELHI: Pakistan once again refused to take any blame over home-grown terrorism and rejected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fresh warning citing Kashmir.Terming PM Modi‘s statements in Drass on Kargil Vijay Diwas just “rhetorical statements”, Pakistan said the remarks cannot deflect international attention from India’s efforts to suppress the Kashmiri people.According to Pakistan’s Foreign Office,…
NEW DELHI: The Kargil War officially concluded 25 years ago on July 26, 1999. Kargil Vijay Diwas, observed annually on this day, commemorates India’s victory over Pakistan and honors the sacrifices of hundreds of Indian soldiers who faced more than just the Pakistani infiltrators to secure victory in Kargil. Kargil War The conflict, which escalated…
