Following house arrest the former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have been arrested along with People’s Conference chairman and former BJP ally Sajjad Lone, Imran Ansari and some more leaders on Monday evening, said officials. Without giving further details, the officials said the arrests were […]

In the mid-nineteenth century Kashmir was a collection of culturally different territories brought together under the control of one, Hindu, Maharaja by the British. In 1947 his successor was given the onerous task of deciding whether to join India or Pakistan. Given that two-thirds of the population were Muslims the […]

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said Indian government created war hysteria in recent months by claiming to have shot down the country’s F-16 fighter jet during a standoff. US-based Foreign Policy magazine said all the F-16 warplanes had been accounted and India’s claim is contradicted. The prime minister added, “The […]

India has officially asked China to stop, with immediate effect, the Chinese construction activities in the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK). The information came from Minister of State in the External Affairs Ministry V K Singh who said the same to Rajya Sabha in a written response to a question. Singh […]

Pakistan shot down Saturday a small drone near to its Kashmir valley border with India alleging the flying object trespassed into its territory amid daylong cross-border firing from both sides that killed four people in the bordering village. Named as “Quad copter”, the Indian drone is alleged to have intruded […]