The home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has called for an urgent meeting with Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar to discuss the ceasefire violation at the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday. As the country’s top leaders discuss the violence at the […]
PATHANKOT: A pigeon which crossed the Indo-Pak border into India’s Pathankot area was captured and detained for being a ‘suspected spy’ on Thursday, according to a report published on The Times of India website. The development comes two days after India’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) issued an alert to the Punjab Police regarding suspected militant activity in the area. A stamped message and a wire-like object on the ‘intruder’, which landed […]
Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed has said his organisation supports the efforts of the Pakistan government and army to “help the people of Kashmir”, calling it ‘jihad’. “Jihad is the duty of an Islamic government… there is a government in Pakistan and it has always taken the stand that it is the right of Kashmiris to attain freedom. I say what our army will do to secure the […]
London: Pakistan has emerged as the world’s eighth most dangerous country in a latest analysis of the top 10 danger zones based on terrorist and rebel activity. The IntelCenter’s ‘Top 10 Most Dangerous Countries’ list as of March 2015 is topped by the Middle East, with Iraq and Syria ranked No 1 and 2 respectively. IntelCenter’s Country Threat Index (CTI) examines the volume of terrorist and rebel alerts, […]
India has taken measures to ensure that the mails of politicians and government officials are not snooped into. While this is one major threat that the government had to deal with the next problem that need to be dealt with is spoofing. Recently reports showed that the ISI had picked up information regarding Indian army posting in Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir. A technique known as spoofing was deployed […]
‘For so long as the rulers of Pakistan remain committed to confronting and vanquishing India, they will sustain delusions, breed terrorists, and export them,’ says Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd). The fourth delusion is that Pakistan is ideologically, morally, and legally justified in adopting all measures to take possession of Jammu and Kashmir. Its belief rests on the argument that the state of Jammu and Kashmir, being a Muslim majority […]
India’s Robin Hood Army, a group of volunteers who head out in green t-shirts every Sunday to distribute food, clothes and blankets among the homeless across seven cities in the country, has chosen the day of the India-Pakistan World Cup match to spread its wings in the rival country. “I keep reminding my Indian counterparts that even the Robin Hood Army is rooting for green! But on a serious note, […]
Washington: Ahead of President Barack Obama’s India visit, the US has asked Pakistan to ensure that there is no cross-border terror incident during the trip and subtly warned of “consequences” if any such attack is traced back to the country. Obama will travel to New Delhi later this week to attend the Republic Day parade on January 26, the first US president to do so. The US and Indian security […]
A fishing boat from Pakistan with four people on board went up in flames off the Gujarat coast in what appeared to be an attempt to evade investigation by the Indian Navy on New Year’s Eve, the government disclosed today. So far, no survivors have been found from the vessel which set sail from near Karachi in Pakistan for what the government described as “an illicit transaction” in the Arabian […]
Paris of the East of yore — Karachi, commercial capital of Pakistan –, was primarily a Hindu controlled city prior to the 1947 Partition Holocaust. The city roads were not only swept but was washed each morning by the municipality, my parents, now deceased, used to tell me. Arts and culture flourished in the peaceful city. My late mom fondly remembered a great Hindu dancer Vishnu Jagdesh. She was a […]
