Pakistan

SRINAGAR: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said that terrorism will not end in Kashmir unless the central government wins the hearts of the people of Kashmir and engages in dialogue with the neighbouring country. “I tell them it will never end unless you win the […]

NEW DELHI: A five-member contingent from Pakistan held the first session of the 118th round of the India-Pakistan Permanent Indus Commission talks on Monday, officials from Pakistan’s Mission in New Delhi confirmed to The New Indian. The delegation arrived in New Delhi via the Attari-Wagah border on Sunday for the two-day talks on Monday and […]

SRINAGAR: Four terrorists were killed in two anti-terror operations in southern Kashmir during the last 24 hours. It is believed that the terrorists were responsible for the killing of a policeman earlier this month. On Sunday evening, a joint team of Jammu and Kashmir Police, 55 RR and paramilitary CRPF cordoned off Gundipora village of […]

The Afghanistan Factor Afghanistan stands to be one of the biggest influences in the rise of Islamism in Central Asia. The Islamic revolution in Iran of 1979, is the other one. But while Iran remains an inspiration mostly among the Tajik people who are the only non-Turkic ethnic group in the region, the Afghan jihad […]

The conventional thinking among the Indian population, those that are aware of the behemoth named CPEC, is that it is China’s way of encircling India by debt-trapping Pakistan into a project that Pakistan does not have the financial capacity to absorb. And they would be partially correct in assuming so. An infrastructural project of that […]

Today a substantial quantity of some explosive material has been recovered from a vehicle in Karnal. Though initial reports claim it to be RDX, one needs to wait for the authentic report from explosive experts. Keeping in view some of the incidents of recent past which took place in Punjab, including a blast in a […]

  In this exclusive interview with The New Indian Editor-in-Chief Aarti Tikoo, noted Pakistani author Imtiaz Gul says Imran Khan pursued his agenda of reforms that did not suit the well-established architecture of politicians, bureaucrats, and the powerful military. Khan started abusing bureaucrats for all ills of Pakistan that set the stage for his ouster, […]

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has said that Pakistan has “no locus standi” to comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Jammu and Kashmir. The MEA’s response came after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had termed PM Modi’s recent visit to Jammu as “staged”. “I do not understand the word […]

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Home Affairs handed over last week’s Sunjwan terror attack case to National Investigation Agency, sources said on Thursday. The case relates to the terror attack on a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) bus and the subsequent encounter in the Sunjwan area on the outskirts of the city on Friday. While […]

  NEW DELHI: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a US federal government commission, has been colluding with Pakistan and well-known radical Islamist groups to stigmatise India. As per an investigation conducted by The New Indian, the USCIRF is working closely with Pakistani groups to label India as a ‘Country of Particular […]