Pakistan

  SRINAGAR: Any person who studied in Pakistan will not be eligible to seek employment or undertake higher studies in India, said the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and University Grants Commission (UGC) in a public notice on Saturday. Discouraging Indian students from going to the neighbouring country for education, the notice said […]

SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir anti-terror agency on Sunday arrested Kashmir University scholar Abdul Aala Fazili during a raid here. Fazili is involved in writing a seditious article in ‘Kashmir Walla’ digital magazine. Fazili, officials said, was arrested from his Humhama Budgam residence by SIA after it raided and carried out searches for hours. The SIA, […]

  NEW DELHI: Shahbaz Sharif — now the premier of Pakistan — who 10 years ago had visited his paternal village of Jati Umra on the Indian side of Punjab, knows the importance of ties he enjoyed with India and the risks he may invite at the cost of any untoward incident that his predecessors […]

ISLAMABAD: Amid political instability triggered by a no-confidence vote against PM Imran Khan, Pakistan on Saturday said it had successfully tested fired Shaheen III, a nuclear capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile. “Pakistan today conducted a successful flight test of Shaheen-III surface to surface ballistic missile. The test flight was aimed at revalidating various design and technical […]

Many of us have analysed the ongoing battles in Ukraine as a proxy war by the US against Russia. As proxy contests go, however, that may be outstripped by the trial of strength between the world’s major agencies in the power games that are likely to play out in Pakistan in the next few weeks. […]

NEW DELHI: India on Saturday repatriated three prisoners to Pakistan via the Attari-Wagah border after the completion of their jail sentences, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. The three Pakistani nationals are: Sameera Abdul Rehman, Murtaza Asghar Ali and Ahmed Raja. Sameera Abdul Rehman was accompanied by her 4-year-old girl child Sana Fatima, the […]

NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday rejected “uncalled reference” to Jammu and Kashmir by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Islamabad. In response to queries by media persons, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said China had “no locus standi” to comment on matters related to “internal affairs […]

Written by Gautam Jha & Pankaj Kumar There are instances where Refugee Status is being granted by the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency in India to the Asylum Seekers in spite of having Exclusion Triggers (Risk Profile) as their Refugee Status Determination Process is based upon “balance of probability and reasonable possibility”. There are countries […]

NEW DELHI: A missile of India landed in Pakistani territory on March 9, the Defence Ministry said on Friday, adding that a “technical malfunction” led to the “accidental firing” of the projectile during maintenance. A high-level Court of Enquiry has been ordered to investigate the incident, the government said. “On 9 March 2022, in the […]

NEW DELHI: Scott Perry, W. Gregory Steube and Mary E. Miller, three  Republican members of the US Congress, on March 9, have addressed a letter to Merrick Garland, Attorney General of the United States, Department of Justice to investigate terror links with Masood Khan, Pakistan’s newly appointed Ambassador to the US, a letter The New […]