Maintaining that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is part of India, the Maharashtra government told the Bombay high court on Monday that it wants to withdraw cases against a man seeking to be deported to the disputed region. This submission was made by the state government in the case of PoK native Siraj Khan, who claimed to have accidentally entered Indian territory as a 9-year-old.
A self-styled divisional commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen was killed along with his bodyguard as security forces foiled an infiltration attempt and a conspiracy by the proscribed outfit to revive its activities in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district early on Monday, officials said.
The army chief also made it clear that a decision in this regard has to be taken by the government.
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There are 4.7 million PoS terminals in the country. ICICI Bank had recently entered into a tie-up with First Data to set up PoS terminals.
"There are reports to indicate that women are being trained in Pakistan and PoK for terrorist activities," Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.
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Osama Ali, a 24-year old resident of Rawalkot in PoK, has been diagnosed with a tumour in his liver and wants to seek treatment in Delhi. "PoK is an integral part of India. Pakistan has illegally occupied it. We are giving him visa. No letter required," Swaraj tweeted.
Four persons Thursday travelled to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad peace caravan, which brought back 12 passengers on the second trip since resumption of the bus service after the October 8 quake.
The minister asserted that India has taken major action against terrorism under the Modi government and referred to the surgical strikes carried out across the Line of Control (LoC) in 2016 and the Balakot air strike in 2019.
With the growing skirmish between India and Pakistan along the border, the bus, which runs between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad of Pakistan occupied Kashmir on weekly basis, on Monday returned without a single Pakistani national.
A visiting delegation of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference on Sunday met leaders from Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir. The Hurriyat delegation, led by the group's chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, met the political leadership of PoK in Muzaffarabad.
Recent RBI data indicates net addition of credit cards is running strong at 18 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y), but growth in credit card limits is ahead of loans outstanding. Growth in lower limit cards is decelerating fastest. The West and South have more usage and online transactions are more popular than offline, with metros leading growth.
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir president Anwar Khan has invited two Jammu-based Hindus, whose families got separated after 1947, to visit relatives.
In a major blow to terror infrastructure and terror sympathisers in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, security forces have eliminated key launch commander Bashir Ahmad Malik in an anti-infiltration operation in the Uri sector, the army said on Thursday.
Indirectly blaming the militant groups for the attack, Khan said it seems to be the work of the forces opposed to the ongoing peace process between India and Pakistan.
The forward airbase near the PoK-China border, which from where Pakistan is around 50 kilometres and the strategic Daulat Beg Oldi is around 80 kilometres, the activity of fighter, transport aircraft and helicopters is going on during both day and night.
It said that it was "disheartening" to see that some news channels "are in the habit of publishing sleaze more than news."
"Chinese engineers have been spotted in areas across Line of Control (LoC) (in PoK)", General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 25 Infantry Division, Maj Gen K H Singh told media persons at Rajouri, 170 km from Jammu, on Thursday.
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The government on Thursday said that Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder Hafiz Saeed had visited the border areas in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir a few days before the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops.
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Army said the duo was recruited two years ago by JeM and was guiding terrorists to infiltrate across the LoC.
Indian officials claimed that the white helicopter crossed into the Indian airspace in Gulpur sector and hovered over there for sometime before turning back.
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China on Monday dodged a direct response to reports of presence of the People's Liberation Army's troops at a forward post in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and said it "regretted" that the media keeps "popping up" stories of incursions into the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control.
Banks have shown little progress in the areas of mobile banking and cash at point-of-sales (PoS) terminals, even after nearly two years of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) allowing banks to run such facilities.
Hundreds of students, including foreigners are being trained in militant camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to wage 'jihad' against India, but Pakistan denied the report by the BBC as "baseless".
The field intelligence units of the Army coupled with inputs comprising HUMINT (human intelligence) and TECHINT (technical intelligence) indicate that around 300 terrorists, mainly of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT), are waiting across the border to sneak in, officials said, citing reports from Srinagar collated in the national capital.
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Chinese companies working in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir are under the scanner in India and it is looking at whether the same also have links with firms active here, government sources said.
Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan of the Muslim Conference was on Thursday elected "prime minister" of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after incumbent Raja Farooq Haider quit amidst high drama, alleging that PPP-led federal government was interfering in the affairs of the region.
Credit card spending has crossed Rs 1.13 lakh crore in May compared to Rs 1.05 lakh crore in the previous month according to official data. The month-on-month rise in spending through cards indicates a pick-up in economic activity. The latest data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed that 7.68 crore credit card holders spent about Rs 71,429 crore for buying online, while the amount was spent through swipes at Point of Sale (PoS) machines stood at Rs 42,266 crore in May.
India and Pakistan look to take the peace process to the next level.