China and Pakistan on Thursday dismissed as "baseless" reports about the presence of Chinese troops along the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Chennai Super Kings' star all-rounder Moeen Ali has secured his India visa and will be available for selection for his team'second game of IPL 2022.
Pakistan may want to undertake a 'false flag' operation in J&K to divert attention from the situation in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa but infiltrating one SSG battalion into J&K and having two SSG battalions waiting to follow suit means war, which Pakistan cannot afford in its current economic crisis, notes Lieutenant General Prakash Katoch (retd).
The Bombay high court on Tuesday rejected a petition filed by a man claiming to hail from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and seeking deportation to Pakistan on the ground that the area he was born was now included in the neighbouring country.
Traders in Sopore say that not only were they cheated in fixing the price, but the buyers in PoK also did not pay the Rs 14 lakh (Rs 1.4 million) that they had arbitrarily decided as the price for the supplies they received.
Pakistan will ask the international community to help resolve it if India does not come up with its own ideas.
According to J L Gautam, Operations Head of National Centre for Seismology, "The earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale at a depth of 190 km hit Hindukush mountain region at 3:58 pm."
Malik's escape from Pakistan back to the valley via Nepal led him into the dragnet as police had prior information about his movement.
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha's power to nominate five members to the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly was at the centre of a political and legal debate on the eve of vote count, with the Congress and regional parties the National Conference and the People's Democratic Party on Monday opposing any such move during government formation.
Official sources said a police patrol party on a routine checking for the security of the Muzaffarabad bound passengers, noticed a tin on the roadside at Lawaypora, about 15 km from Srinagar in north Kashmir this morning at 0720 IST.
All the terrorist camps and around 15 launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir "are full", according to top army commander Lt Gen B S Raju, who anticipates an increase in infiltration attempts from across the border this summer to replenish the diminishing terrorist cadres in Jammu and Kashmir.
The government on Monday said it has conveyed its concerns to China about its activities in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir.
'We are talking of a problem which is more than 50 years old. It cannot be solved overnight. It is going to take time,' says PoK leader Sardar Mohammad Abdul Qayyum Khan.
Sardar Mohammad Abdul Qayyum Khan, former president and prime minister of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, said that there is tremendous difference between his first visit to India in 2005 and second visit in 2007.
The Inter Services Public Relations, in a brief statement, said the Indian drone was brought down near the Line of Control in Bhimber area of Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
The video shows 21-year-old Bahadur Ali, a resident of Raiwind in Lahore, spilling beans about LeT's role in the disturbances.
Expressing relief over return of its officers and helicopter which had strayed into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir due to bad weather, India on Sunday said it "greatly appreciates" the manner in which Pakistan has worked with it in resolving the matter.
Pakistan on Sunday forced an Indian Army helicopter to land after it allegedly violated the country's airspace near Skardu. Four soldiers on board were taken into custody by authorities in Pakitsan.
Describing the India-EU relations as "exceptionally good," Nicholson said the EU would not get involved in Kashmir unless both parties invited it.
Army chief General V K Singh has spoken recently of Chinese troops in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. The impending American withdrawal from Afghanistan and the US-Pakistan divorce has the potential to destabilise the region. China may become more assertive in South Asia, feels Colonel Anil Athale (retd).
The relief supplies collected by Malik would go in a PIA flight separately later this week.
The Hurriyat delegation, also comprising Abdul Gani Bhat and Bilal Lone, was slated to return on January 24.
According to the sources, they told troops that they had surrendered because they were fed up with the militancy and added that most militants in PoK also wanted to do likewise.
Chairman Shaharyar Khan said PCB would not ask India to play a one-day match in Pakistan occupied Kashmir
The attackers were forced to retreat to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir without causing any damage on the Indian side
"Some 300-400 militants are in launching pads, ready to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir to keep the pot of militancy boiling and boost the sagging moral of the militants here," a source told PTI. The militants are in 18 launching pads mostly in Goi, Kotli, Nikial, Bindi, Samani, Dhallupar, Hijira, Sensakudiala Bhimber and Mamana along the LoC, they said. There are 26 militant training camps, including 21 along LoC and four along the international border, they said.
Masood Khan, Pakistan's Ambassador to China, said that a feasibility study of the railway had been conducted but there was still no time-table for starting the construction.
The leaders returned after a fortnight-long visit to Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir.\n
The former Union minister also said that he does not take seriously the threat calls he received earlier this week.
India has conveyed its concerns to Beijing over the presence of Chinese troops and their activities in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The prime minister suggested steps like increased transportation linkages between India and Pakistan and more people-to-people contact.
"We strongly condemn this attack. The bus service is a humanitarian gesture to reunite the divided families. The innocent travellers have committed no crime," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani told PTI.
The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party has filed a petition in the SC seeking a restrain on the state government from acceding to the request from PoK residents to restore to them the property they had left behind.
Pakistan has denied allegations leveled by Indian Army Chief General VK Singh about the existence of terrorist training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Mudasir has revealed certain details about the LeT and the direct hand of the Pakistani agencies in training terrorists and organising subversive activities in Kashmir.
