A day after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley criticised Nehruvian model of development, saying it had held the country back, Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday termed Jammu and Kashmir a glaring example of the "failure" of Nehru's political model.
The total tally of COVID-19 patients in the largest province of Punjab was 2,270, Sindh 1,128, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa 620, Balochistan 219, Gilgit-Baltistan 215, Islamabad 107 and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir 33.
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.
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.
"The response to the rehabilitation policy (for militants in PoK) has been better than expected. We have received 600 to 700 applications," Omar told media persons in Srinagar.
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 Bombay high court on Tuesday asked the Centre to respond to a petition seeking a direction to allow a 27-year-old man hailing from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), who had "accidentally" entered India when he was a child, to return to his native place.
China and Pakistan on Thursday dismissed as "baseless" reports about the presence of Chinese troops along the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
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.
At least 12 militants and an army officer were killed and two jawans wounded in an infiltration bid on the Line of Control in north Kashmir Bandipore district on Saturday.
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba is raising a group of 21 female terrorists at its training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir for carrying out sabotage activities in India, army sources said on Tuesday.
'My fight for my son and against the misdeeds of the neighbouring country's army needs to be highlighted at the international fora'
The combat drill was to be prepared for thwarting any misadventure by the Pakistan Air Force to intrude into the Indian air space
Around 2,500 terrorists are present in a number of launch pads in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan, the government said on Wednesday.
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Two militants were killed on Wednesday in an encounter with security forces near the Line of Control in Macchil sector of Kashmir Valley.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be meeting his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the SAARC Summit to be held in the Maldives next week.
In a shocking incident, England cricketer Moeen Ali was on Saturday stopped at the Birmingham airport for close to 40 minutes. Ali was on his way to join the rest of the Worcestershire side for the opening game of the 2016 County Championship. The England all-rounder was clearly angry with the treatment meted out to him and took to Twitter to voice his sentiments. "Have never been stopped at the airport when travelling with a team in uniform, but travel alone and get stopped for 40 minutes!! Joke," Ali tweeted.
"Now there presence is mainly because of infrastructure development. We are aware that the Chinese are assisting in construction of a highway...a large number of dams and infrastructure projects have been developed by the Chinese in PoK as well as the northern areas. These areas are very close to the LoC," General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of Army's northern command Lt General K T Parnaik said.
The rehabilitation policy okayed by the Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday facilitating the return of youth who had crossed over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir since 1990 for arms training has not gone down well with the Opposition parties.
A youth, who was allegedly taken for arms training to Pakistan occupied Kashmir by terrorists 14 years ago, was arrested after he returned to his house in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Recently she has been "at loggerheads with the Government of Maharashtra regarding her views over the handling of certain issues which impact the public in general," it added.
Maharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant hit out at the actress for leaving Mumbai for her home state Himachal Pradesh without giving information about drugs to government agencies.
'I came to meet him as a citizen. I have nothing to do with politics'
The accused, Palash Bose, had claimed himself to be a member of Dawood Ibrahim's gang while making these phone calls, they said. An official said Bose, 49, had lived in Dubai for more than 15 years and returned to Kolkata a few years ago.
The notice said the allegations levelled by Ranaut that the city commissioner of police was 'intimidating' her and 'encouraging social bullying' against her are completely false, frivolous, baseless and unsubstantiated.
Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed claimed that India wants to "weaken the freedom movement" in Jammu and Kashmir under the pretext of talks with Pakistan.
India has conveyed its concerns to Beijing over the presence of Chinese troops and their activities in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Describing Kashmir as the 'jugular vein' of Pakistan, president of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, Raja Zulqarnain has criticised the government for not including any Kashmiri in the senate's standing committee on Kashmir.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday asked India to hold a 'meaningful' dialogue with Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue.
The Indian retaliation came a day after Pakistan military resorted to unprovoked firing in Tangadhar sector along the Line of Control in which two Indian Army personnel and a civillian were killed. Three others were also injured in the attack, the sources said.
According to news reports, ground images for this operation were provided by the recently launched Cartosat 2C satellite.
'As long as Jammu and Kashmir is under Indian subjugation, jihad must continue. Pakistan should continue political, diplomatic and moral support for the Kashmiris seeking freedom. If Pakistani rulers cannot help Kashmiris they should let the field open for the Kashmiri militants rather than creating any obstacles in their way,' the declaration issued after the meeting said.
Pakistan's army on Thursday used helicopters and boats to rescue thousands of stranded people as the country grapples with the deadliest floods in its history that have killed over 260 people and affected over a million others in Punjab and PoK.
India on Monday said the United States Department of State maps showing Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) as part of Pakistan "will have to be corrected".
Raising the Kashmir issue at the UN, China has told the General Assembly that the "dispute" should be peacefully and properly addressed in accordance with the UN Charter, Security Council resolutions and the bilateral agreement. China, a close ally of Pakistan, also stressed that no actions should be taken that would unilaterally change the "status quo".
In clear signs of cross-Line of Control linkages to the latest trouble in Kashmir, talks intercepted by security agencies reveal how a Hizbul Mujahideen activist based in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir enquires from a local contact about the status of protests and government response.
In an unexpected shift of strategy, Pakistan occupied Kashmir's Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider has asked the Yusuf Raza Gilani-led Pakistan government not to link the controversial Kashmir issue with the renewed deliberations with India.Haider said that instead of linking the resolution of Kashmir issue with the ongoing negotiations with India, the government should first try to resolve other 'small irritants'.
The army chief deflected a question about whether there was tension along the Line of Control, saying people were facing trouble because of Tuesday's earthquake in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Pakistan has denied allegations leveled by Indian Army Chief General VK Singh about the existence of terrorist training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
