'A resurgent Jaish could be a reflection of the Pakistani security establishment's view that with the region moving ever closer to a post-US Afghanistan, it is time to redirect attention to Kashmir.'
The battle to manage the international environment over Kashmir has just begun, but what is expected to help is the lifting of internal controls. All eyes are now on that exercise. Aditi Phadnis reports.
It's a simple resolution, which cannot be voted in the other chamber, Senate, and does not have the force of law.
The grenade blast which killed a protester took place at Brakpora village in Anantnag district of south Kashmir.
In a set of recent tweets, Khan said that "Kashmiris must be allowed to decide their future".
The militant was operating in Pir Panjal range for past more than five years and carried an education department's identity card on the name of Parvez Ahmed, son of Mohammad Arif resident of Tope in Mendhar. The I-Card had on it the stamp and signatures of zonal education officer (ZEO), Mankot, Mendhar.
Pak had realised in 2018 that Hurriyat Conference, the separatist conglomerate created by Inter-Services Intelligence, won't be able to deliver any more
For India, it is a symbol of will and a successful feat of arms.
One of the two cases was registered by NIA's Delhi branch in 2021, and the other was lodged by the anti-terror agency's Jammu branch in 2022.
Glimpses of the final days of the 1965 War, as seen from the diary then defence minister Y B Chavan maintained during the war.
The five heavily-armed Pakistani infiltrators were killed immediately after they sneaked across the Line of Control from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in Machil sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jaitley, while reviewing the security situation of Jammu and Kashmir at a high level meeting, also asked the forces to deal firmly with the inimical elements but ensure safety of the innocent people, officials said.
Two terrorists, including a top Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) commander trained in Afghanistan, were killed in a gunfight with security forces on Thursday in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, officials said.
Troops along the LoC and International Border have been placed on high alert following the raids, a senior defence official said.
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In major escalation in border skirmishes, Pakistani troops violated ceasefire for the third time in 21 hours along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, forcing Army to retaliate.
Jobs which are rare in this part of the region are reportedly being given to Pakistani youth and youngsters of Kashmiri origin are being marginalised.
'The Kashmir issue has become internationalised after nearly half a century.' 'India, not Pakistan, has done so pro-actively,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik will tie the nuptial knot with Pakistani artist Mushaal Hussein Mullick later this week. Malik, 42, got engaged in absentia to Mushaal, a 28-year-old painter who is pursuing a bachelor's degree at the prestigious London School of Economics, in October last year.
Three terrorists were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Anantnag.
Pakistan's former Federal Minister for Human Rights and Expert Advisor in the United Nations Human Rights Council at Geneva, Burney, who arrived in terror struck Mumbai in the wee hours of Sunday, wasted no time in showing his solidarity with India in its war against terrorism. "They are beast of jungles and killers of humanity," was Burney's instant reaction about the terror carnage in Mumbai that left 183 dead.
Khan claimed he was informed by late prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former foreign minister Natwar Singh during a conference that Kashmir would have been resolved if the BJP had not lost the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.
Sparring over Kashmir at the United Nations General Assembly, India and Pakistan have again exchanged verbal volleys over the issue with the Indian delegate dubbing the remarks of his Pakistani counterpart as "unsolicited comments" that were "factually incorrect".
Singh said India has the strength to take stern action against cross-border terrorism and Pakistan has started realising it.
"Around 3:30 am Pakistan troops opened small arms fire and then switched to machine gun fire. Subsequently they started firing mortars at Darkote, Platan and Channi Dewanu posts of the Indian army," a police officer from Khour police station was quoted as saying.
Pakistan-India bilateral relations remained frozen for the fourth year over the vexed Kashmir issue but analysts hope the strained ties could be repaired if Nawaz Sharif becomes the prime minister for a record fourth time in the general elections in February in the absence of his main challenger Imran Khan who is in jail in multiple cases.
The US took the lead, and many other council members also joined and made it clear that the Kashmir issue was not a matter for the UN body to discuss and is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan.
Pakistani forces again opened unprovoked fire on Indian troops in Nowgam sector of northern Kashmir on Wednesday. No casualties reported so far.
To consider Pervez Musharraf a real force for peace is an absurdity, declares Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
The infiltrator was challenged by the troops guarding the Balakote sector in Mendhar sub division when he was trying to sneak into this side from across the border, the officials said.
Saeed said Pakistan government has added insult to the wounds of Kashmiris by welcoming Singh.
A junior commissioned officer was killed when Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire on the Line of Control in Uri sector of north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Monday morning.
An Indian junior commissioned officer sustained injuries in the exchange of fire, defence sources said
In his address to the UNGA, Khan spoke at length about India's decision to revoke Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and criticised the government's move to put in place a communication lockdown.
A former top envoy of the country questioned Pakistan's decades-old Kashmir policy.
'It is for the first time in 70 years that the US has come out totally in India's favour on the Kashmir issue,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Modi said India and Pakistan were together before 1947 and he was confident that the two neighbours can discuss their problems and solve them.
The Jammu and Kashmir high court has restrained the authorities from deporting an aged Pakistani national, who came to his native Pekhri village in Samba district recently on a cross Line of Control permit issued by the Pakistan government, till further orders.The order was passed by Justice Mansoor Ahmed Mir in a petition filed by 83-year-old Hashmat Ali, who had migrated to Pakistan in 1947 and did not want to return.
As part of the heightened security arrangements in view of Modi's visit, the officials said, the BSF and the police conducted a joint two-hour-long anti-tunnelling operation in the Ramgarh sector of Samba district.
'The so-called separatists are representatives of Pakistan. They get paid from Islamabad for propagating that country's policy and conniving in her ploy of accession of Kashmir to Pakistan.'
Jadhav was 'arrested' on March 3 last year by Pakistan security officials in Balochistan.
