India-Pakistan: Face to Face
5 years, 10 months ago

India-Pakistan: Face to Face

Al Jazeera  

India and Pakistan, arch rivals and nuclear neighbours with a history of wars and conflict, are engaged in an arms race. In 1947, the British colonial rulers drew a line of partition, dividing the Indian subcontinent into Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. The tension between India and Pakistan has escalated sharply once again after a suicide bomber blew himself up near an Indian paramilitary convoy in India-administered Kashmir on February 14, killing at least 40 soldiers. Pakistan and India in numbers Comparing India and Pakistan’s miltiaries The arms race between the South Asian countries

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India-Pakistan relations could be improved after Lok Sabha elections, hopes Pak Defence Minister
9 months, 1 week ago

India-Pakistan relations could be improved after Lok Sabha elections, hopes Pak Defence Minister

The Hindu  

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has expressed hope for the betterment of ties with India after the general elections in India. Mr. Asif's comments came days after External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in Singapore said that Pakistan is sponsoring terrorism almost at an "industry level" and the mood in India now is not to overlook terrorists and it "will not …

India slams Pakistan for raking up Kashmir at UNGA; calls for taking credible action against 26/11 perpetrators
1 year, 3 months ago

India slams Pakistan for raking up Kashmir at UNGA; calls for taking credible action against 26/11 perpetrators

The Hindu  

India has strongly responded to Pakistan after its caretaker leader raked up Kashmir in his address to the U.N General Assembly, with Delhi saying the “home and patron” to the largest number of proscribed terrorist entities in the world should take credible action against perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks instead of engaging in “technical sophistry”. Instead of engaging in …

Kashmir leader says the region lacks democracy and asks India to restore its special status
1 year, 5 months ago

Kashmir leader says the region lacks democracy and asks India to restore its special status

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Kashmir’s top pro-India politician had a stark message Friday — the eve of the fourth anniversary since India revoked the disputed region’s special status, throwing the Himalayan territory into political chaos: “Democracy stops where the boundaries of Jammu and Kashmir begin.” In an interview with The Associated Press, Omar Abdullah said India’s 2019 decision to strip the …

Kashmir leader says the region lacks democracy and asks India to restore its special status
1 year, 5 months ago

Kashmir leader says the region lacks democracy and asks India to restore its special status

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Kashmir’s top pro-India politician had a stark message …

India slams Pakistan for raking up Kashmir issue at United Nations
1 year, 8 months ago

India slams Pakistan for raking up Kashmir issue at United Nations

The Hindu  

India tore into Pakistan after its United Nations envoy raised the Kashmir issue here, saying no amount of rhetoric and propaganda can change the fact that the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are and will always be an "inalienable" part of the country. Counsellor in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Pratik Mathur's remarks came after Pakistan's …

Warm ties with India and vision beyond Kashmir: What Pakistan needs to battle economic crisis and global isolation
1 year, 10 months ago

Warm ties with India and vision beyond Kashmir: What Pakistan needs to battle economic crisis and global isolation

Firstpost  

It has been over two years since the Indian and Pakistani Director General Military Operations agreed to a ceasefire along the LoC and surprisingly it has held. More than 8000 members of Pakistan’s armed forces have lost their lives in terrorist incidents since 2000.” He adds, “Islamabad must change its tack if it hopes to prevent a full-blown insurgency and …

‘Exporter of terrorists’: India slams Pakistan at 146th Inter-Parliamentary Union in Bahrain
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Exporter of terrorists’: India slams Pakistan at 146th Inter-Parliamentary Union in Bahrain

The Hindu  

India on March 13 slammed Pakistan at the 146th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Bahrain. India through a Right to Reply slammed Pakistan terming it an "exporter of terrorists" and reiterated that Pakistan has no locus standi on Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Mr. Patra further said, "The Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have been and will always …

Why India-Pakistan Relations are likely to Nosedive in Coming Days - News18
1 year, 10 months ago

Why India-Pakistan Relations are likely to Nosedive in Coming Days - News18

News 18  

These days, conciliatory write-ups have been appearing in Pakistani press regarding India-Pakistan relations. Among these peaceniks are former Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, former High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit, Pakistani diplomat Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, former Pakistan’s Representative to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi and a host of others. They seem to have realised that without friendly relations with …

'It's high time India understands...': Pak PM talks peace, but sings the jaded Kashmir tune again at UNGA
2 years, 3 months ago

'It's high time India understands...': Pak PM talks peace, but sings the jaded Kashmir tune again at UNGA

India TV News  

Highlights Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif at his UNGA address called for peace with India He cited issues with India and said that the nation needs to understand that "war is not an option" "India must take credible steps to create enabling environment for constructive engagement", he said Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at his UNGA address on Friday called for …

What if India and Pakistan actually got along?
2 years, 5 months ago

What if India and Pakistan actually got along?

Live Mint  

Every now and then — but not too often — it is worth floating an idea that hardly anyone agrees with, if only to keep the discourse fresh. But there are many possible options that fall short of that: a loose confederation, a NAFTA-like trade structure, a military alliance, even a broader regional reconfiguration under which each nation loses some …

Infographic: How were India-Pakistan partition borders drawn?
2 years, 5 months ago

Infographic: How were India-Pakistan partition borders drawn?

Al Jazeera  

This animated map shows how the borders of the Indian subcontinent have evolved since the 1947 partition. Seventy-five years ago, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer, was commissioned to draw the borders that would divide British-ruled India into two new, independent nations: Hindu-majority India and mainly Muslim Pakistan. The boundary between the two nations became known as the Radcliffe Line …

Pakistan’s record in PoK is exploitative and predatory, has no business talking about Jammu & Kashmir
2 years, 7 months ago

Pakistan’s record in PoK is exploitative and predatory, has no business talking about Jammu & Kashmir

Firstpost  

Jammu and Kashmir is considered one of the most intractable challenges faced by independent India. It is interesting that Pakistan, to this day, complains of the expelled and/or killed Muslims of Jammu, but no mention is made of the unfortunate Hindus and Sikhs of PoK by any organisation or government. In the June 2018 report, the Office of the High …

Over 40,000 Pak madarsas churn out terrorists on yearly basis to back military in Kashmir: Report
2 years, 8 months ago

Over 40,000 Pak madarsas churn out terrorists on yearly basis to back military in Kashmir: Report

India TV News  

Highlights Sharif's statement is seen as a mantra which could help create an impression in front of military Pakistan's experts are not doing anything to stop terrorists, a report has stated Kashmir has been the oldest issue between India and Pakistan Does the Pakistan military really run the country's Kashmir policy? When India received the letter of accession from the …

Pakistan would oppose any move by India to divide Kashmir, change demography, says Qureshi
3 years, 6 months ago

Pakistan would oppose any move by India to divide Kashmir, change demography, says Qureshi

India Today  

Pakistan said on Saturday that it would oppose any move by India to divide Kashmir and change its demography. Pakistan's Foreign Office said in a statement that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has stated that India must refrain from taking any further illegal steps in Kashmir after its actions of August 5, 2019. The Pakistani statement came on a day …

Pakistan, India peace move silences deadly Kashmir frontier
3 years, 9 months ago

Pakistan, India peace move silences deadly Kashmir frontier

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — The machine guns peeking over parapets of small, sandbagged concrete bunkers and the heavy artillery cannons dug deep into Himalayan Kashmir’s rugged terrain have fallen silent. “If Pakistan is indeed looking to move toward a new regional role, embracing geopolitics, reducing tensions with India is a must, and if India is going to pivot to deal with …

Pakistan PM to India PM: We too want peaceful relations
3 years, 9 months ago

Pakistan PM to India PM: We too want peaceful relations

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s prime minister has responded to a recent peace overture from his Indian counterpart, writing in a letter to Narendra Modi that Islamabad also desires peaceful relations with New Delhi, officials said Tuesday. Imran Khan’s letter was dispatched to Modi a day ago, according to two government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government …

Pakistan army chief calls for peaceful resolution in Kashmir
3 years, 9 months ago

Pakistan army chief calls for peaceful resolution in Kashmir

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s powerful army chief on Thursday urged for a peaceful resolution in the disputed region of Kashmir and for peace talks with archrival India, a rare conciliatory call amid a weeks-long cease-fire across the volatile territory. Also speaking at the gathering was Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who said that “if India took one step forward for …

Pakistani PM angers India with plan to change Kashmir status
4 years, 2 months ago

Pakistani PM angers India with plan to change Kashmir status

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s prime minister has rekindled controversy with archrival India this week by pledging to make part of the Pakistani-administered Himalayan region of Kashmir officially part his country. Imran Khan’s pledge to declare the area of Gilgit-Baltistan — which is part of the Pakistani-ruled Kashmir — the fifth province of Pakistan promptly angered neighboring India, which itself last year …

On October 22, 1947, Pakistan invaded Kashmir. Here is what happened.
4 years, 2 months ago

On October 22, 1947, Pakistan invaded Kashmir. Here is what happened.

India Today  

The Narendra Modi government has launched what is being seen as the first serious move by India to counter the Kashmir narrative set afloat by Pakistan since 1947. BEFORE PAKISTAN INVADED KASHMIR When India got Independence and was partitioned to create Pakistan in August 1947, Jammu and Kashmir was a princely state ruled by Hari Singh. By mid-October, small bands …

Mapped: How India’s boundaries evolved since 1947
4 years, 5 months ago

Mapped: How India’s boundaries evolved since 1947

Live Mint  

A defence ministry document noting Chinese ‘transgressions’ in eastern Ladakh that was hurriedly disowned last week has reignited the debate on the extent of territory that India may have lost to China. Chinese incursions in the region have revived memories of the bloody 1962 war, and brought the world’s two largest armies face-to-face in a tense stand-off along the Line …

Partition was a historic swindle that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must see through; steps to undo British wrongdoing necessary
5 years ago

Partition was a historic swindle that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must see through; steps to undo British wrongdoing necessary

Firstpost  

A historical united people’s struggle led by patriotic, modern-minded leaders, like Mustafa Kemal of Turkey or the leaders of Japan after the Meiji Restoration, will be required for bringing about a transformation to lift India from the ranks of underdeveloped to developed countries Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s birth anniversary was on 25 December, and on this occasion, many Pakistanis said that …

Shadow of Pakistan looms large over this week's 'informal summit' between Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping
5 years, 3 months ago

Shadow of Pakistan looms large over this week's 'informal summit' between Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping

Firstpost  

Pakistan has been the most convenient tool in the hands of the Communist rulers of China to create myriad security challenges for India Pakistan has been the most convenient tool in the hands of the Communist rulers of China to create myriad security challenges for India. Just a few days before Chinese president Xi Jinping is slated to visit India …

'Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir is part of India,' says MEA: A look at region's origin, history and geopolitical importance
5 years, 3 months ago

'Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir is part of India,' says MEA: A look at region's origin, history and geopolitical importance

Firstpost  

Amid rising rhetoric on Kashmir from both sides of the Line of Control, India on Tuesday said that Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir is a part of the country and New Delhi expects to have “physical jurisdiction” over the area “one day”. Addressing the media on the 100-day achievements of the Ministry of External Affairs in the NDA government’s second term, External Affairs …

Pakistan is no friend of Kashmir, either
5 years, 4 months ago

Pakistan is no friend of Kashmir, either

Al Jazeera  

In a recent opinion piece penned for the New York Times, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan asked the world to wake up to the conflict in Kashmir because if it does not, there is a risk of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. While the world indeed needs to take action on ongoing crackdown and rights abuses in India, …

Kashmir unrest could lead Pakistan, India to ‘accidental war’
5 years, 4 months ago

Kashmir unrest could lead Pakistan, India to ‘accidental war’

Al Jazeera  

Pakistan‘s foreign minister has warned that India‘s “illegal occupation” of Muslim-majority Kashmir region could drive the two nuclear-armed countries “into an accidental war”, while also accusing New Delhi of turning Kashmir “into the largest prison on this planet”. “One international civil society organisation, based in the US, has already issued a genocide alert, proclaiming that the situation in Indian-occupied Jammu …

Pakistan won’t initiate military conflict with India: Imran Khan
5 years, 4 months ago

Pakistan won’t initiate military conflict with India: Imran Khan

Al Jazeera  

Pakistan’s PM warns of the risk of nuclear war between neighbours amid tensions over disputed Kashmir region. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has pledged that his country would not initiate any military conflict with India, warning of the risk to the world of nuclear war breaking out between the South Asian neighbours as tensions over the disputed …

Kashmir crisis: Modi’s brutal annexation of state follows the Israel-Palestine script to the letter
5 years, 4 months ago

Kashmir crisis: Modi’s brutal annexation of state follows the Israel-Palestine script to the letter

The Independent  

Last week, we saw British television personality Bear Grylls pal up with Narendra Modi for his latest wildlife adventure, Man vs Wild. The notoriously bellicose Modi – an extremist Hindu nationalist – has stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its autonomous status, pouring tens of thousands of extra Indian troops into the already heavily militarised region. As the crackdown becomes more …

All that Pakistan is left with is a war of misinformation: Here are the myths and propaganda about Kashmir
5 years, 4 months ago

All that Pakistan is left with is a war of misinformation: Here are the myths and propaganda about Kashmir

Op India  

When the first surgical strike was conducted by Indian Army in Narendra Modi-1, we for the first time responded to Pakistan’s policy of bleeding India with a hundred cuts to finish what the Pakistanis call the unfinished agenda, with action, straight, strong and brutal. Since Kashmir became a part of India earlier than Article 370 came into being, this propaganda …

Pakistan decries cross-border fire as Kashmir security eases
5 years, 4 months ago

Pakistan decries cross-border fire as Kashmir security eases

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — Pakistan said Indian troops fired across the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region, killing two civilians and wounding another, as some security restrictions were lifted Monday in the main city of Srinagar. Pakistan’s foreign ministry said in a statement Monday that civilian casualties occurred Sunday because of “unprovoked cease-fire violations” by India in the border …

Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget
5 years, 5 months ago

Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget

Al Jazeera  

More than 70 years ago today, the Indian subcontinent was divided by its British colonial rulers into two nation-states – India and Pakistan. In the schools that I work in Pakistan, students frequently tell me that they celebrate Pakistan’s independence from not the British Empire but “Hindu India” every August. Mourning a breakup in India As Pakistan celebrates the “making …

How India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were formed
5 years, 5 months ago

How India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were formed

Al Jazeera  

This animated map shows how the borders of the Indian subcontinent have evolved since partition. In August 1947, the British decided to end their 200-year long rule in the Indian subcontinent and to divide it into two separate nations, Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. In addition to the British-controlled territories, the subcontinent also consisted of many other territories under French, …

Roadmap for India’s troubled Kashmir under its new status
5 years, 5 months ago

Roadmap for India’s troubled Kashmir under its new status

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised early elections for the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir days after stripping the Muslim-majority region of statehood and turning it into a federally administered territory. Indian-controlled Kashmir plunged into a political crisis last year when a coalition between Modi’s Hindu nationalist party and a powerful regional group, the People’s Democratic Party, …

Key events in Kashmir since British rule ended in 1947
5 years, 5 months ago

Key events in Kashmir since British rule ended in 1947

Associated Press  

Some key events in Kashmir: — August 1947: With the end of British colonial rule, the Indian subcontinent is divided into predominantly Hindu India and mainly Muslim Pakistan. — October 1947: India and Pakistan fight their first war over control of Muslim-majority Kashmir, a kingdom ruled by Hindu Maharaja Hari Singh. — December 2001: India masses troops along its western …

Jammu and Kashmir: the history behind India’s new crackdown on the disputed region.
55 years ago

Jammu and Kashmir: the history behind India’s new crackdown on the disputed region.

Slate  

This week marked the beginning of a new era for the troubled region of Kashmir, likely to be a more turbulent one than even before. As India’s independence from Britain—and the ensuing partition—was being planned in 1947, Singh, a Hindu ruler of a Muslim-majority state, initially desired that the Jammu and Kashmir become an independent neutral region between India and …

India-Pakistan: Latest news on Kashmir crisis
5 years, 10 months ago

India-Pakistan: Latest news on Kashmir crisis

CNN  

A Kashmiri man paddles his boat in Dal Lake in Srinagar on February 26, 2019. Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images India and Pakistan have been locked in a struggle over Kashmir for more than 70 years, and the restive region is back in the news again this week. Jammu and Kashmir covers around 45% of Kashmir, in the south and east of …

India-Pakistan: Latest news on Kashmir crisis
5 years, 10 months ago

India-Pakistan: Latest news on Kashmir crisis

CNN  

A Kashmiri man paddles his boat in Dal Lake in Srinagar on February 26, 2019. Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images India and Pakistan have been locked in a struggle over Kashmir for more than 70 years, and the restive region is back in the news again this week. Jammu and Kashmir covers around 45% of Kashmir, in the south and east of …

Why is there conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir?
5 years, 10 months ago

Why is there conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir?

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The scenic mountain region is divided between India, which rules the populous …

Pakistan army wants to mend ties with India, says Imran Khan
6 years, 1 month ago

Pakistan army wants to mend ties with India, says Imran Khan

Live Mint  

Karachi/New Delhi: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said his political party and the nation’s powerful military are “all on one page” in wanting to mend ties with arch-rival India. The former cricket star reiterated his July election victory pledge that “if India takes one step forward, then we will take two steps forward toward friendship.” The loosening of border controls …

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