- Monday, March 31, 2025
WITH India stepping up its diplomatic activities in Afghanistan's peace process as the US prepares for withdrawal of its troops, Pakistan has said “at times” it feels that New Delhi's presence in the war-torn country “is perhaps larger than it ought to be". Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's remarks…
By Chandrashekar Bhat CATTLE have not been smuggled from West Bengal in India across the border, to Bangladesh, this year - a first since India's prime minister Narendra Modi declared in 2014 that the criminal practice had to stop. The Kolkata-based south Bengal frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF)…
SRI LANKA received a $100 million (£83m) line of credit (LOC) from India on Wednesday (16) for solar energy projects. An agreement signed between the Sri Lankan government and the Export-Import Bank of India was exchanged by the high commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay, and secretary to the treasury,…
By Chandrashekar Bhat A PAKISTANI court has adjourned till October 5 the hearing of the government's plea to appoint a counsel for Indian death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav, according to a media report. The Islamabad High Court, which on Tuesday adjourned the hearing at the request of attorney general for Pakistan,…
By Chandrashekar Bhat CHINA, Pakistan and India appear to be expanding their nuclear arsenals, a study by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has said. China had 350 nuclear warheads as of January last year, Pakistan 165 and India 156, while Russia and the US together possess more than 90…
By Chandrashekar Bhat PAKISTAN'S Supreme Court has ordered the Karachi administration to stop the demolition of a Hindu dharamshala and leasing out the heritage property located in the heart of the city. A three-judge bench, led by Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed, issued the order on Friday (12) while…
By Chandrashekar Bhat THE US authorities and Google have been approached by India’s Jammu and Kashmir police to share email contents exchanged by Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, a close aide of People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti, with Pakistan-based secessionist leaders and terrorists, a charge-sheet filed by the police has said. The…
By Chandrashekar Bhat PAKISTAN'S National Assembly has passed a government-backed bill that will provide the right of appeal to Indian death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav, according to a media report. The National Assembly passed the International Court of Justice (Review and Re-consideration) Bill, 2020 on Thursday (10) aimed at allowing Jadhav,…
By: Chandrashekar Bhat ENGLAND'S women's team captain Heather Knight has said India will be "very strong" and "hard to beat" in their upcoming engagements at home as she gave her thumbs-up to the multi-format points-based series. Under the multi-format system for India's tour, which features three ODIs and three T20Is…
SENIOR People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra, a close aide of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, was an asset for Pakistan-based terror groups, Indian police authorities said in a charge-sheet filed against him in a Srinagar court. His 13-year journey from 2007 as a journalist and…
