Even as there was no overnight firing reported on Saturday along the India-Pakistan border, tension remained. Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne has warned of other options as Islamabad delayed a Brigadier-level flag meeting to bring down the tension. "What has been happening in the last few months is not acceptable. If this continues, perhaps we will have to look at other options for compliance of the...
03:10 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Caught in the India-Pakistan cross-fire are villagers living close to the border. CNN-IBN's Arunoday Mukharji travelled to the Mendhar sector and found that it's not just army trucks and soldiers in fatigues that one sees along the Line of Control but local villagers as well, who've lived there for over 40 years, sandwiched between the politics of two nations. ...
08:34 AM, Jan 12, 2013
As tension remains at the India-Pakistan border, Pakistan has repeated its demand for a neutral probe into the firing along the Line of Control, but India again rejected it. "Whenever you are faced with this kind of a situation the factual position can only be ascertained if there is a neutral investigation into such incidents. But we hope, having said that, we hope that there will be no recurrence of...
07:35 AM, Jan 12, 2013
It's almost a week of flared tensions between India and Pakistan. Across the Line of Control, fresh firing has been reported from eight posts, and even as India tried to de-escalate the tension, the Pakistan foreign office on Friday summoned the Indian envoy, issuing him a demarche over the killing of a Pakistani soldier in incidents of firing on Thursday evening. ...
08:13 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Denying reports of soldiers of Rajputana Rifles going on "hunger strike" in protest against the killing of two Army jawans by Pakistani troops, the Defence Ministry on Friday claimed such incidents do not "demoralise" the force. "The Indian Army is totally professional, disciplined and highly motivated force, which handles all situations in a professional manner at all times, including in Jammu and Kashmir," Public Relation Officer (PRO), MoD, Jammu, Col...
07:39 PM, Jan 11, 2013
ndia on Friday told Pakistan that it had only resorted to "controlled response" to the "unprovoked" firing by Pakistani army on Thursday along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. This was conveyed by Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal, who was called in by the Pakistan Foreign Office and served a demarche by Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani over Thursday's incident in Battal sector of the LoC, which the...
05:16 PM, Jan 11, 2013
As tension at the India-Pakistan border escalated, India has requested for a Brigadier-level flag meet with Pakistan, say sources in the Indian Army. Pakistan's reply to the request is awaited, say sources. ...
04:10 PM, Jan 11, 2013
The tension and aggression along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir has now spilled into a diplomatic row. In a tit for tat gesture, Pakistan summoned Indian High Commissioner Sharad Sabharwal to the Pakistan Foreign Office on Friday. Pakistan Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani served Sabharwal a demarche over the killing of a Pakistani soldier in Battal sector along with LoC on Thursday allegedly by the Indian Army. ...
02:56 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Pakistan has halted the Poonch-Rawalkot bus service for three days following incidents of firing at the India-Pakistan border. This comes as there were reports of more firing from the Pakistan side across the Line of Control in Poonch. ...
01:30 PM, Jan 11, 2013
There seems to be no let-up in tension at the India-Pakistan border. There are reports of overnight firing from the Pakistan side in the Poonch sector. Firing has been reported from more than three places along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. India has said the firing is unprovoked. ...
10:06 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Reports of firing on Thursday evening came from Poonch, which is where the India-Pakistan conflict on ceasefire violation had flared up. CNN-IBN is on ground zero. CNN-IBN correspondents Arunoday Mukharji and Mufti Islah report from near the LoC in Poonch and Uri. ...
09:22 AM, Jan 11, 2013
The India-Pakistan tension after the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops is showing signs of escalating. India claimed that Pakistan opened unprovoked firing in Poonch and Mendhar on Thursday. The exchange in Poonch lasted for almost 2 hours. ...
07:52 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Just two days after two Indian soldiers were killed by Pakistani troops near the Line of Control (LoC) in a case of ceasefire violation, the Pakistan army on Thursday evening violated ceasefire again. ...
11:39 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Just two days after two Indian soldiers were killed by Pakistani troops near the Line of Control (LoC) in a case of ceasefire violation, the Pakistan army on Thursday evening violated ceasefire again even as it claimed that one of its soldiers was killed by Indian troops. ...
07:37 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Two days after Indian soldiers were killed by the Pakistan army in a case of ceasefire violation at the Line of Control (LoC) near Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir, the neighbouring country has now claimed that one of its soldiers was killed by the Indian troops on Thursday. ...
06:40 PM, Jan 10, 2013
The Pakistani attack on an Indian Army area domination patrol in Poonch could have been planned over a month if not more, say Indian Army sources. ...
02:32 PM, Jan 10, 2013
The brutal killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistan troops near the Line of Control in Mendhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir is seen as Pakistan's way of retaliating due to the tough stand taken by the Indian Army. ...
02:08 PM, Jan 10, 2013
The entire country is reacting with anger and outrage over the brutal killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistan troops near the Line of Control in Mendhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir. ...
12:41 PM, Jan 10, 2013
A day after Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar called for interference of the United Nations to verify the country's claims on the deaths of two Indian soldiers, the UN has urged India and Pakistan to de-escalate tensions through dialogue. The UN has urged India and Pakistan to respect the ceasefire and "de-escalate" tensions over the recent cross-border firings through dialogue. ...
11:20 AM, Jan 10, 2013
In the past one month itself, there have been more than a dozen ceasefire violations along the LoC by the Pakistani Army. The Poonch violation and killing of two Indian soldiers was the most gruesome of them all. ...
09:54 AM, Jan 10, 2013
