Ironically, it was the words of the Indian Army Chief that made many journalists covering the tensions at LoC take the first pause in the ...
07:52 PM, Jan 27, 2013
The Kargil War was an unsound military operation based on invalid assumptions, a retired Pakistani general who served in the ISI, has said. In an article in Pakistan's 'The Nation' newspaper earlier this month, Lieutenant General Shahid Aziz, a former commander of the IV Corps in Lahore, debunked the official claim that mujahideens were involved in the war. ...
12:09 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Indian and Pakistani troops on Saturday exchanged sweets along the Line of Control in Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir even as cross-border bus service and trade remained suspended after beheading of two Indian soldiers. ...
07:14 PM, Jan 26, 2013
It's well know that the Indian Army is short of officers, but not so well known is that it doesn't have a permanent headquarters. Practically, everywhere the Army and the Navy sit in Delhi is a temporary accommodation and the situation seems unlikely to improve. ...
03:46 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Major Abup J Manjali of the Rashtriya Rifles would be awarded the Kirti Chakra on the 64th Republic Day for showing extraordinary bravery in counter- terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir. ...
08:20 PM, Jan 24, 2013
The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after generations of limits on their service, defense officials said on January 23. The changes, set to be announced on January 24 by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, will not happen overnight. The services must now develop plans for allowing women to seek the combat positions, a senior...
11:35 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Pakistan will stick to a policy of non-escalation with India in the wake of increased tensions over a string of ceasefire violations along the Line of Control, its Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said. In the face of a call from Pakistan's leader of Opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for a "befitting" response to "propaganda from the Indian government" over the ceasefire violations, Khar reiterated her government's "commitment not...
06:45 PM, Jan 22, 2013
The Central leadership has shown "maturity" in defusing tensions along the LoC with Pakistan following the brutal killing of two Indian soldiers, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said. ...
10:33 AM, Jan 21, 2013
After the horrific Delhi gangrape incident which shook the nation to its foundation, people for the first time in one voice said 'No to crimes ...
02:51 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Army Chief General Bikram Singh on Friday visited the home of slain soldier Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh in a village in Madhya Pradesh. Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh had been killed near the LoC by Pakistani troops on January 8. ...
01:30 PM, Jan 18, 2013
The Pakistan High Commissioner to India Salman Bashir has reiterated that Pakistan had nothing to do with the killings of the two Indian soldiers on January 8. He also said that clear instructions have been given to the Pakistani Army to observe a ceasefire. ...
08:25 AM, Jan 18, 2013
Army Chief General Bikram Singh will visit the home of martyr Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh who was killed near the LoC by Pakistani troops on January 8. The Army Chief will visit Dadhiya village in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh to meet the family of Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh on Friday. ...
06:05 AM, Jan 18, 2013
With reports of de-escalation in tension at the Line of Control (LoC), Pakistan High Commissioner to India, Salman Bashir, on Thursday reiterated that the soldiers of the country's army did not cross the LoC. ...
11:59 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Hina Rabbani Khar has suggested talks at the foreign ministry level to resolve the Indo-Pak crisis. ...
09:58 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Even as there was no overnight firing reported along the Line of Control separating India and Pakistan, the tension remains. The villages along the Line of Control have been restless and its residents are living in fear. ...
01:11 PM, Jan 17, 2013
As the tensions between India and Pakistan escalated with more ceasefire violations reported on Tuesday and the war of words intensifying on Wednesday, both the countries are now looking for measures to de-escalate it. While both the countries have ordered their troops to strictly honour the ceasefire agreement, Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has invited her Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid for talks. ...
07:49 AM, Jan 17, 2013
As India and Pakistan agreed to deescalate the situation along the border, Islamabad on Wednesday night offered to hold talks with New Delhi to address concerns related to the LoC and to reinforce a nine-year-old ceasefire, saying any increase in tensions would be counter-productive. ...
01:46 AM, Jan 17, 2013
The war of words between India and Pakistan at the moment is taking a toll on the range of people to people contacts between the two countries. Pakistan's hockey players have been sent back, the women's cricket team is unlikely to come for the world cup and the promised visa on arrival for senior citizens have been put in hold. So are people to people contacts between India and Pakistan ...
07:48 PM, Jan 16, 2013
In what comes as a positive development with regard to the escalating tension between India and Pakistan, the neighbour has asked its troops to maintain ceasefire strictly and exercise restraint at the Line of Control (LoC), even as the Indian Army denied crossing the LoC, claiming that Pakistani soldier might have been killed in retaliatory fire from our side. ...
07:36 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal said in Bhopal on Wednesday that whatever Pakistan Army had done to two Indian soldiers is totally inhuman and unpardonable, but war should not take place between the two nations on the issue. ...
07:14 PM, Jan 16, 2013
