January 8 - A bloody strike across the Line of Control. Two Indian soldiers are killed, one of them beheaded. Pakistan denied any role in the brutal attack but Intelligence reports accessed by CNN-IBN on Tuesday suggested otherwise. ...
08:56 PM, Jan 29, 2013
The situation along the India-Pakistan border continues to remain tense after India reported four ceasefire violations even after the flag meet. Indian troops, however, did not retaliate and officers say that they will not react in haste but will take their time. But, the Pakistani army claimed that Indian troops killed a Pakistani soldier in the disputed territory of Kashmir. ...
07:51 AM, Jan 16, 2013
The remarks made by Indian Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh following the beheading of an Indian soldier on the LoC last week were "very hostile", Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said today, as she asked Indian leaders to "catch up" with developments in her country. ...
09:36 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Even as India talked tough with Pakistan on Tuesday over the repeated ceasefire violations and the killing of two Indian soldiers last week, there were reports of fresh firing at Mendhar sector in Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday evening. ...
08:50 PM, Jan 15, 2013
While no fresh incident of firing was reported from the border on Saturday, tension continued along the Line of Control. ...
08:28 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
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
Calling the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistan Army an "isolated incident", a senior Pakistani senator on Friday said such events should not be allowed to "spin out of control" which could result in vitiating the atmosphere of peace. ...
07:47 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
CNN-IBN's Arunoday Mukharji reports from ground zero in Mendhar sector of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir. ...
07:10 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday refuted Pakistan's claims that India had violated ceasefire norms and that Poonch firing was not an unprovoked incident. "The Indian forces are strictly in accordance with ceasefire norms," he told reporters. He further said that no third party would be allowed to intervene in the issue. ...
04:50 PM, Jan 10, 2013
The ceasefire violation by Pakistan, which is being seen as one of the worst in recent times, happened in Mendhar in the Poonch district in Jammu across the Line of Control (LoC). The area that comes under the 16 Corps is located south of the Pir Panjal. ...
07:59 PM, Jan 09, 2013
The Ministry of Defence on Tuesday issued a strong statement criticising the Poonch ceasefire violation by Pakistani troops. In the statement, the MoD condemned the killing of the two Indian soldiers and said, "The government of India considers the incident as a provocative action and we condemn it. The DGMOs (Director General of Military Operations) of the two countries are in touch over it. The government will take up the...
11:41 PM, Jan 08, 2013
It's certainly one of the most serious and gruesome ceasfire violations in recent times. Pakistani troops on Tuesday crossed into the Indian territory and ambushed an Army patrol party in the Mendhar sector of Poonch, killing two Indian soldiers and badly mutilating the body of one of them. ...
11:11 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Jammu: At least four people were killed and 20 injured in Jammu region's Mendhar town on Wednesday following clashes between police and crowds protesting the alleged desecration of the Quran in the US. Irate mobs regrouped in the town and started targeting government buildings. The protestors attacked a police station and there were reports that the deaths triggered more protests in surrounding areas. The administration has sought the help of...
12:38 PM, Sep 15, 2010
