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
Bollywood actor-director Farhan Akhtar has called for de-escalating the tension at the Line of Control and improving cultural ties between India and Pakistan. ...
07:21 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Politics over the beheading of Lance Naik Hemraj Singh escalated on Tuesday. Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Ram Gopal Yadav called for war. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) too kept up the heat. Party leader Yashwant Sinha demanded that all talks with Pakistan be called off. The Congress reassured of action but said that jingoism should be avoided. ...
06:29 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's strong statement on the LoC killings on Tuesday was welcomed with open arms by the Opposition, with Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha adding that India should call off the peace process. Sinha said that if Pakistan did not respond to the PM's statement, the PM should be ready with a "Plan B". "I welcome the PM's statement, but he should have spoken much earlier. It...
05:43 PM, Jan 15, 2013
The family of Lance Naik Hemraj Singh, which is on a hunger strike demanding the severed body of the martyred soldier, said on Monday that it will break the fast only when the Army chief visit the village and promises that the remains of his body will be brought back. ...
02:19 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Ahead of Monday's Indo-Pak flag meeting to defuse tension along Line of Control (LoC), Pakistani troops on Sunday evening violated the ceasefire again, targeting Indian posts in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier in the day, Pakistan agreed to hold a 'brigade commander' level flag meeting along the LoC in Poonch to discuss the recent intrusion and brutal killing of jawans besides continued ceasefire violations by its soldiers that...
09:07 PM, Jan 13, 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
Pakistan on Friday reiterated its commitment to the peace process. The Pakistan High Commission issued a statement, saying that Islamabad "reiterates its commitment to a peaceful resolution of all outstanding issues through a sustained and result-oriented dialogue with India". ...
05:01 PM, Jan 11, 2013
In the wake of the brutal killing of two Indian soldiers on the Line of Control (LoC), BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Friday advocated suspension of dialogue with Pakistan even as he admitted that the previous NDA government had also committed the mistake by engaging the neighbour in talks. ...
04:39 PM, Jan 11, 2013
