PIA, the carrier that connects India with Pakistan, is often referred to, in jest, as the short form of 'please inform Allah' by domestic flyers. ...
08:58 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Talks between India and Pakistan at the Home Secretary level will begin in Islamabad on Thursday. This is the second such meeting of Home Secretaries since the 26/11 attacks in 2008 in Mumbai. A 12-member delegation, led by Home Secretary RK Singh, on Wednesday left for Pakistan on Thursday where a relaxed visa regime is expected to be inked apart from New Delhi pressing for action against perpetrators...
09:50 AM, May 24, 2012
Lahore: India and Pakistan have beefed up security at the Wagah land border crossing after receiving a letter from the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba that threatened to blow up an Integrated Check Post that was recently opened to boost bilateral trade. The letter warned that the multi-crore rupee Integrated Check Post would be attacked as Pakistan had increased trade with India before resolving the Kashmir dispute, the Daily Times newspaper quoted security...
04:48 PM, May 18, 2012
Bangalore: Increasing Talibanisation of Pakistan and shifting of terror focus from Af-Pak region would pose a serious security threat to India in the next two years, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne said in Bangalore on Saturday. "If the American troops and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) withdraw from Afghanistan as planned, 2013-14 are going to be crucial watershed years for India as far as the...
07:59 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Indian Air Force chief NAK Browne said the terror outfit is getting closer to Wagah border in Amritsar. ...
11:40 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Attari/Wagah Border: Giving impetus to people-to-people contact and trade ties with Pakistan, India on Friday opened a modern Integrated Check Post (ICP), equipped with a dedicated passenger terminal and sprawling cargo facility, built at cost of Rs 150 crore. The ICP was inaugurated by Home Minister P Chidambaram in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal and Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma. Pakistan Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin...
02:22 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan will release 34 Indian prisoners, including a fisherman suffering from cancer, this week as part of steps to normalise relations between the two countries. The prisoners, including 26 fishermen and eight others arrested on charges like illegally crossing the border, are expected to be repatriated via the Wagah border on April 13, Indian and Pakistani officials said on Wednesday. However, leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney has offered...
07:30 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Wednesday issued a notification for switching over to a negative list regime for trade with India, under which the import of only 1,209 Indian products will be barred. The Commerce Ministry issued the Statutory Regulatory Order for trade with India under the negative list regime, officials said. According to the notification, a total of 1,209 items have been included in the negative list and will...
08:59 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: India's dealing with a different sort of cross-border threat. Indians are at risk because of an infectious strain of polio in Pakistan. This year alone, Pakistan has registered 84 new cases of Polio - 83 are of the more dangerous, P1 strain. According to a statement issued by the UNICEF, "India is surrounded by countries that still have polio virus transmission. Afghanistan and Pakistan have never stopped polio...
08:47 AM, Sep 20, 2011
Lahore: Indian and Pakistani officials on Monday worked out modalities for opening a new check point at the Wagah land border crossing for trade and commercial activities. The meeting between officials of the two countries was held in connection with an agreement for opening a separate trade route at Wagah to facilitate businessmen. The Pakistani delegation was led by Joint Interior Secretary Shabbir Ahmed while the Indian team was led...
01:42 AM, Jun 28, 2011
Speacial bus services will be provided, so the Pakistanis can be picked and ferried to Mohali. ...
10:29 AM, Mar 28, 2011
New Delhi: The country will soon have a 'Wagah in the East' along the Bangladesh border where troops of both countries, dressed in full regalia, will perform the retreat, ceremonial lowering of flags, similar to the tradition prevalent along the Indo-Pakistan border. The decision was taken during the five-day joint coordination meeting of border forces of India and Bangladesh. "We have taken some new decisions. Something apart the usual beaten...
04:05 PM, Mar 12, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistan will resume exporting onions to India, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said on Thursday, just a day after Pakistani authorities decided to ban its export through Wagah-Attari road route. Krishna said in New Delhi on Friday that Pakistan will send more quantity of onion sent by ship and rail route to India. Indian authorities are already in touch with their Pakistani counterparts on the issue. Krishna had...
09:27 AM, Jan 07, 2011
Chandigarh: Pakistan has imposed a complete ban on the export of onion to India via Wagah-Attari land route, a development which may hit Centre's efforts in rein in skyrocketing prices of bulb in the country. "Pakistan government has banned the supply of onion to India via land route," Customs Department (Amritsar) Deputy Commissioner R K Duggal said today, while adding that today no truck was allowed to bring onion by...
03:17 PM, Jan 06, 2011
The Queen's Baton Relay arrived in India through the Wagah Border on Friday as Amritsar geared up to welcome the baton. ...
08:49 AM, Jun 25, 2010
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