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Archive |2021-04-21 22:05:00
India's Border Security Force wants FIR registered against pigeon found near Pakistan border

In a bizarre turn of events, India's Border Security Force (BSF) has requested the Khangarh Police Station SHO in Amritsar to register a first information report (FIR) against a pigeon found near the border with Pakistan which was carrying a paper with a Pakistani number on it, Indian media reported on Wednesday...
According to India Today, the black and white pigeon was caught on April 17 after it perched on the shoulder of Constable...
Archive |2015-09-11 21:18:49
India, Pakistan border chiefs agree to lower tensions in Kashmir

NEW DELHI: Pakistani and Indian border security forces agreed on Friday to maintain restraint on their disputed Kashmir frontier, as they sought to defuse tensions that have been heightened in recent months by militant attacks that each side blames the other for...
The heads of India's Border Security Force and the Pakistani Rangers met in New Delhi to find ways to de-escalate tensions along the border as part of a series of measures...
World |2015-09-18 18:15:46
Indian army kills five near Pakistan border in held Kashmir

SRINAGAR: Indian soldiers shot dead five suspected rebels Friday near the heavily militarised border in Kashmir as they tried to "sneak in from the Pakistani side of the divided territory," an Indian army spokesman said...
India regularly accuses Pakistan of arming and training rebels to infiltrate what it sees as its territory...
World |2016-06-19 20:50:01
Turkish border troops kill 11 Syrians refugees trying to cross border

AMMAN: Turkish border guards shot dead at least 11 Syrians refugees, mostly from one family, as they tried to cross into Turkey from northwestern Syria, activists and a monitoring group said on Sunday...
At least two women and four children were among those killed in the shootings overnight as the refugees sought to cross into Turkey from the border village of Khirbet al Jouz, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
Archive |2021-05-25 18:35:01
Army huddle takes 'serious note' of cross-border firing incidents, asks Afghanistan to regulate border

The Pakistan Army's top brass on Tuesday took serious notice of the recent cross-border firing incidents from Afghanistan, asking Kabul to take effective border control measures, the military's media wing said...
The commanders undertook a comprehensive review of the global, regional and domestic security environment with particular focus on the situation along the borders especially the Line of Control/Working Boundary and Pak-Afghan...
Pakistan |2018-02-05 16:25:36
Kashmir's youth as dear to me as Pakistan's, says Nawaz in AJK on Kashmir Day

In an address to a PML-N rally in Muzaffarabad on Sunday, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif claimed he loves the youth of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) as much as he loves the youth of Pakistan...
He also paid tribute to the separatists in India-held Kashmir and lauded their "bravery"...
World |2016-08-08 14:45:30
Two Indian border guards, rebel killed in Kashmir

SRINAGAR: Two border guards and a suspected rebel were killed on Monday in a gun battle in India-held Kashmir, the Indian army said...
The shootout took place near the de facto border with Pakistan, although it was not immediately clear whether the dead fighter had crossed into India from there...
World |2015-08-19 12:34:15
UN chief concerned at violence on disputed Kashmir border

UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday voiced alarm at the latest upsurge in violence along the disputed border of India and Pakistan in Kashmir and urged restraint on the part of both governments...
Officials said on Sunday that Indian and Pakistani troops intensified firing along their disputed frontier in Kashmir, killing at least eight people and wounding 14...
World |2016-08-21 16:03:13
Indian soldiers kill three 'militants' near Kashmir border

SRINAGAR: Indian soldiers killed three suspected militants in a gun battle Sunday in India-held Kashmir (IHK), the army said, as the region reels from weeks of deadly violence between protesters and security forces...
The 'militants' were killed in Tangdhar north of the main city of Srinagar after crossing over from the Pakistani side of the heavily militarised border that divides the area between the two countries, it alleged...
World |2016-07-30 14:51:58
India claims two soldiers among four killed near Kashmir border

SRINAGAR: Two soldiers and two suspected rebels were killed overnight in a gun battle in India-held Kashmir near the disputed territory's de facto border with Pakistan, the Indian army said Saturday...
Joshi said the firefight occurred in Naugam sector, some 120km northwest of the main city of Srinagar, after soldiers intercepted the militants attempting to infiltrate the territory from Pakistan...
Archive |2018-06-12 20:45:04
Villager shot dead in Azad Kashmir in cross-border firing by Indian forces

Indian troops on Tuesday shot dead a resident of a border village of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) in the latest incident of unprovoked ceasefire violation, residents and officials said...
Muhammad Shakil Qureshi, a resident of Taroti Dharamsal village in Abbaspur tehsil of Poonch district, became the victim of “targeted killing”, since he was sniped by Indian forces, in an apparent violation of the two-week-old understanding between...
World |2017-04-11 11:39:56
'You are losing Kashmir,' former Jammu and Kashmir CM warns India

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday called on India to 'wake up', and warned New Delhi that: "You are losing Kashmir...
"In a stinging interview with IndiaToday, Abdullah, who is contesting by-polls in Srinagar, urged India and Pakistan to hold talks to beat the threat of terrorism...
Archive |2015-10-26 18:15:42
Crumbling gurudwaras blur the lines on the India-Pakistan border

I don’t know how far the jets went inside Pakistan’s airspace...
About 50 kilometers away is the city of Sultanpur Lodhi in East Punjab...
Archive |2017-11-17 06:44:58
Pakistan, US trade blame over cross-border terrorism

ISLAMABAD: Top Pakistani and US military commanders blamed each other on Thursday for not doing enough to stop cross-border terrorism...
The two-day visit of United States Central Command (Centcom) Commander Gen Joseph Votel, in which he held a series of meetings with senior Pakistani military commanders, including Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa, reinforced the perception that Pakistan and the US had not been able to narrow their trust...
Pakistan |2017-09-13 07:02:24
Pakistan open to joint Afghan border patrols, says PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Tuesday that his country was willing to set up joint patrols with Afghanistan to combat militants along their porous border...
His remarks came weeks after President Donald Trump called on Pakistan to do more to eliminate militant sanctuaries, a long-standing US demand...