Cross-border Terrorism

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The UNSC Resolution asked for “every effort (to) be made to allow for the rapid and secure reopening of the Kabul airport and its surrounding area” for evacuations. (AFP)

UN Security Council adopts resolution to hold Taliban to its pledges

Thirteen members voted in favour of the resolution drafted by France, UK and the US while Russia and China abstained

01 Sep 2021 8:20 AM

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh delivers address on ‘National Security’ as part of late Balramji Das Tandon lecture series, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Monday, August 30, 2021. (PTI Photo)

New threats to India due to Afghanistan crisis: Rajnath Singh

Pakistan had understood that they would not make any gains from violations of ceasefire agreements, said Rajnath Singh

31 Aug 2021 6:29 AM

Pakistan has strongly condemned New Delhi's move on Kashmir. While Pakistan has been trying to amass international attention on the issue, India has called it an 'internal matter'. (Photo: File)

Kashmir chapter closed, India's talking point with Pak will be terror: report

It was in wake of Uri attack when Modi government said 'terror and talks cannot go together'.

17 Aug 2019 5:30 PM

Last year, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released its first-ever report on Kashmir and in an update of that report it claimed on Monday that ‘neither India nor Pakistan have taken any concrete steps to address the numerous concerns raised’. (Photo: File | Representational)

‘False, motivated narrative’: India protests against UN report on J&K

‘Situation created by years of cross-border terrorist attacks from Pak analysed without any reference to its causality,’ MEA said.

08 Jul 2019 4:12 PM

Dr C Christine Fair from the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University examined Pakistan's enduring imperative to use cross-border terrorism to try and resolve its basic conundrum; it wants to try and change maps, but it has an army that cannot win wars and has nuclear weapons it can't use. So it has settled upon a strategy of proxy war in Kashmir and elsewhere in India under the safety afforded by its nuclear arsenal, according to Fair. (Photo: ANI)

Cross-border terrorism poses major threat in South Asia: Experts

Taha Siddiqui, Pakistani journalist now living in exile, offered a brief history of Pakistan's obsession with jihadi proxies in the region.

05 Jun 2019 1:17 PM

Wrong to think Pak might mend ways, says PM Modi

It may be recalled that the surgical strikes were carried out days after a terrorist attack on an Army camp in Kashmir’s Uri had killed 20 soldiers.

02 Jan 2019 1:12 AM

Swamy's statement comes after Swaraj on Saturday used the United Nations platform to highlight the serious issue of Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism and human rights violations in India. (Photo: ANI)

Imran Khan nothing but 'chaprasi', says Subramanian Swamy

Swamy was here to attend a programme of 'Sanskritik Gaurav Sansthan' Tripura unit.

01 Oct 2018 2:07 PM

Union Minister R K Singh said Khan was supported by Pakistan's Army and that the cricketer-turned-politician was likely to follow policies of the military including in matters relating to India. (Photo: File)

Pak elections rigged, Imran Khan backed by military: Union min RK Singh

Singh said Pak military was behind ousting of Nawaz Sharif from power and putting him and his daughter in jail just before elections.

27 Jul 2018 7:47 PM

A spokesman for NIA said the office and residence of Devinder Singh Behl, who is linked to hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani were searched in Jammu. (Photo: Representational/AFP)

NIA questions lawyer linked to Geelani in J&K terror funding case

Behl is also a member of the legal cell of the separatist amalgam led by Geelani and a 'close associate' of the Hurriyat hawk.

30 Jul 2017 7:01 PM

Earlier, there have been several BAT attacks in which Indian jawans have been beheaded or their bodies mutilated. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

Pak military carried daggers, cameras to mutilate, record attack on Army

The attack left two Indian soldiers dead while one BAT member was killed in retaliatory action by Indian troops.

24 Jun 2017 8:20 AM

Pakistan Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz said Islamabad has always welcomed the endeavours aimed at addressing the human rights issues in the Valley and the resolution of the Kashmir issue. (Photo: AP)

India avoiding talks to be blamed for Kashmir unrest, not cross-border terrorism: Pak

Pakistan Foreign Affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz welcomed Turkish president Erdogan's suggestion for a multilateral dialogue on the issue.

02 May 2017 5:03 PM

We have wasted 70 years in hostility, says Abdul Basit

Islamabad noted that the time has come for the two neighbours to decide whether status quo should continue or a new beginning be made.

09 Dec 2016 1:54 AM

Mata Vaishno Devi pilgrims standing in a queue to withdraw money from an ATM in Jammu. (Photo: PTI)

A ‘crusade’ that has led to chaos

The stated objectives for demonetisation have been to flush out black money, to remove counterfeit currency and to stop terror funding.

21 Nov 2016 1:30 AM

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