On Tuesday morning, India began launching airstrikes aimed at militant targets in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. This course of action was provoked because India had reason to believe that it was the target of a suicide bomber group which killed 40 Indian troops. Indian foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale appear on national TV hours later, defending that the intended targets were not against… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kashmir-latest-india-pakistan-air-strike-planes-attack-a8800131.html There is a certain symmetry to the way things stand in the highly strung conflict between India and Pakistan – as of Wednesday night, we should add, given just how fast the situation is developing. On Tuesday morning, India took the unprecedented step of launching airstrikes at what it said were militant targets in Pakistani territory across the Kashmir line of control. Hours later, the Indian… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-pakistan-crisis-kashmir-border-shelling-a8804351.html Six civilians have been killed after violence continued to escalate between Indiaand Pakistan in Kashmir. Indian police said two siblings and their mother were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir after a shell fired by Pakistani soldiers hit their home. In Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, government official Umar Azam said Indian troops with heavy weapons “indiscriminately targeted border villagers”, killing a boy and wounding three other people. He added… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mbs-saudi-prince-mohammad-bin-salman-taliban-militants-meeting-afghan-war-pakistan-a8782276.html Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is likely to meet Afghan Taliban representatives during his visit to Pakistan on Sunday, in an effort to broker an end to Afghanistan’s 17-year-old civil war, Pakistani government sources have said. Pakistan has been playing an increasingly vital role in the Afghanistan peace talks, which have been gathering momentum in recent months amid a growing US desire to pull out its… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/afghanistan-laila-haidari-taliban-drug-addict-rehabilitation-middle-east-a8784836.html he driver of a car that was stopped in the middle of the road, blocking traffic, was shocked when a passing motorist rolled down the window and shouted at him, “Dirty donkey”. He was even more surprised when he looked up to see that the insult came from a woman. A woman driving a car. A woman driving a… Read more »
Tensions between Pakistan and India have peaked after a Thursday bombing against armed Indian security forces. 40 confirmed paramilitary deaths have resulted from the horrific event. Responsibility has been claimed by the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) jihadist group, based out of Pakistan. This tragedy is the worst India’s seen since Kashmir’s insurgency three decades ago. India’s Lt Gen KJS Dhillon accused Pakistan of… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mbs-saudi-prince-mohammad-bin-salman-taliban-militants-meeting-afghan-war-pakistan-a8782276.html Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is likely to meet Afghan Taliban representatives during his visit to Pakistan on Sunday, in an effort to broker an end to Afghanistan’s 17-year-old civil war, Pakistani government sources have said. Pakistan has been playing an increasingly vital role in the Afghanistan peace talks, which have been gathering momentum in recent months amid a growing US desire to pull out its… Read more »
On Tuesday, Moscow will begin hosting peace talks that have sparked controversy before they have even begun. There is anger over the two-day “intra-Afghan dialogue”, both from the Taliban, who will be attending, and the marginalised administration of President Ashraf Ghani. On Monday, representatives of the radical Islamic group founded on anti-Soviet resistance confirmed a delegation would travel to the land of their once-sworn enemy. They will… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bhopal-gas-leak-anniversary-poison-deaths-compensation-union-carbide-dow-chemical-a8780126.html When the gas first started seeping into their thatch and wooden homes, many residents of the poorer neighbourhoods of Bhopal, India, thought they were being afflicted by a neighbour burning chillies. It was only when they went outside, coughing and with stinging eyes, that they saw the devastation wrought by the worst industrial accident the world has ever seen; 40 tonnes… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-kashmir-pakistan-threat-imran-khan-jem-car-bomb-paramilitary-a8786196.html Mothers in Kashmir should tell their sons to put down their arms or be prepared to see them dead, India’s top military commander in the contested region has said after an unprecedented suicide bomb attack. Responsibility for the bomb, which killed 40 paramilitary police, has been claimed by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) jihadist group. Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has now responded for the first time, saying… Read more »