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Indian security forces fired on protesters opposing New Delhi’s repressive rule in Kashmir, killing eight persons as by-election in the disputed territory on Sunday had the lowest turnout in the last 30 years. Fearing that the...

Indian forces in Kashmir continue to inflict mental scars on young people in the disputed Himalayan territory that has also escalated tensions between nuclear armed neighbors since mass demonstrations against New Delhi’s repressive rule last year....

The United Nations military observer group, tasked with monitoring ceasefire violations in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region, is investigating the reported violations along the Line of Control, a world body spokesperson said while asking nuclear-armed neighbors, Pakistan and India,...

Indus River in Kharmang District, Pakistan Photo Shahnawaz Zafar via Wikimedia Commons Indian and Pakistani officials will hold talks on water disputes early next week after a lapse of two years, while New Delhi is stepping up...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is considering holding talks with officials from India and Pakistan on the deteriorating situation in Kashmir and will see how things can be improved on the ground. “He will talk to different...

A prominent Sweden-based think tank has termed the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor – a network of infrastructure connecting China from Pakistan’s north all the way to the Gulf through Gwadar port in the southwest – as a...

Wagah Border trade and travel crossing  Photo: Kamran Ali via Wikimedia Commons Pakistan has returned an Indian soldier, Chandu Babulal Chohan, reportedly captured from the Line of Control (LoC) on September 29, 2016. “The soldier was...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who assumed his functions as the world’s top diplomat this week, has offered to play role of an honest broker between Pakistan and India as the two South Asian nuclear powers face...

Pakistan is seeking incoming Donald Trump Administration’s role toward defusing tensions between India and Pakistan stemming from the “inflamed” situation in Kashmir. “I think that can only happen if it (the United States) has a more...

Indian forces resorted to firing on a school van across the Line of Control in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on Friday, killing driver of the vehicle and leaving eight children injured, officials said. The attack came as Pakistanis...