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The United States says it backs direct dialogue between India and Pakistan on “issues of concern” as Islamabad linked the resumption of trade with its neighbor on New Delhi’s rollback of its 2019 unilateral decisions on the...

For a while, a breakthrough in ossified Pakistan-India relations seemed well underway. Signs of a rapprochement began with a late February reinstitution of a long-dormant cease-fire agreement along the Line of Control, the de facto border...

Coinciding with Monday’s International Women’s Day, Time magazine has featured Indian women farmers protesting New Delhi’s reforms on its cover. India’s mainly Sikh farmers from Punjab have mounted protests for months over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...

Such has been the state of hostilities between the two nuclear-armed neighbors that any talk of peace looks unrealistic, though welcomed by all those who know the value of peaceful existence. But this week, the two...

A severe earthquake rocked upper half of Pakistan including the capital, Islamabad and provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhawa. The 6.4-magnitude earthquake also jolted in cities of neighboring India late Friday evening. The Meteorological Department said...

Amid stalemate over Indian farmers’ protest against New Delhi’s new policies, the United Nations human rights office, OHCHR, has called on Indian authorities and protesting farmers to exercise “maximum restraint” and respect human rights. The protestors...

South Asian nuclear nuclear-armed neighbors Pakistan and should “come together and seriously discuss their problems” around the Kashmir dispute. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underscored this while also offering the world body’s mediation to resolve the longstanding...

Thousands of Indian Sikh farmers, protesting a government move to transition the purchase of agricultural produce from the public to the private sector, stormed the capital New Delhi on Tuesday during the Republic Day parade which...

In a move shedding light on the deteriorating media discussion standards, Ofcom, the British communications regulator, has imposed a $27,103 (€22,200) fine on the license holder of a right-wing Indian news channel, Republic TV, for breaching its...

Now that the all-consuming debate on who will be better for New Delhi — Donald Trump or Joe Biden — is settled, India-watchers here have moved on to the next set of questions. They are: what...