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While every country has a right to self-defense, the United States’s interest lies in seeing caution prevail in the friction-filled South Asia, a senior White House official said in the face of heightened Pakistan-India tension. Dr....

South Asia needs a comprehensive approach for peace to prevail in the region, Pakistan said amid raging insurgency in Afghanistan to its west and turmoil in Indian controlled Kashmir to its east. “Peace cannot be compartmentalized...

The United States has made it clear that there is no question of declaring Pakistan as a ‘terrorist state’, and that Washington would continue to work with regional capitals as part of efforts to address the...

A top Pakistani senator, Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Wednesday outlined a range of reasons to South Asia watchers as being imperatives for New Delhi making peace with Pakistan through a fair settlement of Jammu and Kashmir dispute....

The White House has shut down a petition seeking to declare Pakistan a state sponsor of terror after it found that it did not meet signature requirements. The petition can no longer be signed, a White...

Although, India called off its flag retreating ceremony at Wagah border crossing the day it claimed to have carried out a “surgical strike” on the Pakistani side of Kashmir, the land route continues to allow mutually...

The escalating tensions along Kashmir’s Line of Control are casting a shadow over cultural ties between India and Pakistan, hitting the avenue of creativity that often transcends boundaries and symbolizes hope for peace. A series of...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for urgent deescalation of tensions between India and Pakistan and an end to violence in the region. The UN chief made that call during a meeting with Pakistan’s UN Ambassador...

The United States has called for Pakistan and India to reduce tensions though increased communication, with a spokesman saying that top American diplomat John Kerry had cautioned against any escalation during a conversation with Indian Exeternal...

Voicing “great concern” over the escalating tensions along the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region, the United Nations has urged India and Pakistan to “exercise restraint” and resolve their issues through dialogue. A...