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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...

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...

South Asia’s hostility festered into another nasty round of allegations as India Monday threatened Pakistan with breaking up the country into 10 parts in a repeat of the 1971 dismemberment. Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh raked...

Photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons Providing a window into forthcoming Donald Trump White House’s foreign policy approach, vice president-elect Mike Pence has indicated that billionaire businessman could use his “extraordinary deal-making skills” to reduce...

Pakistani raised with senior UN officials the latest round of atrocities by Indian troops which involved targeting a civilian passenger bus and an ambulance in Kashmir, with its top diplomat calling the attacks a grave violation...

Photo by CIA shows Kashmir region via Wikimedia Commons Nine civilians were killed and several injured as India targeted a passenger bus with heavy shelling in Pakistan-administered Kashmir in the most dangerous South Asian escalation since 2003....

FEATURED IMAGE above shows the floodlit border zone between India and Pakistan has a distinctly orange hue in this astronaut photograph PHOTO CREDIT: By ISS Expedition 28 crew (NASA Earth Observatory) via Wikimedia Commons   Pakistan and...

Human Rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged New Delhi to release two teenage boys detained in Jammu and Kashmir under detention under a controversial law. Rayees Ahmad Mir and Waheed Ahmed Gojree, both 16 years old,...

The three-month-old crackdown against demonstrations in Indian controlled Kashmir seems to be extending to even birds, as Indian forces have seized 153 pigeons suspecting them to be spies. According to the Times of India, the pigeons...

Islamabad has said it is willing to hold talks with India if it shows seriousness toward addressing Kashmir dispute, amidst a dangerous standoff between the two nuclear-armed rivals that has alarmed world capitals. While renewing Pakistan’s call...