India's crackdown on protests and dissent in Kashmir will drive more of the world's Muslims into extremism, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said during a fiery speech on Friday, in the part of the disputed territory administered by (...)
A flare up between arch-foes India and Pakistan appeared to be easing on Saturday after Islamabad handed back a captured Indian pilot, but tensions continued to simmer amid efforts by global powers to prevent a war between the nuclear-armed (...)
Hundreds of Kashmiris took to the street in Muzaffarabad today to protest the United Nations recently-issued report on the situation in Yemen.
Led by civil society organizations and legal associations, demonstrators marched their way to the United (...)
A Kashmiri militant commander on Saturday denounced his designation as a terrorist by the United States, vowing to continue his armed fight against Indian rule over its part of the divided Himalayan territory.
Syed Salahuddin called the decision by (...)
Artillery fire and shelling from India targeted several Pakistani villages and struck a passenger bus near the dividing line in the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday, killing 12 civilians wounding more than a dozen others, the Pakistani (...)
Indian shelling has forced thousands of villagers from their homes in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, a Pakistani lawmaker said on Tuesday.
The evacuation from villages in the Bhimber district came after seven Pakistani soldiers were killed by Indian (...)
Three people were killed and five wounded on Monday in Indian shelling across the disputed border with Pakistan in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, Pakistani officials said, as tension simmers between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Feelings have run (...)
India and Pakistan on Tuesday tallied at least 19 deaths in recent firing across their disputed border in Kashmir, where the nuclear-armed neighbors are engaging in increasingly intense artillery duels.
Tension over the Himalayan region has run high (...)
Hundreds of Pakistani supporters of a militant-linked charity tried to cross into the Indian part of the divided Kashmir region on Wednesday to deliver aid after weeks of violent protests there.
But the activists from the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the (...)
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's ruling party swept local elections in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, according to unofficial results on Friday, giving the premier a boost after months of pressure from his opponents.
Sharif has faced (...)
A government official says a bus carrying school children has fallen into a canal in Pakistan-held Kashmir, killing at least 12 children, as AP reported.
The official, Khawaja Naeem, says two other children and the bus driver are still missing (...)
A van carrying at least 30 schoolchildren plunged into a river in Pakistan-held Kashmir on Tuesday, and most of the passenger were confirmed or feared dead.
The driver lost control of the vehicle and it plunged 50 feet (15 meters) into the Jhelum (...)
The top official in Pakistan-held Kashmir vowed Tuesday to fight India for control of the disputed territory in a speech to thousands of people assembled by a coalition of banned militant groups, AP reported.
The provocative comments by Prime (...)
A suicide bomber attacked a military vehicle in the Pakistan administrated Kashmir wounding two soldiers.
Military officials said earlier two soldiers had been killed and four wounded on Saturday but they said later their information was incorrect (...)
A suicide bomber attacked an army vehicle in the Pakistani section of Kashmir on Saturday, wounding two soldiers, the military said.
The military said the soldiers survived the attack, correcting earlier reports from intelligence agents that (...)
Two soldiers were killed on Friday in the first suicide bombing in Pakistani Kashmir while several people were hurt in a blast near the Afghan border as the army prepares to attack Taleban in that region.
Militants have carried out a series of bomb (...)
Pakistani police say an avalanche has killed 24 people in a remote village in the
Kashmir region.
Police official Ilyas Abbasi said Wednesday the incident
happened about 40 miles (70 kilometers) north of the town
of Muzaffarabad.
He said little (...)
Prime Minister of the Pakistani Part of Kashmir Sirdar Yakub Khan opened today in Muzafarabad a medical clinic funded by the Saudi Relief Campaign.
The campaign, which was organized to provide aid and support to the residents of the 2005 earthquake (...)
A suicide bomber struck an army facility in the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir on Wednesday, killing at least three soldiers and wounding 11 others, police said.
Javed Iqbal, police chief in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, said the (...)
Pakistan shut offices and arrested scores of activists of an Islamic charity, officials said on Friday, as international pressure mounted for firm action against militants blamed for the Mumbai attacks.
The overnight raids came after Pakistan said (...)
Pakistan and Indian troops exchanged fire across a de facto border dividing the disputed Kashmir region on Monday, wounding a Pakistani woman, police and security officials said.
The exchange was the latest in a spate of recent small clashes along (...)
U.S. goodwill envoy Karen Hughes and three of America's top business leaders flew to the heart of Pakistan's earthquake zone on Monday to see first hand the urgent need for more aid.
The delegation was sent by U.S. President George W. Bush to raise (...)
Heavy snow and rain forced
the United Nations to ground its lifesaving relief flights
to Pakistan's earthquake-hit areas for a second straight
day Monday, as former U.S. President George Bush arrived in
the country to begin a tour of the (...)
The world must wake up to the scale of the earthquake disaster in the mountains of Pakistan and do more to help or many more lives will be lost in the coming winter, the head of the U.N. children's agency said on Sunday, Reuters reported.
Aid (...)
A MUDSLIDE MONDAY CAUSED BY HEAVY RAINS IN PAKISTAN'S EARTHQUAKE-RAVAGED PART OF KASHMIR KILLED 12 PEOPLE, POLICE WAS QUOTED AS SAYING BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
THE MUDSLIDE OCCURRED IN THE CHELA BANDI AREA OF THE CITY OF MUZAFFARABAD, WHICH WAS (...)