Mohammad Iftakar waits with sweets and gifts at the Wagah border crossing, a lifeline for families violently separated during the founding of India and Pakistan, fearful of dangerous new divisions as hostilities flare once again.
Like many other (...)
Pakistanis mourned on Monday for the victims of a massive suicide bombing near the border with India as the death toll from the explosion the previous day rose to 60, police said.
The attack was the deadliest to hit the country in over a year. In (...)
An Indian man returned home Tuesday
after spending 35 years in Pakistani prisons, most of them
on death row, on a spying conviction, AP reported.
Kashmir Singh, who is about 60 years old, was released
Monday from a prison in the eastern city of (...)
Pakistan sent home 134 Indian
prisoners on Monday _ mostly fishermen or people who said
they had strayed across the border by mistake _ as part of
ceremonies marking both countries' 60th anniversary, according to The Associated Press.
The (...)
India and Pakistan on Monday began
their biggest prisoner exchange since the launch of peace
talks last year, bringing hundreds of fishermen, farmers
and others imprisoned for illegal entry and other crimes to
their main border crossing to let (...)
