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Kashmir tensions won't affect TAPI gas project, Pak assures Turkmenistan

Some Pakistani experts raised doubts about the future of the the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India and other offshore gas pipeline projects following tensions between India and Pakistan

Imran asks Pak parties to postpone march to LoC till his UNGA address

At a rally on Friday, Prime Minister Khan said he knew that majority of the youth in PoK wanted to stage a march on the LoC

Pak Army raises white flag to recover bodies of its soldiers killed at LoC

Sources in the Army said that on September 10-11, Indian Army troops killed Sepoy Ghulam Rasool in Hajipur sector of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK)

India briefs UNHRC chief on Kashmir, blames Pak for cross border terror

Vijay Thakur Singh met Bachelet on Thursday in Geneva, days after the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed "deep concern" over the impact of restrictions in Kashmir

China mulls $1-billion investment in Pakistan's development projects

Pakistan and China are all-weather strategic cooperative partner and have always firmly supported each other on issues

Pakistan summons Indian envoy over 'unprovoked' ceasefire violations

Faisal claimed that in the most recent ceasefire violations on September 6 in Khuiratta Sector of the LoC, the Indian forces targeted civilian participants

IAF chief flies farewell sortie with Balakot hero Abhinandan Varthaman

Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa took the pilot's front seat and flew the entire sortie, while Abhinandan Varthaman occupied the co-pilot's rear seat

India, Pakistan engage in heated exchange at Speakers meet in Maldives

The Indian delegation in the summit is led by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla

Pakistan to get $7 bn in fresh assistance from ADB for development projects

The decision was taken during the meeting between ADB Vice President Shixin Chen and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan here on Thursday

Adani ports on alert after intel says Pak commandos may enter India

The input states that the commandos may infiltrate through sea route to create communal disturbance or terrorist attack in Gujarat

Congress slams Pak for 'mischievously' dragging Rahul's name in UN petition

In a statement, the opposition party said Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh were and would always be an integral part of India as it accused Pakistan of instigating violence in Jammu and Kashmir

Pak closes 3 aviation routes over Karachi for Indian flights till August 31

Pakistan has closed three aviation routes of Karachi airspace from August 28 till August 31, the country's civil aviation authority said on Wednesday after the government's announcement that it is mulling a complete ban on the use of the country's airspace by Indian flights. The ban will affect all international flights using the three routes above Karachi. It further provides pilots with an alternate route to circumnavigate Karachi airspace. The four-day ban will expire on September 1, the aviation authority said in a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM). The closure came at the heels of announcement by Minister of Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry who tweeted on Tuesday that Prime Minister Imran Khan is considering a complete closure of airspace with India. Pakistan's Cabinet on Tuesday discussed the idea of disallowing India to use the country's airspace for flight and the land route for trade with Afghanistan. The final decision will be taken by Prime Minister Khan. Pakistan had fully

How will Modi's New India look?

PM Modi claimed in Paris recently that the "New India" he is ushering in, will target graft, nepotism, loot of public resources, and terrorism like never before. Only history will judge his claims

The limitations of government

For the most part, the idea that government of a particular type or led by a particular individual can produce magic is misplaced

Pak put on 'blacklist' by terror funding watchdog FATF's Asia Pacific arm

The Asia Pacific Group of the FATF has also found that Pakistan was non-compliant on 32 of the 40 compliance parameters of terror financing and money laundering

Would be unwise to alienate India, turn to Pakistan as partner: US expert

'The US would be unwise to turn to Pakistan as a strategic partner,' Richard N Hass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in an op-ed last week.

J&K turmoil: India way ahead of Pakistan in the game of diplomatic Chess

So far, there have been few surprises from both India's friends and enemies over the government's move on J&K

Pak summons India's deputy high commissioner over 'ceasefire violations'

Pakistan claimed the Indian forces along the LoC and Working boundary have "continuously been violating the 2003 ceasefire arrangement, which needs to be respected."

Statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh vandalised in Pak over India's Kashmir move

Police have arrested the culprits and registered an FIR under the country's blasphemy laws against them

Article 370: Pak suspends Delhi-Lahore bus service, two cross-border trains

Pakistan has suspended the Lahore-Delhi friendship bus service, after suspending two cross-border trains, in the wake of India's decision revoking Jammu and Kashmir's special status and bifurcating the state into two Union Territories, a senior Pakistani minister has said. The bus service was first started in February 1999 but suspended after the 2001 Parliament attack. It was restarted in July 2003. The move is in line with the decisions taken during a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) held on Wednesday, Pakistan Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed said. "In line with the decisions of NSC Pak-India bus service is suspended," Saeed tweeted on Friday. The Lahore-Delhi bus service is operated from Ambedkar Stadium terminal near Delhi Gate. DTC buses ply every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) buses every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday, from Delhi to Lahore. For the return trip, DTC buses leave Lahore