Airlines re-route, cancel flights due to India-Pakistan fighting

Several Asian airlines said on Wednesday they were re-routing or cancelling flights to and from Europe because of fighting between India and Pakistan
7 May 2025

India briefed US after strikes on Pakistan: Indian embassy

Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval briefed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shortly after New Delhi's strikes on Pakistan, the Indian embassy in Washington said Tuesday.
7 May 2025

Rubio urges India-Pakistan talks to 'defuse' situation: White House

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoken with his counterparts from India and Pakistan
7 May 2025

Death toll from Indian strikes on Pakistan jumps to 8 civilians: military spokesman

'In total in at six locations there were 24 impacts in Pakistan'
7 May 2025

Pakistan says civilians hit, claims downing 5 Indian jets

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was responding to the Indian attacks but did not provide details
6 May 2025

India says strikes ‘non-escalatory in nature’

India today said it carried out "precision strikes at terrorist camps" inside Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, days after it blamed Islamabad for a deadly attack on the Indian side of the contested region
6 May 2025

World calls for calm as India-Pakistan crisis deepens

26 killed in Pakistan, 12 in India: reports
6 May 2025

UN chief concerned over Indian military actions in Pakistan

"The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan."
6 May 2025

UNSC urges Indo-Pak talks on Kashmir

The United Nations Security Council has urged India and Pakistan to ease tension and avoid military conflict, Pakistan said yesterday, as hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals surge after a deadly attack on tourists in disputed Kashmir.
6 May 2025

7 paramilitaries killed in bomb attack in SW Pakistan

Seven Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed and five others wounded yesterday in a homemade bomb attack on a convoy in southwestern Balochistan province, officials said.
6 May 2025

Pakistan conducts 2nd missile test

Pakistan yesterday conducted a second missile test and India ordered civil defence drills in an escalating stand-off over contested Kashmir that the UN said has brought the two nations to the brink of war.
5 May 2025

Maldives president holds record 15-hr press conference

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu addressed a press conference for nearly 15 hours, his office said yesterday, claiming it broke a previous record held by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
4 May 2025

Pakistan tests missile system

Pakistan’s military said it carried out a “training launch” of a surface-to-surface missile weapons system yesterday, further heightening tensions with India after last month’s deadly attack in disputed Kashmir.
3 May 2025

‘India may strike within 24 to 36 hrs’

Pakistan yesterday said it had “credible intelligence” that India was planning an imminent military strike and vowed to retaliate, as worries of spiralling conflict grew over a deadly attack in Kashmir.
30 April 2025

Response to J&K Terror Attack: India gives forces ‘operational freedom’

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the country's military "operational freedom" to respond to a deadly attack in Kashmir last week, a senior government source told AFP yesterday, after New Delhi blamed it on arch-rival Pakistan.
29 April 2025

Pakistan says it shot down Indian drone along Kashmir border

Pakistan's military shot down an Indian drone along the de facto Kashmir border, state radio in Islamabad reported
29 April 2025

Pakistan preparing to challenge India's suspension of water treaty, minister says

Government officials and experts on both sides say India cannot stop water flows immediately
29 April 2025

India says signs deal with France for 26 Rafale fighter jets

The deal comes as India's relations with arch-rival Pakistan plummet to fresh lows
28 April 2025

Pak troops kill 54 militants who tried to infiltrate from Afghanistan

Pakistan’s army said Sunday its soldiers killed 54 militants who had tried to enter the country by crossing its northwestern border with Afghanistan.
27 April 2025

Indo-Pak tensions: Rivals exchange gunfire for 2nd day

Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged gunfire along the disputed Kashmir region for a second straight day yesterday as Islamabad called for a “neutral” investigation into the killings of tourists in Indian occupied Kashmir.
26 April 2025