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‘They’ll figure it out one way or another’: Donald Trump on India-Pakistan tensions after Pahalgam terror attack

US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan following the deadly Pahalgam terror attacks said that the two nations will resolve the situation between themselves “one way or the other”. Speaking aboard Air Force One en route to Rome, Donald Trump downplayed the escalation and referred to the […]

Pak defence minister admits his country harbours terror organisations, says it is to do ‘the West’s dirty work’

LONDON: Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif has admitted on Sky News that Pakistan harbours and funds terror organisations, saying that it has been “doing the West’s dirty work for decades”.He also said the Pakistan-based terror groups are “not multiple organisations” but “one single organisation religiously organised with different faces”.When asked by Sky’s Yalda Hakim on […]

Public opinion moulded India’s response to terror, Pak’s ‘tit-for-tat’ came through generals

ISLAMABAD: The manner of Pakistan’s tit-for-tat response to punitive diplomatic measures by India over the April 22 terrorist attack on tourists in J&K’s Pahalgam highlights deeper structural differences between the neighbours.India’s decision to slap a series of retaliatory costs on Pakistan for cross-border terrorism was framed at a meeting of elected representatives led by PM […]

Pakistan Official Calls for International Inquiry Into Kashmir Terror Attack

Pakistan’s defense minister on Friday declared his country’s innocence in a terror attack that killed 26 people this week in disputed Kashmir territory controlled by India, and said that an international investigation into the attack was needed. In an interview, the minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, said that the country was “ready to cooperate” with “any […]

‘This was a terrorist attack’: US House panel slams NYT for ‘whitewashing’ Pahalgam terror attack on Hindus

The US house foreign affairs committee on Wednesday took sharp exception to a New York Times headline describing the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack, where 28 tourists were killed, as the work of “militants.” The Committee’s Republican majority posted a sharply worded correction on social media platform X, accusing the outlet of downplaying the severity […]

Pahalgam Terror Attack: Hindu America Foundation slams Western media for ‘whitewashing terror attack’ on Hindus | World News

The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has sharply condemned what it calls a “shameful and deliberate erasure” by major Western media outlets in the aftermath of the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, where 26 Hindu tourists were executed in cold blood by terrorists affiliated with The Resistance Front—a Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy backed by Pakistan.“Let’s get […]

Russia to rule on removing Taliban from ‘terror’ list after 20 years

Russia’s Supreme Court to decide next month on removing the Taliban from its list of banned “terrorist” organisations, state news agencies reported Monday. The ruling, expected on April 17, follows a request from the prosecutor general’s office and is likely to lift the designation. Despite the Taliban’s classification as a terrorist group since 2003, Moscow […]

Pakistan records highest number of terror attacks during Ramzan in a decade

(AP photo) Pakistan experienced highest number of militant attacks during the holy month of Ramzan, reaching the unprecedent count in the span of ten years, according to a think tank’s Monday report.Certain militant organisations traditionally observed peaceful periods during Ramzan, however, the nation has witnessed an increasing trend of violent incidents in recent times.According to […]

‘More than a coincidence’: UK terror police investigate Heathrow fire as experts suspect Russian sabotage

This image taken from video shows firefighters working to secure the area of a fire at the North Hyde electrical substation, which caught fire Thursday night and lead to a closure of Heathrow Airport in London. (Pic credit: AP) British counter-terrorism police have launched an investigation into a massive fire at an electrical substation near […]