Month: May 2025

[ad_1] A soldier stands guard near Dal Lake in Srinagar on Saturday (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: BJP on Saturday dismissed claims that the pause in hostilities between India and Pakistan was driven by US pressure, emphasising that the agreement was firmly on New Delhi's terms. Contrasting the current understanding with past instances where India lost strategic advantages, the party credited the govt for rewriting the narrative.Citing India's new 'war doctrine' that any act of terror will be treated as an 'act of war' against India, a BJP neta said only the US and Israel had comparable doctrines, marking India's assertive global stance.The functionary also highlighted India's leverage over the Indus Waters Treaty, which remains unaffected by the current India-Pakistan border understanding. Notably, World Bank, once a guarantor, has distanced itself from the treaty, strengthening India's position."India is a rising economic […]

[ad_1] Two gates at the Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project Dam built on the Chenab River were opened (ANI) Srinagar: While India and Pakistan agreed to a pause in firing and military action, with no mention of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) which India has put in abeyance, two gates of the Baglihar dam were thrown open on Saturday, causing Chenab River to swell.Sources said two gates of the dam remained open from around 8.30am till 4.30pm. The gates were opened to regulate rising water levels triggered by heavy rainfall in the region on Friday.The IWT gives India exclusive rights to use the waters of the eastern rivers - Sutlej, Beas and Ravi - and their tributaries, before they enter Pakistan, while the latter secured rights over the waters of the western rivers - Chenab, Jhelum and Indus.Following the Pahalgam terror […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: It was shortly after 9am that India’s director general of military operations, Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, got a call on the hotline from his Pakistani counterpart Maj Gen Kashif Abdullah. Abdullah sounded Ghai out on a ceasefire and, it is learned, referred to the conversation US secretary of state Marco Rubio had with Pakistan Army chief Gen Asim Munir, in a clear indication that the feelers were coming from his boss.Ghai briefed his bosses on the development but got no instruction from them to engage with Abdullah. Foreign secretary Vikram Misri made no mention of the contact made by Pakistan in the media briefing he held at 10.50am, where he disclosed the losses that IAF had inflicted on Pakistan’s airbases. IAF had stepped up attacks by the time Rubio called foreign minister S Jaishankar around 11am. In […]

[ad_1] Pakistan violated ceasefire, hours after reaching agreement NEW DELHI: After three nights of intense aerial warfare, India and Pakistan reached an understanding to end the fighting that President Donald Trump claimed was "mediated" by the US, but which India insisted was achieved bilaterally through director general of military operations (DGMO)-level talks initiated by the Pakistani side.The understanding quickly ran into teething problems though, with India accusing Pakistan of repeatedly violating the agreement and Indian armed forces responding adequately to such attacks hours after the understanding was announced.Foreign secretary Vikram Misri called upon Pakistan to take appropriate steps and deal with the situation with seriousness and responsibility. "The armed forces are maintaining a strong vigil on the situation. They have been given instructions to deal strongly with any instances of repetition of the violations of the border along the International […]

[ad_1] A structure in Muridke damaged in the Indian strike LONDON: Sky News has traced social media accounts expressing support for jihadist terrorist groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and al-Qaida to the exact location of the building in Muridke, Pakistan, which was struck by India last week in retaliation for the Pahalgam terrorist attack.A Sky News forensics and data team geolocated to Markaz Taiba in Muridke multiple videos on TikTok, YouTube and Google which express support for the LeT and "313", referring to the 313 Brigade, al-Qaida's military wing in Pakistan.The videos were posted before India blew the complex up last week. The channel confirmed the video locations using satellite imagery in and around the complex.According to Stanford University's mapping militants project, members of 313 Brigade include Taliban and allied jihadist groups, such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, LeT and Jaish-e-Muhammed . […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India's Operation Sindoor, conducted on the night of May 6 and 7, resulted in the elimination of around a dozen high-value terrorists in Pakistan, including IC-814 hijacker Yusuf Azhar, chief of Lashkar's Muridke headquarters Abu Jundal aka Mudassar, and the son of the 2016 Nagrota attack plotter.Sources termed the deaths of the jihadi commanders as a severe setback to Pakistan's military-terror nexus, adding that fresh estimates show that at least 130-140 terrrorists were killed in the strikes India launched to avenge Pahalgam killings.The precision strikes also exposed the thin veil that had been long placed between the Pakistani govt and its terror proxies with the funerals of jihadi A-listers being attended by the military-political establishment.This time, message was clear: India knows where to find & hit terrorists Mudassar, the head of LeT's headquarters at Muridike and one […]