Daily Archives: February 27, 2019

PAKISTANI AIRSPACE CLOSED FOR COMMERCIAL FLIGHT OPERATIONS: CAA

Pakistani airspace has officially been closed for commercial flights, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced on Wednesday. The aviation authority made the announcement on Twitter after the director general of...

Air skirmish as Pakistani jets drop bombs in Kashmir, Islamabad claims to shoot down...

Pakistan shot down two Indian Air Force planes in its airspace in Kashmir on Wednesday (Feb 27), a military spokesman said, adding that one Indian pilot had been captured. “PAF...

PAF SHOOTS DOWN TWO INDIAN AIRCRAFT INSIDE PAKISTANI AIRSPACE; ONE PILOT ARRESTED

Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Wednesday, in retaliation to India's Line of Control (LoC) violation a day earlier, undertook strikes across the LoC from Pakistani airspace. "Sole purpose of this...

OIC CONDEMNS INDIAN INCURSION AGAINST PAKISTAN, URGES BOTH SIDES TO EXERCISE RESTRAINT

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Tuesday condemned India's violation of the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan earlier in the day, urging both countries to exercise restraint. In the...

India-Bangladesh joint military exercise: Tangail to host Sampriti-2019

As part of the ongoing India Bangladesh defence cooperation, a joint military exercise Sampriti-2019 will be conducted at Tangail, Bangladesh from Mar 2 to Mar 15. Exercise Sampriti-2019 is an...

Chinese envoy slams US official over BRI criticism in Nepal

China and Nepal are seeking to promote pragmatic cooperation in various sectors under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and projects such as ports, highways and hydropower facilities are...

Pakistani villagers say one person wounded in Indian air strike

Pakistani villagers in the area where Indian jets struck what officials in New Delhi said was a militant training camp said they heard four loud bangs in the early...

Sri Lanka asks IMF for 1-yr loan extension, relax tight spending targets

Sri Lanka has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to extend a $1.5 billion loan by another year and relax its tight spending targets ahead of key elections, two...

US, Taliban talk troop withdrawal, counter-terrorism at peace talks

American and Taliban officials looking to end a 17-year war in Afghanistan began their most detailed and high-level discussions yet on foreign troop withdrawals and counter-terrorism on Tuesday, officials...

BRI can be platform to ease India-Pakistan strains

The deadly terror attack in Pulwama is expected to be an unavoidable topic in a trilateral meeting among the foreign ministers of China, Russia and India, which is scheduled...

Investment whitewash for Rohingya bloodshed

Historic temples. Sandy beaches. Fishing grounds and farmland galore. This is the idyllic and profitable picture that the government of Myanmar painted last week for potential investors in the...

Myanmar military vows to remain in politics as long as EAOs exist

A spokesperson for Myanmar’s military, or Tatmadaw, in a press conference held on Saturday in Yangon restated the commander-in-chief’s vow that the military would step back from politics “when...

India’s air strike on Pakistan militant camp escalates tensions, with Islamabad promising retaliation

India said Tuesday its warplanes attacked a militant camp where Pakistan-backed fighters were preparing suicide attacks on its cities, sending tensions between the arch-rivals to a new peak. A “very...

Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal body set to meet in the wake of Indian air strike

A meeting of the National Command Authority (NCA) chaired by the prime minister is scheduled to take place on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Imran Khan chaired a meeting...

Israel sells India 50 military drones in 500-mln-USD deal

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has agreed with India's Ministry of Defense on the sale of 50 Heron unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for 500 million U.S. dollars, the daily newspaper...

Maldives’ opposition moves no-confidence motion against defence minister

Maldives’ opposition lawmakers on Monday submitted a motion of no-confidence against Defence Minister Mariya Ahmed Didi over controversial comments made during an interview with an Indian newspaper. The motion was...

India will need 5 years to prepare the construction of Project 11356 frigates

India will need more than five years to implement a contract for the construction of project 11356 frigates because it will have to fit the local shipyard with additional...

GOVT PUSHING KHALEDA TO DEATH, ALLEGES BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the government is conspiring to push its seriously sick chairperson Khaleda Zia to death by depriving...

TROOP WITHDRAWAL ‘DOMINATES’ US-TALIBAN TALKS IN QATAR

The United States peace negotiators led by the special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and senior members of the Taliban in Doha on Tuesday focused on withdrawal of US forces from...

War rhetoric & reality

In the aftermath of the Pulwama incident, shrill lobbies on both sides of the border have started beating the drums of war. Particularly jarring are the armchair warriors of...

ACCUSING INDIA OF AGGRESSION, PAKISTAN SAYS IT WILL RESPOND AT A TIME AND PLACE...

A special meeting of the National Security Committee Tuesday, while strongly rejecting Indian claim of targeting an alleged terrorist camp near Balakot, said India has committed an “uncalled for...