PAKISTAN PLANS DECISIVE CRACKDOWN ON MILITANT OUTFITS
A decisive crackdown on extremist and militant organisations in the country looks imminent.
“The action would soon be visible as things progress,” a source told a group of journalists at...
INDIA DOGFIGHT LOSS RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT ITS ‘VINTAGE’ MILITARY
It was an inauspicious moment for a military the United States is banking on to help keep an expanding China in check.
An Indian Air Force pilot found himself in...
WE DON’T COUNT CASUALTIES, ONLY TARGET, SAYS INDIAN AIR FORCE CHIEF ON JAISH CAMP...
On the timing of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman return to flying, Indian Air Force chief BS Dhanoa medical fitness will decide the issue(ANI)
Air Force does not count casualties, they...
NEW ELECTION COMMISSIONERS SWORN IN AFGHANISTAN
The new commissioners for the Independent Election Commission and the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission took the oath of office at a ceremony in the Presidential Palace on Monday, a...
RAKHINE GOVT REJECTS MASS RESIGNATION OF VILLAGE OFFICIALS
The Rakhine State government on Sunday rejected a request by dozens of village officials to resign en masse amid concerns over their security.
The state government will not allow them...
NEPAL GOVERNMENT’S PLAN TO TRIM NUMBER OF MISSIONS ABROAD TRIGGERS DEBATE
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs two months ago formed a task force to review Nepali embassies abroad--and their scope of work--amid a debate raging over whether the country should...
Executive Presidency: The bane of Sri Lanka’s democracy
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is vehement that the party would not back the envisaged 20th Amendment to Sri Lanka’s Constitution, which is expected to
India-Bangladesh begin joint military exercise
A joint military exercise to counter terrorism, insurgency and other challenges has begun as part of the ongoing India-Bangladesh defence cooperation. The military exercise Sampriti-2019 is being conducted at...
Russia, India open AK-203 assault rifle production plant
Russia and India on Sunday inaugurated a plant that will produce AK-203 Kalashnikov assault rifles in the northeastern Indian town of Korwa, Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC)...
Maldives’ parliament summons defence minister over ‘invasion’ comments
Maldives’ defence minister Mariya Ahmed Didi is to be summoned to parliament on Monday regarding some of her comments to Strategic News International (SNI), an Indian media outlet.
This is...
Finnish expert busts Indian claim of downing Pakistan F-16
Bellingcat, which received international attention with its analysis of forged data on satellite images of the downing of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 during the still ongoing war in...
Chinese envoy assures assistance to build LNG power plants in Sri Lanka
Ambassador of China in Sri Lanka Cheng Xueyuan and Sri Lanka's Minister of Power, Energy and Business Development Ravi Karunanayake held a meeting recently with the objective to enhance...
SINGAPORE PHYSICIANS FLOWN IN TO TREAT QUADER
The medical team from Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital entered the BSMMU around 7:45pm, said its director Abdullah Al Harun.
Obaidul Quader, also general secretary of Awami League also road transport...
Kashmir is in a perilous state because of India’s pivot to nationalism
On Friday, the four-day-long military flare-up between Pakistan and India began winding down, with Islamabad handing back an Indian air force pilot taken captive by the Pakistan army two...
ROHINGYA RELOCATION TO BHASAN CHAR TO START BY MID-APRIL
The process to relocate more than 100,000 Rohingya refugees to the Bhasan Char island from camps in Cox’s Bazar will kick off by mid-April, confirms a government minister.
“Prime Minister...
Why India should choose peace with Pakistan, instead of provocation
Pakistan does not want to go to war with India. This has been the message of Prime Minister Imran Khan since he was handed the reins of power following...
OPTION TO DELAY PEACE JIRGA ON THE TABLE: HPC
The reason behind the proposal is because of weather conditions, said the HPC spokesman Sayed Ehsan Tahiri, adding that if the cold weather prevails, members from remote regions of...
The US quietly negotiates ‘peace with honor’ in Afghanistan
A friend of mine, a veteran of America’s 21st-century wars in the Greater Middle East, recently sent along his most recent commentary on Afghanistan. It would be his last,...
Soldiers from Assam village fight a bitter battle to prove citizenship
The Indian Army, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Border Security Force (BSF) have never had a problem counting these soldiers as their own and deploying them...
‘KASHMIR AN INTERNAL MATTER’: INDIA REJECTS OIC RESOLUTION
India's Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday rejected a resolution on Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir adopted by an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi,...
India-Pakistan border quiet but Kashmir tense amid militancy crackdown
As India and Pakistan seemingly dial down hostilities that brought the arch enemies to the brink of another war, a massive crackdown on militancy in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region...