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Khan to Pakistanis: Don’t join anti-India fight in Kashmir
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has warned his citizens against joining the fight in Kashmir, saying the Indian authorities were waiting for “any excuse” to crack down on the residents in the Himalayan territory. “If someone from Pakistan goes to
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India’s crackdown on Kashmir will spur Muslim extremism globally
MUZAFFARABAD: India’s crackdown on protests and dissent in Kashmir will drive more of the world’s Muslims into extremism, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said during a fiery speech yesterday, in the part of the disputed territory administered by Pakistan. India
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First death in Kashmir, Pakistan sees ‘seeds of war’
SRINAGAR: A man died in Indian Kashmir nearly a month after being injured in a protest, officials said yesterday, confirming the first such death since India revoked the region’s autonomy. News of the fatality came as Pakistan warned that India
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PM Khan: I won’t start a nuclear war
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first, Prime Minister Imran Khan said today, amid tensions with arch-rival India after New Delhi revoked the special status of its part of the disputed Kashmir region. “We both are nuclear-armed countries. If
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Imran Khan leads demonstration on Kashmir in Pakistan
SRINAGAR, India/ISLAMABAD: Cities around Pakistan came to a standstill yesterday as tens of thousands of people poured onto the streets in a government-led demonstration of solidarity with the disputed region of Kashmir, after India revoked its autonomy this month. The
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Pakistan may close airspace to India
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is considering to close Pakistan’s airspace to India and blocking its eastern neighbour’s land trade route to Afghanistan, Pakistan’s science and technology minister in Islamabad said yesterday. Pakistan reopened its airspace to India in mid-July,
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Kashmir protesters defy restrictions, clash with security forces
SRINAGAR: Security forces used tear gas against stone-throwing local residents in Indian Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar yesterday, after a third straight week of protests in the restive Soura district despite the imposition of tight restrictions. Paramilitary police tried to
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Trump urges India and Pakistan to reduce tensions
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump spoke with the leaders of India and Pakistan yesterday, discussing prospects for improved trade ties with Washington and stressing the need to reduce tensions over Kashmir between the nuclear-armed neighbours. “Spoke to my two
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Pakistan PM to challenge India over Kashmir issue
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed Tuesday to challenge at the UN security council India’s decision to strip Kashmir of its special autonomy, a move he warned could provoke conflict in the region. Khan gave a forceful rebuke of
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Imran Khan: Pulwama terror attack indigenous, Pakistan not involved
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the Pulwama terror attack that left 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel dead, was an “indigenous thing” that happened in Kashmir. Imran Khan also said that since Jaish-e-Mohammed, a terror group
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