From left: Fawad Khan, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
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India-Pak Tensions Live | Cross-border firing: Pak violates LoC ceasefire for eighth straight night
During the night of May 1-2, the Pakistan Army posts resorted to unprovoked small arms firing from posts across the Line of Control opposite Kupwara, Baramulla, Poonch, Naushera, and Akhnoor areas of the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir.
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India-Pak Tensions Live | Vance says US hopes Pakistan cooperates with India against Pak-based militants
US Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that Washington hoped Pakistan would cooperate with India to hunt down Pakistan-based militants, and hopes that India's response to the recent Islamist militant attack in India-administered Kashmir does not lead to a broader regional conflict.
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India-Pak Tensions Live | PM Modi has our full support, says US State Dept spokesperson Tammy Bruce
India-Pak Tensions Live | Few crackers on the border will not work, take a solid step now, says Javed Akhtar
India-Pak Tensions Live | UNSC President signals readiness to discuss India-Pakistan tensions if requested
Amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan, the UN Security Council will be seized of the matter and could discuss the situation if such a request is made, President of the Council for the month of May Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris said on Thursday.
"This is an issue which is now ongoing, evolving," Sekeris said at a press briefing. (PTI)
India-Pak Tensions Live | UNSC expected to meet 'sooner rather than later' on situation between India, Pak: Council President
The UN Security Council could meet “sooner rather than later” to discuss the situation between India and Pakistan, and this would be an opportunity to express views and to help diffuse tensions, UNSC President said, voicing concern over rising tensions between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours.
"Of course, if a request comes for a meeting, then...I think this meeting should take place because, as we said, maybe it's also an opportunity to have views expressed and this might help to diffuse a bit tensions. We will see,” Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of May, Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris said in response to a question by PTI.
India-Pak Tensions Live | Pakistan to allow stranded citizens in India return via Wagah border after visa revocations
Pakistan on Friday announced that it would continue to allow the use of the Wagah border crossing for its citizens stranded in India, following New Delhi's decision to revoke visas in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror incident.
The Attari-Wagah border, located near Amritsar in India and Lahore in Pakistan, was shut on Thursday after being kept open till April 30.
As many as 70 Pakistani nationals were reportedly stranded at the border on Thursday, as the deadline for leaving India expired a day earlier.
Responding to media queries, the spokesperson for Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) acknowledged reports of Pakistani nationals, including children, stranded at the Attari border on the Indian side.
"We are aware of the media reports indicating that some Pakistani nationals are stranded at Attari. We are open to receiving our citizens in case the Indian authorities allow them to cross the border from their side,” the MoFA spokesperson said.
India-Pak Tensions Live | Mirroring India's steps, Islamabad had also closed the Wagah border post, cancelled visas given to Indians under the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES), and asked military advisers at the Indian High Commission to leave.
India-Pak Tensions Live | IAF conducts take-off and landing exercises
Amidst mounting of tensions between India-Pakistan, ANI reports that the Indian Air Force (IAF) is conducting take-off and landing exercises on the Ganga Expressway in Uttar Pradesh
The exercise is being organised to assess the expressway’s potential as an alternative runway during times of war or national emergencies.
India-Pak Tensions Live | 'Despite being deeply saddened by the recent terrorist attack, PM Modi still attended today’s event: Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu
Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu says, "Despite being deeply saddened by the recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, PM Modi still attended today’s event, which reflects his unwavering commitment. We fully support him in taking strong decisions to combat terrorism."
India-Pak Tensions Live | 'Pakistan has history with extremist groups, as a result we suffered': Bilawal
Pakistan has a past with extremist groups and suffered because of this, Pakistan Peoples Party chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said while answering a question on Islamabad backing terror outfits.
Bhutto-Zardari was asked in an interview with Sky News on Thursday whether he agreed with Defence Minister Khwaja Asif's controversial remark last week. Questioned if Pakistan has been supporting, training and funding terrorists, the minister had then said his country did the West's “dirty work” for decades.
Answering the question if he agreed with Asif's claim, Bhutto-Zardari said, “I don't think that it's a secret that Pakistan has a past as far as extremist groups are concerned. And as a result of this, we have suffered. Pakistan has suffered. We've gone through wave after wave of extremism.
(PTI News)
India-Pak Tensions Live | Pak to issue formal diplomatic notice to India for unilateral suspension of Indus treaty
Pakistan is planning to issue a formal diplomatic notice to India against its unilateral move to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty, a media report said Friday.
The decision was made after initial consultations between Pakistan’s ministries of Foreign Affairs, Law, and Water Resources, reported the Express News.
Quoting sources, the newspaper said emergency legal and constitutional consultations were held in response to India’s unilateral move, and preliminary groundwork has been completed after which it has been decided to formally serve a diplomatic notice to India over the suspension of the treaty.
(With PTI inputs)
India-Pak Tensions Live |More Pak celebs including Fawad Khan, Atif Aslam, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan blocked on Instagram
India-Pak Tensions Live | Entire country awaits accountability, answers, and justice on Pahalgam terror attack: CWC Resolution
India-Pak Tensions Live | CWC reaffirms demand for time-bound accountability into serious security, intelligence lapses in J&K: CWC resolution on Pahalgam attack
India-Pak Tensions Live | CWC passes two resolutions on Pahalgam terror attack, caste survey
India-Pak Tensions Live | "Time to teach Pakistan a lesson": Congress; adopts Pahalgam attack resolution, calls for national unity and resolve
Congress on Friday urged the Centre to act with firmness in the wake of the Pahalgam attack to "penalise" Pakistan for its continued export of terror and asserted this is a time for demonstrating our collective will as a nation to “teach Pakistan a lesson”.
Calling for national unity and resolve, the Congress also pressed for "time-bound accountability" into the "serious lapses" in security and intelligence in one of the most heavily-guarded regions of the country.
The opposition party made the assertions in a resolution passed by the Congress Working Committee (CWC) at its meeting which was chaired by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge. Former Congress presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and general secretaries Jairam Ramesh, K C Venugopal and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra among others attended the meeting.
(PTI inputs)