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Pakistan on Thursday warned of “appropriate action” if India violates the Indus Water Treaty and said it is closely monitoring the situation, amid reports that New Delhi may revisit the key water sharing accord. “Appropriate action will be taken in line with the Treaty in case of any violation by India,” Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Nafees Zakaria … Read more
China blocked India’s attempts to name JeM and LeT in the Goa Declaration, wherein the BRICS member states pledged to “relentlessly pursue” outfits designated terrorist groups by the UNSC, but what has hurt the government more, sources said, is Russia’s disinclination to argue India’s case. The result, of course, was a declaration which failed to … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday again took the opportunity to refer to the surgical strikes in Pakistan and said India’s army, “which everyone is talking about”, is now as good as the vaunted Israeli army. “Everyone is talking about our Army, we used to hear about similar feats of Israel. But now everyone knows the … Read more
The four militants, who killed 19 soldiers in a terror strike on an army camp in Uri last month, had used a ladder to scale the electrified fence at the Line of Control (LoC). Investigation carried out by the army to identify the infiltration route of the four terrorists concluded that a ladder was used … Read more
The Line of Control (LoC) will no longer be sacrosanct for India if Pakistan continues to export terrorists. This was indicated by India to Pakistan after the September 29 surgical strikes which took Indian troops into Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) to strike against terrorist launch pads , top-level sources in the government said. India’s current stand is different from … Read more
The Congress on claimed the UPA II, like the NDA government, had also conducted “surgical strikes” — but without making them public. The party listed three dates — September 1, 2011; July 28, 2013; and, January 14, 2014 — when the strikes took place. The Manmohan Singh government, known for its publicly stated policy of … Read more
The Government has Decided not to Release the Video of Surgical Strike along the LoC due to Security Reasons. The Govt believes that making the Footage Public will give away the Tactics and Operational Techniques employed by Para SF to Cross-LoC and Destroy Enemy Camps. The Indian army which had reportedly handed over video footage … Read more
Eyewitnesses living across the Line of Control (LoC) have provided The Indian Express with graphic accounts of last week’s Indian Army special forces strikes on jihadists’ staging posts, describing how bodies of those killed in clashes before dawn on September 29 were loaded onto trucks for secret burials. The eyewitnesses also described brief but intense … Read more
India has shown its eagerness to secure the early release of one of its soldiers, who was captured by Pakistani troops within the disputed region of Kashmir, where Delhi claims that it conducted surgical strikes on Thursday night. Rajnath Singh, India’s Minister of Home Affairs, says, “All attempts are being made. The government will take … Read more
After India’s surgical strikes along the LoC, Moscow expressed concern “with aggravation of situation along the line of control” and called on “parties not to allow any escalation of tension”. This stood in sharp contrast to Russia’s reaction to the 2008 terror strikes, where it supported “resolute actions of the Indian government to cut short … Read more
Amid heightened tension with Pakistan, the Army on Saturday asked the forces to be “prepared for any eventuality” and maintain “very high level of alert” as Army Chief General Dalbir Singh visited Jammu and Kashmir to assess the military preparedness. The situation on the Line of Control (LoC) and hinterland was discussed at a meeting … Read more
In a major damage-control exercise, the Pakistani army yesterday flew international and local media to the Line of Control (LoC) to ‘prove’ India didn’t conduct any surgical strikes across it in Pakistan, local and other international media reported today. In fact, French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) called the ferrying of journalists by air “a … Read more
With alertness very high post the surgical strikes on militant camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the Uri attack, Indian Air Force is aggressively upgrading infrastructure in the eastern sector specially in Arunachal Pradesh. IAF Eastern Air Command chief Hari Kumar said on Saturday that of the seven Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs) in Arunchal Pradesh, five … Read more
The surgical strikes by Indian Army across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir have been widely reported by international media. Some newspapers and websites also reported Pakistan’s continued denial of the Indian operation causing heavy casualties. Here’s a look at how some top publications covered the event – The UK Telegraph reported that the … Read more
The Army’s surgical strikes along the Line of Control (LoC) early Thursday that destroyed seven terror launch pads were carried out by 70-80 commandos from two separate battalions of Para Special Forces (SF) with IAF attack helicopters kept ready at four bases in J&K to address any contingency, sources told The Indian Express. Commandos of … Read more
India’s army said Thursday it carried out overnight “surgical strikes” on what it described as terrorist bases across the country’s de facto border with Pakistan. Indian military and government officials said Indian forces crossed the line of control that separates the Indian- and Pakistani-governed parts of Kashmir to hit militant camps. Pakistan’s military denied there … Read more
If India and Pakistan fought a war detonating 100 nuclear warheads (around half of their combined arsenal), each equivalent to a 15-kiloton Hiroshima bomb, more than 21 million people will be directly killed, about half the world’s protective ozone layer would be destroyed, and a “nuclear winter” would cripple the monsoons and agriculture worldwide. As … Read more
Nearly 10 days after the Uri attack that claimed 18 jawans, India carried out surgical strikes in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, inflicting heavy casualties on terrorists and ‘those protecting them” and indicating a change of stand on the rules of engagement on the disputed line of control. Indian DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh announced that Pakistan … Read more
Muzaffar Wani , the father of Slain Hizbul Mujahideen Commander Burhan Wani, whose encounter death triggered the continuing cycle of violence in Kashmir, tells TOI that his son’s dream was to join the Indian Army when he was 10 and also play cricket like Parvez Rasool – one day hopefully for India. The government school … Read more
Don’t worry Mr. Prime Minister, we are prepared and can hit them. This is the line that the India army has taken following the Uri attack in which 18 soldiers were martyred by four terrorists from the terrorist state of Pakistan. The Indian army has made two presentations to the government in which ways of … Read more