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India, Pakistan troops exchange fire in Kashmir

Troops from Pakistan and India exchanged fire in disputed Kashmir for a third night in a row, officials said on Sunday, as relations between the nuclear-armed rivals plunged to their lowest level in years.

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Water wars are no answer

HISTORY is a tireless teacher. It reminds us that wars between India and Pakistan have only hardened enmities, deepened poverty, and imperilled the broader region’s stability. Today, as tensions mount once again over the Indus Waters Treaty, a sobering truth confronts both New Delhi and Islamabad: peace is not an idealistic luxury — it is a survival imperative...

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India blows up homes of two attack suspects in Kashmir

Soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir on Friday blew up the family homes of two men who the police allege were among a gang that carried out the region’s deadliest attack against civilians for decades.

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Indian, Pakistani troops exchange fire in Kashmir

Troops from Pakistan and India exchanged fire overnight across the Line of Control in disputed Kashmir, officials said Friday, after the United Nations urged the nuclear-armed rivals to show ‘maximum restraint’ following a deadly shooting in the region.

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India and Pakistan: A history of division and war

Nuclear-armed arch-rivals India and Pakistan have long accused each other of backing forces to destabilise them, especially in the contested Himalayan region of Kashmir that each controls parts of.

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India, Pakistan exchange tit-for-tat measures

India and Pakistan exchanged an escalating series of tit-for-tat diplomatic measures on Thursday after New Delhi blamed its arch-rival for backing a deadly shooting attack in contested Kashmir.

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Pakistan foreign minister’s visit to Bangladesh postponed

Pakistan has postponed its deputy prime minister and foreign minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar’s visit to Bangladesh scheduled for April 27-28 amid escalating tension between Islamabad and New Delhi over a recent  deadly attack in India-administered Kashmir.

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Pakistan gunmen kill two  cops guarding polio vaccinators

Gunmen killed two Pakistani police officers guarding polio vaccinators in the turbulent southwestern province of Balochistan, officials said on Wednesday, the second attack since the launch of a nationwide inoculation drive this week...

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Pakistan extends detention for ethnic Baloch activist

Pakistan extended the detention of the most prominent rights activist of the Baloch minority for 30 days on Monday after she was charged with ‘terrorism’, ‘sedition’ and ‘murder’, her lawyer said.

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Bangladesh women qualify for ODI World Cup

Bangladesh secured their place in the ICC Women's ODI World Cup for the second consecutive time despite suffering a crushing seven-wicket loss to Pakistan in their final qualifier match in Lahore on Saturday.

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Pak FM visits Kabul amid rising Afghan deportations

Pakistan’s foreign minister arrived Saturday in Afghanistan to meet Taliban officials after his country expelled more than 85,000 Afghans, mostly children, in just over two weeks...

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Pak mob kills Ahmadiyya man

A mob beat to death a member of the persecuted Ahmadiyya minority on Friday after hundreds of radical Islamists surrounded their place of worship in the port city of Karachi, police said.

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Analysts await Dhaka-Islamabad FOC follow up at political level

Foreign relation analysts in Dhaka have said they would await the follow up developments of the official level foreign office consultation (FOC) between Bangladesh and Pakistan at the political level as the issues of apology for 1971 genocide and asset sharing came up in the talks.

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Bangladesh presses Pakistan for apology over 1971, asset share

Dhaka on Thursday in a meeting with Islamabad once again called for a formal apology for atrocities perpetrated by the Pakistani occupation forces during the War of Independence in 1971 and return of Bangladesh’s due share of its pre-independence assets and...

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Pakistan FM to visit Dhaka April 27-28

Pakistan’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar is scheduled to come to Bangladesh on April 27 on a two-day visit...

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60,000 Afghans return from Pakistan in 2 weeks: IOM

Nearly 60,000 Afghans have been forced to leave Pakistan since the start of April, the International Organisation for Migration said Tuesday, after Islamabad ramped up a campaign to deport migrants to Afghanistan.

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