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Information Minister Attaullah Tarar late on Tuesday night said that “credible intelligence” reports indicated that India was planning to conduct a military action against Pakistan in the next 24 to 36 hours amid tensions between the two countries after the Pahalgam attack in occupied Kashmir last week that New Delhi blamed on Islamabad, albeit without proof. Earlier today, India gave its military “operational freedom” to respond to the deadly attack in occupied Kashmir last week. Speaking to the media hours after the development, Tarar said: “Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends carrying out military action against Pakistan in the next 24-36 hours on the pretext of baseless and concocted allegations of involvement in the Pahalgam incident.” He said Pakistan vehemently rejected “Indian self-assumed hubristic role of judge, jury and executioner in the region” which was completely “reckless”. “Pakistan has been the victim of terrorism itself and truly understands the pain of this scourge,” he s...

Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General, Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, on Tuesday said that India hadn’t provided a “shred of evidence for its baseless allegations” against Pakistan concerning the Pahalgam attack, adding that India was involved in “undertaking cross-border terrorism inside Pakistan.” Relations between Pakistan and India have plummeted to their lowest level in years following the April 22 attack in Indian-occupied Kashmir’s Pahalgam, which killed 26 men, mostly tourists, and was one of the deadliest armed attacks on civilians in the disputed Himalayan region since 2000. Kashmir Resistance, also known as The Resistance Front, said it “unequivocally” denied involvement in the attack, after an initial message that claimed responsibility. Says India has not provided evidence for “baseless allegations” against Pakistan Says India has been found operating a terror network inside Pakistan targeting not only military but also innocent civilians Says forensic analysis of retrieved mater...

QUETTA: Pakistan’s security forces have arrested a key suspect involved in the Noshki blast during a counterterrorism operation near the Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan, ARY News reported on Tuesday, citing security sources. The suspect, identified as Farid Baloch, was apprehended during a targeted raid. According to security sources, he confessed to having links with Indian […]

Pakistan is preparing to launch international legal action against India following its unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, a move Islamabad views as a violation of international law.

LONDON, April 29, 2025: The English Premier League is expanding its global footprint with the opening of a new office in Mumbai, strengthening its commitment to one of football’s most passionate fan bases. The Mumbai hub will build on nearly two decades of Premier League engagement in India, where the League has run grassroots initiatives […]

• Defence minister says military briefed govt on possible conflict with India, next few days ‘crucial’ • Beijing, Washington, Ankara and Doha urge measures to calm tensions as neighbours trade fire across Line of Control ISLAMABAD: As friends in foreign capitals continue to advocate for a de-escalation of tensions in South Asia, Pakistan’s defence min­ister said the country was ready for any incursion by India. The two neighbours have been trading fire across the Line of Control (LoC) for four days now, with each blaming the other for provocation. “We have reinforced our forces because it is something which is imminent now. So in that situation some strategic decisions have to be taken, so those decisions have been taken,” Khawaja Asif told Reuters on Monday. He said the military had briefed the government on the possibility of an Indian attack, but did not go into further details on his reasons for thinking an incursion was imminent. His remarks follow New Delhi’s increasingly aggressive posturing following ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Attaullah Tarar on Monday condemned the Indian move to ban YouTube channels of Pakistani media, journalists and anchorpersons in India following the Pahalgam incident.

THIS screengrab of a YouTube notice states that the ‘The Pakistan Experience’ channel has been blocked in India.—X/Shehzad89 • New Delhi objects to BBC’s coverage of Pahalgam attack • Pakistan’s National Cyber Emergency Resp­onse Team warns media, content creators against sharing sensitive info KARACHI: The Indian government on Monday banned 16 Pakistani YouTube channels belonging to media organisations, freelance journalists, content creators and sportspersons. The channels were blocked by the Government of India on the recommendations of the Ministry of Home Affairs, The Hindu reported, while quoting a government official. The channels blocked in India are: Dawn News, Samaa TV, ARY News, Geo News, Bol News, SUNO News HD, Raftar, GNN, Irshad Bhatti, The Pakistan Reference, Samaa Sports, Uzair Cricket, Umar Cheema Exclusive, Asma Shirazi, Muneeb Farooq and Raazi Nama. The account of former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar’s channel was also banned. Comedian and content creator Shehzad Ghias said his podcast...

Islamabad - Senior politician and former federal minister Muhammad Ali Durrani has said that following the unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), India can no longer block the waters of the Ravi, Sutlej, and Beas rivers.

India has used the armed attack in Indian Occupied Kashmir as a pretext to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan for domestic political purposes, Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said, as he called for an international inquiry into the incident. India, he told The New York Times, was taking steps to punish Pakistan “without any proof, without any investigation.” Twentysix people were killed and several others injured in a gun attack on a group of tourists near Pahalgam, a town in the southern part of the disputed territory. In the interview with the Times on Friday, Asif said that Pakistan was “ready to cooperate” with “any investigation which is conducted by international inspectors. Times correspondent Julian Barnes, who interviewed the defence minister, wrote that his remarks “appeared to be aimed at defusing tensions with India”. “We do not want this war to flare up, because flaring up of this war can cause disaster for this region,” the defence minister said. Noting Indian officials ass...

ISLAMABAD - Iran has offered to mediate between Pakistan and India to de-escalate tensions over Pahalgam attack.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday criticised India’s pattern of blaming Pakistan without evidence following any unfortunate incident in Kashmir.

ISLAMABAD - Federal Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Minister Ahsan Iqbal has stated that despite being seven times larger in size, possessing an expansive landmass, and having centuries of statehood experience, India continues to suffer from an insecurity syndrome — in sharp contrast to Pakistan.

LAHORE - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar on Saturday said the nation is fully alert, and any aggression by India will be met with a strong and decisive response.

Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday accused India’s intelligence agency, RAW, and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) of being behind several terrorist incidents, including the recent bloodshed in Pahalgam.

United States President Donald Trump stirred controversy by inaccurately claiming that Pakistan and India have been "fighting over Kashmir for 1,000 years," while commenting on the recent escalation between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s unanimous response to India’s hostile tone has pushed New Delhi on the back foot after the unsubstantiated allegations linking Islamabad to the recent deadly attack in Pahalgam, Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

ISLAMABAD - Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has drawn the international community’s attention towards the growing tensions between India and Pakistan, saying that the world should be worried about the potential for a full-scale conflict between the two nuclear-armed nations.

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar on Friday said the First Information Report (FIR) of Pahalgam was lodged within ten minutes of the incident that has completely exposed the false flag operation of India which orchestrated the whole episode to defame Pakistan.

Pakistan on Thursday announced the suspension of trade, bilateral accords and airspaces with India, among other moves, as it retaliated to New Delhi’s slew of aggressive measures against the country in the wake of a deadly attack in India-held Kashmir. Among India’s actions was the unilateral decision to suspend the 1960 Indus Water Treaty, which was brokered by the World Bank and has endured through wars and decades of hostility. The decisions were made during a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) in Islamabad today, convened to formulate a response to India. Chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the meeting was attended by top government and military officials, including the defence minister, foreign minister, interior minister, national security adviser, and the chiefs of armed forces, among others. The committee highlighted that the Indus Waters Treaty is a binding international agreement brokered by the World Bank and contains no provision for unilateral suspension. Water is a Vital Nati...