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UN has told the Security Council, in a veiled reference to Pakistan. India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador, Ruchira Kamboj, made the remarks on Friday at the Security Council open debate on Small Arms.

Kashmir can be very depressing. In 2005, after the POK earthquake, I led a team on behalf of the UN to support the post-earthquake reconstruction. Visiting Muzaffarabad and villages around POK was an eye opener: no one spoke Kashmiri.

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World Cup 2023, Pakistan managed to bowl Australia out for 487 on Day 2 of the series opener in Perth, as its bowlers returned to form following a bashing on Day 1. In the absence of Naseem Shah and Haris Rauf, Pakistan's pace attack lacked both attack and pace. Looking at the match scorecard, out of the first 95 overs, Shaheen Afridi bowled only 25, however, his pace alarmingly ranged in the early 130s.

Islam's counter-punching fifty and a fiery spell by left-arm pacer Maruf Mridha helped Bangladesh score a facile four-wicket win over India to reach the final of the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup here Friday. On a slightly double-paced pitch, Indian batters struggled to get going before getting bundled out for 188 in 42.4 overs, with Musheer Khan (50) and Murugan Abhishek (62) doing all the scoring for them. Maruf took 4 for 41 to give early jolts to India in the second semifinal.

PTI. In the attack, four militants were also killed. The first attack occurred at the Police Lines in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Tank district, where three policemen were killed and three others injured, while four militants were also killed. Authorities said a terrorist blew himself up at the main entrance of the police office and residence block and the others stormed in.

Vladimir Putin condemned Israel's incessant bombing of Palestine's Gaza Strip, he also promised to intensify the offensive in Ukraine that started over a year ago. Ukraine's increased commination comes at a time when the United States is struggling to send aid ahead of their Presidential Polls in 2024. Meanwhile, despite the United Nations Security Council's resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue bombing the densely populated Gaza Strip ‘with or without international support’.

Shah said in the Upper House on December 11, "I want to give a reference to Sam Manekshaw (who was then serving at the Directorate of Military Operations). He said at one place that when the Pakistanis were attacking Kashmir, then he was busy in discussions (don't want to name the person). Sam Manekshaw was present at a meeting in which Sardar Patel told Nehru, "Do you want Kashmir or not?" Then the decision to send the army was taken." Amit Shah questioned the "untimely" ceasefire ordered during the attack by Pakistanis, especially when "our army was winning".

Pakistan cricket players who alleged that the Indian cricket board is treating them unfairly in the ICC World Cup 2023. Pakistan has never won a Test series in Australia and after their performance in the Test match so far, it does seem that they intend to change that record. Australian opener slammed a massive 164 to take Australia to 487 runs and Pakistan has already lost two wickets at the score of 132.

Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan before dawn Friday, triggering firefights that killed two police officers and three insurgents, security officials said. The attack in the town of Tank in Dera Ismail Khan came three days after a suicide bomber in the same region rammed his car into a police station’s main gate and five others opened fire, killing 23 officers in this year's worst attack on troops. Local police chief Iftikhar Shah said two police officers were “martyred” and three others were wounded in Friday's attack on the police headquarters, while two of the attackers died. He said a third militant was killed by soldiers during the assault on a nearby army post. No one immediately claimed responsibility, but suspicion was likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. The group is separate from Afghanistan's Taliban though it is allied with the Afghan movement, which seized power in the neighboring country in August 2021 as U.S.

Islamist militants rammed an explosive-laden truck into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people, two security officials said, the latest devastating attack in recent months claimed by a Pakistani Taliban group. The bomb and gun attack occurred in the district of Dera Ismail Khan on the edge of the lawless tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, the two security officials told Reuters.

Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Some militants also opened fire and a shootout between them and security forces was still ongoing. The terrorists rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the building of the police station, which was followed by a mortar attack.

Supreme Court of India’s verdict has affirmed the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. And, it has irked one of India’s neighbours. Pakistan's response came swiftly.

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Amit Shah again targetted former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and blamed him for Pakistan's illegal occupation of a portion of Kashmir, known as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Shah was speaking in the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023. «Jahan tak tang nazariye ka sawaal hai, desh ki ek bhi inch zameen ka sawaal hai, humara nazariya tang rahega, hum dil bada nahi kar sakte. No one has the right to give away a section of our land to show off their big heart,» Shah said.

Jawaharlal Nehru over the Jammu and Kashmir issue. Amit Shah reiterated his accusations that it was because of the ‘Nehruvian blunders’ that Pakistan could ‘illegally’ occupy of a portion of Kashmir, known as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), or Azad Kashmir. Amit Shah was speaking in the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023.

Article 370) has also come. Still, they (Congress) say that they don't accept this and that Article 370 was abrogated wrongfully. I can't explain to them what is the reality...Article 370 boosted separatism and separatism led to the rise of terrorism.

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Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Article 370 abrogation is «nothing less than a death sentence», adding that it marked the defeat of the idea of India with which the Muslim-majority state had acceded in 1947. «Today an unconstitutional and illegal act that took place in the Parliament was declared legal. It is nothing less than a death sentence not only for Jammu and Kashmir but for the idea of India,» Mufti said in a five-minute video message she posted on X.

ARY News. The shortage has caused serious concern among patients and citizens as the life-saving drugs are now being at higher prices in the black market. Last month, the Drug Regulatory Authority also launched a crackdown against an artificial shortage of essential medicines.

Jammu & Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023, and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023, have been passed in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. These bills, according to Union Minister Amit Shah, aim to address historical injustices and restore rights to those who were deprived of them in the Union Territory.