Survivors say it took 20 minutes to put out blaze on speeding Pakistani train, leaving 74 dead
A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan's eastern Punjab Province on Thursday killing 74 people and survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of the train's brakes. Three carriages were consumed ...
Khamenei tells Iran's Revolutionary Guard to develop advanced, modern weapons
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Sunday to develop more advanced and modern weapons, amid increasingly tense disputes with the United States and Gulf Arab states. Tensions in the Gulf have risen to new highs since May 2018, when the ...
India-Pakistan nuclear war could trigger global cooling and kill worldwide for a decade: researchers
The year is 2025 and militants have attacked India's parliament, killing most of its leaders. New Delhi retaliates by sending tanks into the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan. Fearing it will be overrun, Islamabad hits the invading forces with its battlefield nuclear weapons, triggering ...
Pakistan's Imran Khan presses Trump to seek Taliban and Kashmir deals
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday pressed U.S. President Donald Trump to restart talks with Afghanistan's Taliban and said Washington has a "duty" to calm the Kashmir standoff with India. "Stability in Afghanistan means stability in Pakistan," Khan said at the start of a ...
Amid tensions with India, Pakistani leader says country would not use nukes first
Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday, amid tensions with archrival India after New Delhi revoked the special status of its part of the disputed Kashmir region. "We both are nuclear-armed countries. If these tensions increase, the world ...
A Kashmiri militant commander said on Sunday that Pakistan should send troops to protect the people of India-controlled Kashmir if the United Nations does not send peacekeepers, after New Delhi revoked its autonomy last month. "It's binding upon the armed forces of Pakistan, the first ...
Pakistan rules out military option as Modi defends India's powder-keg Kashmir move
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday his powderkeg move to strip the disputed Kashmir region of its autonomy was necessary to stop "terrorism," as Pakistan voiced further outrage and the U.N. chief urged "maximum restraint." Modi's Hindu-nationalist government imposed direct rule on the Indian ...
Fear mounts in Pakistani Kashmir as tensions soar with India
Roads were empty, shops shuttered, and hotels vacant in Pakistani-administered Kashmir on Tuesday, as tension mounted along the de-facto border with India following Delhi's decision to bring part of the disputed Himalayan territory under its direct control. Fears have spread throughout the Pakistani side of ...
Disputed Kashmir's special status revoked by Indian presidential order
India's government revoked disputed Kashmir's special status with a presidential order Monday as thousands of newly deployed troops arrived and internet and phone services were cut in the restive Himalayan region where most people oppose Indian rule. Home Minister Amit Shah announced the revocation amid ...
Trump touches off storm in India with Kashmir mediation offer
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi never asked U.S. President Donald Trump to help mediate with Pakistan in their dispute over the Kashmir region, the government said on Tuesday, after Trump's comments set off a storm of criticism. Trump told reporters on Monday that Modi had ...
Trump says U.S. working with Pakistan to find way out of Afghan war
President Donald Trump, speaking at a White House meeting with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, said on Monday the United States is working with Islamabad to find a way out of the war in Afghanistan. Trump held out the possibility of restoring U.S. aid ...
India won't invite Pakistan leader for Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony: sources
India will not invite Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to Thursday's swearing-in ceremony for Narendra Modi, who will start his second term as India's prime minister, two sources in the foreign ministry said, suggesting any early warming in ties between the nuclear-armed neighbors is ...
