Pakistan

Tributes paid, war veterans honoured on Kargil Vijay Diwas

6:45 pm July 26, 2020

Chennai: Floral tributes were paid to fallen soldiers at the war memorials here and at nearby Puducherry on Sunday on the 21st anniversary of the nation’s victory over Pakistan in the Kargil war. Major General Prakash Chandra, Chief Staff Officer, Head Quarters, Dakshin Bharat Area, placed a wreath at the war memorial here in honour of the fallen soldiers and felicitated Kargil veterans […]

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PM recalls valour of soldiers in Kargil, says wars fought on borders and within country too

6:33 pm July 26, 2020

New Delhi: Hailing the valour of the armed forces during the Kargil war, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked people to speak and act keeping in mind the morale of soldiers and asserted that wars are fought not just on borders but on many fronts within the country too. In his monthly ‘Mann ki […]

Pakistan wraps up anti-polio drive amid surge in cases

11:17 pm July 24, 2020

Peshawar: Pakistan on Friday wrapped up a five-day vaccination campaign against polio in the former Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan and elsewhere in the country amid a surge in cases, officials said. Vaccinations started on Monday, aiming to have about 800,000 children inoculated. Fortunately, during this campaign, there were no reports of militant attacks on polio teams or police […]

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Pak bans over 100 textbooks over ‘objectionable content’, not showing PoK part of country

7:58 pm July 24, 2020

Lahore: Pakistan’s Punjab government has banned over 100 textbooks taught at schools after finding in them “blasphemous and objectionable content” such as not showing Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as part of the country. Some books had not even printed the correct date of the birth of Pakistan’s founder ‘Quaid-e-Azam’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah and national poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal, and some had the […]

Rajnath Singh reviews security situation in J-K

10:28 pm July 17, 2020

Srinagar: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday asked the armed forces to a give befitting reply to any “misadventure” by Pakistan as he reviewed the overall security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir with top military brass, officials said. At a high-level meeting, the defence minister also asked the armed forces to maintain a strict vigil […]