New Delhi: India on Friday termed as biased the statements by Turkey and Malaysia supporting Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir at the UN General Assembly. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar, addressing a briefing, slammed the statements on Kashmir by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad. He said the two leaders had […]
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India rejects China-Pak joint statement on Kashmir
New Delhi: India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday rejected the reference to Jammu and Kashmir in the joint statement issued by China and Pakistan in which China has reaffirmed its support to Pakistan on the issue. Responding to a query on the reference to Jammu and Kashmir in the joint statement issued after […]
India expresses displeasure at Pak’s decision disallowing Prez Kovind’s plane over its airspace
New Delhi: India has expressed its displeasure at Pakistan’s unilateral decision to disallow President Ram Nath Kovind’s plane over its airspace. Responding to a query on denial of overflight clearance to a VVIP special flight by Pakistan, Raveesh Kumar, spokesperson for Ministry of External Affair, said, “We regret the decision of the government of Pakistan […]
Jadhav under extreme pressure: India after consular meet
New Delhi/Islamabad: India said that its former navy officer Kulbhushan Yadav, held by Pakistan for alleged espionage, seemed to be under “extreme pressure to parrot a false narrative” supporting the charges slapped on him. India’s Deputy High Commissioner in Islamabad Gaurav Ahluwalia on Monday met Jadhav in a sub-jail for over an hour after Islamabad […]
High time Pak starts behaving like a normal neighbour: India
New Delhi: Amid an alert sounded in Gujarat over a possible attack by Pakistan trained commandoes, India on Thursday said that it was high time that Pakistan started behaving like a “normal neighbour” instead of pushing terrorists into a neighbouring country, and also “do normal talk and normal trade”. With Pakistan unwilling to scale down […]
India dismisses Pak letter to UN as not worth the paper
New Delhi: India on Thursday dismissed a letter by Pakistani Minister Shireen Mazari to the UN on the Kashmir issue, saying it is not worth the paper on which it is written. “Frankly, I do not want to lend any credence to the letter by reacting to it. Let me put it simply that the […]
J&K: India talks tough, tells China to mind its own business
New Delhi (1 MIN READ): India on Tuesday firmly told China that creating a new union territory of Ladakh is its own internal matter, after Beijing termed the move as “unacceptable”. New Delhi also said that it does not comment on the internal matters of others, and expects others to do likewise. Responding to a […]
‘Glaring admission’ by Pakistan on terrorists, says India
New Delhi: India on Thursday termed as a “glaring admission” by the Pakistani leadership that “30,000 to 40,000” terrorists who had fought in Kashmir were in the country and said it is time for Islamabad to take “credible and irreversible action” against the terrorists and terror training camps on its soil. Reacting to Pakistan Prime […]
Time to move on: MEA on Trump’s Kashmir remarks
New Delhi: Preferring to look at the larger picture of Indo-US ties and ignore President Donald Trump’s recent remarks on Kashmir, India said on Thursday that it has made its position known on the issue and the US State Department too had issued a clarification, and now it is “time to move on”. External Affairs […]
India expects to get ‘full consular access’ to Jadhav
New Delhi: India said on Thursday that it expects to get “full consular access” to retired naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav whose death sentence by a Pakistani military court has been stayed by the International Court of Justice. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said that post the “favourable judgement in the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, […]