India, US urge Pak not to use its territory for terror strikes

A bipartisan bill seeking to revoke Pakistan’s status as major non-NATO ally to the United States has been introduced in the House of Representatives by two top lawmakers, saying the country failed to effectively fight terrorism. Introduced by Republican Congressman Ted Poe and Democratic lawmaker Rick Nolan, the legislation calls for revoking MNNA status of Pakistan, which was granted to it in 2004 by the then president, George Bush, in an effort to get the country to help the US ...

IAF's Western Command chief C Hari Kumar has visited troops deployed in areas along the Indo-Pak border and asked them to maintain a high level of vigil. The air marshal made a one-day visit to the Air Force Station in Jammu on Tuesday after which he went to ...

COA to consult with Shastri over Dravid, Zak appointments The Committee of Administrators (CoA) today said the Indian cricket team's support staff will be recruited after consultation with head coach Ravi Shastri by July 22, effectively putting on hold Zaheer ...

Calls of 'Pakistan murdabaad' rang through Dahanu as the bodies of Usha Sonkar and Nirmala Thakur were brought home on Tuesday. Sonkar and Thakur were two of the 14 pilgrims from the coastal town in Palghar district who went on Amarnath yatra and were killed ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Washington visit would strengthen the Indo-US relationship and help advance the common interest in fighting terrorism and promoting economic growth, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar in Washington, DC. Image: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson greets Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar before their bilateral meeting at the US Department of State in Washington, DC, on June 23, 2017. Photograph: State Department photo/ ...

Pakistan will review its 'lenient' visa policy for Chinese nationals to plug the loopholes in the current system, weeks after the killing of two Chinese 'missionaries' who entered the country on business visas. The conditions and requirements for issuance of ...

1). Indian arrested in Islamabad for not carrying travel documents: Pak media An Indian national has been arrested here for not possessing travel and visa documents, a media report said today. Sheikh Nabi Ahmed, who hailed from Jogeshwari East in Mumbai, was ...

"Are you with us or with Qatar?" Saudi King Salman raised this question during a meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who had visited the Gulf Kingdom for finding a diplomatic solution to the Qatar crisis. The Saudi monarch asked Sharif to take ...

Pakistan's top diplomat in the US was laughed at by a Washington audience when he repeatedly insisted that there are no safe sanctuaries for terrorists in Pakistan and that the Taliban leader, who reportedly died in a hospital in Karachi, never left ...