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Topic: Pakistan

India’s first pilot to land on Siachen recounts how his life was saved by Army comrades

An Air Force officer recalls a ‘dangerous and stupid’ sortie he undertook on the world’s highest battlefield.

Surviving on milk powder and willpower, six Indian soldiers held a peak on Siachen for half a year

A general recounts the tale of how as a young captain, he and five soldiers manned a post on a peak 20,000 feet above sea level for six gruelling months.

How India realised it was at risk of losing the Siachen glacier to Pakistan

April 1984 saw the Indian Army, supported by the IAF, launch an audacious and preemptive operation to occupy the Saltoro Ridge and dominate the Siachen Glacier. These vignettes are a tribute to that operation.

Remember the Chinese workers who couldn’t go to Pakistan’s brothels? They were deported

Here's what's happening across the border: City courts complex of Karachi caught fire and a local performer from Larkana was shot dead at a wedding by drunk attendees. 

These projects under China’s ‘Belt and Road’ could make the biggest economic impact

Despite the success stories, the Belt and Road programme isn’t without controversy and not all of the projects have succeeded.

Grand Pashtun rally kicks off, demands freedom and release of missing persons

Here's what's happening across the border: Pakistan to consider decriminalising consensual sex on UN's suggestion, and bad healthcare conditions continue to pose a challenge.

The terrible price ordinary Pakistanis have paid for hating India

In the end, Pakistan would still need a new basis for its nationalism that is based on reality rather than engineered narratives of history, writes Husain Haqqani in his new book.

One Belt, One Road, One Thrashing: How China took Pakistan hostage

As the United States draws closer to India, Pakistan has come to regard China as a life-support machine.

Transgender persons to get a school of their own in Lahore, two more to follow

Pak elections to get a Facebook transparency twist, and Urdu newspaper booked for publishing MQM chief’s statement. Here’s what’s happening across the border.

Chinese workers in Pakistan got way too angry when stopped from visiting brothels

They even cut off power supply to police in protest. Also in Pakistan, 18-year-old weightlifter who broke records in the Commonwealth Games. Here's what's happening across...

On Camera

Is Prashant Kishor the Kejriwal of Bihar? Yes, but not really

Arvind Kejriwal always played to the gallery promising the moon.But Prashant Kishor has been ‘brutal’ in telling the people that they have to blame themselves for the misrule in Bihar.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.