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Pakistan must be held accountable for ‘horrific human rights violations’: India after 10 killed in PoJK

Recent protests have seen Pakistan-occupied J&K face communications, Internet blackout. Pakistan govt has sent delegation to negotiate with protesters.

IAF lost ‘some’ jets in Op Sindoor over political constraint to not hit military—Indian Defence Attaché

The remark made earlier this month by Defence Attaché to Indonesia has sparked a row as Oppn seeks answers. Indian Embassy in Indonesia says remarks 'quoted out of context'.

SubscriberWrites: Why is POK still with Pakistan? It’s time to reunify Kashmir

India’s claim to POK is legal, moral, and unfinished—it's time to move beyond maps and pursue true reunification with conviction, strategy, and compassion.

Global media reports on India’s ‘sprint to crush Maoist insurgency’ & the fall of Basavaraju

International media also looks at the case against Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad & Pakistan army chief General Asim Munir's 'self-promotion'.

Nothing short of reclaiming PoK will end terrorism. Give Pakistan the 1971 treatment

After the Pahalgam terror attack, India announced tough steps against Pakistan. From suspending the Indus Water Treaty to calls for de-militarising PoK, the response reflects a shift in India’s counter-terror strategy.

Jaishankar’s PoK remarks in UK echo in J&K. Omar asks, what about J&K portions that are with China?

Who is stopping you, J&K CM Omar Abdullah asks Centre on taking back PoK. Jaishankar forgot to mention Gilgit and Baltistan, adds Congress’s Manish Tewari.

Asim Munir is reversing Bajwa’s LOC passivism. Militancy is coming back to Kashmir

The Kashmir Day event in Pakistan was organised to help militant groups popularise themselves among their constituents by signaling that the State had sanctioned a big show.

SubscriberWrites: Human rights violations and political rights denial in POK

Despite being referred to as 'Azad' (free), POK does not enjoy genuine autonomy. The political framework and governance of the region remain tightly controlled by Islamabad.

Islamabad HC warns Pakistani establishment—’release poet or PM Sharif will be summoned’

Ahmad Farhad is a 38-year-old poet and journalist from Bagh district of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Until the day of his abduction, he was reporting extensively on the protests in PoK.

Inflation riots in POK are all about local issues. That’s good for India

For the first time since 1947, there is now an institutional symmetry to the two parts of Maharaja Hari Singh’s Kashmir.

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.