Contents: India-Pakistan belligerent war of words continues to escalate; World Bank declines to mediate Pakistan-India water dispute; India celebrates its 1971 victory over Pakistan
India now belongs to the list of top five defense spenders in the world with more than $50 billion devoted to its military budget, placing the South Asian country in fourth place, according to the annual Jane’s Defense Budgets Report issued by the research firm IHS Markit.
China is increasingly providing military and economic assistance to Pakistan amid deadly confrontations between Islamabad and New Delhi over the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Pakistan has said it would welcome U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s mediation in the ongoing deadly dispute between Islamabad and New Delhi over the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir, reveals the Pakistani Foreign Office (FO).
The Southern California Republican congressman being considered for Secretary of State told Breitbart News that President-elect Donald J. Trump sent the right message when he accepted a congratulatory call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen Friday, despite the uproar from Red China and America’s left-wing commentariat.
Contents: India’s Narendra Modi threatens to divert water from Pakistan to India’s farmers; Dangerous tensions continue in Kashmir; India says that Modi’s ‘demonetization’ program reduced Kashmir violence
Communist China denied Indian media claims that the Chinese military has conducted regular patrols inside war-ravaged Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s air force chief Marshal Sohail Aman has warned India against escalating the dispute over the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir into a full-scale war amid soaring tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
The southern Californian Republican congressman in consideration for Secretary of State told Breitbart News he shares the worldview of President-elect Donald J. Trump and he would gladly leave Congress to lead the Trump State Department.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin reaffirmed the strong relations between the Jewish state and India in meetings with the leaders of the South Asian country during a state visit Tuesday.
Contents: Only 1% of people in India pay any income taxes at all; India’s prime minister Narendra Modi declares 500-1000 rupee notes worthless; Many wives face hardship because their ‘hidden cash’ is now worthless
British Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday there was a “world of opportunities” for post-Brexit Britain in India, as she donned a saree during a temple charm offensive in Bangalore
(Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May offered India a possible improved visa deal on Monday, as the two countries kicked off talks on boosting trading links ahead of Britain’s departure from the European Union. May, making her first bilateral trip
Theresa May has been told Britain must ditch its border controls in return for a trade deal with India, with the UK warned by officials that it “needs Indians”. Ahead of the Prime Minister’s two-day visit to India, figures have blasted
The Indian military, as part of efforts aimed at increasing its presence and capabilities along its border with China, has successfully landed a C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, which has the capacity of carrying nearly 150 soldiers.
The U.S. Embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi issued a security message this week, urging Americans to “maintain a high level of vigilance” following media reports highlighting the Islamic State’s “desire to attack targets in India,” namely places that are visited regularly by Westerners.
An Irving, Texas man was arrested by FBI agents for his alleged involvement in a scam where he posed as an Internal Revenue Service agent to fraudulently wire funds to India.
The U.S.backed government of Afghanistan and aid agencies are reportedly ill-prepared to receive the hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees who have returned home from neighboring Pakistan and Iran as winter closes in and deteriorating security conditions uproot more Afghans across the country.
Pakistan has decided to block all television and radio channels that broadcast content from its regional nemesis and neighbor India, a testament to the ongoing tension between the nuclear armed countries that has prompted media tit-for-tat bans, reports Reuters.
China may no longer be able to remain in the shadows of the ongoing clashes between regional rivals and nuclear-armed neighbors Pakistan and India in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
India has asked domestic arms manufacturers and other military industrial companies to be ready to boost production of weapons, ammunition, and spare parts for warplanes at a moment’s notice, reports The India Times.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has labeled its regional rival Pakistan the “mothership of terrorism” and a country that “radiates the darkness of terrorism” as violent and sometimes deadly clashes between the two nuclear-armed nations continue in the disputed region of Kashmir despite a 2003 ceasefire.
JACKSON, Mississippi – Two immigrants from India and 17 others are facing federal charges after hatching a scheme to fraudulently bring more residents from India through a marriage scam that would grant them legal status.
Contents: Pakistan and India in farcical dispute over ‘surgical strikes’ in Kashmir; Farce continues, as Pakistan involves the German embassy
Three Iranian citizens were caught in Italy with fake Israeli passports, Israeli authorities were informed over Yom Kippur.
A leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), a right-wing Hindu nationalist party that is linked to the Indian Prime Minister and has been accused of forcing Muslims and Christians in India to become Hindu, was apprehended dressed in a burqa and molesting a female Islam adherent during a religious event in India’s most populous state.
Islamabad’s Foreign Office (FO) submitted a dossier to the United Nations containing alleged proof that India is “financing terrorist elements in Pakistan,” declared a spokesman for the FO.
Contents: New Anti-India violence erupts in Kashmir after police kill 12-year-old boy; Indian media increasingly accepts the ‘indigenous’ nature of the Kashmir protests
Pakistan and the Philippines have threatened to break ties with the United States and forge a closer relationship with Russia and China, accusing America of ignoring their concerns.
Troops from neighbors India and China are expected to participate in a joint military exercise in late October.
Indian police announced least 70 arrests on Thursday in connection with a massive telephone scam to cheat American taxpayers out of phony “back taxes.”
The Russian president of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has decided to ignore the intensifying tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan in the Muslim-majority and disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Tensions between regional rivals India and Pakistan have escalated in recent weeks as the two nuclear-armed countries continue to clash along the disputed border that divides the parts of the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir controlled by each country.
Clashes between the nuclear-armed militaries of India and Pakistan continue in the disputed and Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir, less than two weeks after New Delhi accused Islamabad of backing militants who killed at least 18 Indian soldiers last month.
Contents: Relations between India and Pakistan continue to deteriorate; India boycotts regional SAARC meeting in order to isolate Pakistan; Terrorists attack another Indian army base in Kashmir; India and Pakistan threaten war over Indus River water rights
Contents: Pakistan expected to retaliate after India invades Pakistani soil in Kashmir; China threatens Japan, South Korea and U.S. all in one day
Facebook has restored the official page of Pakistan’s extremists-linked Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), nearly a day after it was removed allegedly for featuring a picture of a rebel commander in Kashmir killed by the Indian military.
The government of Pakistan has failed to take “adequate” action against the al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked Haqqani Network, which poses the “primary threat” to the American military and its allies fighting in Afghanistan, declared a top U.S. commander.
India has urged the United Nations to “isolate” its regional rival and nuclear-armed counterpart Pakistan if it continues to refuse to join the global fight against terrorism, noting that it was long past time to identify nations who sponsor and export terror.
The Times of India reports on a curious border incursion from mid-September, in which a group of about forty Chinese troops crossed the border (or “Line of Actual Control”), built shelters on Indian soil, and resisted orders from Indian forces to depart, claiming the territory belonged to them.
