Baltistan

Gunmen attacked a bus near the town of Chilas in northern Pakistan on Saturday, killing eight passengers and injuring at least 15, district and regional officials said.

The body of a 28-year-old Indian woman, who had gone missing in the Kargil district of Ladakh, was found in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region on Wednesday, police said.

In a strongly worded message, Army Chief Bipin Rawat on Friday described Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) as a "terrorist-controlled country or a terrorist-controlled part of Pakistan". Delivering the KM Cariappa Memorial Lecture in Delhi, General Rawat raised the issue of Article 370 and, in a reference to the increase in terrorist activity in Jamm...

India on Thursday voiced strong opposition to Pakistan's reported move to declare Gilgit (Pakistan) as that country's fifth province.

India's stand on Gilgit-Baltistan region of Jammu and Kashmir is valid, legal and much stronger than Pakistan's illegal claim over the occupied territory in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir or PoK, BJP leader Ram Madhav said on Thursday.

China has skirted Pakistan's attempt to exercise more control over Gilgit-Baltistan, a region that India maintains is a part of the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir and through which the $50 billion China-led CPEC project passes

A senior RSS functionary has said that India is "morally right" to rake up the Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan issue and claimed that Pakistan treats its own people like "third grade citizens" and uses bombs to crush muhajirs and provincial independence movements.

Asserting that Pakistan is a forceful occupier of Gilgit-Baltistan, a group representing people from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has sought help from US lawmakers over the deteriorating human rights conditions there.

Reacting strongly to the upcoming elections in Gilgit and Baltistan on June 8, the union government, today, said that it is an attempt by Pakistan to "camouflage its forcible and illegal occupation" of the regions which are integral part of the country.

In a bizarre diktat out of sync with modern-day ethos, the Jirga (religious assembly) in Gilgit Baltistan -- an eight-hour drive from the Pakistan capital -- has banned women from taking part in the coming assembly elections slated for June 8.

A Pakistan court on Tuesday sentenced the owner of the country's biggest media group to 26 years in prison for broadcasting a show it said was blasphemous.

Four Pakistani army soldiers have been killed in an avalanche in the mountainous northern Gilgit Baltistan region, a grim reminder of the 2012 incident in Siachen that claimed the lives of 129 troops.

Gunmen attacked a bus near the town of Chilas in northern Pakistan on Saturday, killing eight passengers and injuring at least 15, district and regional officials said.

The body of a 28-year-old Indian woman, who had gone missing in the Kargil district of Ladakh, was found in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region on Wednesday, police said.

In a strongly worded message, Army Chief Bipin Rawat on Friday described Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) as a "terrorist-controlled country or a terrorist-controlled part of Pakistan". Delivering the KM Cariappa Memorial Lecture in Delhi, General Rawat raised the issue of Article 370 and, in a reference to the increase in terrorist activity in Jamm...

India on Thursday voiced strong opposition to Pakistan's reported move to declare Gilgit (Pakistan) as that country's fifth province.

India's stand on Gilgit-Baltistan region of Jammu and Kashmir is valid, legal and much stronger than Pakistan's illegal claim over the occupied territory in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir or PoK, BJP leader Ram Madhav said on Thursday.

China has skirted Pakistan's attempt to exercise more control over Gilgit-Baltistan, a region that India maintains is a part of the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir and through which the $50 billion China-led CPEC project passes

A senior RSS functionary has said that India is "morally right" to rake up the Balochistan and Gilgit Baltistan issue and claimed that Pakistan treats its own people like "third grade citizens" and uses bombs to crush muhajirs and provincial independence movements.

Asserting that Pakistan is a forceful occupier of Gilgit-Baltistan, a group representing people from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has sought help from US lawmakers over the deteriorating human rights conditions there.

Reacting strongly to the upcoming elections in Gilgit and Baltistan on June 8, the union government, today, said that it is an attempt by Pakistan to "camouflage its forcible and illegal occupation" of the regions which are integral part of the country.

In a bizarre diktat out of sync with modern-day ethos, the Jirga (religious assembly) in Gilgit Baltistan -- an eight-hour drive from the Pakistan capital -- has banned women from taking part in the coming assembly elections slated for June 8.

A Pakistan court on Tuesday sentenced the owner of the country's biggest media group to 26 years in prison for broadcasting a show it said was blasphemous.

Four Pakistani army soldiers have been killed in an avalanche in the mountainous northern Gilgit Baltistan region, a grim reminder of the 2012 incident in Siachen that claimed the lives of 129 troops.