Gilgit

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.

Four Pakistan Army personnel were killed when a military helicopter crashed during a casualty evacuation due to technical reasons in Gilgit-Baltistan, the army said on Sunday.

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...

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane carrying 48 passengers skidded off the runway while landing at the Gilgit airport on Saturday, officials said.

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to the centre to earmark and declare Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit as parliamentary seats.

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.

We must rebuild these schools immediately, get the students back into their classrooms, Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai tweeted.

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

Protests erupted today in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with leaders and people alleging that their life has become "living hell" because of terror camps.

Expressing concern over the human rights situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the US has called for working out differences peacefully and through a "valid political process".

A group of leaders from Balochistan who supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments on Pakistan's most restive province have been accused of waging war against Pakistan, according to local daily Dawn.

References to Balochistan, Gilgit and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir by Prime Minister Narendra Modi signals a change in India's Pakistan policy, top American experts on South Asia have said as they sought more clarity on New Delhi's new approach towards disturbed areas in Pakistan.

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.

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.

Four Pakistan Army personnel were killed when a military helicopter crashed during a casualty evacuation due to technical reasons in Gilgit-Baltistan, the army said on Sunday.

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...

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane carrying 48 passengers skidded off the runway while landing at the Gilgit airport on Saturday, officials said.

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to the centre to earmark and declare Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit as parliamentary seats.

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.

We must rebuild these schools immediately, get the students back into their classrooms, Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai tweeted.

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

Protests erupted today in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with leaders and people alleging that their life has become "living hell" because of terror camps.

Expressing concern over the human rights situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the US has called for working out differences peacefully and through a "valid political process".

A group of leaders from Balochistan who supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments on Pakistan's most restive province have been accused of waging war against Pakistan, according to local daily Dawn.

References to Balochistan, Gilgit and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir by Prime Minister Narendra Modi signals a change in India's Pakistan policy, top American experts on South Asia have said as they sought more clarity on New Delhi's new approach towards disturbed areas in Pakistan.

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.