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Islamabad - Senior politician and former federal minister Muhammad Ali Durrani has said that following the unilateral suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), India can no longer block the waters of the Ravi, Sutlej, and Beas rivers.

India has used the armed attack in Indian Occupied Kashmir as a pretext to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan for domestic political purposes, Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said, as he called for an international inquiry into the incident. India, he told The New York Times, was taking steps to punish Pakistan “without any proof, without any investigation.” Twentysix people were killed and several others injured in a gun attack on a group of tourists near Pahalgam, a town in the southern part of the disputed territory. In the interview with the Times on Friday, Asif said that Pakistan was “ready to cooperate” with “any investigation which is conducted by international inspectors. Times correspondent Julian Barnes, who interviewed the defence minister, wrote that his remarks “appeared to be aimed at defusing tensions with India”. “We do not want this war to flare up, because flaring up of this war can cause disaster for this region,” the defence minister said. Noting Indian officials ass...

ISLAMABAD - Iran has offered to mediate between Pakistan and India to de-escalate tensions over Pahalgam attack.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday criticised India’s pattern of blaming Pakistan without evidence following any unfortunate incident in Kashmir.

ISLAMABAD - Federal Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Minister Ahsan Iqbal has stated that despite being seven times larger in size, possessing an expansive landmass, and having centuries of statehood experience, India continues to suffer from an insecurity syndrome — in sharp contrast to Pakistan.

LAHORE - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar on Saturday said the nation is fully alert, and any aggression by India will be met with a strong and decisive response.

Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday accused India’s intelligence agency, RAW, and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) of being behind several terrorist incidents, including the recent bloodshed in Pahalgam.

United States President Donald Trump stirred controversy by inaccurately claiming that Pakistan and India have been "fighting over Kashmir for 1,000 years," while commenting on the recent escalation between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s unanimous response to India’s hostile tone has pushed New Delhi on the back foot after the unsubstantiated allegations linking Islamabad to the recent deadly attack in Pahalgam, Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

ISLAMABAD - Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has drawn the international community’s attention towards the growing tensions between India and Pakistan, saying that the world should be worried about the potential for a full-scale conflict between the two nuclear-armed nations.

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar on Friday said the First Information Report (FIR) of Pahalgam was lodged within ten minutes of the incident that has completely exposed the false flag operation of India which orchestrated the whole episode to defame Pakistan.

Pakistan on Thursday announced the suspension of trade, bilateral accords and airspaces with India, among other moves, as it retaliated to New Delhi’s slew of aggressive measures against the country in the wake of a deadly attack in India-held Kashmir. Among India’s actions was the unilateral decision to suspend the 1960 Indus Water Treaty, which was brokered by the World Bank and has endured through wars and decades of hostility. The decisions were made during a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC) in Islamabad today, convened to formulate a response to India. Chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the meeting was attended by top government and military officials, including the defence minister, foreign minister, interior minister, national security adviser, and the chiefs of armed forces, among others. The committee highlighted that the Indus Waters Treaty is a binding international agreement brokered by the World Bank and contains no provision for unilateral suspension. Water is a Vital Nati...