War between India and Pakistan News

Praising the Indian Army`s surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, the Shiv Sena on Friday said the next step is to "crush the (Pakistani) snake totally, so that it never raises its hood again against India".

Punjab shares a 553-km border with Pakistan and it has six districts which lie close to International Border.

Expressing concern over the "continuous confrontation and tensions" between India and Pakistan, China on Friday called on both parties to exercise restraint and refrain from the escalation of tensions.

The soldier, Naik Imtiaz Ahmad, was one of the two soldiers killed in the Bhimber sector of LoC.  

Lance Naik Hemraj was killed and beheaded by Pakistani soldiers on January 8, 2013, in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali has rejected an invitation for a conference scheduled in New Delhi next month amid rising tensions between the two neighbouring countries.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has expressed concern over the possibility of Pakistan's nuclear weapons falling into the hands of jihadists, which she said was "a threatening scenario", according to a media report.

India-US military relationship is the "closest it has been ever" and the two countries are exercising together by air, land and sea for the first time, America's Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has said.

This action came after the September 18 cross-border terror attack on an Indian Army garrison at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir that claimed the lives of 19 soldiers.  

Anxious villagers on Friday continued to move out of their villages in Punjab which shares the International Border (IB) with Pakistan as panic gripped the area regarding a possible strike by Islamabad in the wake of the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army across the Line of Control (LoC).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also chaired a CCS meeting to consider the situation along the LoC yesterday.

An unspecified number of terrorists and Pakistani troops were killed in the late Wednesday operation across Jammu and Kashmir`s Kupwara and Poonch sectors.