Islamabad: United States soldiers, who helped in rescue and rehabilitation work in Pakistan and PoK after the massive earthquake of 2005, would leave by month-end, a senior US military official..Read More
Islamabad Western relief agencies, including those run by the United Nations and the US government, working in quake- ravaged areas of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan, have complai..Read More
Islamabad: American troops assisting in relief and rehabilitation operations will leave Pakistan's earthquake-hit areas in March next year, US Ambassador Ryan C Crocker has said. There are..Read More
New Delhi: The United States has expressed grave concern over the involvement of militant outfits in quake-relief operations in Pak-occupied Kashmir (PoK), even as a senior Pakistani official s..Read More
Urusa, Kashmir: The Indian Air Force has been providing food, cloths and shelters to the people living along the LoC following the October 8 devastating earthquake, thereby bringing hope and gr..Read More
In the October earthquake disaster, the Pakistan army lost seven thousand four hundred officers and men, four of its units were obliterated, and communications in forward areas were restored after thr..Read More
Srinagar: Pakistani police have fired tear gas shells to disperse hundreds of Kashmiris as a crossing on the state's de facto border was opened.India and Pakistan struck a deal to open fiv..Read More
In an interview on November 4, 2005, President General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan criticised what he described as the double standards of the international community in its humanitarian response to ..Read More
The 8 October earthquake has given India and Pakistan a rare opportunity to forget their past, bitterness and forge a partnership of peace and development. Both countries should work together to rebui..Read More
Pakistan has ruled out slashing its defence budget in the aftermath of the devastation caused by last month's temblor, even as it appealed for more international aid for relief and reconstruction..Read More
The US military says it believes that a rocket-propelled grenade has been fired at one of its helicopters delivering aid in earthquake-hit Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.The US military said the CH-47 Chin..Read More
Twenty days have passed since the earthquake in Kashmir. The extent of the devastation has been almost tabulated in terms of human and material casualties in each village. Now, it is time to criticall..Read More
Pakistan has said the buying of F-16 fighter jets from the US was not an 'immediate issue' for the country in the wake of the devastating earthquake that killed over 50,000 people but made i..Read More
India has offered Pakistan $25m in aid following the 8 October earthquake that killed more than 55,000 people. Delhi made the noble gesture to its long-time rival at the UN donor conference in Geneva ..Read More
There is fifteen to twenty per cent damage to Pakistani nuclear facilities and storage sites in the Northern Areas, especially in Skardu and Chitral, and the local population faces the risk of contami..Read More
The Indian Air Force (IAF) today carried out "Under Slung" operation to transport Border Road Organisation's bulldozers to quake-ravaged Uri and Uroosa near the Line of Control (LoC). The IAF use..Read More
The 8 October 2005 earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale had its epicentre 100 km north of Islamabad. The worst affected areas are in PoK, where the death toll has crossed 50,000 as on 21 Octo..Read More
When the earthquake struck Kashmir, most people hoped that the overpowering need to rescue the victims would bring the two countries closer together and give a fillip to the peace process.But the quak..Read More
The U.S. Army's only remaining MASH unit arrived in the quake-devastated Pakistani city Muzaffarabad on Monday, after struggling with an aircraft shortage, vehicle breakdowns and the winding road..Read More
Usually, wars and natural disasters unite a nation, but the massive earthquake in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and five districts of the North West Frontier Province have badly divided Pakistan.The..Read More
The Indian army has been asked to prepare some crossing points along the Line of Control (LoC) dividing Kashmir, officials say. The plan is intended to enable people from Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistani..Read More
Claiming that lack of coordination between Army and civilian authorities was hampering relief efforts in PoK, a US-based human rights watchdog has accused Pakistani military officials of putting scarc..Read More
The Muttehida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), an alliance of six pro-Taliban religious parties, has given a countrywide call through mosque loudspeakers, banners and pamphlets for pure muslims to adopt children ..Read More
NATO chiefs are discussing a plan to send 500 to 1,000 alliance troops to Pakistan to help with the relief effort after the October 8 earthquake that has killed at least 50,000, a NATO official said o..Read More
A Pakistan-based alliance of Kashmiri terrorist groups on Wednesday backed Islamabad's call for India to allow Kashmiris to cross the heavily militarized frontier in the divided region hit by a d..Read More
More than seven hundred foreign terrorists have perished and ninety-two terrorist training camps destroyed in the killer quake in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.More than two-hundred-and-forty of the terro..Read More
As the total number of fatalities in the earthquake, which struck the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) and the North-west Frontier Province (NWFP) on October 8,2005, crosses the 50,000 mark and is inex..Read More
Indian Air Force Chief Marshal S P Tyagi will celebrate Eid next month with the residents of the quake devastated village of Uroosa situated at the Line of Control.Western Air Command Chief Air Marsha..Read More
Accusing Pakistan of adopting an "indifferent attitude" towards hapless people of quake-avaged Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, JKLF has said Islamabad "turned down intenational help in rubble-strewn areas ..Read More
A Pakistan army helicopter crashed in Pakistani Kashmir during a relief operation for the earthquake-shattered region, killing all six soldiers on board, a military spokesman said on Sunday."The Mi-17..Read More
Announcing an immediate relief of Rs 50 lakhs for people of quake-hit Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on Saturday criticised governments of Pakistan and Pakistan-o..Read More
India is in a dilemma with requests from several Western countries to permit relief operations in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir from across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, but the foreign minist..Read More
Mohammad Shehzad was among the first Pakistani journalists to reach Muzaffarabad, which was levelled by the October 8 earthquake. In his travels around the region, he discovers that the well-organised..Read More
If you ever want to see a Government failing, and in fact, want to see a collapsed state, then visit Balakot, which is two and a half hours drive from Abbotabad.While going to Balakot, I was expecting..Read More
Pakistani troops struggled to reach remote mountain villages cut off since the weekend quake, as powerful aftershocks set off panic among millions of homeless and traumatised survivors.Desperately-nee..Read More
The Pakistani army has arrived, relief goods are coming in, and the injured are getting medical attention now. But for surviving residents of Balakot in northern Pakistan, all this has come too late a..Read More
People of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir are becoming increasingly angry and alienated over what they see as a feeble government response to the weekend earthquake, a prominent PoK politician said today."T..Read More
As a goodwill gesture, the Indian Army on Wednesday crossed the Line of Control (LoC) to help Pakistani soldiers in removing the rubble of a bunker in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).Giving details, D..Read More
With rain and snow predicted in Jammu and Kashmir over the next two days, the Indian Air Force (IAF) today said it had stepped up relief and rescue operations in the quake-devastated areas where thous..Read More
The Centre today announced that the armed forces will adopt six model villages in areas of Jammu and Kashmir devastated by Saturday's earthquake, and assured that relief material, including blank..Read More
Thanking India for the 'expression of sympathy' towards the earthquake victims, Pakistan has rejected the offer of foot patrols of medical personnel to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) becaus..Read More
Pakistan has said its nuclear warheads and installations are safe after the October 8 devastating earthquake, according to a newspaper report here. "There is no danger to our nuclear installations and..Read More
The Government and the people of Pakistan have been coping, as best as they can, with the help of a flood of international assistance, with the colossal tragedy which struck them on October 8, 2005, i..Read More
Braving the difficult terrain, troops managed to reach 90 per cent of inaccessible areas of Uri and Tangdhar, the worst-hit in the week-end earthquake, to carry out relief and rescue operations while ..Read More
KARACHI - About 70 Islamic fighters from an outlawed Kashmiri terrorist group died in the massive earthquake which struck northern Pakistan and parts of Kashmir on the weekend, a party leader said tod..Read More
An IAF Il-76, with 25 tonnes of relief supplies for the victims of the devastating quake in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir will leave later tonight."The Il-76, commanded by Wing Commander Hema..Read More
Carrying forward its Operation Imdad (help), Army today laid a new floating bridge over River Chenab near Akhnoor, about 30 kms from here, for carrying humanitarian aid to areas in Rajouri and Poonch ..Read More
On Tuesday India will airlift the first consignment of 25 tonnes of relief material to quake-hit Pakistan in what is considered as the first humanitarian assistance from New Delhi to Islamabad. The de..Read More
India and Iceland have agreed to step up cooperation in the fields of earthquake prediction and early warning system, geothermal and hydrogen energy systems, fisheries and pharmaceuticals. Iceland wil..Read More
Pakistan's foreign ministry today said it had accepted an offer of aid from India in the wake of the weekend's huge earthquake. "Yes, we have accepted," Pakistan's foreign ministry spok..Read More
India will airlift tomorrow the first consignment of 25 tonnes of relief material to quake-hit Pakistan in what is considered as the first humanitarian assistance from New Delhi to Islamabad.The decis..Read More
The earthquake on Saturday is understood to have caused a massive damage to major militant outfits running training camps in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK), security sources said here today.According..Read More
Two days after a powerful earthquake devastated the Pakistani city of Muzaffarabad, survivors are getting angry. Dazed residents of the once-pretty town in the Himalayan foothills milled through their..Read More
Shopkeepers clashed with looters and hungry families huddled under makeshift tents waiting for relief supplies Monday after PakistanThe death toll ranged from 20,000 and 30,000 and was expected to ris..Read More
Army and Air Force have intensified rescue and relief efforts in quake-hit Jammu and Kashmir pressing choppers and airplanes to airlift people to safety, setup a disaster management action cell to coo..Read More
The full magnitude of the devastation caused by Saturday's killer earthquake unfolded on Sunday with death figures in Pakistan being estimated at upto 30,000 while on the Indian side of Kashmir i..Read More
The Army and Air Force today continued round-the-clock rescue and relief operation, evacuating 250 injured persons accessing remote quake-devastated areas in Jammu and Kashmir close to the Line of Con..Read More
More than 18,000 people have been killed and 41,000 injured in the massive earthquake that rocked Pakistan and PoK as rescue workers today continued to work tirelessly to free those still trapped unde..Read More
Acting swiftly, the United Kingdom and the European Union today offered emergency aid to help victims of the earthquake which hit India, Pakistan and Afghanistan killing thousands of people. Britain a..Read More
Pakistan has begun to receive offers of financial aid and emergency assistance in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that struck on Saturday.Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz appealed for fi..Read More
The Centre on Saturday night announced an immediate ad hoc assistance of Rs 100 crore for the relief and rescue work in the earthquake-hit Jammu and Kashmir.The decision was taken at an emergency Cabi..Read More
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday night spoke to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and offered all assistance in the earthquake-relief work in the neighbouring country.During the six-minute ..Read More
Over 1,000 people were today feared killed and several villages flattened when a powerful earthquake rocked many parts of Pakistan and POK and triggered landslides and panic among people.Heavy casualt..Read More
Twenty-six security personnel, including 21 Army jawans, were killed and scores of others injured as the massive earthquake damaged bunkers and barracks along the Line of Control (LoC) in Baramulla, K..Read More
The Army today despatched teams to remote areas in border districts of Poonch, Baramullah and Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir to ascertain the extent of damage caused by the massive earthquake measuring ..Read More
A major earthquake with a magnitude of at least 7.6 struck Pakistan on Saturday and was felt across the Indian subcontinent, shaking people out of their homes and sending them running into the streets..Read More
