Chandigarh: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight took off from Chandigarh airport today evening with the body of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay. Ranjay, who had been hospitalised at Chandigarh’s PGIMER hospital after being attacked in Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal jail May 3, died today morning following multiple organ failure, doctors said. “The [...]

Beijing, May 9 (IANS) China hopes to use existing mechanisms to carry out discussions with India over border issues, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday. “We hope to use currently available mechanisms to conduct friendly consultations with India on border issues,” Xinhua quoted spokesperson Hua Chunying as saying at [...]

New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The situation on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and China is now back to normal after the Chinese withdrew their military encroachments in a disputed plateau in arid eastern Ladakh, but there is no telling when the situation might erupt again through [...]

Chandigarh/New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay died in a Chandigarh hospital Thursday, six days after he was attacked in a Jammu jail. In the latest chapter of stress between the two countries, India sidestepped Pakistan’s demand for an international probe but said it would do everything to [...]

New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) India Thursday assured Pakistan that it would make all necessary arrangements to hand over the body of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah, who died Thursday morning following an attack in Jammu jail, but sidestepped the demand for an international probe into the incident. “We tried to take [...]

Beijing, May 9 (IANS) Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid’s visit to China will help put “a political end” to the recent border row, a hardline Chinese daily said Thursday. In an article “Face-off just a small thorn in Sino-Indian relations”, Global Times said the recent border tensions had been “solved [...]

New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) India Thursday assured Pakistan that it would make all necessary arrangements to facilitate the request that Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay’s body be sent back home. “We tried to take all necessary measures medically and otherwise to save the Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay. Unfortunately despite our [...]

Islamabad, May 9 (IANS) Pakistan Thursday sought an investigation into the death of Sanaullah, a Pakistani prisoner who succumbed to grievous injuries after being attacked in India’s Jammu jail, and demanded that perpetrators of this “heinous crime be brought to justice”. “We have learnt with a deep sense of grief [...]

New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) Jamia Millia Islamia, one of the country’s oldest universities, has embarked upon a series of country-specific programmes to prepare a cadre of experts to fulfil the research needs of the government and think tanks, something which foreign service officials are perhaps not adept at doing, [...]

New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The Pakistan High Commission has requested the Indian government to institute an international probe into the death of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, who died Thursday in a Chandigarh hospital after being attacked in Jammu jail last week. “We have requested the government of India for [...]