India Pakistan Ceasefire Highlights: ‘No nuclear signaling by Islamabad,’ says Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri to parliamentary panel

The meeting, held under the chairmanship of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, lasted two hours.

Operation SindoorForeign Secretary Vikram Misri. (PTI)

Briefing the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs nine days after reaching a ceasefire agreement with Pakistan on May 10,  Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said the recent military conflict between India and Pakistan was in the conventional domain and there was no nuclear signalling by Islamabad. Addressing the committee, Misri is learnt to have conveyed that the decision to stop military actions was taken at a bilateral level and there was no US intervention. The meeting, held under the chairmanship of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, lasted two hours.

Pakistan deployed attack and surveillance drones: Swarms of poor quality, basic drones crowding Indian skies, camouflaging a handful of surveillance and attack drones within them. This was Pakistan’s strategy to map Indian military installations, gather intelligence, carry out limited attacks and overwhelm air defences in the days following India’s launch of Operation Sindoor against terror infrastructure in Pakistan, The Indian Express has learnt.

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Haryana travel blogger arrested on charges of spying for Pak: The Haryana Police arrested travel blogger Jyoti Rani, 33, on Friday for allegedly spying for Pakistani intelligence agencies during Operation Sindoor. Rani, who has a YouTube channel called Travel with Jo with over 3,77,000 subscribers and an Instagram account with over 1,32,000 followers, was taken into custody after she was found sharing “sensitive information” with an official of the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi, the police said.

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May 19, 2025 10:28 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Retreat ceremony for public along Pak border to resume on Tuesday

The Border Security Force (BSF) has decided to resume from Tuesday the flag-lowering ceremony for the public at three places in Punjab along the Pakistan frontier, 12 days after it was stopped following Operation Sindoor by India in response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack.

Officials told PTI on Monday that the event held daily evening at Attari, Hussainiwala, and Sadki will be opened for public viewing from May 20.

However, the ceremony will be curtailed as BSF troops will not shake hands with Pakistan Rangers and the gates will not be opened during the flag-lowering process as declared earlier, they said.

It is important to mention that the flag was being lowered each day by BSF troops since May 8 but only the public entry was cancelled, the officials clarified. (PTI)

May 19, 2025 10:02 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Same PM who abused Congress, taking its help for diplomatic delegations, says Jairam Ramesh

The Congress on Monday dismissed as an “absolute lie” Union Minister Kiren Rijiju’s reported assertion that the government did not ask for names for the all-party diplomatic delegations going abroad and said it was “cheap politics” to not get the names it selected cleared with the opposition party.

Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the same PM who had abused the Congress publicly in countries such as Australia, the US, Qatar, South Korea, and China, is taking the help of the opposition party in these delegations.

“Why didn’t the prime minister pick up the phone and speak to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi? Why didn’t he have the courtesy to do that? The fact is that our narrative has been punctured and continues to get punctured because of the politics of polarisation in the country,” Ramesh said. Read More

May 19, 2025 09:43 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Rahul Gandhi, Congress raise heat on Jaishankar, not all in party on board

On a day Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri briefed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs headed by the Congress’s Shashi Tharoor on foreign policy developments regarding India and Pakistan, the Congress doubled down on External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.

In a fresh attack, Rahul Gandhi asked him to again clarify whether India had informed Pakistan about targeting the terrorist infrastructure on its soil, and what it had meant in terms of aircraft “lost” by India. Congress media department head Pawan Khera used an AICC briefing to repeat the allegations, adding that Jaishankar’s remarks may have helped terrorists “escape”.

“EAM Jaishankar’s silence isn’t just telling – it’s damning. So I’ll ask again: How many Indian aircraft did we lose because Pakistan knew? This wasn’t a lapse. It was a crime. And the nation deserves the truth,” Gandhi said in a social media post, his second in the last three days. After his first post, the Ministry of External Affairs had called Gandhi’s statement “a misrepresentation of facts”. Read More

May 19, 2025 09:23 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: CDS Gen Chauhan visits Suratgarh, Naliya military bases

Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Monday visited strategically important military bases of Suratgarh in Rajasthan and Naliya in Gujarat and commended the troops for maintaining a high state of operational readiness.

The Pakistani military attempted to target both bases during the military confrontation between the two sides recently.

In his interaction with the troops, Gen Chauhan also complimented the synergy among the three services during Operation Sindoor.

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) emphasised the need to remain ever prepared for responding to any challenge with "decisive force", according to the defence ministry.

"To boost the morale of the armed forces, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan paid a visit to the strategically important Suratgarh military station and Naliya air force station today," it said. (PTI)

May 19, 2025 08:50 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Parliamentary panel unanimously condemns trolling of foreign secy

Parliament's Standing Committee on External Affairs on Monday unanimously condemned the trolling of Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and praised him for his professional conduct, news agency PTI reported.

Misri was briefing the parliamentary panel, chaired by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, on the India-Pakistan military conflict in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.

Tharoor told reporters after the three-hour meeting, which he said was attended by a record 24 members, the committee unanimously expressed solidarity with Misri in the face of the "unwarranted attacks" he had faced online after the two sides agreed to stop military actions.

He and his family have been at the receiving end of trolls' vitriol, Misri's role drew support from the committee for his good service to the nation. The committee wanted to pass a formal resolution but the Indian Foreign Service officer requested against it, the Congress MP said. (PTI)

May 19, 2025 07:30 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: From nuclear signalling to ceasefire, Misri addresses Oppn queries in meeting of Parliamentary Standing Committee

The conflict between India and Pakistan was in the conventional domain and there was no nuclear signalling by the neighbouring country, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs on Monday, The Indian Express has learnt.

The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and lasted two hours.

Misri also informed the committee that the ceasefire between the two nations was a bilateral decision and there was no US intervention, it is learnt. Opposition members asked several questions to Misri, including about US President Donald Trump announcing the ceasefire between the two nations, it is learnt.

The Indian Express has learnt that an Opposition member also asked about the whereabouts of terrorists involved in the attack in Pahalgam on April 22. The MP also asked what India was doing to capture them. Read the full story here

May 19, 2025 06:22 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: When Nehru visited Pahalgam: Story of first PM’s last vacation

Pahalgam, where terrorists backed by Pakistan killed 26 innocent civilians last month, provoking India’s Operation Sindoor, has an interesting connection with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the nation’s first Prime Minister.

Eleven months before his demise in May 1964, Nehru spent 10 days on holiday at this beautiful tourist site in Jammu and Kashmir, accompanied by his daughter Indira Gandhi. This was Nehru’s last holiday.

Pahalgam was already a favoured retreat for tourists at the time. Accessible by road even before Independence, it attracted both Europeans and Indians. In his 1943 book Kashmir: The Playground of Asia, Sachchidananda Sinha wrote glowingly of Pahalgam, unmatched for its “grand mountain scenery, transport facilities, camping, fishing, and bracing climate”. Read the full story here

May 19, 2025 05:36 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Absolutely not getting into that subject, says Shashi Tharoor on Congress' objections on all-party delegations

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday declined to join issue with some opposition parties, including his own, over the government's choice of MPs from their ranks for all-party delegations to foreign capitals following Operation Sindoor.

"I am absolutely not getting into that subject," he told reporters as the chairman of Parliament's Standing Committee on External Affairs arrived for its meeting, which is being briefed by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on the India-Pakistan military conflict after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.

Tharoor has been chosen by the BJP-led government to head one of the seven all-party delegations. His group will visit the US and four other countries. (PTI)

May 19, 2025 04:57 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Foreign secretary briefs parliamentary panel on issues related to Pakistan

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Monday briefed a parliamentary committee on the India-Pakistan military conflict in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.

The meeting of Parliament's Standing Committee on External Affairs, chaired by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, was attended by members, including the TMC's Abhishek Banerjee, the Congress' Rajeev Shukla and Deepender Hooda, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, and the BJP's Aparajita Sarangi and Arun Govil.

The meeting comes against the backdrop of the Indian Armed Forces carrying out Operation Sindoor to avenge the Pahalgam attack and the subsequent military actions between the two countries.

Misri is briefing the panel on the "current foreign policy developments regarding India and Pakistan" on Monday and Tuesday.

The government has decided to send all-party delegations to 33 global capitals to brief leaders on India's resolve to firmly deal with terrorism against the backdrop of Operation Sindoor.

(With inputs from PTI)

May 19, 2025 04:26 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri briefing to parliamentary panel begins

Days after reaching a ceasefire agreement with Pakistan, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri’s briefing to a parliamentary committee on India and Pakistan’s current foreign policy developments has begun.

Congress MPs Shashi Tharoor, Rajeev Shukla, Deepender Hooda; AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi; BJP MPs Aparajita Sarangi, Arun Govil; and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri arrived for meeting of Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs.

May 19, 2025 04:10 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Pakistan targeted Golden Temple after India’s strikes, air defence shot down all drones and missiles, says Indian Army

Pakistan tried to target the Golden Temple in Amritsar and several cities in Punjab with drones and missiles on the intervening night of May 7-8 in retaliation against India’s strikes on nine terrorist sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under Operation Sindoor, the Indian Army said Monday.

During a media briefing and live demonstration held in Amritsar, the Indian Army displayed debris of drones and missiles launched from Pakistan and intercepted by Indian air defence systems. The Army also showed how advanced systems, including the upgraded L-70 Air Defence Guns and AKASH missile systems, were used to neutralise aerial threats aimed at critical sites, including the Golden Temple and cities across Punjab. Read More

May 19, 2025 04:00 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates | ‘Entire nation in shame’: SC rejects MP minister’s apology over remarks on Col Sofiya Qureshi, orders SIT probe

The Supreme Court Monday rejected the apology by Madhya Pradesh Minister Vijay Shah over his remarks on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, ordering the setting up of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the matter. The top court stayed his arrest till the team submits a status report on May 28.

“Entire nation in shame due to your statement,” SC Bench said, chiding him over his remarks last week. The top court added that he should be sensitive before making crass comments.

Questioning his apology, the court also asked if it was “crocodile tears” to wriggle out of legal proceedings, as per news agency PTI.

Speaking at an event near Mhow last week, Shah said that those who had widowed India’s daughters were taught a lesson by Prime Minister Narendra Modi using their own sister “(unki samaaj ki behen ke zariye)”. He repeated this statement thrice. While he did not name any individual, the Congress alleged he was alluding to Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, who had briefed the media when Operation Sindoor was underway.

May 19, 2025 03:38 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: After Rahul targets Jaishankar over informing Pak, MEA says misrepresenting facts

The Ministry of External Affairs had described as "utter misrepresentation" claims that Jaishankar acknowledged that India alerted Pakistan before the launch of Operation Sindoor on May 7.

"The external affairs minister had stated that we had warned Pakistan at the start, which is clearly the early phase after Operation Sindoor's commencement," the external publicity (XP) division of the ministry said.

"This is being falsely represented as being before the commencement. This utter misrepresentation of facts is being called out," it said in a brief statement.

Under Operation Sindoor, India, on early May 7, destroyed nine terror infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (PoK) in retaliation against the Pahalgam terror attack.

All subsequent retaliations by Pakistan were carried out under the operation.

The two sides reached an understanding on cessation of hostilities on May 10 after four days of confrontations. Read More

(With inputs from PTI)

May 19, 2025 03:29 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Rahul Gandhi targets S Jaishankar again, says his silence is 'damning'

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a fresh attack on External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, saying his silence on the number of aircraft India "lost" after Pakistan was "informed" about the military action under Operation Sindoor is "damning".

The Congress leader had earlier also targeted the government on the issue, suggesting that the Indian side informed Pakistan ahead of the military strikes on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

"EAM Jaishankar's silence isn't just telling, it's damning. So I'll ask again: How many Indian aircraft did we lose because Pakistan knew?" he asked in a post on X.

"This wasn't a lapse. It was a crime. And the nation deserves the truth," Gandhi also said.

Gandhi had earlier shared an undated video clip of Jaishankar and wrote, "Informing Pakistan at the start of our attack was a crime. EAM has publicly admitted that the Government of India did it."

"Who authorised it? How many aircraft did our air force lose as a result," the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha had asked. (PTI)

May 19, 2025 12:48 PM IST
After Operation Sindoor: What’s the impact on a child’s mind?

A teenager with chronic migraine would vomit whenever he heard the hum of a plane flying over his Vile Parle home. It took many sessions for Dr Rituparna Ghosh, clinical psychologist at Apollo Hospitals, Mumbai, to find out the reason for his deep-seated trauma that was manifesting as physical illness. “He was nine when he had seen his cousin badly injured during cross-border firing. The family moved from Uri to start over in Mumbai. Nobody spoke of the incident ever again. But his body remembered the trauma and reacted to it in his teens,” she says.

Children in conflict zones are exposed to hugely destabilising experiences. Losing their homes to shelling, displaced from the familiarity of their neighbourhoods and facing deaths of family and friends can expose them to extreme emotions they haven’t learnt to process and filter. “Of course, there is anxiety and fear. But exposed to multiple sources of violence, they could become emotionally empty and numb,” says Ghosh. While most withdraw into a shell, some may imitate the aggressive behaviour they are witness to, consider violence as normal, and turn into bullies. “Besides they absorb stories of fear from around them. The father grappling with grief and a mother haunted by the soundscape of sirens are hardly the adult buffer they need. That’s why they develop personality disorder as adults,” says Ghosh.

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May 19, 2025 11:36 AM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: ‘He went to Pakistan on ISI invite’: Himanta targets Gaurav Gogoi again

The feud between Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi saw another spike on Sunday, with Sarma alleging that Gogoi had visited Pakistan on the “invitation of the ISI” to “get training”, and Gogoi calling the claims “baseless, ridiculous and nonsense” and likening the CM to a “troll”.

This was the latest in a string of allegations made by Sarma against Gogoi, accusing the Congress MP and his wife, Elizabeth, of links with the ISI. The CM had also constituted an SIT to probe the “ISI links” in February.

Sarma has repeatedly alleged that Gogoi had visited Pakistan in an unspecified year for 15 days. He has also said that he would make the findings of the SIT public on September 10.

On Sunday, Sarma took this allegation a step further, saying, “He went to Pakistan on the invitation of the ISI. I am saying this for the first time… And he definitely went there to get training. Why else would ISI call him?”

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May 18, 2025 10:38 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Operation Sindoor showcased tri-services synergy, says Defence ministry

India's national security architecture has demonstrated the strength of convergence and strategic foresight during Operation Sindoor, the defence ministry said on Sunday. The operation showcased a calibrated, tri-services response that embodied precision, professionalism, and purpose, it said.

With PTI input

May 18, 2025 09:54 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: 'History will have Operation Sindoor written in golden letters:' What Amit Shah said in Gujarat

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah, while addressing a public event in Naranpura area of Ahmedabad on Sunday, said that the history about the country's safety and securing its borders would have Operation Sindoor written in golden letters.

The event saw inauguration and laying of foundation stones of developmental works worth over Rs 1,550 crore in Ahmedabad city by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. The projects inaugurated on the occasion included an overbridge on the busy Pallav Crossroads on the 132-feet Ring Road in Naranpura area.

Highlighting the success of Operation Sindoor in his address, Shah paid tributes to those killed in the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on April 22. “Political will of (Prime Minister) Narendrabhai (Modi), the Indian armed forces' prowess and ability to strike and precise information provided by our intelligence agencies decimated the dens of terror at nine locations inside Pakistan,” Shah said.

Shah also said that following Operation Sindoor, Pakistan was rendered exposed before the world. “Pakistan used to say 'There are no terrorist in our area', 'There is no terror activity in our country'. Missiles of Operation Sindoor struck and the terrorists were decimated. Pakistan got exposed before the world,” he said.

Shah further said, “And the next day when high-rank officials of the Pakistani Army joined their (terrorists killed in Indian attack) funeral procession to offer namaz, the nexus between Pakistan, its military and terrorism stood exposed before the entire world. Whole world got the news that Pakistan runs terror camps.”

Specially mentioning the performance of Brahmos missiles, Shah said, “Youths from across the world are searching for Brahmos (on the web). What is Brahmos? Pakistan's air defence system borrowed from China remained ineffective and our Brahmos missiles did the task of destroying Pakistan air bases. Brahmos missiles gave Pakistan a befitting reply.”

“When the history would be written on strengthening the safety of the country and securing its borders, Operation Sindoor will be written in golden letters,” Shah said.

May 18, 2025 08:45 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Amit Shah's 'Tiranga Yatra' in Ahmedabad

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday took part in a 'Tiranga Yatra' in Sanand in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city to celebrate the success of Operation Sindoor.

Holding the Tricolour, he walked from Nal Sarovar Chowkdi till Maharana Pratap Chowk on Eklingji Road, where he paid floral tributes at the statue of the legendary 16th century warrior. Among those who took part in the foot march were Gujarat minister of state for home Harsh Sanghavi, local MLAs, BJP leaders and workers as well as teachers and functionaries of primary and secondary departments here.

A large number of people from Sanand and surrounding areas, social and political leaders took part Tiranga Yatra chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai and saluting the courage and valour of the armed forces, a Gujarat BJP release informed, PTI reported.

May 18, 2025 08:15 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: 2006 RSS hq attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Razaullah Nizamani killed

Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Razaullah Nizamani alias Abu Saiullah, who was the brain behind the 2006 attack on the RSS headquarters, was killed by unidentified gunmen in Sindh province of Pakistan on Sunday, officials here said.

Nizamani, who had been provided security by the Pakistani government, had left his residence at Matli in Sindh this afternoon and he was gunned down by assailants near a crossing, the officials said.

Besides masterminding the attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters at Nagpur, the Lashkar operative was involved in the Indian Institute of Science attack of 2005 in Bengaluru and the terror strike at a CRPF camp at Rampur in 2001.

PTI

May 18, 2025 08:11 PM IST
India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: India and Pak agreed to cessation of hostilities on May 10. Lookback
  • The arrangement for cessation of hostilities between India and Pakistan was originally reached for two days when the DGMOs held a conversation over the hotline on May 10.

  • The arrangement reached on May 10 came after four days of intense hostilities that saw the two sides targeting each other's military installations with drones, missiles and long-range weapons that raised fears of a wider military conflict.

  • The DGMOs of India and Pakistan on May 12 again deliberated on ways to avoid "inimical" military actions and agreed on considering immediate steps to reduce troops of the two militaries from the borders and forward areas.

  • In the conversation, the two officers focused on continuing the commitment that both sides must not fire a "single shot" or initiate any "aggressive and inimical" action against each other.
    • May 18, 2025 07:23 PM IST
    India Pakistan News LIVE Updates | ‘No expiry date’ : Indian Army’s clarification days after cessation of hostilities

    There is “no expiry date” to the understanding reached between Indian and Pakistani Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMOs) on cessation of hostilities nearly a week back, the Indian Army said on Sunday. The clarification came following reports that the arrangement between the two militaries on stopping the hostilities is ending this evening. The Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan on May 12 decided to continue with the understanding of halting all military actions, according to PTI report.

    May 18, 2025 06:35 PM IST
    India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Prevent terror strikes to ensure governance is focused on development: Mayawati urges Centre

    Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati has urged the Centre to ensure that terror strikes do not happen again in the country so that the administration can focus on alleviating the plight of people facing unemployment and inflation.

    Mayawati also extended support to the government's stance that India will not tolerate nuclear blackmail from Pakistan. Besides preventing future terror strikes, there is a need to rein in criminal, casteist and communal elements who seek to pollute the peaceful atmosphere in the country with their narrow-minded, hateful, and venomous language and actions, Mayawati said at an all-India meeting of party coordinators.

    Terrorist incidents are a hindrance to development. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the central government to ensure appropriate measures to prevent terror attacks, she said.

    With PTI inputs

    May 18, 2025 05:32 PM IST
    India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Over 42 unexploded shells from recent cross-border artillery firing destroyed in J-K's Poonch

    Security forces on Sunday destroyed 42 unexploded shells in different forward villages near the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir in a major operation to clear civilian areas following a military confrontation between India and Pakistan, officials said.

    Indian Army, in close coordination with local police authorities, successfully conducted a controlled operation for the safe destruction of 42 unexploded ordnances in the border areas of Jhullas, Salotri, Dharati and Salani, a defence spokesperson said. He said these shells, remnants of recent cross-border shelling, posed a serious threat to the lives and safety of local residents.

    The operation was carried out with utmost precision, adhering to all standard safety protocols to prevent any risk to civilian life or property, the spokesperson said. He said the bomb disposal teams from the Indian Army, in coordination with police, ensured the complete neutralisation of all explosive remnants.

    This proactive effort reflects the organisation's continued commitment to safeguarding civilian populations in conflict-affected zones and restoring a sense of normalcy in vulnerable border communities, he said.

    PTI

    May 18, 2025 04:13 PM IST
    In need of extensive repairs after Indian airstrikes, Pakistan’s Rahim Yar Khan airbase runway closure extended till June 6

    Pakistan has extended the closure of the sole runway at its Rahim Yar Khan airbase—hit and damaged by India’s military strikes last Saturday (May 10)—till the morning of June 6. On the day of the airstrike, the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority had issued a notice to airmen, or NOTAM, saying that the runway at the airbase will be unavailable for flight operations for a week—till 4:59 am Pakistan time (5:29 IST) on Sunday (May 18).

    However, according to a new NOTAM that has replaced the previous notice, now the runway will not be available till 4:59 am Pakistan time on June 6. This indicates that the extensive runway repairs needed after India’s precision strikes may be taking longer than earlier anticipated. Like the previous NOTAM, the new notice also said that closure is due to work in progress, without going into specifics, and that the runway will not be available for flight operations.

    Rahim Yar Khan, which is in the southern part of Pakistan’s Punjab province and faces the Rajasthan frontier, has a dual-purpose airport—it is home to a forward operational base of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Central Air Command and the Sheikh Zayed International Airport. Read more

    May 18, 2025 02:33 PM IST
    ‘Attack on academic freedom’: Ashoka University body condemns arrest of asst professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad over Op Sindoor remarks

    Ali Khan Mahmudabad, the head of the Department of Political Science at Ashoka University, was arrested by the Haryana Police in Delhi on Sunday, just days after he was served a show-cause notice over his social media remarks on Operation Sindoor.

    The arrest has triggered condemnation from across India’s academic community. The Haryana State Commission for Women, which issued the notice on May 12, alleged that Mahmudabad’s comments “disparaged women officers in the Indian Armed Forces” and promoted “communal disharmony.”

    Police sources told The Indian Express that a First Information Report was registered based on a complaint by a BJP leader, though the specific charges have not yet been officially disclosed.

    Here's the full story.

    May 18, 2025 12:40 PM IST
    Inside an election time govt social media cell that was converted to a 24/7 war room post Op Sindoor

    Following India’s targeted strikes on terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir on the intervening night of May 6 and May 7, and the subsequent military escalation that ensued between the two countries, social media became a battleground of information warfare.

    Fake information, deepfake visuals and footage from video games run amok on platforms like X and Instagram.

    In response, a small team at the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), which was set up last year during the Lok Sabha polls to flag and takedown election-related misinformation on social media platforms, promptly received personnel reinforcement and was asked to step up monitoring and flagging misleading content related to the conflict to be taken down.

    Here's a peek into the workings of the 24/7 war room!

    May 18, 2025 12:36 PM IST
    India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Haryana man accused of spying for Pakistan held by Nuh Police, third such arrest in a week

    A 26-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in Haryana for allegedly spying for Pakistan, Nuh police said, marking the latest in a string of national security-related detentions in the state.

    The man, identified as Armaan, was apprehended by police from the Nagina station in Nuh district.

    Authorities allege that Armaan had been sharing sensitive information related to the Indian Army and other military activities with an employee at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi through WhatsApp and other social media platforms.

    Read more here.

    May 18, 2025 12:23 PM IST
    India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Ashoka University professor arrested ‘over remarks on Op Sindoor briefing by women officers’

    Days after the Haryana State Commission for Women issued a show-cause notice to Ali Khan Mahmudabad, associate professor and head of the Department of Political Science at Ashoka University in Sonipat, over his remarks which allegedly “disparaged women officers in the Indian Armed Forces and promoted communal disharmony”, the Haryana Police Sunday said that the professor has been arrested.

    Ajeet Singh, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Rai (Sonipat), told The Indian Express that Mahmudabad has been arrested in Delhi.

    The police have not divulged the information regarding the charges levelled against him in the case, but sources said that a First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against him on the basis of a complaint of a BJP leader.

    Read the full story here.

    May 18, 2025 11:14 AM IST
    No talks between India-Pak DGMOs today, no expiry date for break in hostilities: Indian Army

    The Indian Army on Sunday said that no talks were scheduled between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMO) of India and Pakistan today.

    The Army also issued a clarification that the continuation of break in hostilities, as decided in the DGMOs interaction of May 12, bears no expiry date to it.

    The clarification comes after some media houses reported that the ceasefire between India and Pakistan is ending on May 18 (Sunday).

    "No DGMO talks are scheduled today. As far as the continuation of a break in hostilities as decided in the DGMOs interaction of 12th May is concerned, there is no expiry date to it," the Indian Army has said.

    May 18, 2025 11:09 AM IST
    From our Opinion section today | Urgently needed: A postmortem

    In our Opinion section today, Tavleen Singh writes:

    "The defining image of Operation Sindoor for me is that photograph of senior Pakistani military officers at the funeral of a dead jihadi. In the photograph, they stand behind a bearded jihadi who stands beside the coffin of his dead relative. The coffin is covered in the Pakistani flag and wreaths of red roses lie on it. The photograph has been viral on social media for days and the names of the senior Pakistani officers mourning the death of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist have been made public by our government.

    This photograph, which I have looked at many times, left me stunned because of the utter shamelessness it depicts. Ever since the horrendous massacre in Pahalgam, there has been a collaborative campaign by Pakistan’s military and civilian rulers to convince the world that the old policy of using jihadi terrorism as a weapon of war has ended. When the Islamist Republic’s military rulers are unable to convince the world of their credentials, they usually summon English-speaking, attractive civilians from well-known political families to make the case for them."

    Read the full Opinion here.

    May 18, 2025 11:06 AM IST
    India Pakistan News LIVE Updates: Water wars and signing of Indus Waters Treaty

    On September 19, 1960, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohammad Ayub Khan, then Pakistan President, signed the historic Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in Karachi. This was the second major pact with Pakistan since its creation, the first being the Nehru-Noon pact of October 1958 on East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

    The Indus Water Treaty, which survived four wars, decades of cross-border terrorism against India by Pakistan and opposition in India for over 64 years, was finally placed in abeyance on April 23, 2025, a day after 26 men were shot dead by terrorists in a Pahalgam meadow.

    Water disputes between the two nations date back to Partition, starting with the contentious division of resources across the Indus river system. Here’s the story of the water wars and signing of the IWT.

    May 18, 2025 11:03 AM IST
    TMC to hold rallies across West Bengal to honour Armed Forces today

    Amid nationwide programmes of several parties to mark the success of Operation Sindoor, the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal will hold rallies across the state to honour the Armed Forces on Sunday.

    Addressing the media on Wednesday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had said: “It is our responsibility to offer tribute to our brave soldiers who gave their lives for our nation. These rallies will be held across the state, and we will pay our respects in every block (in rural areas) and ward (in urban areas).”

    May 18, 2025 10:57 AM IST
    India Pakistan News Live Updates: Congress equations in fray as govt announces delegation heads different from party’s list

    With the government announcing the members of the seven multi-party delegations that would visit different countries to convey India’s message post the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor, which included Congress’s Shashi Tharoor as one of its heads, the party is now staring at another crisis within as the already frayed intra-party equations came to the fore.

    Early on Saturday, soon after the government announced delegation heads, the Congress, curiously, made it known that the party had suggested other names, which, however, did not find a place on the government’s list. Congress' list included: former Union Minister Anand Sharma; the party’s Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi; and MPs Syed Naseer Hussain and Amarinder Singh Raja Warring.

    With many of the Opposition MPs indicating they will accept the invitation to these delegations, the Congress is in a difficult spot having already criticised the process behind the formation of the delegations.

    May 18, 2025 10:50 AM IST
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