Analysts say with momentum already with the BJP, any alleged Pakistani interference and support for Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to swing voter support.

India’s election commission faces accusations of bias towards the ruling BJP by refusing to reign in the party’s divisive campaign rhetoric and for not providing voter turnout data quickly enough.

The suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a dam project in northwest Pakistan in March, killing six people.

Pakistan’s eight Hangor-class submarines are equipped with technology that surpass that of India’s current Scorpène-class submarines, analysts say.

The visit by John Bass to Islamabad comes a week after Iran and Pakistan held talks on restarting their long-delayed gas pipeline.

Contract for Hangor-class vessels was signed in 2015 during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

A funeral was held on Friday for Faraz Tahir, who was killed in Sydney while trying to stop a mass stabbing attack.

Within monthsof the Indian ban, Google rolled out YouTube Shorts and Instagram pushed out its Reels feature, mimicking short-form videos TikTok excelled at.

Hundreds of Pakistani women who crossed the frontier into Indian Kashmir decades ago with their ex-militant husbands now find themselves yearning for their homelands and families, but unable to leave.

Pakistan is battling a surge in militant violence on its territory, including frequent attacks on Chinese migrant workers.

Lightning and heavy rains led to the heaviest downpour in decades, flooding villages in Pakistan’s southwestern coast.

A lightning strike killed a group of farmers harvesting wheat in one province. Heavy rains also caused dozens of houses to collapse in the northwest and east of the country.

Amir Tamba, who died in Lahore on Saturday, was a suspect in prison death of Indian national Sarabjit Singh, who was convicted of spying in Pakistan and handed death sentence in 1991.

Investigators have uncovered evidence linking last month’s deadly attack on the Karakoram Highway to the same Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan cell that killed nine Chinese nationals in a 2021 bombing on the same road.

The abduction took place in Baluchistan province, long the scene of an insurgency by separatists fighting for independence.

Envoys from 49 countries attend event hosted by Xinjiang officials, with many saying they hope to strengthen cooperation under belt and road strategy, as region aims to expand international influence in the face of human rights allegations.

Washington is concerned about India’s ‘slide into illiberalism’, but it ‘doesn’t weaken [US-India ties], much less impact its future trajectory’, analysts say.

Analysts say a thaw in tensions could come with a changing of the guard in Pakistan, with both sides keen to not let ties worsen amid significant challenges.

A letter to Pakistan’s chief justice by senior High Court justices alleged that the nation’s powerful intelligence agency had used intimidation tactics and torture to sway their rulings, including in cases against ex-PM Imran Khan.

After attacks in Russia and Pakistan, analysts expect more focus on combating terrorism when China chairs the SCO in July.

Soul Sisters Pakistan acted as a support group for women who discussed issues often deemed inappropriate to discuss publicly in conservative, Muslim-majority Pakistan.

It is the first time that the UN’s top rights body has taken a position on the bloodiest-ever war in the Palestinian territory.

The move to deport the Rohingya refugees happened just as India enacted a controversial new citizenship law.

Maria Bibi, 22, was allegedly strangled by one of her brothers on March 17, in the presence of their father.

Trade with India has been a major burden for the Pakistani business community, which has to import goods via other countries at higher prices.