Pakistan Archives

In Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, dozens held an anti-India rally

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Pakistani Kashmir orders stockpiling of food as India tensions flare

Pakistan-administered Kashmir called on residents near the de facto border with India to stockpile food on Friday as tensions flare between the arch-rivals following...

AFPMay 2, 2025

India blames Pakistan for the gun attack that killed 26 people on April 22 in Indian-administered Kashmir, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving his military "complete operational freedom"

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Religious schools close in Pakistani Kashmir as tensions rise with India

Authorities in Pakistan-administered Kashmir shut more than 1,000 religious schools Thursday over fears of possible military action from India in retaliation for last week’s...

AFPMay 1, 2025

Workers from Pakistan's Civil Defence Department give first aid training for schoolchildren as tensions rise with India over a deadly attack in disputed Kashmir

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Children learn emergency drills as Kashmir tensions rise

School playing fields in Pakistan’s Kashmir are being transformed into first aid camps for children to learn how to respond if war breaks out...

AFPMay 1, 2025

Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947

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Pakistan says India planning strike as tensions soar over Kashmir attack

Pakistan’s information minister said early Wednesday that Islamabad had “credible intelligence” that India was planning an imminent military strike and he vowed a “decisive...

AFPApril 29, 2025

Pakistan says it shot down an Indian drone and India says there was more gunfire across the Line of Control separating the two countries overnight as tensions soar over a deadly attack in Kashmir

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Pakistan says it shot down Indian drone along Kashmir border

Pakistan’s military shot down an Indian drone along the de facto Kashmir border, state radio in Islamabad reported on Tuesday, a week after the...

AFPApril 29, 2025

Decades of clashes between Pakistan and India have pushed many residents on the de facto border to build bunkers for shelter

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Kashmiris fortify bunkers anticipating India-Pakistan crossfire

Pulling logs and dusty building materials from a storage bunker outside his home in Kashmir, Riaz Awan readied the underground space to house his...

AFPApril 29, 2025

An Indian citizen returns from Pakistan through the Wagah border post

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Kashmir attack unites political foes in India, Pakistan

India and Pakistan are exchanging fire over their de-facto border since the Kashmir attack, but in New Delhi and Islamabad political foes are coming...

AFPApril 29, 2025

The India-Pakistan border near Daoke village in Punjab -- where villagers are worried about fraying relations between the rivals

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Villagers on India’s border with Pakistan fear war

India’s Daoke village is fenced from Pakistan on three sides and 65-year-old resident Hardev Singh, who has lived through multiple wars between the arch-rivals,...

AFPApril 28, 2025