Imran shuts door on talks with India

New Dehli, August 22

In a hardening of stance, Pakistan PM Imran Khan has ruled out any more overtures to India for a dialogue even as five UN rapporteurs described the blackout in Kashmir as “a form of collective punishment to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, without even the pretext of a precipitating offence”.

The Pakistan PM told the New York Times that “there is no point in talking to them (India). Unfortunately, all the overtures that I was making for peace and dialogue, I think they took it for appeasement. There is nothing more we can do.”

Two days after PM Modi and Khan spoke with US President Donald Trump, Khan raised the spectre of a nuclear exchange, which was rejected by the Indian envoy .— TNS

Pak ‘plans’ to push afghan ultras at Loc

New Delhi: Pakistan plans to push 100 terrorists from Afghanistan into Kashmir in the next few weeks, security sources said on Thursday. At least 15 Jaish terrorists are waiting at terror launch pads in Lipa valley along the LoC, they said citing Intelligence reports. Mufti Rauf Asghar, brother of JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar, held meetings with outfit commanders at its Bahawalpur HQ on August 19 and 20 on pushing terrorists into Kashmir, sources said. PTI