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India-Pakistan relations

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on his way to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
May 13, 2025, 5:26 am
Trump starts Mideast trip with crush of problems, outsized certainty he has the answers
While president intends to press Gulf leaders to pour funds into US economy, they’ll likely press him on how US will address Gaza war, Iran nuclear program and India-Pakistan tensions
By AAMER MADHANI and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Policemen stand guard at a market in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, May 12, 2025. (Basit Zargar/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters)
May 12, 2025, 12:51 pm
After days of heavy firefights, calm reported along India-Pakistan border
US-brokered ceasefire halting worst escalation in decades appears to be holding as both sides report calm, airports reopen, displaced civilians begin returning home
By RAJESH ROY
Pakistanis wave the national flag as they celebrate after the ceasefire between Pakistan and India, in Hyderabad, Sindh province, on May 10, 2025. (Photo by Husnain ALI / AFP)
May 11, 2025, 3:40 am
India, Pakistan accuse each other of violating ceasefire, hours after reaching deal
Explosions are heard in 2 Indian-controlled cities in Kashmir, followed by blackout; truce is celebrated in Pakistan as resident says ‘we have won’
By RIAZAT BUTT, AIJAZ HUSSAIN and RAJESH ROY
Pakistani people flash victory signs as they celebrate after the ceasefire between Pakistan and India, in Multan on May 10, 2025 (Shahid Saeed MIRZA / AFP)
May 10, 2025, 4:39 pm
Trump announces India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire
Nations confirm agreeing to halt cross-border attacks after most serious military confrontation in decades
By Agencies
Indian army personnel stand next to explosives, carried by a drone, after it was intercepted by India, on the outskirts of Amritsar, on May 10, 2025. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP)
May 10, 2025, 10:49 am
India, Pakistan indicate willingness to pull back from brink as conflict escalates
Nuclear-armed neighbors carry out cross-border strikes on military bases; Pakistani forces seen mobilizing toward the frontier; Rubio speaks to both sides, urges calm
By Munir Ahmed, AIJAZ HUSSAIN, SHEIKH SAALIQ and RAJESH ROY
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, gestures and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to the media as they arrive for a meeting in New Delhi, India, Jan.15, 2018. (AP Photo, File)
May 9, 2025, 8:40 pm
India’s drone strike in Pakistan spotlights Israel’s role in South Asian conflict
As Israeli-made weapons shape battlefield, questions emerge about arms exports, alliances and diplomatic fallout
By Stav Levaton, Reuters and ToI Staff
Residents gather as police personnel inspect the site where an alleged drone was shot down in Karachi on May 8, 2025. Pakistan's army said it shot down 25 Israeli-made Indian drones (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP)
May 8, 2025, 1:02 pm
Pakistan military says it shot down 25 Israeli-made drones launched by India
One drone hits military target near the eastern city of Lahore, causing damage and wounding soldiers; debris from others said being recovered
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Indian soldiers walk along a street in Wuyan near Indian-administered Kashmir's main city of Srinagar after a loud explosion was heard on May 7, 2025. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP)
May 7, 2025, 9:50 am
India strikes Pakistan after tourist attack; Islamabad vows to ‘settle the score’
Pakistan says it shot down five Indian fighter jets, reports 26 civilians killed by missile strikes, as India accuses Pakistani troops of ‘arbitrary firing’ across Kashmir frontier
By Agencies
Indian paramilitary troopers stand guard along a street in Srinagar, on the Indian-administered side of Kashmir, on April 30, 2025. (Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)
April 30, 2025, 3:38 pm
Pakistan says it has ‘credible evidence’ India set to strike after Kashmir massacre
Pakistani citizens are scrambling to leave India before deadline set by New Delhi, which blamed Islamabad for a cross-border attack last week that killed 26 people
By PRABHJOT GILL and SHEIKH SAALIQ
People hold candles during a candlelight protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 23, 2025, a day after an attack killed at least 26 people, most of them tourists. (AP/Mukhtar Khan)
April 23, 2025, 11:47 pm
India blames Pakistan for Kashmir terror attack, suspends a key water treaty
Previously unknown group Kashmir Resistance claims responsibility for killing 26 Indian tourists, as New Delhi downgrades diplomatic ties with Islamabad, withdraws envoys in anger
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN and SHEIKH SAALIQ
Then-Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf listens to the national anthem before being sworn in as the country's civilian president at President House in Islamabad, Pakistan, on November 29, 2007. (B.K.Bangash/AP)
February 5, 2023, 10:36 am
Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan martial ruler who backed US in Afghanistan, dies at 79
Former army chief gained power in a bloodless coup, survived two assassination attempts and eventually stepped down while facing possible impeachment amid public discontent
By Jon Gambrell and Munir Ahmed
In this March 26, 2021 file photo, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the West Side Conservative Club, in Urbandale, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
January 25, 2023, 1:01 am
In new book, Pompeo says US averted nuclear war between India and Pakistan
Former secretary of state details his tenure as Trump’s top diplomat in ‘Never Give an Inch,’ including his first sit-down with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
By Shaun Tandon
Hafiz Saeed, chief of Pakistani religious group Jamaat-ud-Dawa, addresses a rally for Kashmir Day in Lahore, Pakistan, on February 5, 2019. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
February 12, 2020, 5:08 pm
Pakistan jails cleric wanted by US, India for Mumbai attacks
2008 terror onslaught killed 166 people, including Chabad emissaries Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg
By Agencies
The WhatsApp messaging app is displayed on an iPhone on May 14, 2019, in San Anselmo, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
December 19, 2019, 11:36 pm
Phones of Pakistani officials allegedly targeted by Israeli spyware
Report says unclear who was behind hacking, which took advantage of vulnerability in WhatsApp that NSO Group has been accused of exploiting
By ToI Staff
An Indian soldier patrols outside the residence of National Conference party president Farooq Abdullah, in Srinagar, India, August 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
August 5, 2019, 10:46 am
India revokes Kashmir’s special status, upending status quo
Move could significantly shift the demographics of the disputed Muslim-majority territory
By AP
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