Amid the chill in bilateral ties, India and Pakistan have taken a step forward by initiating back-channel talks. The special envoys of the two countries met in Dubai on Thursday.

Pakistan on Tuesday said it had scrambled warplanes after two Indian jets allegedly entered three nautical miles into the country’s airspace over Punjab province.

India and Pakistan on Friday failed to sign an agreement on a liberalised visa regime, expected at the end of the home secretary-level talks in Islamabad, and merely agreed to do so soon, after Islam

India and Pakistan on Friday failed to sign an agreement on a liberalised visa regime, expected at the end of the home secretary-level talks in Islamabad, and merely agreed to do so soon, after Islama

Pakistan's cricketer- turned-politician Imran Khan on Wednesday pulled out of the upcoming India Today Conclave in New Delhi, citing the presence of controversial author Salman Rushdie at the same eve

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has accepted an invitation from his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani and would be visiting there at "mutually convenient" dates, according to the foreign office o

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has accepted an invitation from his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani and would be visiting there at “mutually convenient” dates, according to the foreign office of that country.

Six Indian sailors held captive by Somali pirates for 10 long months are finally free, thanks to a respected Pakistani rights activist, officials said on Tuesday. The families of the Indians offered t

India-baiting Paki-stan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was not part of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s smaller 22-member Cabinet which was sworn in here on Friday evening. It is, however, possible that he could rejoin the government when a second lot of ministers take the oath. India will therefore have to wait a few days longer to see who will head the Pakistani delegation at the foreign minister-level talks due in New Delhi in July.

Pakistan on Thursday declined India’s offer to send $5 million in aid to Pakistani flood victims, saying it “appreciated India’s gesture, but can’t take aid now”.