Latest PoK News & Updates

Jaipur, May 7 (IANS) Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti, who served as the Director General of Air Operations during last year’s military operation against Pakistan, on Thursday said that Indian forces had shot down 13 aircrafts and 11 airfields of the rogue nation under the Operation Sindoor.Addressing a press conference in Jaipur on the anniversary of Operation Sindoor, the Deputy Chief of Air Staff claimed that the operation successfully destroyed nine terrorist hideouts inside Pakistan and Pa…

New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, who served as Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) during Operation Sindoor, said on Thursday that Pakistan had “compelled to negotiate” with India and “requested to stop” strikes against the country during the operation last year.Ghai was addressing a press conference on one year of Operation Sindoor, a military operation undertaken against Pakistan-based terror infrastructures post the Pahalgam terror attack.He described the mili…

Jaipur, May 7 (IANS) The second edition of the Joint Commanders’ Conference, themed ‘Military Capability in New Domains’, will start on Thursday in Jaipur and continue till Friday. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan will grace the conference, which assumes added significance as it coincides with the first anniversary of Operation Sindoor, a landmark tri-service operation that stands as a testament to India’s unwavering political will and milita…

New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Pakistan needed a decisive response following the dastardly Pahalgam terror attack and it got the one from India, timely and decisively. However, this was not just one location on terrorists’ radar. According to information picked by Intelligence agencies, the ISI had planned more such attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, with an intent to terrorise the tourists and bleed the tourism industry. As tourism remains the lifeline of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan was looking to hur…

Srinagar, April 3 (IANS) Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, chief Imam of All India Imam Organisation, said on Friday that after abrogation of Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir has changed so much that it has become a model for the rest of the country. Speaking to media here, Ilyasi added that the efforts of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have borne fruit in the changed picture Kashmir of today presents to us.”Today there is pen in those hands, who used to pelt stones. Tour…

Colombo, March 6 (IANS) The appointment of a junior police officer from Pakistan’s Punjab province as Inspector General of Police (IGP) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) has triggered unrest within the local police force, with six senior officers questioning the decision on grounds of seniority, merit, and institutional morale, a report said on Friday. It added that Liaqat Ali Malik was serving as a Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Establishment in the Punjab Police and was “a Basic Pay Scale (…

New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The Indian Army has intensified surveillance and monitoring along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir as drone sightings have gone up considerably. The heightened surveillance comes in the wake of Pakistan trying to push more drones and balloons resembling aircraft into Jammu and Kashmir. The police in Jammu and Kashmir spotted and then seized a balloon that resembles an aircraft. The police found that the object had the inscription of Pakistan International …

New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) The US-Israel airstrikes on Iran are reminiscent of India’s Operation Sindoor, carried out last year against Pakistan in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack.Op Sindoor, which extended from May 7 to May 10, 2025, was a classic case of how India went ahead and destroyed terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and simultaneously thwarted missile and drone attacks from the neighbouring country.Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the …

New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Over the last decade, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) has experienced persistent economic stagnation and a major contributor to economic deceleration, which is getting worse, is the region’s growing fiscal vulnerability, a report has said.According to the report in European Times, the deepening economic stagnation in PoK is marked by “slowing growth, rising unemployment, rising poverty, and shrinking development spending”.In 2020, public development spending account…

Colombo, Feb 3 (IANS) Political uncertainty, shifting alliances and legislative defections have caused a volatile environment in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) – regions that have witnessed continuous instability, a report has stated. “For the past few years, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has been engulfed in unrest, driven by a powerful grassroots movement challenging both economic hardship and entrenched political structures. The Jammu Kashmir Joint A…