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2 days ago | firstpost.com | Anmol Singla

United States President Donald Trump’s offer to mediate the Kashmir flashpoint between India and Pakistan has been met with a familiar and unequivocal response from New Delhi: no third-party involvement. While the US and Pakistan welcomed the idea of mediation, India maintained its long-standing position that any talks, if held, must remain strictly bilateral and bound by the Simla Agreement.

3 days ago | firstpost.com | Prabhash K Dutta

The Operation Sindoor has proved to be bigger and bolder than the punitive military strikes that India carried out in 2016 and 2019 in territories under Pakistan’s control. In each case, the trigger was a dastardly terror attack — in Uri and Pulwama earlier and in Pahalgam the last month — that stemmed from the so-called policy of “bleeding India by a thousand cuts”, institutionalised by the Pakistani military bosses through a maze of terror outfits created, cultivated and cultured over decades.

4 days ago | firstpost.com | Anmol Singla

Cross-border tensions between India and Pakistan have climbed to new heights. Amid escalating military operations, the world is once again confronted with a harrowing question: what happens if Pakistan launches a nuclear missile? The issue transcends conventional warfare. It enters a domain where the margin for error is non-existent, where every strategic calculation hinges on the doctrine of deterrence and where the consequence of miscalculation is unthinkable devastation.

4 days ago | firstpost.com | Anmol Singla

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharifcalled a meeting of the National Command Authority, the apex body overseeing the nation’s nuclear arsenal on Saturday (May 10, 2025), following Islamabad’s military operations against India targeting multiple bases. The standoff, now in its fourth consecutive day, intensified as Pakistan launched drone and missile attackstargeting 26 sites across India under the cover of darkness on May 9.

5 days ago | firstpost.com | Sreemoy Talukdar

In an extraordinary counterattack on the intervening night of May 9 and 10, Indiastruck three Pakistan Air Force (PAF) bases in Murid, Rafiqui Shorkot and the Nur Khan base at Rawalpindi a logistic hub for the PAF and also theheadquarters of Pakistan army. The attacks were carried out with clinical accuracy. Footage indicates that these bases, deep inside Pakistan, were struck with air-to-surface missiles, sending shockwaves throughout Pakistan.