Indian Sub-continent

ISLAMABAD, Aug 7 (APP): Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said Pakistan could approach the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the recent move of India on Kashmir.

Pakistan would never tolerate the unilateral decision taken by India on Kashmir, he stated while talking to a private news channel.

If war was imposed on Pakistan, a befitting response would be given to India, he stated.We are also approaching United Nations Security Council over issue, he said.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 07 (APP): Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan Wednesday said that Prime Minister Imran Khan represented the just and legal right of Kashmiris in his address in the parliament.

In a series of tweets, the SAPM said the prime minister exposed real extremist face of India before the world.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 7 (APP): Federal Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari said that abolishing status of Kashmir by India was a war crime act.

We have written a letter to United Nations regarding use of cluster bombs by India across the Line of Control and in Occupied Kashmir valley, she stated while talking to a private news channel.

As per UN charter and Geneva Convention, the Kashmir was a disputed territory between India and Pakistan, she said.

Sikar, Aug 6 (PTI) A Rajasthan court on Tuesday sentenced a man to 20-year rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl, but criticised police for failing to arrest the main accused in the six-year-old case.

Special POCSO court Judge Seema Agarwal asked Jaipur-range Inspector General of Police and Sikar SP to inform the court about the progress made to arrest Pradeep Jat, the main accused, in the case.

She directed the SP to constitute a special team to arrest him, public prosecutor Shivratan Sharma said.

New Delhi, Aug 6 (PTI) Tourists and Kashmiri locals who reached Delhi on Tuesday appeared relieved at being out of the uncertainty sweeping the Valley but expressed their angst at the situation there, with some saying it is akin to the Stone Age without lines of communication.

They also rued the heavy security deployment in the Valley as tension persisted in the region over revoking of the provisions of Article 370, which gave special powers to the state.

Bikaner, Aug 6 (PTI) A minor was allegedly raped by two men who made a video and circulated it on social media in Rajasthan's Bikaner district, police said Tuesday.

A FIR was registered against Manoj Bishnoi, 20, and Ramdhan Meghwal, 25, under relevant section of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on a complaint by the victim father, Nokha police station in-charge Bhagwan Sahay Meena said.

The accused are absconding but the police hope to nab them soon, Meena added.

07 August 2019; AFP: Armed soldiers stand in front of barbed wire in Indian Kashmir's near-silent summer capital of Srinagar during a massive security lockdown imposed on the restive region by the Hindu nationalist government.

Kashmir was stripped of its seven-decade-long autonomous status through a controversial presidential decree on Monday, a day after a crippling curfew was imposed on its main city.

New Delhi, Aug 6 (PTI) The Delhi Commission for Women issued a notice to police on Tuesday seeking details of the investigation in the alleged rape of a second-year student of the JNU by a cab driver.

According to media reports, the 21-year-old was allegedly drugged and raped by the driver of a cab she had booked while returning from a friend's home on Friday night, the DCW said.

She was then allegedly dumped in a park in a semi-conscious state and was found by locals, it added.

07 August 2019; DW: Pakistan's PM Imran Khan has sharply condemned New Delhi's decision to end the special constitutional status enjoyed by India-administered Kashmir. Khan has also demanded action from the global community.

A day after India stunned the world by abolishing the special autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan warned New Delhi that its action would carry grave consequences.     

KABUL, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Casualties were feared in clashes between security forces and a terrorist gang near Kabul airport on early Wednesday, a source and witnesses said.

"Afghan Special Operation Forces launched a raid to hunt down an Islamic State (IS) terror network in Qasaba neighborhood at wee hours of Wednesday. During the mission, the security forces received hostile fire and engaged with the armed terrorists," the source who declined to be named told Xinhua.