By Aga Syed Muntazir Mehdi

The India-Pakistan face-off: A crucial moment for global peace

In the heart of South Asia, two nuclear-armed giants, India and Pakistan, find themselves embroiled in a direct confrontation that poses a significant threat to regional stability and global peace. The recent horrific attack on tourists in Pahalgam sent shockwaves through the community and beyond, leaving behind a legacy of loss and fear that no amount of military might can ever erase.

Pakistan, India agree to withdraw troops by end of May

Pakistan and India have agreed to withdraw troop reinforcements deployed during their recent conflict back to their peacetime positions by the end of May, according to a senior Pakistani security official, South China Morning Post reported.

Pakistan thanks Iran for de-escalation efforts during standoff with India

TEHRAN – Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed gratitude to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during a Saturday phone call, commending Tehran’s “sincere and brotherly diplomacy” during Pakistan’s military standoff with India earlier this month.

Iran welcomes India-Pakistan ceasefire, urges ‘lasting stability’ after recent tensions

TEHRAN – Iran has welcomed the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan, with Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baqaei applauding the decision as a demonstration of "responsible and wise statesmanship" by both nations.

India and Pakistan agree to a ceasefire

India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades, AP reported.

Pakistan denies firing hundreds of drones into India

Pakistan targeted 36 Indian sites with 300 to 400 drones overnight on Thursday into Friday, an Indian military official said, an assertion denied by Islamabad.

Saudi minister in Pakistan as tensions flare over Kashmir

Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for foreign affairs arrived for an “official visit” to Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Friday on a potential mission to calm tensions between the country and its neighbor India, CNN quoted Pakistan’s foreign ministry as saying.

Pakistan vows retaliation after Indian missile strikes

India hit Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir with missiles on Wednesday and Pakistan vowed to retaliate saying it shot down five Indian aircraft, in the worst clash in more than two decades between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

Iran, Pakistan to draft MoU in tourism field: minister

TEHRAN--Iran and Pakistan will formulate a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the field of tourism, Iran's Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri announced on Tuesday.

Pakistan says 26 killed in Indian strikes as tensions rise after Kashmir massacre

India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory in several locations early Wednesday, killing at least 26 people, including a child, in what Pakistan’s leader called an act of war.

India strikes three sites inside Pakistan

Pakistan says will respond ‘at a time and place of its own choosing’

India said early Wednesday that it had conducted strikes on what it called “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan, two weeks after an attack by armed militants killed more than two dozen civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir, the New York Times reported.

Pakistan tests missile amid India standoff, Moody's warns of economic cost

Pakistan carried out a second missile test in three days on Monday after saying it was preparing for an incursion by India, as Prime Minister Moody warned the standoff over violence in Kashmir could set back Islamabad's economic reforms, Reuters reported.

Araghchi to visit Pakistan, India amid tensions

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is scheduled to visit Pakistan and India next week to discuss bilateral relations, regional developments, and international issues, according to a Foreign Ministry spokesman speaking to Press TV. 

130 nuclear warheads, missiles targeted at India: Pakistan minister

Pakistani Railway Minister Hanif Abbasi, in a dramatic escalation of tensions, threatened India with nuclear retaliation, claiming that Pakistan’s missile arsenal, including Ghori, Shaheen, and Ghaznavi missiles, along with 130 nuclear warheads, has been kept “only for India,”

Iran, Pakistan urge for rise in direct flights

TEHRAN – Iranian Deputy Tourism Minister Anoushirvan Mohseni Bandpei and Managing Director of Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) Aftab ur Rehman Rana urged on rise in number of direct flights between Iran and Pakistan, using health tourism capacities of Iran and holding sightseeing tours.

Pezeshkian engages Indian, Pakistani leaders; proposes Iran as mediator amid rising Kashmir tensions

TEHRAN – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, India, and offered Tehran’s mediation to ease escalating tensions between India and Pakistan during separate phone calls with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday.

India, Pakistan trade gunfire as tensions rise over deadly Kashmir attack

Indian and Pakistani forces have exchanged fire along the Line of Control (LOC) separating the two countries as the UN calls for “maximum restraint” amid warnings of a wider military escalation following the latest deadly attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam town.

Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated over Kashmir attack

Tensions between the arch-rivals India and Pakistan have escalated rapidly after the massacre of 25 Indian tourists and a Nepalese citizen in the disputed Himalayan Kashmir region on Tuesday, prompting warnings of a return to conflict.

Iran FM briefs Swiss, Pakistani counterparts as indirect talks with U.S. progress

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has held separate phone conversations with his Swiss and Pakistani counterparts to brief them on the latest developments in ongoing indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States over the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal and the lifting of U.S. sanctions.

Tehran, Islamabad to boost scientific ties

TEHRAN – Iran’s deputy science minister, Abolfazl Vahedi, and Pakistan’s Science Minister, Khalid Hussain Magsi, have discussed ways to develop collaborations between universities of the two countries.

Iran mourns Pakistani workers killed in terror attack

TEHRAN – The Iranian embassy in Islamabad has issued a strong condemnation of what it called a "cowardly and inhumane attack" that claimed the lives of eight Pakistani citizens in Iran's southeastern Sistan-and-Baluchestan province.