'What happened over there is environmental terrorism. There has been serious environmental damage' Pakistan's Climate Change Minister Malik Amin Aslam, on India's bombing of a hilly forest area
Pakistan plans to lodge a complaint at the UN against India, accusing it of"environmental terrorism" after Indian air strikes damaged pine trees and brought the nuclear-armed nations to blows, a government minister says.
"What happened over there is environmental terrorism," Climate Change Minister Malik Amin Aslam told Reuters, adding that dozens of pine trees had been felled. India bans Kashmir's socio-religious group Jamaat-e-Islami India's home ministry issued a notification against Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday night, accusing the group as "unlawful association" and supporting militancy in the region.
“We are happy our pilot is being released,” said Air Vice Marshal RGK Kapoor, at a joint news conference of India’s three armed forces on Thursday evening. Turkey, US, China, European Union and other powers have urged restraint from the two nations, as tensions escalated following a suicide car bombing that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Indian-controlled Kashmir on February 14.A day after cross-border air raids escalated tensions with nuclear-armed neighbour Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India will fight as one nation.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said he will ask Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to help defuse tension between Pakistan and India. India's army says Pakistani soldiers are targeting nearly two dozen Indian forward points with mortar and gunfire. Pakistani soldiers also attacked Indian positions overnight, the army spokesman said earlier, but described its intensity as "lesser" than previous nights.Pakistan says will free Indian pilot as 'peace gesture'
"We are willing to return the captured Indian pilot if it leads to de-escalation," he was quoted as saying by Pakistan media.
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