The Latest Breaking News from Pakistan

The US has brought the two sides back from the brink before, but the mood is very different with Trump

Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the UK should not be ‘squeamish’ about exporting its defence sector

Responding to the Pahalgam terror attack, the Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor, striking nine terrorist sites across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in an operation described as “focused, calibrated, and non-escalatory”.

COMMENT: As an uneasy, decades-long standoff breaks into open conflict, Peter Popham says the hostile neighbours have failed to develop protocols to prevent tensions from escalating further – to catastrophic levels

India struck multiple targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack.

Other nations call for restraint while offering mediation to ease tensions.

The missile strikes on Pakistan carried out by Indian warplanes herald another outbreak of serious conflict between the two neighbours who started fighting in the very year they won independence from Britain in 1947. In just over 50 years they fought four major regional wars – including in 1971, when…

There have been fears raised that an all-out war could begin

Pakistanis vowed to make India “pay a huge price” following cross-border strikes between the two nuclear-armed rivals on Wednesday (May 7).