The Latest Breaking News from Poonch

An only child; a 5-year-old daughter; 12-year-old twins: To many Kashmiri families, India-Pakistan truce means little.

On May 13, three days after the Indo-Pak ceasefire, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation. During his 22-minute speech, he did not speak about the devastation in Poonch – a city that paid the price of the military escalation between India and Pakistan. 

The death of 12-year-old twins who were killed in a Pakistani strike as they fled the town of Poonch in India-held Kashmir has helped unite a community in shock.

ON THE GROUND: Deadly attacks by Pakistan on Indian border towns in Kashmir have left a trail of devastation, with homes shattered and families torn apart, as Shweta Sharma and Mohammad Dawood report

The people of Kashmir have for decades been caught in the middle of the bitter rivalry between Pakistan and India over the disputed Himalayan region they call home

In its usual sprint to serve up high-decibel patriotism and prime-time body counts, India’s legacy TV media has outdone itself – again. This time, several channels declared Qari Mohammad Iqbal, a madrassa teacher, as a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist killed during Operation Sindoor. The only problem? Iqbal wasn’t a terrorist. He wasn’t…

Madasar Choudhary said his sister saw two children killed in the town of Poonch that bore the brunt of this week's shelling by Pakistan, with India saying a total of 13 people died there.

India and Pakistan are moving closer to all-out conflict. But Kashmiris on the front line say they’re paying the price.

At dawn Wednesday on the contested border between India and Pakistan, in the usually sleepy Indian-run town of Poonch, a thumping explosion ripped the air as an artillery shell smashed into a building.