Clutching their father’s hand, 12-year-old twins Zain and Zoya tried to ... a loud blast shook their house in the Indian border town of Poonch. But they had barely stepped outside when another ...

During the earlier India-Pakistan wars, be it 1965, 1975 or 1998 Kargil war, Poonch town had remained unaffected,” said 60-year-old Javed Ahmad, a shopkeeper. “Poonch town was covered on all ...