Rajnath Singh accused Pakistan of seeking money from other countries to run a “terrorism factory”. He asserted that Kashmir will once again become a “paradise on Earth”.

Singh was addressing an election rally in the Gurez assembly seat of Bandipora district in North Kashmir when he made the comment

Rajnath Singh sarcastically remarked that India could have offered a larger bailout to Pakistan than the IMF if relations between the two nations were amicable.

A Pakistan security official says a helicopter crash due to engine failure has killed seven people and injured seven others in the country's northwest

"Seven labourers have been gunned down by unknown armed men ... in Khuda-i-Abadan area of Panjgur town," Senior Superintendent of Police in Panjgur, Syed Fazil Shah told Reuters, adding one other labourer was injured.

Pakistani authorities said Sunday suspected insurgents killed at least seven workers and abducted 20 others at gunpoint in two attacks overnight in the country’s southwestern Balochistan province. The violence occurred in the Panjgur and Musakhail districts of the sparsely populated insurgency-hit province,

Pakistan has rolled out a bunch of measures to cut down on admin costs, all part of a $7 billion bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This includes axing around 150,000 government jobs and shutting down six ministries.

In a bid to stabilise its economy, Pakistan has announced the elimination of 150,000 jobs and the dissolution of six ministries as part of a deal with the IMF.