Lawyers

• Court convicts 12 over 2006 Mumbai train blasts

  A court on Friday convicted 12 men of planning several blasts on crowded commuter trains in the financial capital of Mumbai in 2006, which killed more than 180 people and wounded hundreds.

• India, Pakistan border security chiefs to meet after peace talks collapsed

  India and Pakistan border security force chiefs will meet in New Delhi next month, Pakistani officials said on Wednesday, days after the first high-level peace talks in years between the arch rivals collapsed.

• India-Pakistan peace talks collapse, deadlock sours relations

  The collapse of planned peace talks between India and Pakistan hours before they were to start on Sunday has raised questions about the arch-rivals' willingness to overcome mutual mistrust, built since their separation almost seven decades ago.

• Pakistan cancels Commonwealth conference to highlight 'Kashmir issue'

  Pakistan has cancelled the Commonwealth parliamentary conference due to tensions with India over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, officials said on Thursday, days before the two nuclear-armed neighbours are due to meet.

• Pakistan invites Kashmiri separatists for meeting "to irritate India"

  Pakistan invited separatists from disputed Kashmir region for a meeting in a move that risks further straining efforts to restart a peace dialogue ahead of a rare meeting between top security officials from the nuclear-armed nations.

• India, Pakistan talks face new hurdles as expectations diverge

  India plans to present Pakistan with a dossier of evidence of its involvement in militant attacks when officials from the two countries meet this month, which could jeopardize the rivals' first attempt in months to restart talks.

• Battle at Punjab police station ends, nine killed

  Police overcame a group of heavily armed men dressed in military fatigues on Monday after a 12-hour gun battle that ended in a small-town police station in Punjab near the border with Pakistan, and at least nine people were killed.

• Militant group disowns faction; more attacks in Kashmir

  A Pakistan-based militant group has disowned a splinter faction suspected of a string of killings in Jammu and Kashmir, with the rebuke followed swiftly on Friday by a string of attacks on telecoms facilities in the state's main city.

• Indian, Pakistani troops exchange gunfire, not sweets on Eid

  Indian and Pakistani forces traded fire across their disputed frontier over the weekend, when Muslims celebrated the festival of Eid al-Fitr, injuring several civilians and raising tension despite a recent agreement aimed at improving ties.

• Indian PM Modi to visit Pakistan in 2016 in a thaw in ties

  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to make a landmark visit to Pakistan next year, India's foreign secretary said on Friday, signaling a warming of ties between the nuclear-armed neighbors after a year of tensions.

• India jilts Pakistan on push for better ties: Pakistani PM

  India has failed to respond to Pakistan's desire for good relations, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said, in rare rebuke of a neighbor with which he has promised to mend ties.

• Modi's bravado ups the ante in India-Pakistan fighting

  To judge from the shrill outrage of India's TV news channels, the past week's bloody clashes along the border dividing Kashmir are all Pakistan's fault: one network has been plugging the Twitter hashtag #PakBorderDare.

• Pakistani teen, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize

  Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating girls' right to education, and Indian campaigner against child trafficking and labor Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

• More civilians hurt in worst Kashmir violence in years, Modi says all 'fine soon'

  India and Pakistan exchanged more gun and mortar fire in the disputed Kashmir region on Thursday, injuring five civilians, but Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hinted an end could be in sight for the worst cross-border violence in a decade.

• India and Pakistan intensify Himalayan border conflict

  Fighting intensified between India and Pakistan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Wednesday, wounding a dozen along a more than 200-km (124-mile) stretch of border.

• Pakistan's Sharif criticizes India over collapse of Kashmir talks

  Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif criticized India in his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Friday for withdrawing from planned peace talks last month over the disputed region of Kashmir.