The foreign ministers of Israel and Pakistan, a Muslim country that has long taken a hard line against the Jewish state, met publicly for the first time today, a diplomatic breakthrough that follows Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

India and Pakistan opened high-level talks today aimed at solving their decades-old dispute over Kashmir with Pakistan denying it arms and trains a separatist insurgency in the region and accusing India of human rights abuses there.

A powerful explosion ripped through India’s main space centre today, killing up to six people and seriously injuring three others.

Pakistan today test-fired a nuclear-capable missile able to hit many targets inside archrival India.