A trailer truck hit a rickshaw crowded with children heading for school in eastern Pakistan today, leaving 14 people dead, police said.

Top Foreign Ministry officials from Pakistan and India on today held landmark talks aimed at resolving five decades of enmity over the Himalayan region of Kashmir.

India and Pakistan today held their first substantive talks in six years on the disputed Kashmir region – one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints and a key hurdle in their revived peace process.