Thousands of air travellers worldwide were left stranded yesterday after Pakistan closed its airspace in response to escalating tensions with India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday asked Indians to "stand as a wall" with anger boiling over Pakistan's capture of a pilot as a crisis escalates between the nuclear-armed rivals.

The United States, Britain and France proposed on Wednesday that the United Nations Security Council blacklist the head of Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad, which said it attacked an Indian paramilitary convoy in disputed Kashmir killing forty.

A day after Indian and Pakistani fighter jets were engaged in aerial combat, Indian Ministry of Defence officials say airspace intrusion by Pakistan jets was an attempt to attack military installations.

Pakistan will return a captured pilot "as a peace gesture" to India, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan says, amid efforts by the United States to defuse a crisis between the two nuclear powers a day after both downed enemy jets.

British Secretary of State for Foreign and Common wealth Affairs Jeremy Hunt telephones Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

The United States, Britain and France have moved a fresh proposal in the United Nations Security Council to designate Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist.

India has said Pakistan shelled and fired small arms on Indian army’s forward posts along the de facto border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district.

A string of violent escalations have pushed India and Pakistan to the brink of conflict, sparking global alarm and calls for restraint between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Pakistan's state media yesterday published a video showing an Indian fighter pilot who was captured after his jet was shot down when it entered Pakistani airspace in Kashmir.

A man accused by Sri Lanka's president of orchestrating a plot to assassinate him was cleared of any wrongdoing by a court in Colombo yesterday.

Pakistan and India say they have shot down each other's warplanes, in a dramatically escalating confrontation that has fuelled concerns of a catastrophic conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals.

Pakistan too has said it has no intention of the situation to escalate amidst fire exchange and tensions with India along the Kashmir border.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday asked the country's armed forces and people to "remain prepared for all eventualities" after the Indian Air Force allegedly destroyed a terrorist camp across the Line of Control.

Pakistan's top civilian and military leaders rejects India's comments that it had struck "terror camps" inside Pakistan, vowing to prove wrong India's claims and warning that it will retaliate to Indian aggression.

The Immigration Department arrests 17 people, including a Bangladesh national, in a drive at a massage parlour on Jalan Dato Tahwil Azar in Malaysia.

Hours after India carried out air strikes on terror camps in Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the country is in safe hands.

India sent 1,000 paramilitary reinforcements to a tense northeastern state and bolstered other security measures yesterday after two people were killed by police firing in a protest against moves to give residency rights to outsiders, officials said.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday asked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to "give peace a chance" and assured him that he "stands by" his words and will "immediately act" if New Delhi provides Islamabad with "actionable intelligence" on the Pulwama attack.

A Pakistani court yesterday rejected a plea by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to be released on bail and have a seven-year prison term over the ownership of a steel mill in Saudi Arabia suspended, court documents showed.