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HYDERABAD: After the high-voltage run-up to what’s being called the wedding of the season, tennis star Sania Mirza and Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik took their wedding vows in a simple ceremony before a select gathering of family and friends on Monday afternoon. The groom placed a sparkling solitaire on the bride’s ring finger to seal [...]
LAHORE: The first round of three-day meeting of Indus River Commission has ended, India has agreed to review the design of Nimoo Bazgo dam. Pakistan also demanded for inspection Nimoo Bazgo dam besides reduction in water storage. The nine-member delegation of Indian water commission is headed by G Aranga Nathan while Jamaat Ali Shah is [...]
BHUBANESWAR: India successfully tested two short-range nuclear-capable missiles from two sites off its eastern coast on Saturday, a defence ministry official said. India, which tested nuclear weapons in 1998, has developed a series of nuclear and conventional missile systems as part of a programme begun in 1983. Saturday’s first test was the launch of the [...]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muttahida Kissan Mahaz (PMKM) has demanded of the government to move a resolution in Untied Nation (UN) through its attache on the water terrorism launched by India. Addressing a gathering at Rampura Moza Ghwind, a village situated at zero line of Pakistan-Indian border, the PMKM President Ayub Mayo and PMKM Punjab President [...]
LAHORE: Almost all leading newspapers in India published on Saturday a railways department’s advertisement that shows capital New Delhi located across the border in Pakistan. According to ZeeNews, the Eastern Railway’s ad appeared to announce the inauguration of Maharaja’s Express, from Kolkata to Nalanda. The railways authorities, however, absolved themselves of any responsibility, saying it [...]
CHICAGO: The charming Pakistani-American man accused of scouting out the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in a Chicago court. David Coleman Headley, 49, admitted to using a friend’s immigration company as a cover for surveillance activities in India and Denmark on behalf of two [...]
WASHINGTON: Another terrorist attack in India could reignite India-Pakistan tensions in 2010, increasing the risk of miscalculation between two nuclear states, warns commander
VASCO: India on Wednesday said 42 militant training camps were operating in Pakistan and accused the country’s government of making little effort to close them. The accusation came after the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan met last month for the first official talks since the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, which India blames on Pakistani [...]
NEW DELHI: India’s home-grown missile interception system failed to shoot down an incoming missile during a test Monday, a Defence Ministry official said. A medium-range and nuclear-capable Prithvi II surface-to-surface missile was fired from a test site in the eastern state of Orissa, but the interceptor missile failed to take off due to a technical [...]
NEW DELHI: Indian Home Secretary Gopal Pillai has said that a bombing that killed 16 people in Pune last month was carried out by home-grown Islamists with alleged links to militants in Pakistan, reports Reuters. “All the evidence which is coming currently is showing that it is the IM (Indian Mujahideen), rather than a Hindu [...]
MUMBAI: Police in Mumbai said on Sunday they have arrested two men they say were preparing to attack several targets in India
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was informed by the law enforcing agencies that India is involve in the string of coordinated explosions in Lahore. PM chaired a high level meeting in Islamabad to review the security situation prevailing in the country. The law enforcing agencies informed that evidence of Indian involvement was found in [...]
NEW DELHI: Russia will build up to 16 nuclear reactors for power stations in India, Russia’s deputy premier said during a visit
NEW DELHI: Even as Pakistan struggled to deal with a spate of deadly terror attacks on Lahore on Friday, it also had to cope with a dire warning from India that another cross-border attack on its soil would invite a swift and decisive response from New Delhi. The warning came from Home Minister P. Chidambaram [...]
WASHINGTON: The United States continues to worry that groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, RSS, VHP & Bajrang Dal can cause a war between India and Pakistan, a senior US military commander told a congressional panel on Wednesday. Lt-Gen Francis Kearney, deputy commander, US Special Operations Command, told the Senate Committee on Armed Services that while the United States [...]
NEW DELHI: India said Friday it was open to talks with Pakistan but no meaningful progress could be made until Islamabad controls the “terror machine” operating on its soil. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was a strong advocate of dialogue with Pakistan but Islamabad must not allow territory under its control “to be [...]
It is unfortunate that Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor hijacked a successful trip by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Riyadh. Tharoor’s remark that Saudi Arabia could be an interlocutor for talks between New Delhi and Islamabad was embarrassing. Tharoor may be indiscreet but I suspect that somehow, he got the impression that [...]
NEW DELHI: Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir called on Indian External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Friday. According to sources, in the meeting they exchanged views over the secretaries level talks held on Thursday. Pakistan handed over a road map for composite dialogue to India and made it clear that composite dialogue is the [...]
BEIJING: In a statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said that the improvement and development of Pak-India relations are not only conducive to the peace and development of South Asia but to the whole region of Asia on Thursday. “China welcomes the steps for normalization of relations by Pakistan and India and expresses hope [...]
NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan emerged on Thursday from their first official talks since the Mumbai attacks with a vague promise
15,000 Daily wage-earners’ jobs at stake as PEPCO decides to suspend supply to furnaces
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
Rehman Malik asks Shahid Malik to get Shoaib Malik’s passport back
What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
Pakistani expectations for civilian nuclear deal dampened by the United States
