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ISLAMABAD: A serving Pakistani Army officer has been named in one of the three dossiers handed over by India to Pakistan for his suspected involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks. The dossier has also named another retired Major and two other officers as ‘Major Iqbal’ and ‘Major Samir Ali. The three dossiers were handed [...]
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is sharply expanding American weapons sales to both India and Pakistan in a bid to forge “closer ties with each country”, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The newspaper noted that although the US had stayed out of the Indo-Pak rift, it was pursuing deals with both to strengthen its [...]
NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan began their first official talks since the 2008 Mumbai attacks on Thursday, a meeting that is unlikely to lead to an immediate breakthrough but may help thaw their frigid relations. Any progress made by the two nations’ foreign secretaries — their top diplomats — may also help Western efforts to [...]
ISLAMABAD: One day before the India-Pakistan secretary level talks take place, India has forced Pakistan to alter its delegation for the
ISLAMABAD: With Pakistan still undecided when to formally seek intervention of the International Court of Arbitration against controversial construction of Kishanganga hydropower project by India in violation of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, New Delhi has started preparations to build another big dam on River Chenab. Documents available with ‘The Statesmen’ suggest that the government [...]
WASHINGTON: Both India and Pakistan have shown political courage in deciding to hold their peace talks as scheduled despite a terrorist attack last week, which aimed at derailing the peace move, says the US State Department. The foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan are scheduled to be held in New Delhi on February 25. [...]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said that a balanced and indiscriminate US approach in this region could help improve the United States image amongst Pakistanis. Talking to the US special envoy for the region Richard Holbrooke, Gilani said that US assistance to Pakistan should be need-based and in projects which have a [...]
ISLAMABAD: The US is quietly working for the success of the forthcoming talks between foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India for lowering tensions between the neighbours, which it sees as crucial for the success of its campaign in Afghanistan. Sources here said that after nudging the two countries to the negotiating table, US diplomats have [...]
NEW DELHI: A previously unknown group that said it had splintered from a larger Pakistan-based outfit has claimed responsibility for a weekend attack in India, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The Hindu, a respected Indian newspaper, said it had been contacted by someone claiming to be a spokesman for a group called Lashkar-e-Taiba al-Almi which said [...]
SRINAGAR: At least two dozen people including 12 policemen were hurt on Tuesday in Muslim-majority Indian-administered Kashmir when police clashed with residents mourning the deaths of two rebels, officials said. The violence erupted south of the Kashmiri summer capital Srinagar after thousands joined the funeral procession of one of two rebels killed in a gun [...]
NEW DELHI: India said today that there would be no knee-jerk reaction to a deadly weekend militant attack in the western city of Pune and planned peace talks with Pakistan next week would go ahead. The blast at a crowded restaurant claimed nine lives and led to calls for the government to call off talks [...]
CALCUTTA: Maoist rebels detonated land mines and set a security outpost ablaze in eastern India, killing at least 24 policemen in the worst-ever attack on police in the restive area. An additional seven officers were wounded in the brazen assault Monday by more than 100 communist fighters, who also stole weapons from the security post [...]
ISLAMABAD: After a heavy exchange of cross-border firing between India and Pakistan Saturday night, both sides established a hotline contact to normalise the
MUMBAI: Armed police and burning effigies marked the release of the latest Bollywood blockbuster yesterday after Hindu radicals threatened to attack cinemas in Mumbai because of its star’s pro-Pakistan stance. Many cinemas cancelled screenings of My Name Is Khan after the Shiv Sena, an ultra-nationalist political party with a history of violence, called for the [...]
ISLAMABAD: The foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India will meet for talks in New Delhi on February 25, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday. India suspended a four-year-old peace process with Pakistan after an attack on the Indian city of Mumbai by Pakistan-based militants in 2008. India had been demanding action against the [...]
It is a pity that neither Delhi nor Islamabad has ever acquired the faculty of imagining the suffering and joy of the other, to say nothing of their respective concerns and limitations, and the two governments are all too ready to lapse into recriminations at the drop of a hat. They attribute evil and devious [...]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said Pakistan has always favoured dialogue against a war and appreciated India’s “intention” to resume
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Wednesday said Pakistan wants to hold candid talks with India at the earliest and
NEW DELHI: India will test a nuclear-capable missile with a range of over 5,000 kilometres within a year, its top military scientist said Wednesday, risking a rise in regional tensions. “The next series of missiles is Agni-V, which has left the drawing board and is moving toward the first flight trial within the year,” the [...]
KARACHI: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said Pakistan does not harbour any hegemonic designs in the region, but cannot remain oblivious to the need of equipping its armed forces to enable them to meet legitimate defence needs. He was speaking at the induction of the second Chinese-built F-22P frigate, PNS Shamsheer, into Pakistan Navy [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
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Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
