
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 [...]
April 13, 2010 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON: Pakistan Monday urged non-discriminatory access to civil nuclear technology to meet the country’s exponentially growing

Not many Indians are happy with the prevailing system. Too many disparities have come to be entrenched and too many people have been driven to live on the margins. Crime has been politicised and politics criminalised. The question that faces the nation is how to change the system. Should it be with the gun as [...]
April 10, 2010 | Posted in
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s ruling party claimed victory Friday in parliamentary polls, as counting showed it far ahead of the divided opposition but short of a two-thirds majority needed to amend the constitution. Thursday’s vote was marked by record low turnout and reports of voter intimidation that resulted in fresh voting being ordered in two of [...]
April 9, 2010 | Posted in
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India has rejected a call from the US to shun participation in gas talks with Iran, saying “energy security” is a priority for New Delhi.

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 [...]
March 29, 2010 | Posted in
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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 [...]
March 27, 2010 | Posted in
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NEW DELHI: Claiming that they were not in direct conflict with India, Taliban have said there was a possibility of reconciliation even
March 27, 2010 | Posted in
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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 [...]
March 19, 2010 | Posted in
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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 [...]
March 16, 2010 | Posted in
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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
March 14, 2010 | Posted in
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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 [...]
March 11, 2010 | Posted in
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