New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) A powerful earthquake shook parts of India, Afghanistan and Pakistan on Sunday evening, officials and residents said. The tremors jolted buildings in the national capital and surrounding regions, residents said….
Islamabad, April 9 (IANS) Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has offered to investigate the Panama Leaks through the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). Speaking to the media in Rawalpindi on Saturday, Nisar Ali Khan…
Dhaka, April 9 (IANS) Slain online Bangladeshi activist Nazimuddin Samad went into hiding at for some days after getting death threats for writing against religious extremism. His friends said Nazim, 27, went into hiding at…
Beijing, April 9 (IANS) Beijing and Islamabad will stage a joint air force exercise this month in Pakistan, a military spokesperson announced. “Shaheen (Eagle)-5,” the fifth such drill between the two countries, will take place…
Kabul, April 9 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kabul on Saturday for an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, sources said. Kerry arrived in Kabul around midday and he will meet Afghan President…
Dhaka, April 9 (IANS) Bangladesh police on Saturday said they are yet to find any blogs written by murdered online activist Nazimuddin Samad, but have found a diary he maintained since 2009. An Al Qaeda…
By Sarwar Kashani New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) India, despite its strategic interests, has not been forthcoming in support to the Balochistan freedom movement, says a prominent author-activist from the restive western Pakistani province, rebutting…
New York, April 9 (IANS) United States has a much bigger global agenda with India in contrast to Pakistan and Washington has moved far beyond looking at its relations with the South Asian neighbors as…
(160330) — GENEVA, March 30, 2016 (Xinhua) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers a speech at the opening of high level meeting on global responsibility sharing for Syrian refugees in Geneva, Switzerland, March 30, 2016….
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The VHP on Friday said the Narendra Modi government’s flip-flop over its policy towards Pakistan had confused the masses and demanded a white paper on its policies on terrorism and…
New Delhi: Union MoS Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju at the Parliament on Day-1 of the budget session in New Delhi, on Feb 23, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Union Minister Kiren Rijiju…
New Delhi/Chandigarh, April 8 (IANS) A special court in Punjab’s Mohali town on Friday issued an arrest warrant against Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar and three other operatives of the banned Pakistan-based terror group in…
New Delhi : The Pakistani Joint Investigation Team that is in India to probe the January 2 Pathankot terror attack; in New Delhi on March 28, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) A…
Beijing, April 8 (IANS) Chinese President Xi Jinping met Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe here on Friday and discussed issues of core interests. China is willing to work with Sri Lanka to consolidate traditional…
Beijing, April 8 (IANS) China said on Friday it is in “contact” with India over Beijing’s decision to block New Delhi’s move to ban Pathankot terror attack mastermind, Jaish-e-Mohamed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar. Chinese foreign…
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) A special NIA court in Mohali on Friday issued an arrest warrant against Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar and three other operatives of the banned Pakistan-based terror group in the Pathankot…
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti during a meeting in Srinagar on March 24, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Jammu, April 8 (IANS) Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday dismissed the trouble between local and outside…
Washington, April 8 (IANS) As Pakistan’s envoy to New Delhi announced that the bilateral peace process has been “suspended”, the Obama administration has asked India and Pakistan to engage in “direct dialogue that is aimed…
Kathmandu, April 8 (IANS) In a crackdown on circulation of fake Indian currency in Nepal, police here on Friday said they have arrested six people, including a Pakistani national, for possessing fake Indian currency notes…
By Ranjana Narayan New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Was Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit speaking at variance with the official line on relations with India when he said that the bilateral “peace process is suspended”,…