ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan says the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has "no more interest" in funding a project to build a natural-gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan.
A Pakistani Finance Ministry spokesman said on March 14 that the Chinese institution had been negotiating with Pakistan's...
An axe-wielding man burst into a mosque outside Brussels Monday and started a fire that resulted in the death of the imam.
Police have not identified the suspect other than saying he claims to be a 34 year-old Muslim.
Witnesses say he ran into the building in a Brussels suburb and...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan possessed up to 110 nuclear weapons and spent a whopping $2.2 billion on its atomic arsenal last year, claims a report by an international NGO, prompting Islamabad to call it "highly exaggerated".
In the report titled "Don't bank on the bomb", the International Campaign...
NEW DELHI: India has begun major military exercises close to the Chinese border involving Special Forces of the Army and frontline fighters such as Su-30MKI as part of the endeavour to be battle ready in the inhospitable mountainous region. Code-named as 'Pralay' (devastation), the day-and-night...
Sir Creek (Gujarat): In order to thwart landing of terrorists through the sea route, BSF has formed its first commando unit -- Creek Crocodiles -- to man the hostile creek area where India shares border with Pakistan.
Creeks are a very hostile terrain constituting of numerous raised grounds...
New Delhi, Feb 29 (PTI) A major terror network of Pakistan based Lashker-e-Taiba, planning to carry out attacks in crowded places of Delhi, has been busted and two of its cadres arrested. The two have been apprehended from the national capital and it is a "very important breakthrough", Union...
The 26/11 Mumbai terror attack involving Mohd Ajmal Amir Kasab was carried out with a calculated design, aimed at causing communal tension in the country by projecting that it was the handiwork of Indian Muslims, the Supreme Court was told on Tuesday.
The terror attack was with a calculated...
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Abu Dhabi: Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar wants India-Pakistan cricket series to be held at the earliest. She even revealed that India is very enthusiastic to play this series.
Khar, who strongly believes that cricket, can...
US Congress members from the largest rice-growing states are on warpath, asking Iraq to resume buying US long-grain rice, instead of from India.
"We liberated their country for one thing," said Texas Congressman Ted Poe. "We would think they would consider the US in trade since we spent...
In a marked departure, Pakistan on Friday steered clear of accusing India of stirring trouble in strife-torn Balochistan. Despite repeated leading questions pointing to Pakistan's earlier stance that India had a role in destabilizing Balochistan, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit refused to...
1. Rahul Gandhi, 41
Congress General Secretary
Rank 11: 12
WHY
He has emerged as the Congress party's most important leader, the one they are counting on for a healthy showing in the Assembly elections in states, including Uttar Pradesh. His rise has been propelled by mother Sonia...
Islamabad A Baloch nationalist leader based in Switzerland has welcomed a bill moved in the US Congress seeking the right to self-determination for the Baloch people, saying he would support any foreign intervention in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan.
Brahamdagh Bugti...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A car bomb tore through a crowded minibus depot in the northwest city of Peshawar and killed at least 13 people Thursday, ending weeks of calm in a city that historically has been a magnet for militant violence.
About 100 pounds of explosives, including artillery...
Panchkula: Swami Aseemanand, under arrest in connection with right-wing terror acts, on Wednesday denied any links with Kamal Chauhan, the alleged Samjhauta Express bomb planter.
Aseemanand denied knowing Chauhan when he was produced before the court today. I dont know him it is a...
If reports are to be believed, Indias most wanted terrorist and the master brain behind the Mumbai terror attack, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed might soon flex his muscles in the political arena of Pakistan, quite freely and openly. Chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah and the founder of the banned terrorist group...
The demonstration took place after a bomber on a motorcycle struck in a market in the northwestern town of Parachinar, killed 23 Shiite Muslims and wounding 50.
Local government administrator Wajid Ali said many of the 23 dead were shoppers or people with stalls in the market, he said.
After...
The setting could not have been more apt. Corporate leaders, bankers, industrialists and policy-makers in Indias financial capital got a rare opportunity to listen to and quiz Martin Wolf, the globally acclaimed Chief Economics Commentator of the Financial Times and a leading public policy...
A car bomb went off in a market in the restive tribal belt of northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 11 people and injuring over 30 others, police said.
The explosives-packed vehicle was detonated outside a mosque in a crowded market in Parachinar, the main town of Kurram tribal...