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BBC News - Indians nervous after Kabul attacks These days, the once thriving outpatient clinic at Afghanistan's leading hospital in the capital, Kabul, is shut - and the doctors are away. A dozen Indian doctors and paramedics who run the clinic at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health...

BBC News - Somali pirates move towards India Somali pirates have hijacked a ship some 1,800km (1,100 miles) from their bases - closer to India than Africa, the EU naval force says. Cdr John Harbour said the attack, on a Turkish-owned ship, marked a major increase in the pirates' range...

DAWN.COM | Provinces | Doubts linger over army's resolve in Swat MINGORA: Kishwar Begum studied nursing until she apparently decided to take lives, not help save them. Her photograph appears on the front-page of a newspaper identifying her as a would-be suicide bomber, still at large in the...

Pakistan has an India problem/ Never mind the thousands of civilians dead, displaced, and dispossessed by militancy and its backlash. Never mind that a politician who was set to capture a significant percentage of votes was assassinated by a terrorist organisation based not in India, but on...

BSF Asks BDR Not to Violate Status Quo The BSF today asked BDR not to violate the status quo along the international border, a day after Bangladeshis brought in trucks into the Indian territory at Pyrdiwah, close to Muktapur where the BDR resorted to firing four times in past month. "We...

Indo-Pak talks were a waste of time: Parthasarthy India and Pakistan recently held Foreign Secretary-level talks, which in substance failed to yield any concrete results. Instead, they led to a blame game over the issues discussed during the parleys. Many then asked, why did India go to...

Babbar Khalsa module busted, planned blast in Delhi Mohali: Police busted a module of Sikh militan group Babbar Khalsa International, which was planning to trigger bomb blast in the national capital and Himachal Pradesh, by arresting three members of the group. While Purushotam Singh...

Senior Meghalaya cop now a militant boss Shillong: A senior Meghalaya Police officer has allegedly abandoned his post to form a militant group which is carrying out extortions in the state. Deputy Superintendent of Police Champion Sangma has been absent from office for over an year now...

LiveFist - The Best of Indian Defence: Indian Army Scouts For New Heavy Machine Gun Along with active tenders for virtually the entire gamut of infantry weapons, here's the latest. The Indian Army has just sent out requests for information (RFIs) on a potential new Heavy Machine Gun (HMG) for...

Chandigarh, March 16 Punjab has come out with an innovative incentive scheme to encourage youngsters for a career in the defence forces. Since the defence forces continue to have a huge shortage of middle-rank officers, the Punjab Government has not only decided to set up Maharaja Ranjit Singh...

Organiser - Content Indo-Pakistan Foreign Secretary level February 2010 talks, which were supposed to break the deadlock and goad Pakistan to take action against terrorists in Pakistan, have ended in a deadlock. Pakistan has described the dossiers of terrorists in Pakistan given by India as a...

DAWN.COM | Columnists | Invisible victims of terror The morning of International Women’s Day 2010 in Pakistan was a bloody one as a car laden with explosives rammed into the wall of a building in Lahore’s Model Town area and blew up. Among the first dead bodies taken to hospital were those...

DAWN.COM | Editorial | Awash with terror Pakistanis have shown immense resolve and courage to sustain the society-state-media-political consensus against militancy in the face of an orgy of violence in the last year. For this the public deserves unmitigated praise. The people, however...

The Home Minister's unfinished tasks It’s not often in India that politicians praise their rivals. So when Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi complimented Home Minister P Chidambaram for his handling of internal security, it came as a surprise to most. At a meeting of Chief Ministers on...

India to act decisively if another attack happens: Chidambaram - GEO.tv NEW DELHI: India will act "swiftly and decisively" if another terrorist attack emanates from Pakistani soil, Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram said on Friday, urging Pakistan to "reinvent itself" as a genuine democracy...

ASIAN DEFENCE: Indian AF To Buy 12 AgustaWestland AW101 Helos Italy's AgustaWestland has signed a 560 million euro contract to supply 12 AW101 helicopters to the Indian Air Force, the firm announced March 11. The contract for the helicopters, which will perform government transport duties...

NRUAV Northrop-Grumman has made multiple presentations to the Indian Navy explaining why the IAI-HAL Naval Rotory UAV (NRUAV) based on the Chetak airframe is a bad idea. Remember, the NRUAV is a programme that has considerable Indian investment, not to mention a fully Indian-built...

India set to buy 42 more Russian Su-30 fighter jets | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire India set to buy 42 more Russian Su-30 fighter jets India and Russia are negotiating a new contract on the delivery of 42 Su-30MKI to the Indian Air Force, an Indian...

42 'active' terrorist camps in Pak: Antony Pokharan: India on Sunday alleged 42 terror camps are "still active" in Pakistan and that was the "main cause of concern for us." "There are 42 terror camps still active in Pakistan and there is no serious attempt or effort to dismantle them...

If India doesn't talk, Pak must fight war: Saeed: Rediff.com India News Notwithstanding the recent Indo-Pak foreign secretary-level meeting for which India took initiative, Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed has said Pakistan will have to 'fight a war at all costs' if New Delhi is not...