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IRAN LD MISSILE Iran test-fires new submarine-to-surface missile TEHRAN, AUG 27 (AP) Iran today test fired a new submarine-to-surface missile during war games in the Persian Gulf, a show of military might amid a standoff with the West over its nuclear activities. A brief video clip showed...

‘Indians are among the most racist people in the world’ The moment an Indian comes face to face with another for the first time, all it takes are a few subconscious seconds for an ethnic profile to be formed on either side: Punjabi — rich, friendly, brash. Tamilian &#8212...

Pak pavilion in US fabric show Our Correspondent SIALKOT: The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) and the Government of Pakistan are setting up Pakistan pavilion for sourcing a magic show in Las Vegas, USA, said Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers Association (PHMA) Sialkot zone former Chairman Arshad...

Saturday, August 26, 2006 Bombay Rockers, Stereo Nation and Richi Rich set to rock Pakistan! LAHORE: Popular music band Stereo Nation will perform in Lahore on September 1, while other bands Bombay Rockers and Richi Rich will entertain fans in Karachi and Islamabad, event organizer Jahanzeb...

China's Military Holds High Technology War Exercise File photo: China's PLA soldiers during a training excercise. Photo courtesy of AFP.by Staff Writers Beijing, China (AFP) Aug 25, 2006 China's military has conducted a first-ever war exercise involving joint forces at a northern training...

Targeting Pakistan India attaches great importance to the media and invests heavily to mould world opinion in its favour. Since the end of the cold war and emergence of the new world order, the United States remains the sole super power with the ability to effectively influence world politics...

Luxury ferry service to link Dubai, Pakistani coastal city printResizeButton(); A luxury ferry service between southern Pakistan's business hub Karachi and Dubai of United Arab Emirates has been approved and will take off on Nov. 2, the state- run APP news agency reported Thursday...

IAF keeps tabs on China AWACS at Pak airbase By IE Friday August 25, 01:50 AM The IAF is keeping close tabs on the recent arrival of a much-hushed Chinese aircraft prototype at the Chaklala airbase in North Pakistan. The aircraft, which flew in with a group of Chinese aeronautical scientists...

‘America offers 80 missiles to Japan’ 8/24/2006 11:02:32 PM- By AFP Tokyo, Aug. 24: The United States has offered Japan up to 80 more Patriot interceptor missiles following North Korea’s rocket tests last month, a news report said on Thursday. Japan’s Defence Agency...

PAK Homeland security risk or mail order sex slaves?? RAW agents? 18 top bureaucrats are married to foreigners By Rauf Klasra ISLAMABAD: As many as 18 top bureaucrats, including a woman, were married to foreigners, disclosed Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Sher Afgan...

Though strapped financially and experiencing critical food and fuel shortages, Harare is purchasing six K-8 fighter/training jets from China, doubling the size of its fleet of the aircraft following last year's acquisition of six of the limited-firepower planes. According to the state-run...

Who is Buying What in Pakistan's neighbourhood? China China's first Type 094 Jin-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile-carrying submarine (SSBN) is believed to have been commissioned early this year. Its construction process had been shrouded in mystery for more than a decade, even to the...

Major Terror Plot Disrupted in Britain Several Arrested for Planning to Use Explosives Smuggled in Hand Luggage By DANICA KIRKA, AP LONDON (Aug. 10) - British authorities thwarted a terrorist plot to blow up several aircraft mid-flight between the United States and Britain using explosives...

Thursday, August 10, 2006 Indian mag predicts war along LoC * Army considering punitive raids in AJK to counter ‘attack by infiltration’ strategy By Iftikhar Gilani NEW DELHI: Forget back channel diplomacy, if the Indian army has its way it will unleash a new “war...

Malaysia needs nuclear power: official KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 (AFP) Aug 09, 2006 Malaysia has to turn to nuclear power as an alternative source of electricity for its rapidly growing economy, an official from a nuclear agency said. Noramly Muslim, the chairman of the Malaysian Nuclear Licensing...

The Israel Lobby John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread...

Clearing the path for US war on Iran By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - Israel has argued that the war against Hezbollah's rocket arsenal was a defensive response to the Shi'ite organization's threat to Israeli security, but the evidence points to a much more ambitious objective - the weakening of...

Indian Navy: port-sick ducks MUHAMMAD SAAD Indian navy had recently carried out an in-house analysis of its operating pattern that revealed that the homesick sailors had been confining themselves for most of the time to their coastline. They rarely showed their presence in vast expanse of...

Monday, August 07, 2006 Lebanese PM wants Pakistan troops in UN force * FO says Pakistan may send troops if conditions met Daily Times Monitor LAHORE: Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has proposed the inclusion of Pakistan in a proposed international peacekeeping force in Lebanon. In an...

What’s Israel up to in Lebanon? By Karamatullah K. Ghori AS the intensity of Israel’s savagery against the Palestinians and the Lebanese increases by the hour, two questions are agitating many a mind: how could Israel ‘fight’ two wars simultaneously — in Gaza and...