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ISLAMABAD: A married Christian couple was on Tuesday thrashed and burned alive by an angry mob in Pakistan's Punjab province for allegedly desecrating a copy of the Holy Quran. The incident took place in Kot Radha Kishan town, about 60 kilometres southwest of Lahore city. The victims...

Two Chinese Navy training vessels have embarked on a visit to India and three other Asian countries for training in distant waters. Zhenghe and Weifang, left Dalian port yesterday for 56 days to visit India, Myanmar, Indonesia and Vietnam. They were expected to visit Eastern Naval Command at...

SANT KABIR NAGAR, (UP): In controversial comments, Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi has said that Muslims who do not vote for his party are not "true Muslims". "A Muslim, who does not vote for SP and talks against it is not a Muslim. His DNA test should be conducted. See whether he is from...

Jamaat-ud-Dawa stages rallies in support of ISI Shujaat, Elahi will hold countrywide protests, says PML-Q Punjab leader Zaheeruddin LAHORE: Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Wednesday held rallies across the country in support of the army and the ISI and against the Geo News / Jang Group. In Chichawatni...

India Thursday successfully test fired its Akash medium range surface-to-air missile from a defence base in Odisha, officials said. The indigenously developed missile with a 27-km range and an effective ceiling of 15 km was test fired from the Integrated Test Range of Chandipur in the coastal...

The US has ruled out any mediation on the Kashmir issue as long as India rejects such a proposal and asked Pakistan to avoid employing militancy as an instrument of state policy. "As long as India rejects any actual medication there's not much we can do in that regard specifically," Special US...

NEW DELHI: India has signed an agreement under which it will pay Russia to supply arms and equipment to the Afghan military as foreign combat troops prepare to leave the country, in a move that risks infuriating Pakistan. Under the deal, smaller arms such as light artillery and mortars will be...

LONDON: British aid to Pakistan should be cut unless there is proof the funds help stop extremism, a report by lawmakers said Wednesday as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited London. Published just hours before Sharif was to meet British counterpart David Cameron, the international development...

The Afghan intelligence – National Directorate of Security (NDS) accused religious schools (Madrasas) in Pakistan for encouraging Afghan children to carry out suicide attack. NDS spokeman, Lotfullah Mashal said around 80 percent of the suicide attacks are carried out by children in Afgahnistan...

KANO: Protesters will hold a "million-woman march" in the Nigerian capital on Wednesday over the government's failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists two weeks ago. Angry Nigerian parents lashed out at the government on Tuesday as a local leader claimed the...

The arrival of the first Scorpene submarine by late 2016 in the Indian Navy would still not cure it of its underwater weakness, according to defence experts as the boat would have arrived very late along with the absence of a critical power system which enhances a submarine’s stealth capability...

(Reuters) - Afghan troops backed by Western air power killed at least 60 militants in a battle near in southeastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan, Afghanistan's intelligence agency said on Wednesday. Fighting began when about 300 insurgents from the Haqqani militant network and other foreign...

Britain should cut aid spending to Pakistan and divert it to poorer countries unless "clear evidence" is produced that it is helping reduce Islamic extremism, MPs said. A Commons committee said the UK was still giving large sums of money to a state "that has failed to adequately mobilise the...

( April 30, 2014, Karachi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Special prayers were held for the minor who is still in a trauma and her father is still in illegal police custody. Life For All Pakistan filed a writ at the High Court for his immediate release, as the police refused to release him. The court has...

The US F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is capable of combating China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, reports Huanqiu, the website of China's nationalistic Global Times tabloid. In a hypothetical aircraft carrier battle between China and the United States, the main fighter jets would include...

NEW DELHI: India has displaced Japan to become the world's third biggest economy in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), according to a World Bank report released on Tuesday. The 2011 round of the bank's International Comparison Program (ICP) ranked India after the US and China. The last...

MUMBAI: Maintaining that wars between the two countries have fetched no returns, Pakistan on Tuesday said it wants a sustained and comprehensive dialogue process with India and asserted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was keen on peace with New Delhi for growth and prosperity of his country. "Our...

Report says 34 Pakistani journalists killed since 2008 Numerous journalists interviewed by AI complained of harassment or attacks by individuals they claimed were connected to the military spy agency Journalists in Pakistan live under the constant threat of killings, harassment and other...

With the countdown beginning for the pulling out of international forces from Afghanistan, New Delhi is left with an eerie scenario of Taliban getting back the levers of power in the war-ravaged country. For India, this represents a disturbing proposition since it was during the time the Taliban...