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Shoaib, Asif to miss World Cup KARACHI: Pakistan pace pair Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif were Thursday ruled out of the World Cup in the Caribbean due to injury, chief selector Wasim Bari said. "Akhtar and Asif are both out due to injury and we have decided to replace them with Yasir...

:army: :flag: By Syed Saleem Shahzad :tup: KARACHI - The Pakistani establishment has made a deal with the Taliban through a leading Taliban commander that will extend Islamabad's influence into southwestern Afghanistan and significantly strengthen the resistance in its push to capture...

Pakistan's recent November 2006 purchase of 500 AIM-120C AMRAAM missiles is creating counterpressure on the subcontinent, and reportedly has India looking for 120km BVRAAMs (Beyond Visual Range Air-Air Missiles). Missiles with this notional head-on range would far outstrip the 60km of the...

In its annual analysis "The World Market for Tanks," the Forecast International Weapons Group projects that the international market will produce nearly 7,800 main battle tanks, worth in excess of $31.6 billion, through 2015. The upper tier of tanks like the American M1 Abrams and derivatives...

There's currently a minor flap going on about France selling submarines to Pakistan, including worries that this will give Pakistan a sub-based nuclear deterrent. We noticed that program back in 2002, and Pakistan's subs aren't a big concern. Not yet, anyway. Let me explain why. Let's start...

The UK is in talks with the US over hosting part of the contentious "son of Star Wars" missile interceptor system on British soil, Downing Street confirmed today. If the UK did host a missile silo or radar site it would likely prompt considerable opposition from the anti-war movement, and may...

:tup: Michael Jackson is planning to convert to Islam, according to his brother Jermaine. The troubled pop legend was recently given some books on the religion by his Celebrity Big Brother contestant brother, who became a Muslim in 1989. Jermaine told The Muslim News: "When I came back...

PANIPAT, India, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Except for ashes and iron, nothing was left on the two coaches of Samjhauta Express, "Friendship Train" between India and Pakistan, which was hit by a terrorist attack early Monday morning. The whole carriages were burn out. A dust iron bars of the...

Four Seasons Hotels Inc. has formally agreed to a privatization bid by companies in the empires of Bill Gates and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud. The luxury hotel chain's board of directors is recommending shareholders accept the bid of $82 US per share. The group of...

ISLAMABAD: President of Canadian Frontier Holdings, Nigel McCue accompanied by Chairman, Petroleum Exploration Limited (PEL), Zaheeruddin called on Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Amanullah Khan Jadoon here on Wednesday and briefed him about the joint venture investment plan of...

SAN FRANCISCO: Intel will demonstrate an experimental computer chip Monday with 80 separate processing engines, or cores, that company executives said provided a model for commercial chips that would be used widely in standard desktop, laptop and server computers within five years. While the...

:P :D Vodafone announced today it had finally netted a 67 per cent controlling interest in Indian operator Hutch Essar for $11.1bn cash. The world's biggest mobile outfit outside China won the shares in an auction, reports say, making its third largest ever deal and biggest since the $231bn...

Islamabad - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Monday held talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in the city of Rawalpindi about the anticipated upsurge in the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan this spring. Making his first visit to the country since he replaced Donald Rumsfeld as...

India`s Fake War in the Himalayas? By INDIAN CADET 10/24/2005 :P A stunning confessions by two Indian soldiers that they helped stage fake encounters with Pakistani troops on Siachen, often called the world's highest, coldest and costliest battlefield, has renewed calls for demilitarizing the...

Pakistan to Fence Border of Afghanistan By MATTHEW PENNINGTON 02.02.07, 1:19 PM ET From Forbes Magazine President Gen. Pervez Musharraf acknowledged Friday that outgunned Pakistani frontier guards have allowed insurgents to cross into Afghanistan but denied the army or intelligence service...