New Delhi: An Algerian terrorist who was a Pakistan-trained member of the Al Qaeda, had been ordered to attack the Indian Embassy in Paris this year, a leading French newspaper has claimed. The Le Monde, one of France’s most popular newspapers, quoting French intelligence sources however said that the 23-year-old Algerian was shot dead by [...]
NEW DELHI: Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari personal offerings to the tombs of a dead Indian saint and an exiled Indian emperor have been officially ‘pinched’ from public funds from the Pakistan government treasury. A Pakistan government spokesperson has said the $1 million donation to one of India’s most famous sufi shrines, that of Khwaja [...]
NEW DELHI: Terrorism and bilateral cooperation will top the agenda as the India-Afghanistan Partnership council meets on the sidelines of the visit of Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul beginning next week. The meeting comes as India begins to worry about the increasing Talibanization of the Afghan-Pakistan border region known as the Af-Pak region in view [...]
NEW DELHI: The head of the Indian Air Force has warned that if the US withdraws its troops from the Afghanistan-Pakistan (AF-Pak), it would pose a serious national security threat to India. Speaking at a function in the Southern Indian IT hub of Bangalore, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne said that [...]
NEW DELHI: In a major step that would boost trade between otherwise arch rivals South Asian countries India and Pakistan, the Indian government on Friday took a decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from Pakistan to help set up businesses here. The decision was taken during a meeting between India’s union Commerce and Industry [...]
KARACHI: The murder of four Hindu doctors in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province has again put the issue of religious tension at the forefront of politics and discussion in the country. Sheikh Omar Kemvani in Karachi, who runs a large mosque on the city’s outskirts, is one of the few who acknowledge there is a problem [...]
NEW DELHI: India’s arch rival Pakistan’s president Asif Zardari will visit India later this week to pray at the mausoleum of a renowned Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. Pakistan embassy officials here have described Zardari’s visit as “private”, but has also hinted at the possibility that Zardari may have an informal lunch meeting with Indian [...]
CAIRO: According to a report from the UN’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the organization is assisting thousands of families in Pakistan who have fled fighting in a parts of the country’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA), which borders Afghanistan. An estimated 101,160 people, mostly women and children, have become displaced since 20 January when [...]
SANA’A: Yemeni Human Rights Minister, Hooria Mashour, reached out this Tuesday to the Pakistani authorities demanding the immediate release of Osama bin Laden’s widow and children, as she stressed that punishing the late terrorist’s family members was not only illegal but a breach of their inalienable rights. “Having been married to a criminal does not [...]
Islamabad (dpa) – Pakistan and India have agreed to further increase bilateral engagements to promote the ongoing peace process between the two nations, the Pakistani government said in a statement Tuesday. The announcement was made by the office of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani after a meeting with his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, on the [...]
KARACHI: India’s Agent Vinod will not be coming to Pakistan, after the country’s censor decided to ban the film only days before it was supposed to be released, disappointing many filmgoers. The James Bond-like character in India’s “Agent Vinod” film was likely banned by the authorities here because of its portrayal of the Pakistani military [...]
KARACHI: The look on the young girl’s face in this Pakistan side street is alarming. She looks up and down the street before telling of her secret spot to kiss her boyfriend. “If they found out I would just be another statistic and be dead because everyone just assumes if you are kissing you must [...]
Washington (dpa) – The US military has decided not to punish any of its soldiers in a NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani troops in November and frayed an already uneasy US-Pakistan alliance in the fight on terrorism, a newspaper reported late Saturday. The decision was taken after a second US investigation into the incident [...]
MUMBAI: A Pakistani minister has claimed that 100 non-Muslim women, predominantly Hindu, have been forced to convert to Islam in the country in recent months. Minister for National Harmony Akram Masih Gill, a Christian, said that if true, the practice went counter to all things established by Islam as the faith prohibits forced conversion. “We [...]
Islamabad (dpa) – At least five people were killed when a Taliban suicide bomber targeted a rival militant group in Pakistan’s troubled north-western tribal region, officials and militants sources said. The incident occurred in the Akakhel area of remote Tirah valley in Khyber, one of seven tribal districts, where the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) militant group is [...]
New Delhi (dpa) – British author Salman Rushdie lashed out at Pakistani cricket captain-turned-politician Imran Khan, describing him as a “dictator in waiting,” media reports said Sunday. Rushdie was speaking at a conference in New Delhi from which Khan, founder of the popular Pakistan Movement for Justice (PTI) party withdrew, saying “he did not dream [...]
MUMBAI: A reported American drone attack in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 8 people, security officials in the country confirmed to Bikyamasr.com early afternoon local time. The official said that the attack was carried out at Barmal area of South Waziristan, one of 7 districts where militants linked with al-Qaeda are active. A security [...]
DUBAI: A United Arab Emirates-funded bridge project in Pakistan’s Swat region is expected to open next week, the government said on Saturday here. The Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Bridge is a 330 meter-long edifice and will link a number of area villages and towns together on the Swat river. “The goal is to make the [...]
MUMBAI: At least 10 people have been killed and dozens more injured when a bomb ripped through a funeral procession in Pakistan’s northwestern region, police and rescue workers said. Red Cross officials in Mumbai told Bikyamasr.com that “we are still assessing the situation from our colleagues on the ground and other rescue workers in the [...]
Islamabad (dpa) – The Taliban in Pakistan on Friday threatened to launch more attacks against the country if the government tried to put on trial former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s three widows. “We will attack every lawyer, judge, and security officials involved in the trial. We will target them with suicide attacks or whatever [...]
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