US ups surveillance of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal
Washington: Worried that Islamist extremists could seize components of Pakistan's nuclear stockpile or trigger a war with India, the US has ramped up its surveillance of Islamabad's nuclear arms, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Besides Al Qaeda, North Korea and Iran, Pakistan is the subject of "an equally intense focus" of a $52.6-billion US intelligence arsenal, the report said citing disclosures based on top secret budget docume
Sri Lanka minister picks holes in Pillays report
London: The report on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka by United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights -Navi Pillay was “unfair, wrong and biased” said G.L Peiris Sri Lanka’s Minister for External Affairs. He was addressing a
Mumbai terror attack mastermind leads Eid prayers in Pakistan
Lahore: Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, on Friday led Eid prayers at the famous Gaddafi stadium here, hours after Jamat-ud-Dawah chief tweeted that "time is near when those oppressed in Kashmir, Palestine and B
Blast near Indian Consulate in Afghanistan kills 12
Jalalabad: At least 12 Afghans, including children, were killed and 24 wounded on Saturday in a deadly suicide bomb attack targeting the Indian Consulate in Jalalabad city, bordering Pakistan, in the backdrop of reports that the ISI-backed Haqqani ne
Pak Taliban took a month to plan jail attack, spent 1 crore
Peshawar: Pakistan Taliban took a month to plan the jail break and spent one crore to execute it with military-like precision. A day after the militants freed around 300 prisoners from a high-security Pakistani prison, Adnan Rashid, a Taliban c
India-born Mamnoon Hussain is Pakistan's new President
Islamabad: Pakistan has elected India-born Mamnoon Hussain, backed by the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N party (PML-N), as its 12th president on Tuesday.
Hussain, a close aide of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, will replace incumbent Asif Ali Za
Taliban militants free over 300 inmates in Pakistan prison attack
Dera Ismail Khan: Around 150 Taliban militants disguised as policemen attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan, freeing more than 300 prisoners, including 25 “Hardcore terrorists,” officials said. The prison was housing at least 5000 priso
India needs modernization, not westernization: Narendra Modi
Expressing concern about the education system in India , Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that ‘what India needed was modernization, not westernization’.
Addressing students at Pune’s Fergusson Colleg
