Is India still secular?
US President Barack Obama, who is otherwise highly laudatory of India’s economic progress, its culture and its leader, warned the Indian government against religious intolerance.
U.N. meeting on Yemen ends without action
An emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on Yemen ended Friday with the 15 members unable to agree on a Russian-drafted statement calling for pauses in fighting to allow delivery of…
U.S.-led coalition launches deadly strikes in Syria
U.S.-led air strikes targeting the Islamic State group killed at least 52 civilians in a village in northern Syria, a monitoring group said on Saturday. "Air strikes by the coalition…
12 militants killed in Khyber air strikes
At least 12 suspected militants were killed in Khyber air strikes on Saturday. “Twelve militants were killed in aerial bombardment in Kach Kul and Kunda Gharibai area,” a security official…
Balochistan Assembly passes resolution condemning Altaf’s anti-Army statement
QUETTA: A condemnation resolution against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain was passed in Balochistan Assembly on Saturday, Express News reported. The resolution was tabled by Balochistan Home Minister Sarfaraz…
Sufi speaks out against TTP
PESHAWAR: Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the imprisoned chief of the banned Tehreek Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Muhammadi (TNSM), has issued an informal decree against Mulla Fazlullah-led Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), declaring that members of the banned…
India sex attack victim’s family refuse to cremate her
NEW DELHI: The father of an Indian schoolgirl who died after being pushed from a bus while resisting an alleged sex attack refused Saturday to release her body for postmortem…
Nasa Space Apps 2015: This Pakistani team hopes to operate in space
I recently wrote about how there are more than one silver linings in our national affairs (no matter how badly we are used to ignoring them). One of the examples…
Five Pakistanis killed in Riyadh building fire
RIYADH: At least five Pakistani citizens residing in Saudi Arabia were killed when a fire broke out in a housing unit in Riyadh on Saturday, Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam…
Kabul’s charges of terrorists’ influx from Pakistan rejected
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office rejected on Thursday fresh allegations levelled by Kabul about the influx of terrorists in Afghanistan from Pakistan and called for closer cooperation to deal with the…