Invalidating fraud votes: Afghan election dispute enters crucial phase
KABUL: Afghanistan’s 10-week election crisis entered a risky new stage on Monday when officials started invalidating fraudulent votes in a process likely to bring to a head the bitter dispute between…
ISIS will ‘soon’ pose threat to US, says general
WASHINGTON: The US military’s top general believes ISIS extremists will “soon” pose a threat to America and Europe and that an international coalition will be needed to confront it, his…
American Withdrawal & The Power Struggle in Afghanistan
On October 7, 2001, following the attack on the World Trade Center, the American troops landed in Afghanistan and started an offensive against the then government of Taliban. The…
US accuses China fighter of reckless mid-air intercept
The US has released photographs of the Chinese Su-27 aircraft which it says was responsible for carrying out the dangerous manoeuvres. A Chinese fighter came perilously close to a US…
Ukraine crisis: Russian convoy prompts Western anger
As Daniel Sandford reports, Russia says its patience ran out Russia's decision to send more than 100 aid lorries into war-torn eastern Ukraine without permission has been widely condemned in…
Firing across Pak-India border kills two, injures four
SIALKOT: Firing by Indian security forces security along the working border on Saturday killed at least two people including a woman, and injured four others in Sialkot, DawnNews reported. In…
‘Cheering for Pakistan’ ghost returns: two Kashmir students expelled
After expelling ten Kashmir students in March this year for allegedly cheering for the Pakistan cricket team, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University in India's Meerut has suspended two more Kashmir students…
Meeting Kashmiri leaders: ‘Pakistan engages with all stakeholders’
NEW DELHI: Pakistan remains hopeful of strengthening ties with India despite an angry New Delhi last week cancelling scheduled talks between the nuclear-armed rival neighbours, Pakistan's high commissioner said Wednesday.…
FC personnel foil two major terror bids in Balochistan
QUETTA: Frontier Corps (FC) personnel foiled a terror bid on Wednesday during raids in Quetta and Dalbandin in the southwestern province of Balochistan. Speaking to media representatives, Home Minister Balochistan…
Train accident kills 21 in eastern India
PATNA: A passenger train struck a crowded rickshaw, killing 21 people at a railway crossing in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, a railway official said Tuesday. All the passengers…