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The Christmas Day attempt by the son of a prominent Nigerian banker and business tycoon connected closely to top Nigerian leaders to detonate a chemical improvised explosive device aboard Delta Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam Schiphol to Detroit was a false flag operation carried out by the...

Aamir Khan, basking in the success of 3 Idiots, has said he wants to visit Pakistan soon because he was glad to travel to the country in the past. Khan said he has relatives in the Pakistani cities of Lahore and Karachi and this is another reason behind his willingness to visit the country...

LONDON: Voters with origins in the Indian sub-continent will play a more decisive role in the 2010 general election than in any earlier poll in Britain, according to a new research. As many as 25 parliamentary constituencies have more than 40% of their voting population from ethnic...

Three US soldiers have been killed while fighting insurgents in southern Afghanistan, Nato officials say. Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) did not give any further details about the incident. In a separate attack, a French soldier was killed north-east of the capital...

PESHAWAR: Claiming responsibility for the suicide bombing on the main Ashura procession in Karachi, senior Taliban commander Asmatullah Shaheen on Wednesday warned of a fresh wave of attacks across the country in a week. Asmatullah Shaheen’s name was placed on the 20-member list of the...

Varied colours symbolic of 34 countries, including Britain, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Singapore and Malaysia, dotted the clear blue skies in Ahmedabad as the 20th International Kite festival 'Uttarayan' was formally inaugurated by Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. People watch a kite...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidamabarm on Wednesday said Hindu militants are copying the tactics of the jihadis. Chidambaram moots new security structure for India Giving an overview of the different kinds of war waged across the world during various periods, he said, "It is said...

JACOBABAD – A 20-year-old girl was auctioned at village Badani Bhutto of Taluka Kashmore in consideration of Rs2,70,000 on Saturday. Azizan, daughter of late Allah Bux Bhutto, was divorced on the allegation of Karo-kari some time back. She is stated to be mother of two children and was residing...

LUCKNOW: Asserting the Congress and former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao could never be forgiven for the demolition of Babri mosque, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Sunday said the Liberhan Commission overlooked the judicial process in the case of BJP leader A B Vajpayee. "How...

LAHORE - The US and India want to grab Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal after proving this country as a failed state, Secretary General Jama’at-e-Islami Liaquat Baloch said here Sunday. Addressing a public meeting in connection with JI campaign against US-India complicity in Township area, he said...

Lahore: Cricket legend Wasim Akram has said doctors in India tried their best to save the life of his wife Huma. He accused their counterparts in Pakistan of only being interested in making money, days after a Parliamentary panel directed authorities to cancel licences of 22 physicians in Lahore...

Arakkal Muslim Dynasty was the only Muslim Dynasty in the history of Malabar. There are records to show that Cheraman Perumal's nephew ( his sister, Sri Devi's son ) embraced Islam through Malik bin Dinar at Dharmapattanam and was named Muhammad Ali. He was the first Adiraja of Arakkal Muslim...

Want to ask Pakistanis a question. What percentage of Pakistani population do you think are Talibans. When I mean Talibans I do not mean the sympathizers of Taliban but only those people who will kill and die for the Taliban version of Islam Can I assume that it is just 1% of the population ?

It really sounds like a joke. A British Council report released on Friday says that Pakistan faces a "demographic disaster" if its leaders fail to invest in a youth population that is disturbingly cynical about democracy. The Pakistani youth, the British Council report claims, "are deeply...

Amidst concerns over the possibility of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal falling into the hands of terrorists, India has said it has no reason to doubt about their safety at this stage. "At this stage yes, we have no reason to doubt that yet," minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor...

Various world leaders have given their somewhat tepid reactions to US President Obama’s proposal to increase US troops in Afghanistan by 30,000 and then start withdrawing all troops by July 2011. No formal reaction has come from Mullah Omar, head of the Taliban. Let me try to get into his head...

NEW DELHI: Robert Zoellick has seen a lot change over the course of a long career, first in the US government, now as the World Bank president.But perhaps the most startling change is in the way the world views India. ‘‘The outside world’s image of India now is of cutting-edge competitive...

CHANDIGARH: Seventeen years after the Babri Masjid was pulled down, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said there was no question for the Sangh to regret for what had happened and maintained that their full support to the "Ram temple movement" will continue. Addressing a meet-the-press...

Rawalpindi: The Tehreeke-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has taken responsibility for Friday’s ghastly suicide attack on the Parade Lane mosque, saying the mosque was “demolished on the orders of Prophet Muhammad”. TTP chief Waliur Rehman Mehsud told the BBC that the prime target in the attack were...

MOSCOW: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said Russia as a "great power" could convince Pakistan not to use terror against India as an instrument of state policy, observing that country's conduct ran counter to a policy of "good neighbourliness." Ahead of this three-day official visit to...