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ISLAMABAD: A brave girl from Pakistan, who as an 11-year-old wrote about the Taliban banning girls' schools in the picturesque Swat Valley and missing watching her favourite Indian serial 'Raja Ki Ayegi Baraat', has been nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize. Malala...

MILLIONS of children in Pakistan are being denied one of their most basic rights. Of the 4.5 million children born in Pakistan every year, an estimated three million do not have their birth recorded. Officially speaking, they do not exist. It is estimated that there are today nearly 60 million...

ISLAMABAD: Help children in their education instead of preparing them for suicide attacks, Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik has advised the Taliban. He urged the insurgents to give up violence and play a positive role in the country's developent. He was speaking Saturday at an...

KARACHI: Amid attacks on Hindus in Pakistan's Sindh province, hundreds of community members here have pledged their allegiance to the country. The pledge came at a mass wedding ceremony organised by the Pakistan Hindu Council yesterday in this financial hub which was attended by hundreds of...

SRINAGAR: They are figures that have been quoted so often that they are widely believed to be true: almost 100,000 dead Kashmiri civilians and 10,000 people who have disappeared in the last two decades. From public meetings in small villages to TV studios, from online pages to newspaper reports...

ISLAMABAD: A leaked US diplomatic cable says that senior Pakistani military officers are taught anti-American courses at a prestigious defence university in the heart of the capital. The cable, published in Dawn newspaper on Wednesday and obtained by WikiLeaks, is likely to fan concerns...

WASHINGTON: It's a subject Americans can't stop discussing and one Pakistan hates talking about. The terrorist attack on the Pakistani military facility in Karachi has once again focused world (and Washington's) attention on the security of the country's fast-growing nuclear arsenal. The Obama...

NEW DELHI: India on Monday took stock of its nuclear arsenal and delivery systems like long-range ballistic missiles, fighter-bombers and warships towards its quest to have an operational nuclear triad -- the capability to fire nukes from land, sea and air -- in the near future. Sources said...

ISLAMABAD: A majority of urban Pakistanis believe that the person killed by US special forces during a raid in the garrison city of Abbottabad on Monday was not Osama bin Laden , according to a survey. The online survey, conducted by global opinion pollster YouGov and Polis at Cambridge...