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Pakistan-born Bollywood starlet Laila Khan, who, along with her mother, three siblings and niece went missing from Mumbai last year, may have been murdered in Kishtwar in J&K. The J&K Police are now looking for Pervez Ahmed Tak, a local contractor in whose rented shop the SUV belonging to...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden was imprisoned for aiding militants and not for his links to the CIA, as Pakistani officials had said, according to a court document. A court in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan...

Islamabad: Setting tough conditions for re-engagement with the US, a Pakistani Parliamentary commission today demanded an end to CIA-operated drone strikes and a civil nuclear deal similar to the Indo-US agreement besides 38 other demands. Asking US to "review its footsteps in Pakistan"...

BEIJING: China is unlikely to defend Pakistan if questions are raised at the forthcoming Nuclear Security Summit about Islamabad's ability to safeguard its nuclear installations from theft or attack by terrorists. The summit, to be held in Seoul, South Korea, on March 26-27 , will be...

A Russian court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking a ban on a translated version of Bhagwad Gita for being “extremist”, bringing cheers to followers across the world. “The court in the Siberian city of Tomsk has dismissed the plea,” Sadhu Priya Das of Moscow ISKCON told PTI soon after...

New Delhi: Controversial author Salman Rushdie on Saturday hit out atPakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, saying the former cricket captain was 'scared' of facing his 'bouncers'. Mr Khan, who is the founder of the political outfit Tehreek-e-Insaf, withdrew from the conclave two...

Jan 19, 2012, 03.28PM IST NEW DELHI: India has been ranked the sixth most "innovative" country in the world in multinational conglomerate GE's Annual Global Innovation Barometer, driven by financial support from public authorities and long-term support from investors. The report...

Thursday, January 19, 2012 India has climbed a point up and Pakistan slid a position downward in the newly released Democracy Index measured by the Economists Intelligence Unit for 2011 that placed Pakistan in Hybrid Regime category where corruption tends to be pervasive, rule of law weak...

In a shocking incident, a housemate on Brazil’s version of Big Brother has allegedly been raped. Police on Tuesday confirmed that they had begun an investigation and carried out a search of the studios in Rio de Janeiro, where the popular reality show is being filmed. Viewers were...

AHMEDABAD: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Friday told the US Republican Party delegation that their country should make its policy clear on Pakistan- sponsored terrorism against India. A seven-member delegation of the Republican Party of the US, led by Paula Dobriansky, also...

Some people believe it is more comfortable and easy to be a dacoit than to be a journalist in Pakistan.Being a journalist in Pakistan is not only your own life is at stake indeed your family too. In some cases, journalists forced to take refuge in foreign countries in fear of life threats...

India has been voted the world's leading destination at this year's World Travel Awards ceremony. India saw off competition from London, New York, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro and Sydney to take the award, the most prestigious handed out at the event, which is itself the most high-profile in...

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Published: Saturday, Nov 26, 2011, 19:25 IST Place: Jammu | Agency: IANS A heavy exchange of fire took place between Indian and Pakistani troops across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir after Pakistani troops targeted Indian forward posts early Saturday morning, army sources said...

24 Nov, 2011, 1239 hrs IST, PTI LONDON: Lakshmi Mittal, the NRI steel tycoon with a fortune estimated at 15.5 billion pounds, is the most powerful Asian in Britain, according to a new list of eminent Asians in the country. Mittal, 61, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of...

COLOMBO, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- India is funding a 150 million U.S. dollars railway line to connect the former war-torn north of Sri Lanka for the first time in decades, an official statement said here on Monday. An agreement for the restoration of the Pallai-Kankesanthurai Railway Line in...

23 Nov, 2011, 2019 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Asking Islamabad to fulfill in "letter and spirit" its commitment of not allowing its territory to be used for fomenting terrorism against it in any manner, India has made it clear that Pakistan must come out of the "dark shadow of terrorism"...

KARACHI: The cricket community in Pakistan has lashed out at ICC president Sharad Pawar and the BCCI for their refusals to investigate claims by former India player Vinod Kambli that the 1996 World Cup semifinal against Sri Lanka may have been fixed. "This is a former India player making...

Nov 19, 2011, 06.44AM IST TNN AJMER: Begum Mehrunissa, wife of Pakistani virologist Mohammad Khalil Chishty who is convicted in a murder case, on Friday pleaded for her husband's freedom. She requested the district administration on humanitarian grounds to allow her to meet her husband...

Last Updated: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:38:00 +1100 Pakistan's top diplomat in Australia has warned that any uranium sales to India may be seen by Islamabad as boosting its rival's nuclear capability. The high commissioner, Abdul Malik Abdullah, said that whatever the Australian government...