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Farzana Parveen was stoned to death by her family outside a court in Pakistan. (Mohammad Tahir/Reuters) On Tuesday, a pregnant 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family for marrying a man she loved. The stoning took place in the middle of the day, outside a courthouse, beside a busy...

(Reuters) - A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan's top courts on Tuesday in a so-called "honor" killing for marrying the man she loved, police said. Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore to open when a group of around...

Newly sworn-in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai after the swearing-in ceremony NEW DELHI: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday accused Lashkar-i-Taiba (LT) – a Pakistan-based Kashmiri rebel group – of being behind last week’s attack by...

Big Brothers gave him permission Pakistan-India relations: Shahbaz meets COAS LAHORE:Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Friday called on Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif to discuss Pakistan-India relations in the wake of recent shift of power in New Delhi. According to...

The Rail Track Rocket Sled facility recently inaugurated at the Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory in Chandigarh. Photo: DRDO DRDO’s Rail Track Rocket Sled in Chandigarh can be used to test aerospace technologies A new facility on which missile warheads can be propelled at supersonic...

I hope Nawaz Sharif doesn't forget to get his polio shot before flying to New Delhi

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance’s political management skills may be put to the test in the Rajya Sabha if it manages to form the next government. With just 64 members in a House of 240, the NDA may find it difficult to get its legislative agenda through in...

11. Before taking a stroll in a Japanese flower garden, Take a romantic walk in Nainital. 12. Before you get dwarfed by the statue of “Christ The Redeemer” in Brazil, Get dwarfed by Saint Thiruvalluvar’s statue in Kanyakumari. 13. And before you take selfies at the Arc de Triomphe in...

6. Before you chill on the beaches of Brazil, Give the beaches of Goa a chance. 7. Before you go “Woah” about the bridges in Taiwan, Go “Hoodi-Baba” at Howrah Bridge in Kolkata. 8. Before you feast your eyes on the flowers in Antelope Valley in the U.S.A, Drink in the colours of...

1. Before you get lost in the beauty of Switzerland, Find your piece of paradise in Kashmir. 2. Before you get drenched at the Niagara Falls, Get drenched at the Chitrakoot Falls in Chhattisgarh. 3. Before you surf the sands of the Sahara, Tame the dunes of the Thar. 4. Before...

The first and the loudest to complain against news of the outgoing Manmohan Singh government initiating the process to select a new Army chief was General V.K. Singh, now transitioning to full-time politics as a BJP Lok Sabha contestant. The protest was strange, particularly coming from a...

By Arun Jaitley Looking back at Dr.Manmohan Singh The voting for the 2014 General Elections is over. The result is awaited. We have only the Exit Polls and our own analysis as a base to speculate upon. Dr. Manmohan Singh has announced that he would be stepping down as Prime Minister...

By Sunil Mittal I have been meaning to write this piece for a few weeks, but every time I start, I hesitate to do so as I am reminded of the sermons I received from Shri Yashwant Sinha in this very paper, after I penned down an open letter to the opposition exhorting them to support some very...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN / ISLAMABAD: Entrenched in secret mountain bases along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, Uighur fighters are gearing up for retribution against China to avenge the deaths of the associates in Beijing’s crackdown on a separatist movement, their leader says. China has long...

My grandfather was in Sikh regiment , I remember my grandfather telling me that Gurkhas are the bravest warriors

New Delhi, 1982: When India last hosted the Asian Games. (Express archive) Even before it makes a formal case to host the 2019 Asian Games, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is facing a race against time just to meet the deadline for submitting an official bid for the event. The Olympic...

It was around 5.30 in the evening when we reached the Darul Aman Palace, a European-style palace, now in ruins, on the outskirts of Kabul. Quite late for Afghanistan, the security guards informed our Afghan friend in Dari, a Persian dialect widely spoken in Afghanistan, that the palace was...

Myra MacDonald May 7, 2014 On the day that Pakistani television talk show host Hamid Mir was shot and wounded in Karachi, I was visiting the tulip gardens in Kashmir. It is a cliché to cite the tulip gardens, with their clusters of garishly dressed Indian tourists, as evidence of how peace has...

Travelers from Sindh,KP,Balochistan to Punjab to show polio vaccination certificates LAHORE: People traveling to Punjab from other provinces of Pakistan will now have to present polio vaccination certificates. Health Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister Khwaja Salman Rafique told DawnNews on...