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In recent years, wild polio virus found in Iraq, Syria; and in sewage in Israel, West Bank-Gaza, Cairo has been traced back to Pakistan : WHO

KARACHI: The World Health Organisation on Monday recommended strict travel restrictions on Pakistan due to the rising number of polio cases in the country. The WHO said the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling...

The international community can no longer ignore the alarming rise in violence directed at Pakistan’s Shia minority. By Waris Husain May 02, 2014 Last month the world commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Dignitaries from around the world delivered speeches to mark the...

Last transmission from late Maj Birendra Singh of 13th Battalion, The Sikh Light Infantry Regiment, stating; "Not to worry, We'll hold on..."

KARACHI: A Saudi prince has poached over 2,100 internationally protected houbara bustards in 21-day hunting safari in Chagai, Balochistan, during which the royal also indulged in illegal hunting in protected areas, says a report. The report titled ‘Visit of Prince Fahd bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz...

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...

Will vote for Captain Amarinder Singh (Amritsar)

Jammu and Kashmir: What's happening in Gilgit-Baltistan? Even in normal times, scant attention is paid in the Indian media about developments in Gilgit-Baltistan, an integral and strategic part of Jammu and Kashmir. Even the nibbling away of Gilgit territory by Pakistan and handing it over to...

WELL begun; half done. That proverb—or, rather, its obverse—encapsulates the problems which have dogged civil nuclear power since its inception. Atomic energy is seen by many, and with reason, as the misbegotten stepchild of the world’s atom-bomb programmes: ill begun and badly done. But a clean...

The spate of arrests of senior Indian Mujahideen operatives in recent months was the result of a long-drawn intelligence operation by Indian agencies, which has, in the process, uncovered an ambitious Pakistan-sponsored terror effort plotted in collusion with Indian fugitives in the aftermath of...

SAIM SAEED Pakistan has a habit of renting itself out to other powers. But its latest transaction, supporting Saudi efforts to remove Bashar al-Assad in Syria, could be the most dangerous foreign policy “sale” the state has made yet. Published on March 15, 2014 The houbara bustard, an...

NEW DELHI: The first Japanese prime minister to be chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations, Shinzo Abe took time off on the eve of his visit to share some thoughts on the future of India-Japan relations exclusively with The Times of India. Q: Japan plays an important role in the...

WTF Pakistan is waiting for 3G. Why your govt is delaying this. I am using 4G in Chandigarh Punjab.

Only leader who was close to Netaji was Pandit Nehru infact it was Azad Patel and Gandhi who were always opposed to Netaji.It was Patel who argued hard over Netaji's attempt to get re-elected as Congress president in 1939. Sarat Chandra Bose, Subhas Chandra's brother, wrote a strong letter to...

Wahhabi Islam spreading in the land of Baba Bulleh Shah.

All the buildings and airports are beautiful but i think their should be an Indian Touch in the architecture of these structures.

Country’s biggest law and order challenge is to eliminate sectarianism, says ministe “The federal government is planning to introduce Arabic as a compulsory subject in primary schools,” Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Muhammad Yousuf said on Saturday. Speaking at a press conference at the...

KARACHI: Despite highly publicised and much touted operations by law enforcement agencies (LEAs), 2013 has gone down in history as the bloodiest year so far for Karachi with 2,700 people killed and crime soaring past 40,000 reported incidents. Data released by the Sindh Police and Rangers...

Eastern army commander Lt. General Dalbir Singh Suhag, tipped to take over from General Bikram Singh as the next Army Chief in August 2014, is all set to move to New Delhi as the next vice-chief. Sticking to the norm of getting the "chief-in-line" accustomed with South Block, the government...