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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...

By Ayaz Amir (Good Read) Arising from the same soil, breathing the same air, moving to the same folk songs and music, defined by the same five rivers, Punjab over the centuries has yet produced two distinct types of personality: the Muslim Punjabi and the Sikh Punjabi. There is also the Hindu...

No scope of Pakistan winning a war against India in my lifetime: PM | PTI

Meetings of the Commonwealth of Nations, an international grouping made up primarily of countries that were once parts of the British Empire, are generally sedate affairs. The group's summits tend to evoke the genteel aura of afternoon tea. Controversies rarely surface. The next Commonwealth...

BANGLADESH is in fresh turmoil. On Sept. 17, its Supreme Court decided that Abdul Quader Mollah, a leading Islamist politician, should be hanged for war crimes committed during the country’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. When he was given a life sentence by a Bangladeshi war-crimes...

NEW DELHI: Eight former Army chiefs on Friday rejected former Army chief Gen VK Singh's statement that Army has been paying money to certain ministers in Jammu & Kashmir since independence to bring in stability there. "No funds were ever provided by the Army, to any politicians, political...

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has said that all churches in the Arabian Peninsula must be destroyed. The statement prompted anger and dismay from Christians throughout the Middle East. Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah made the controversial statement in a response to a question...

House number 563 on street 21 in the Jammu and Kashmir Society wears a desolate look. The big light brown one-storied house, named Gilani Manzil, with its flashy mirror windows and its pretty blue floral awnings, is locked. Two guards stand vigil over the house in Tarnol, a fast-growing...