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Pakistan wins UN Security Council seat alongside India Pakistan has won a seat alongside its regional rival India on the UN Security Council. It was contesting elections for five positions with two-year terms. Morocco, Guatemala and Togo have also been elected as new temporary members...

Deadlier war doctrine Fundamental changes have been made in India’s war doctrine after the military restructured its fighting capacities, with the aim of waging all future battles in enemy territory. The new concept was discussed in tri-services Commanders' Conference last week. It will be...

Reforming Myanmar looks to India for enlightenment Traditional dress for men in Myanmar combines an Indian-influenced sarong with a Chinese-style coat -- fitting, perhaps, for a nation trying to balance ties with two giant neighbours as it looks outwards and relaxes decades of tightly...

UK held secret briefing for India on missiles in Libyan war At a time when NATO forces were destroying the bases of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Britain gave a secret presentation to the Indian Air Force (IAF) about the performance in the Libyan war of MBDA missiles, which have been offered to...

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan: The Muslim Gandhi Khan and Gandhi were united in the fight for independence against the British rulers. Many people described Khan as the 'Muslim Gandhi.' When Khan died in Pakistan in 1988, people in both Pakistan and India mourned. Both Gandhi and Khan fought...

Indian Mig 21 nominated for Nobel Peace Prize The Indian Air Force came in for a surprise today as the Nobel Foundation in Sweden nominated the Mig 21 for the Peace Prize in 2012,:eek: shortly after announcing Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman as winners for 2011. In a...

Bangladeshi film industry’s fight for survival The Bangladeshi film industry, known as Dhallywood, is about to face serious competition. Ever since its independence from Pakistan in 1971, local cinema halls have been banned from showing Indian films. It was an attempt to protect the local...

India studying NATO offer on joining missile programme The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) invitation to India in the first week of September to be a partner in its ballistic missile defence (BMD) programme is being analysed, according to V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the...

India military uranium enrichment activity revealed by Google Earth? In a discovery that could prove to be a major embarrassment to the Indian military a think-tank in the United States has used satellite imagery from Google Earth to observe what appeared to be construction activity around a...

Confessions of a Bollywood cinephile During my internship at Dawn.com, my editor asked me to write an article on the Indian film industry. It was the perfect topic for me to write on. Sometimes I think to myself that my brain is an ongoing chemical imbalance of Indian films. I think of cheesy...

India, China to have system soon to check intrusions “India and China will soon have a mechanism to take care of intrusions into each other's territory,” Defence Minister A.K. Antony said here on Tuesday. “Of late, we have taken a step to constitute a mechanism to tackle these issues in...

India's defence ministry puts Mazagon-Pipavav JV on hold (Reuters) - India's defence ministry has decided to put on hold a joint venture between the state-run Mazagon Dock and private sector shipbuilder Pipavav Defence and Offshore Ltd , saying it would wait till a policy on JVs is put in...

Philippines seeks ASEAN help to blunt China MANILA — The Philippines on Thursday sought backing from its Southeast Asian neighbours for its plan to blunt China's claims over disputed areas of the South China Sea and ease tensions. Vice President Jejomar Binay made the appeal at a meeting of...

Bangladesh Hindu atrocities documented A leading South Asian rights group says it has documented widespread atrocities committed by Muslim radicals against members of the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh. Shahriyar Kabir of the South Asian Coalition Against Fundamentalism told the BBC...

Bangladesh Hindus 'will not go back' Hundreds of Bangladeshi Hindu families who have crossed the border into India to escape repression at home are refusing to return to their country. They are now living with their relatives and friends in the border districts of West Bengal and intend...

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Army gets Rs 10,000 cr for infrastructure development in North-East SHILLONG, Sept 24 – The race to catch up with China has heated up with New Delhi allocating Rs 10,000 crore to the Military Engineering Services (MES) alone, for infrastructure development in the North East for the next five...

Pakistan opens doors to 160-year-old Hindu temple Despite the fact that they probably will not be given control of the property, the Hindu community in Peshawar rejoiced at the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) orders to reopen a 160-year-old Hindu temple. On September 15, after hearing a Hindu...

Super Sukhois to give India a generation leap India is poised to get fifth generation aircraft sooner than expected. While an Indo-Russian programme to develop a fifth generation fighter aircraft is already under way, Russia has agreed to provide India with an advanced version of the...

Sikh leader under threat in Pakistan A prominent leader of Pakistani Sikhs is under threat from unidentified people who have been attacking his business in Lahore for almost six months now, The Express Tribune has learnt. Sardar Bishon Singh, who has served as the president of Pakistan Sikh...