ISLAMABAD: People from different religious minorities celebrated the Hindus festival of colours ‘Holi’ with zeal and zest at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) here the other day. The event... Read more »
BERLIN: German insurance company Allianz says it has made initial payments in connection with the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. Allianz´s global head of communication Hugo Kidston confirmed Wednesday that the Munich-based insurer and “other co-reinsurers... Read more »
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree recognizing Crimea as an independent state following its vote to secede from Ukraine and join Russia in a referendum that has fanned the worst East-West crisis... Read more »
BANGKOK: Thailand’s military said Tuesday that its radar detected a plane that may have been Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 just minutes after the jetliner’s communications went down, and that it didn’t share... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz informed the Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday that Saudi Arabia had gifted $1.5 billion to Pakistan and added... Read more »
By Tom Watkins and Michael Pearson, CNN (CNN) — Every day brings new details and new questions surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard that went missing on March 8 en... Read more »
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, the enforcer of the Bush administration’s lies about Iraqi WMDs, its pre-emptive strike doctrine, its assault on civil liberties and use of torture, and its no-bid... Read more »
Malaysian police have searched the homes of the pilots of the Malaysia Airlines plane that vanished eight days ago with 239 people on board. The police are also reportedly looking at the... Read more »
A US grand jury has re-indicted an Indian diplomat whose arrest strained US-India relations. Devyani Khobragade is accused of visa fraud and underpaying her housekeeper, lawyers in New York said. It comes... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved on Saturday the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metro Bus Project (Islamabad portion) at a total cost of Rs 23.839 billion. According to the decision, the... Read more »
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the last 12 years of war were “imposed” on Afghans, a reference to the US-led invasion that ousted the Taliban. In a last address to Parliament... Read more »
KUALA LUMPUR: A missing Malaysian aircraft was flown for hours in a fashion “consistent with deliberate action” after dropping off primary radar, but hijacking could not be confirmed, the country´s prime minister... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: Taliban Committee member, Professor Ibrahim has termed the meeting with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) shura ‘encouraging’. Professor Ibrahim said: “we are making arrangements for meeting between TTP shura and the government team”.... Read more »
KUALA LUMPUR/WASHINGTON: Faint electronic signals sent to satellites from a missing Malaysian jetliner show it may have been flown thousands of miles off course before running out of fuel over theIndian Ocean,... Read more »
ISLAMABAD: The special court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf. The special court has ordered for Pervez Musharraf’s warrant to be implemented on March 31.... Read more »
MOSCOW: Two Russian politicians are demanding the United States be kicked out of this year’s World Cup and has its membership of world soccer’s governing body FIFA terminated. The petition to FIFA... Read more »
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, the heir to the dynasty that leads ruling Congress party, on Tuesday compared opposition leader Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler – his sharpest attack yet on a rival... Read more »
Report by Rehan Shakeel Sydney, Australia Justice4Musharraf.com,online social media forum, has organized its 9th consecutive protest in Karachi on Sunday 9th March 2014.Civil society is strongly committed to its cause and will... Read more »
No PR45/2014-ISPR Press Release Rawalpindi – March 8, 2014: To help out affected population... Read more »
BEIJING: China said on Saturday that it will work with Afghanistan to fight terrorism, after it blamed a deadly train station attack on extremists from its western Xinjiang region, which shares a... Read more »
Arnoud van Doorn, a former far-right Dutch politician who later accepted Islam and became a Muslim, has announced his plans to launch a new Islamic party in his native Holland. The Islamic... Read more »
By Farahnaz Ispahani, Special to CNN International Women’s Day, being marked Saturday, is as good a time as any not just to celebrate how much progress has been made, but also how much... Read more »
A Pakistani women’s rights group was conferred a top human rights award in Ireland Friday for its work in the terror-dominated tribal region of Pakistan. Hollywood actor, and founder of the J/P Haitian... Read more »
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine: Crimea’s parliament voted on Thursday to join Russia, and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum in 10 days, in a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian region that... Read more »