New Delhi | 1 hour ago
India to express concern to Pakistan on minorities' plight
New Delhi, May 17 - India will convey its concern to Pakistan over the plight of its Hindu minorities when External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna visits the neighbouring country soon, parliament was told ThursdayKrishna, in reply to a short duration discussion in the Rajya Sabha on the normalisation of relations with Pakistan and issues relating to the human rights violations of minorities there, ... read more

Jammu | 3 hours ago
Home secretary reviews cross-LOC trade at Poonch
Jammu, May 17 - Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh Thursday visited Jammu and Kashmir's frontier Poonch district and discussed with local people issues concerning trade across the Line of Control - between Indian and Pakistani-administered Kashmir.Meeting a delegation of traders in Poonch, 240 km northwest of Jammu, on the second day of his two-day visit to the state, Singh discussed the problems fac ... read more

Islamabad | 7 hours ago
Four pilots killed as two PAF planes collide
Islamabad, May 17 - Four pilots were killed Thursday when two Pakistan Air Force - trainer planes collided in the country's northwest, police said.The accident took place at about 10.20 a.m. when two trainer planes slammed into one another while on a routine training flight over the Rashakai area of Nowshera, a district some 100 km northwest of Pakistan's capital of Islamabad, reported Xinhua.Geo ... read more

Islamabad | 9 hours ago
Not a single dry eye as Chisty meets family
Islamabad, May 17 - Emotions ran high as virologist Mohammed Khalil Chisty, who spent 20 years in India following a 1992 murder, was reunited with his family in Karachi.Chisty, 80, was permitted by the Indian Supreme Court May 10 to visit Pakistan during the pendency of his appeal against his conviction in a murder case and life imprisonment in Ajmer. He arrived in Islamabad Tuesday night on an ai ... read more

Washington | 22 hours ago
US slaps sanctions against Chhota Shakeel, Tiger Memon
Washington/New Delhi, May 16 - The US has slapped sanctions on Chhota Shakeel and Ibrahim Tiger Memon, two top aides of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai bombings that left over 250 dead, in a move to target the nexus of crime and terrorism in South Asia.The US move was Wednesday welcomed by India, which stated that narco-terrorism is a threat to itself and ... read more

Srinagar | 23 hours ago
Union home secretary in Kashmir, meets Omar
Srinagar, May 16 - Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh Thursday discussed the prevailing law and order situation in Jammu and Kashmir with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, an official statement said here.Singh arrived here Thursday afternoon on a two-day visit to Kashmir.During his stay in the Kashmir Valley, the union home secretary is likely to discuss the security arrangements for this year's annual A ... read more

New Delhi | 1 day ago
Construction at Musharraf's ancestral house stirs row
New Delhi, May 16 - The demolition of a portion of former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf's ancestral home, Neharwali Haveli in Old Delhi's Daryaganj, has stirred a row with the legality of the construction coming under question.Archaeological experts say that while the building could be a heritage property, currently there is no protective law for such buildings. We have been demanding a law ... read more

Islamabad | 1 day ago
Stand up for the law, Pakistani daily tells speaker
Islamabad, May 16 - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's fate was dependent on Pakistan speaker Fehmida Mirza's course of action, said a daily Wednesday, exhorting her to stand up for the law and not for parochial loyalties.An editorial in the News International said the Supreme Court's detailed judgment in the contempt of court case against Gilani has opened the question of whether the premier's f ... read more

Islamabad | 1 day ago
Chisty delighted to be back in Pakistan
Islamabad, May 16 - Virologist Mohammed Khalil Chisty, who was in an Indian jail for a 1992 murder and reached here on a plane sent by President Asif Ali Zardari, said it felt great to be back in Pakistan from a point of virtually no return.Interior Minister Rehman Malik Tuesday night received 80-year-old Chisty, permitted by the Indian Supreme Court May 10 to visit Pakistan during the pendency o ... read more

Islamabad | 2 days ago
Zardari sending plane to fly Chisty home
Islamabad, May 15 - Virologist Mohammed Khalil Chisty will return to Pakistan from India after 20 years in jail on board a special aircraft being sent by President Asif Ali Zardari, a media report said Tuesday.Zardari, during his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi last month, had pleaded for clemency for Chisty, given his advanced age.The Indian Supreme Court May 10 per ... read more