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Ottawa, Mar.13 (ANI): After a brief lull in violence and bloodshed in the country, Lahore was rattled with a series of bomb blasts on Friday, which has certainly put a question mark over the claims of the political and military leadership that the Taliban’s back has been broken.
The series of blasts that killed at least [...]

Islamabad, Mar.5 (ANI): Pakistan has urged India to set aside its preconditions and work together with it on the roadmap presented during the foreign secretary level talks in order to make deliberations more meaningful in future.
Addressing a regular briefing here, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said the ball is in New Delhi’s court as [...]

Washington, Sep.10 (ANI): The United States has made it clear that it would not hesitate to retaliate if its citizens are targeted by militants based in Pakistan.

In an interview with the PBS, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen said Islamabad is also aware that if US citizens are targeted by Pakistani [...]

Hyderabad, Sep.3 (ANI): Tens of thousands of people, from all walks of life, came out on the streets of Hyderabad on Thursday evening to mourn and pay their last respects to former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajsekhara Reddy, who died [...]

Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh), Sep.3 (ANI): The highly charred and decomposed bodies of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others were shifted to an Indian Air Force helicopter a short while ago, and the chopper has lifted off from the [...]

Moscow, Sep 3 (ANI): President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has expressed a desire to enhance bilateral trade ties with Russia.

While addressing a gathering of expatriate Indians and some prominent Russians during the course of her five-day visit, Patil said, the only area where India-Russia relationship is lagging is in the field of bilateral economic cooperation.

“When [...]

Barmer (Rajasthan), Aug.29 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Saturday said that a needless controversy had been created over the Pokhran II nuclear tests that took place in May 1998.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function to inaugurate a terminal for the supply of crude oil at Cairn India’s Mangala oilfield [...]

New Delhi, Aug 27 (ANI): Top defence scientist Dr.K. Santhanam said on Thursday that the scientific community in India had felt after the May 1998 nuclear tests that there should be another test to complete the research.

Speaking to ANI after controversially revealing that Pokhran II tests [...]

Washington, Aug.21 (ANI): An expert on South and Central Asia has welcomed the holding of the second presidential elections in Afghanistan, saying it is an important sign-if not of progress, not only for Afghanistan, but also for Pakistan and the United States.

According to Daniel Markey of [...]

Sharm-el-Sheikh (Egypt), July 15 (ANI): Pakistan’s dilly dallying attitude over prosecuting Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD) chief Hafeez Mohammad Saeed, the prime accused in the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, has served a heavy blow to the much awaited dialogue [...]

Peshawar, July 14 (ANI): NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti has said that the Taliban will not be allowed to disrupt peace in the scenic Swat valley again.

The Chief Minister said the war against those involved in “destruction and blood shed” would continue until the last of the terrorists had been eliminated.

He said [...]

Lahore, July 5 (ANI): Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said that terrorism should not be linked with Islam.

Talking to media persons after visiting Jamia Naeemia to express grief over the assassination of country’s top religious scholar Sarfaraz Naeemi here, Khan termed the suicide bombings as a ‘political issue.’

“No religion can allow suicide bombing. There is no [...]

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Washington, June 29 (ANI): The US is providing technical support at an estimated cost of 100 million dollars to Pakistan in order to keep that country’s nuclear arsenal out of the extremists reach and prevent accidents.

Andrew Cockburn, a renowned author who has written several books on security issues, says that the official aim of US [...]

Lahore, June 27 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has rejected former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s claims that he was kept in the dark regarding the Kargil issue.

In an interview to a private television channel, Musharraf claimed that he had [...]

Lahore, June 27 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has claimed that he came near to resolving the Kashmir dispute during the infamous Agra summit in 2001.

In an interview to a private television channel, Musharraf said that he and the then India Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had [...]

New York – The UN General Assembly on Tuesday rescheduled its failed efforts to hold a debate on the global financial and economic crisis at the end of June, three weeks later than the original date.
Last week, the 192-nation assembly cancelled the so-called economic summit originally scheduled for June 1-3 because several government leaders could [...]

Islamabad, May 16 (ANI): The military operation is not enough to restore peace in Pakistan’s troubled areas, but a political dimension is needed to attain a permanent solution, Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has said.

“I am well aware that the [...]

Islamabad, May 15 (ANI): Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed fear that the Pakistan Government may fail to win the “hearts and minds of people” despite winning the military war against the Taliban in the Swat Valley.

“I assure you that the army will win the war against the militants. But if we win [...]

Karachi, May 7 (ANI): With the military action against the Taliban getting intense in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), fears of the extremists shifting their base to the southern part of the country and taking Karachi under their grip have also gained momentum.

The growing ethnic Pashtun population on the outskirts of Karachi has raised [...]