NEW DELHI India’s Supreme Court has ordered the establishment of five special courts to try cases related to communal riots in the state of Gujarat in 2002. ..Read More..

NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Friday extended the parole of Varun Gandhi, a black sheep of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty who is facing charges for inciting religious hatred during election campaigning. ..Read More..

DHAKA The Bangladeshi government has welcomed moves by a US congressional panel to remove it from a list of countries deemed to violate religious freedoms. ..Read More..

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan government troops have tightened their siege of the last strip of land on the island still controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels and are poised for a final assault, the military said on Friday. ..Read More..

Thimphu: When Jigme Singye Wangchuk, the outgoing king of Bhutan, coined Gross Domestic Happiness as a development index some years ago, the world probably dismissed the idea as a monarch’s ..Read More..

KANDAHAR: Western forces face a bloody summer as thousands of new US troops deploy in southern Afghanistan, but hope to reach a “pivot point” this year reclaiming territory back from the Taliban, a commander said. ..Read More..

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistanís nuclear programme is facing severe financial cuts, badly hampering some core classified projects, it is ..Read More..

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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s 100th day prime TV time press conference on Wednesday night has created a grossly uneven playing field for President Asif Ali Zardari’s upcoming visit to ..Read More..

KARACHI (SANA): Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has urged all the stakeholders of the metropolitan to play their due to in order to forge peace in the city. ..Read More..

ISLAMABAD (SANA): Operation to flush out militants from Buner is going on successfully and security forces killed 55 to 60 miscreants during the last twenty-four hours. ..Read More..

WASHINGTON (SANA): Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, has urged congress to quickly approve increased military aid for Pakistan and funding for wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ..Read More..

ISLAMABAD (SANA): Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hassan has asked the government to take notice of the anti-Pakistan statements by US officials. ..Read More..

Multan (SANA): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani turned down the US President Barack Hussain Obama’s statement in which he termed the government of Pakistan as fragile. ..Read More..

TIMERGRA (SANA): NWFP Minister of Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that after constitution of Darul Qadha the forces operation in Dir and Buner will be halted. ..Read More..

TRIPOLI (SANA): President Asif Ali Zardari met his Libyan counterpart Colonel Muammar Gaddafi here on Friday and discussed bilateral cooperation and the matters of mutual interest. ..Read More..

MULTAN (SANA): Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said the security forces have launched operation in FATA and other regions to establish the writ of the state. ..Read More..

ISLAMABAD (SANA): Former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has asked lawyers to proceed lawsuits in the courts without any further delay so that justice was not denied to the people. ..Read More..