'Nukes aren't showpieces'

Islamabad is open to using tactical devices — a reference to tactical nuclear weapons that Pakistan is believed to possess — against India if it feels its safety is threatened, Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said in an interview to Pakistani TV channel SAMAA.
29 September 2016, 18:00 PM

Escalation unlikely: experts

Indian Army's "surgical strikes" on terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control has sent a message to Pakistan to not take India for
29 September 2016, 18:00 PM

Punjab border villages on alert after 'surgical strikes'

Villages along Punjab's border with Pakistan are put on high alert after Indian Army carried out surgical strikes on the LoC.
29 September 2016, 12:35 PM

'Surgical strikes': BJP, Congress hail Indian army

India’s ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party and main opposition Congress hail the armed forces’ surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the de facto border with Pakistan.
29 September 2016, 10:41 AM

New trouble looms for Pakistan PM

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif faces a key choice in the coming weeks about who should run Pakistan's powerful military, one
28 September 2016, 20:42 PM

Saarc summit: Conducive environment to be created soon

Nepal government says that a conducive environment be created soon to ensure participation of all member states in the 19th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit.
28 September 2016, 18:26 PM

Boycotting Islamabad Saarc summit Dhaka's own decision: Shahriar

State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam says the decision to boycott Islamabad Saarc summit is purely Bangladesh's own decision.
28 September 2016, 10:26 AM

ADB to give $1.5b for Cox’s Bazar rail link

Asian Development Bank will give $1.5 billion to Bangladesh to extend its rail link and bring the tourism hub district of Cox’s Bazar inside the network.
28 September 2016, 06:50 AM

Pak House adopts Hindu marriage bill

x In a historic move, Pakistan's parliament has passed the much-delayed bill to enable the country's minority Hindu community
27 September 2016, 18:05 PM

Pakistan warns of ‘water war’ with India if decades-old treaty violated

Pakistan will treat it as "an act of war" if India revoked the Indus Water Treaty regulating river flows between the two nations, Pakistan's top foreign official says.
27 September 2016, 14:54 PM

6 top JMB activists held from WB, Assam

Six top Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh activists, including four wanted in the 2014 Khagragarh blast case, are arrested from West Bengal and Assam in India.
26 September 2016, 11:06 AM

India to ratify Paris climate pact Oct 2

India, the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter, will ratify the Paris climate change pact next month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday, bringing the deal a step closer to reality.
25 September 2016, 18:00 PM

Fawad, other Pakistani artistes given 48hrs to leave India

Calls for Pakistani artists to leave India have been growing after the Uri attacks as nationalist party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)’s film wing has issued a 48-hour deadline to all Pakistani artistes to leave the country.
24 September 2016, 08:01 AM

India buys 36 Rafale fighter jets to counter China

India signs a deal Friday to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets for 7.9 billion euros ($8.8 billion), France's biggest ever such sale, as it seeks to bolster its military against an increasingly assertive China.
23 September 2016, 13:04 PM

6 militants killed, one army man hurt in India encounter

At least six militants of Karbi Peoples Liberation Tigers (KPLT) are killed and an army man is injured in an encounter with security forces inside a forest in northeastern state of Assam, India, according to the local media reports.
23 September 2016, 07:02 AM

India obstacle to peace

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lashed out at India over escalating tensions in Kashmir, telling the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that New Delhi was an obstacle to peace.
22 September 2016, 18:00 PM

Nawaz Sharif at UNGA: Pakistan wants peace with India, urges resolution of Kashmir issue

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly session, says his country wants peace with India but maintained it is "not possible without resolving the Kashmir issue".
22 September 2016, 05:15 AM

India backs off major retaliation over Kashmir raid, for now

For all the shrill rhetoric immediately following Sunday's attack on an Indian army camp in Kashmir, which New Delhi blamed on Pakistan, the threat of a sudden escalation in hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals has receded for now.
21 September 2016, 05:27 AM

India's poor fear 'rent-a-womb' industry shut down

At a hostel for dozens of pregnant women, impoverished widow Sharmila Mackwan weighs up her decision to carry twins for another couple -- her only ticket out of poverty -- as the government moves to close India's multi-million dollar surrogacy industry.
19 September 2016, 07:55 AM

Pak court orders confiscation of Musharraf's property

A Pakistani court trying former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over a deadly raid on Islamabad's radical Red Mosque yesterday
17 September 2016, 21:06 PM