UNITED NATIONS (TIP): With Pakistan announcing that the bilateral peace process with India has been “suspended”, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that the offer of his “good offices” to help resolve the conflict […]
The New York Indian Film Festival was the first festival in the United States devoted to Indian films and has grown to be the largest and most influential, helping to set up several other Indian […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Obama administration on Monday awarded a $170 million contract to Bell Helicopter of Texas to manufacture and deliver nine AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters to Pakistan, continuing the US policy of arming a […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has set up a Sharia court in Lahore to dispense “speedy justice”, taking up citizens’ complaints and issuing summons carrying a warning of strict action in […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Pakistani military in coordination with law enforcement agencies launched a new offensive in southern Punjab, officials announced april 6, weeks after a suicide bomber killed more than 70 people in Lahore. “Coordinated […]
NEW YORK (TIP): The Panama Papers is a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world’s rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies […]
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has approached probe agencies of some foreign countries, including the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in connection with its probe into the Pathankot terror attack. The help of the […]
ISLAMABAD (PTI): The Pakistan army spokesman’s recent tweets and statements have hinted tensions between civil and military leadership of the country which has been struggling to contain terrorism and extremism, a leading Pakistani daily commented […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A Pakistani man, Shahbaz Taseer, who was held by the Taliban for nearly five years before being abruptly freed this month, is lighting up Twitter with his frank and often-humourous account of his […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): In a major boost to the Indian probe into the Pathankot case, Pakistan has admitted the involvement of its nationals in the terror attack. It came in the form of the Pakistani […]
New Delhi (TIP): India on Wednesday accused Pakistan of trying to “defame” it by cooking up the story about involvement of its external intelligence agency in fomenting insurgency in the neighbouring country. Minister of State […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is on a three-nation visit of Belgium, the US and Saudi Arabia, arrived March 31 in Washington where, among many other engagements, he is attending the Nuclear Security Summit. Speaking at […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States and India have begun conversations about Pakistan’s runaway nuclear weapons program, including its development and deployment of battlefield tactical nuclear weapons, in the backdrop of the nuclear security summit that […]
BENGALURU (TIP): With an eye on the Olympics, the India hockey team skipper Sardar Singh on Thursday said that the upcoming tournaments like Sultan Azlan Shah Cup and Champions Trophy will serve as important preparatory […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nuclear-armed Pakistan is a “very, very vital problem”, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said and asserted that the country needs to “get a hold of” its situation. “Pakistan is a very, very […]
Pakistan on Tuesday released a video in which an arrested Indian spy is heard confessing New Delhi’s alleged involvement in terrorist activities in Balochistan. Kulbushan Yadav says in the video that he had been directing […]
Yousuf Raza Gilani, who was Pakistan’s Prime Minister in 2008, had visited David Coleman Headley’s home within weeks after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the Lashkar terrorist told a Mumbai court today, giving a new […]
MUMBAI (TIP): David Headley spoke coolly as he told a stunned Mumbai court on March 25 that he has hated India since childhood and wanted to inflict “maximum loss and damage” here. “Since childhood I hate […]
American presidential elections get international attention because of worldwide interest in who is going to become the most powerful leader on the international stage. The US presidential elections in 2012 were less exciting than usual, because […]
Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has chosen a familiar-yet-uncertain terrain to test the qualities of her own leadership and her capacity to take over the state of Jammu and Kashmir at a particularly worrisome time. […]
CASTELNUOVO Di PORTO (TIP): Pope Francis washed the feet of 11 young asylum seekers and a worker at their reception center, March 24, to highlight the need for the international community to provide shelter to […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Replying to a Calling Attention in the Lok Sabha on alleged alteration of affidavit relating to Ishrat Jahan case, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said, March 9,” No politics should be done […]
KABUL (TIP): At least 15 members of the Islamic State (IS) militant group were killed in airstrikes in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, the government said on Monday. “Acting upon confirmed intelligence reports, the […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a top Islamist leader for war crimes during the country’s independence struggle against Pakistan in 1971, paving the way for his execution. Chief Justice […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan along with its “all-weather” ally China has successfully blocked India’s bid to become a member of the elite Nuclear Suppliers Group, Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said. […]
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