Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Wednesday increased security for former minister Sherry Rehman, a vocal critic of the country`s blasphemy law, in the wake of the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer for opposing the controversial statute. The number of policemen deputed to guard Rehman`s home in Karachi was increased. Security cover for Rehman was increased […]
Islamabad: A group of over 500 Pakistani scholars and clerics have described the policeman who gunned down the Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer as a `Ghazi` and have warned against any expression of sympathy for slain PPP leader, saying it would tantamount to an act of blasphemy. Warning the people not to lead or offer funeral […]
Islamabad: Describing as "utter madness" the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer by one of his guards who was angered by his opposition to blasphemy law, the Pakistani media today said it was a reflection of the growing "cancer of intolerance" in the society. Taseer was an outspoken critic of the blasphemy law and "paid […]
Washington: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has met Pakistan’s Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani to offer her personal condolences on the assassination of the Salman Taseer, Governor of the Punjab province. “We strongly condemn the assassination in Pakistan of Punjab Provincial Governor Salmaan Taseer,” Ms. Clinton said in a statement after the meeting which […]
Washington: US has said that it values the role being played by India at the world stage and looks forward to working with New Delhi on the UN Security Council. "India is an emerging global power in its own right, and it is increasingly involved and engaged in global challenges from regional security to the […]
Dubai: Saudi Arabia, which has the second largest number of bloggers in the Arab World, has made license mandatory for starting any e-publishing site, including blogs and online newspapers. According to the new conditions by country`s Culture and Information Ministry, anyone who wants to open a blog, an online newspaper, or any similar forms of […]
London: The number of Britons converting to Islam has nearly doubled in the past decade, despite the fact that the UK has witnessed a rise in Islamophobia over the same period, according to a comprehensive study by inter-faith think tank Faith matters. Previous estimates have placed the number of Muslim converts in the UK at […]
Washington: Indian Ambassador to the United Nations Hardeep Singh Puri has been elected Chairman of the all important Security Council Committee on counter-terrorism and two other key committees of this 15-membered body. A formal announcement in this regard will be made on Wednesday, sources told PTI after the conclusion of silent procedure during which there […]
Islamabad: Pakistan`s opposition leader Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday gave the beleaguered government a 72-hour ultimatum to act on several demands, including rollback of a fuel price hike and probe into corruption scandals, failing which the PPP could be booted out from the Punjab government. Sharif, chief of the country`s main opposition party the PML-N, did […]
Washington: Ahead of the State Visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao, an influential American think-tank has said that the United States is partnering with emerging powers like India to contain the Communist nation. "The United States has already started partnering with an emerging power that shares a long border with China as it moves to […]
Washington: US on Tuesday downplayed the impact of current political turmoil in Pakistan on war against Islamic extremists saying that its focus was on building strategic ties with Islamabad, but said it supported a democratic set-up in the country. In its first comment on the developing political chaos in Pakistan, State Department spokesman P J […]
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, an outspoken leader of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, was assassinated by one of his security guards in a gun attack at a market in the heart of Islamabad on Tuesday. 46-year-old Taseer was getting into his car at Kohsar Market in Islamabad’s posh Sector F6/3 area when the […]
Colombo: Sri Lanka was mulling a ban on mini-skirts following complaints, prompting the government to set up a panel to prepare a dress code for public places in the conservative country, officials and a media report said Monday. The cultural ministry was considering public petitions calling for a ban on mini skirts which have raised […]
Islamabad: Pakistani police on Monday claimed they had foiled a possible terrorist attack by arresting two men in Punjab province`s Taxila city and seizing 150 kg of explosives and 2,000 detonators from them. Police said they intercepted an explosives-laden vehicle at a check post on Thatta Road in Taxila, located over 30-km from Islamabad. The […]
Moscow: A Russian passenger jet carrying 125 people burst into flames just before take-off on a runway at a Siberian airport in the country`s Far North, killing at least three persons, including a child, and injuring over 40 others. The Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet was engulfed in flames after one of its engines caught fire […]
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