NEW DELHIThe Indian and Chinese premiers pledged on Monday to resolve a border dispute that has soured ties for decades, saying good relations between the two Asian giants were key to world peace.Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, making his first foreign visit since taking office, said that Beijing was ...

The Indian and Chinese premiers pledged on Monday to resolve a border dispute that has soured ties for decades, saying good relations between the two Asian giants were key to world peace.Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, making his first foreign visit since taking office, said that Beijing was determined ...

LAHORE - Punjab Rangers killed two smugglers attempting to traverse Wagha Border into India on Tuesday with narcotics.According to Rangers Commander Brigadier Zahid Ahmad, unusual movements were spotted last night at Indo-Pak border. The personnel of Punjab Rangers faced armed resistance when they ...

ANKARA : A Turkish F-16 fighter jet crashed in south-eastern Turkey on Monday near the Syrian border, and its pilot is believed to have safely ejected, an army statement said."Radio communication was cut around 2:15 pm (1115 GMT) with the F-16 fighter plane on mission in the Amanos mountains," ...

BEIJING Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid began a two-day trip to China Thursday, as the Asian giants seek to repair the damage from a border flare-up that highlighted long-rumbling tensions.The world’s two most populous countries have in recent years seen relations improve and trade ...

  new york Foreign students entering theUnited Stateswill face tougher checks at airports and border crossings after officials discovered that a Kazakh student charged with destroying evidence in the Boston Marathon bombings used an invalid visa to reenter this country in January. The ...

LAHORE -SAFEs project on developing a harmonised regulatory framework shall serve as a first step towards building a financially integrated south Asian region, said Aftab Ahmad Ch. MD Lahore Stock Exchange and Secretary General SAFE during a press briefing session held by SAFE of its USAID Small ...

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Office on Thursday summoned the Afghan charge d’affaires to lodge Pakistan’s strong protest on unprovoked firing by Afghan troops at Gursal post on Wednesday in which two Pakistani paramilitary men were injured.“Two Frontier Constabulary (FC) soldiers got ...

According to a report published in a Kabul based newspaper Afghan Times, President Hamid Karzai has written a letter to his US counterpart Barack Obama, seeking America's help in reclaiming nearly a dozen border security posts that he alleges were captured by Pakistani forces in eastern Nangarhar ...

NEW DELHI India's prime minister said Saturday a dispute over an alleged incursion by Chinese troops deep inside Indian-held territory can be settled peacefully and warned against exacerbating tensions.The reported Chinese infiltration across the disputed Himalayan border has strained ties between ...

NEW DELHI - India's foreign minister announced plans Thursday to visit China amid a border dispute, saying both countries had a mutual interest in not allowing it to "destroy" long-term progress in ties.Amid growing calls in some quarters for a tougher line over the alleged incursion of Chinese ...

KABUL  - Taliban insurgents said on Monday that they were holding a group of foreigners taken captive after a helicopter made an emergency landing in eastern Afghanistan.The Taliban, in a statement on their website, claimed they had taken 11 US military personnel. They "were captured alive and ...

seoul:- AFP A US military helicopter taking part in a joint South Korea-US drill crashed Tuesday near the North Korean border with 21 personnel on board. There were no fatalities. A statement put out by the US Forces in Korea said the CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter had “executed a hard ...

JAIPUR  - Indian security forces claimed on Monday they had found a dead falcon fitted with a small camera sparking alarm near the country’s highly militarised border with Pakistan. The carcass was discovered near the ancient fort city of Jaisalmer in the far west of the desert state of ...

QUETTA : Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan have seized explosives from Chaman area, a border town with Afghanistan, on Sunday. According to reports, FC during patrolling in ‘B’ area found a suspicious motorcycle and during search found explosives fitted with it. Bomb Disposal Squad was ...

Indian security forces have found a dead falcon fitted with a small camera which has sparked alarm near the country's highly militarised border with Pakistan, an official said Monday.The carcass was discovered near the ancient fort city of Jaisalmer in the far west of the desert state of Rajasthan ...

NUEVO LAREDO - A US citizen on Wednesday married her Mexican fiance on a raft on the river border between their two countries, a unique ceremony designed to meet US immigration requirements. Stephanie Guerra, 26, and Ruben Alfonso Fierro, 27, defied the swirling currents of the Rio Grande and ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Tension developed on Pak-Afghan Torkham border over the dispute of an Afghan family search that led to closure of the border for an hour on Sunday here, official sources informed.The sources said that the Pak forces personnel were busy in their routine business of checking of ...

KURRAM AGENCY - At least two soldiers injured and five militants killed when a group of Afghan assailants stormed forces check post in a pre-dawn attack in Kurram Agency on Thursday.The militants carried out the attack at around 5:30am and reportedly lasted until 7am. A group of militants, armed ...

GILGIT  - Pakistan and China have resumed trade and traffic on the Karakoram Highway, through the Khunjerab Pass. The two countries had earlier this year agreed to open the border on 1st April, instead of 1st May, as was the past practice.A bus carrying passengers from China reached the ...

ALONG THE LINE OF CONTROL  - On both sides of the de facto border in Kashmir, villagers living have special reason to fear the return of tension between India and Pakistan.The Line of Control that separates Kashmir has been subject to a ceasefire agreed by the nuclear-armed neighbours since ...

The backdrop to the flag meeting held on Monday with the intention of restoring normalcy on the Pak-India border was, however, vitiated by Indian COAS General Bikram Singh’s blunt warning of aggression against Pakistan. This is despite the fact that the hostilities were initiated by the ...

The skirmishes on the Pak-India border that resulted in some casualties further took on an ominous colour with the irresponsible statement by the Indian Air Force Chief that they have a whole range of options against Pakistan. This prompted the Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy to warn that any act of ...

SEOUL- South Korean troops mounted a live-fire exercise near the tense border with the North on Thursday amid high tensions and in the face of Pyongyang threatening retaliatory strikes. The one-hour exercise in Pocheon, the first of its kind this year near the land border, was a regular drill ...

MELBOURNE  - Australia captain Michael Clarke won his third Allan Border Medal as the nation's cricketer of the year at an awards ceremony in Melbourne on Monday.Clarke, in his first year as Australia captain after taking over from Ricky Ponting, polled 231 votes from players, media and ...

NEW DELHI  - The Indian military is to conduct one of its largest mock war drills - involving 20,000 troops - close to the country’s border with Pakistan, an official said on Monday.The manoeuvres, named Shoorveer or Brave Warrior, which will also involve 200 Russian-made tanks, are due ...

LAHORE - The half-a-century old border dispute between China and India came to limelight yet again when the fifth round of talks between the two countries last month remained inconclusive with India sticking to its rigid stance on the issue.  Although Chinese media has attached importance to ...

ISLAMABAD  - The US Embassy has said Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan remains closed to Nato despite comments by a senior Pakistani official that seemed to indicate the coalition would be allowed to transport some food items. Pakistan closed the crossings to Nato at the end of November ...

KARACHI - Focus on trade development would be better for both neighbour countries, there is not a single country exists in the world that hasn’t rifts with its neighbours but trade remains continued.This was stated by Anand Sharma Indian Commerce Minister while talking here on Tuesday at ...

SIALKOT - AJK government’s Coordinator to European Union Ch Naseer Ahmed has urged both Pakistan and India to ensure early opening of Sialkot-Jammu border in a bid to reunite the divided families from both sides.Addressing a press conference here at a local hotel in Sialkot, he said that the ...