Pakistan’s relations with China, welcome and time-tested as these are, need to be seen and understood in terms of Beijing’s linkages with other countries especially the ones located in our neighborhood.In this context Chinese relationship with India and Afghanistan merits serious ...

NEW DELHI - In a scathing attack on his inconsistent batting form during the Indian Premier League, former Pakistan Test captain Wasim Akram has called Virender Sehwag a "No. 11 batsman." This is probably the worst compliment Sehwag has ever got in his career.A former Kolkata Knight Riders bowling ...

NEW DELHI - Indian cricketer and Rajasthan Royals player S Sreesanth on Friday confessed to spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), police said. "Sreesanth has confessed to spot-fixing. He was teary eyed during interrogation," a Delhi Police official said.Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ankeet ...

NEW DELHI: A defendant on trial over a fatal gang-rape in New Delhi last December is critically ill after being attacked in prison, his lawyer said Wednesday, weeks after the main accused died in the same jail. Vinay Sharma was rushed to the state-runLokNayakHospitalinNew Delhion Tuesday with chest ...

LAHORE/ KABUL  - World leaders, the caretaker prime minister and other national leaders on Sunday congratulated former premier Nawaz Sharif on his thumping victory in historic general polls, hoping the incoming government under him would be able to tackle the internal and external issues ...

NEW DELHI: SomeNew Delhimetro commuters will be breathalysed to detect whether they are drunk under a pilot scheme planned by the state-run transport network, an official said Tuesday. Officers of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will use breathalysers to screen travellers in the Indian ...

NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court has set aside the conviction of a Kashmiri youth, Muhammad Iqbal Jan, who was awarded life imprisonment in 2009 by the Additional Sessions Judge Delhi in a fake case.A division bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justice SR Butt and Justice SP Garg set aside ...

A strong earthquake measuring magnitude 7.8 on Richter scale jolted Asian and Gulf countries specially Pakistani cities including Karachi, Islamabad, Hyderabad, Lahore and Quetta cityon Tuesday afternoon.The epicenter of the huge quake was 86km (53 miles) from Iranian city of Khash, near Pakistan's ...

NEW DELHI  -  David Warner quick-fire 77 went in vain as Rajasthan Royals held nerves in the end to restrict Delhi Daredevils to 160/6 and register a 5-run victory in the fourth match of the IPL 6 at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi.Chasing 166-run target, Daredevils were well on course ...

NEW DELHI  - Skipper Gautam Gambhir (41) and Sunil Narine (4-13) helped Kolkata Knight Riders beat Delhi Daredevils by six wickets in the IPL 6 opener at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Wednesday.Yusuf Pathan (18 not out) and Eoin Morgan (14 not out) steered the hosts to victory with 8 balls to ...

WASHINGTON - Desperate to play the role of a key player, New Delhi is hosting US-India-Afghanistan trilateral dialogue to focus on cooperation among the three nations after the planned drawn down of US forces from Afghanistan in 2014. Two senior US officials Assistant Secretary for South and ...

The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that New Delhi is at war with people of Jammu and Kashmir and added that Afzal Guru's hanging has damaged the prospects of any dialogue with India.The Mirwaiz, who is under house arrest in New Delhi, in a statement said ...

NEW DELHI - Verdicts for five men accused of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus would be handed down “very soon,” a defence lawyer said Tuesday, as an application to relocate the trial failed. Lawyer VK Anand said proceedings in the special “fast-track” ...

NEW DELHI  - A court on Monday ruled that the sixth suspect in last month's deadly gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi would be tried as a juvenile, meaning he will face a maximum prison term of three years.He has been charged with rape but not with murder, which is a charge rarely ...

NEW DELHI - A defence lawyer in the New Delhi gang-rape and murder case accused police on Thursday of beating confessions out of the suspects as they appeared in court for a second time.Speaking ahead of the closed hearing before a city magistrate, Supreme Court lawyer ML Sharma told AFP the five ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - A third suspect accused of fatally gang-raping a 23-year-old student in a moving bus in New Delhi last month will plead not guilty to all charges, his lawyer said on Wednesday.Advocate ML Sharma said he would file the plea on behalf of Ram Singh, the driver of the bus where the ...

The case of five men accused of the gang-rape and murder of a student on a New Delhi bus was set to be transferred to a fast-track trial court Saturday, as her boyfriend recounted for the first time his efforts to save her. The horrifying crime has appalled India and brought simmering anger over ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Police formally charged five men Thursday with the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old student, a crime which appalled India and led to national soul-searching about the treatment of women.Police filed a string of charges including murder, rape and kidnapping against the ...

NEW DELHI - The Indian government is to issue a record 3,000 visas to Pakistani cricket fans attending a series of limited over matches beginning next month, an official in the interior ministry told AFP Thursday."We will happily host 3,000 Pakistani cricket lovers for the matches. This is the ...

LAHORE – The eight-member Delhi golf team under the banner of Delhi Explorers city on Thursday played golf at the Royal Palm Golf Course. The Delhi team comprising senior golfers Admiral S Jain, Vice Admiral SC Chopra, Air Marshall DS Sabhiki, RM Kaul, Ashok Malik, Mona Primlani, Mukta ...

LAHORE - The Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal has said that New Delhi is working on removal of NTBs including customs rationalisation, improvement in laboratories and resolution of dispute settlements. He announced a special visa service for APTMA members in line with the SAARC model, ...

DURBAN  – Delhi Daredevils will take on South African team Highveld Lions in the first semi-finals of the ongoing Champions League Twenty20 on Thursday (today) at Durban.In the second semi0finals Sydney Sixers will face Titans on Friday at Centurion. Delhi Daredevils topped Group A ...

CENTURION  - Delhi Daredevils made it to the Champions League Twenty20 semifinal after other contender Auckland Aces were beaten by 16 runs in their last group league game by Perth Scorchers on Tuesday.In second match of the day, heavy rain after the toss in Centurion meant the final league ...

NEW DELHI - The lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks has applied for clemency from the Indian president in a final bid to avoid the gallows, media reports said on Tuesday. Mohammed Kasab, one of 10 gunmen who laid siege to Mumbai in attacks that lasted nearly three days, sent his ...

ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Friday said India needs to look at the 26/11 Mumbai attacks 'unemotionally'."As far as 26/11 is concerned, we must be able to look at it unemotionally. We would want this issue to be resolved as soon as possible," Hina told Asian News International ...

WASHINGTON  - The United States on Thursday urged India to respect freedom of expression after the government threatened to take action against Twitter over content alleged to have inflamed ethnic tensions.“As the Indian government seeks to preserve security, we are urging them also to ...

NEW DELHI - India and Pakistan have agreed to hold meaningful and result-oriented discussion to demilitarise Siachen glacier region where 26 Indian soldiers died during deployment last year, government told the Lok Sabha Monday. According to Press Trust of India, in a written reply Defence ...

NEW DELHI - Indian police have established a link between a bomb that wounded an Israeli diplomat’s wife in New Delhi and a fumbled bomb plot in Thailand, the city’s police chief said on Friday, adding that arrest warrants had been issued for three Iranians. New Delhi police said one of ...

islamabad - Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Ali Geelani has said that the Indian government and its occupation authorities under a well-hatched conspiracy have worked out a strategy to deal with the Kashmiris’ demand for freedom. In a statement issued in Srinagar, the veteran leader said ...

NEW DELHI - New Delhi will be the new turf for Kashmiri leaders - and they predict that they would be attacked in the Capital, reported MSN India.Moderate Kashmiri leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said the Hurriyat was seriously considering opening offices in New Delhi and Islamabad.“We know ...