Didier LaurasAfter generations as part of one of Asia’s most ethnically diverse societies, Myanmar’s Muslims fear they are becoming “scapegoats” of its reform process following a wave of religious violence.At least 43 people died in Buddhist-Muslim clashes which broke out ...

By now there is almost a national consensus that military interventions in the political process leading to the imposition of military governments on the people of Pakistan have been universally harmful for the country. At least in one case, the military regime directly led to an ignominious defeat ...

In the shadows of the American operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the fate of a small-town Pakistani doctor recruited by the C.I.A. to help track the Qaeda leader still looms between the two countries, a sore spot neither can leave untouched. Picked up by Pakistani intelligence agents days ...

MUMBAI (AFP) - India warned on Sunday against protectionism as the world grapples with the sovereign debt crisis, portraying itself as a relative haven of stability in troubled economic times. Commerce minister Anand Sharma said India was an influential emerging economy and that the country will be ...

If you watch one of Anwar al-Awlakis hundreds of YouTube videos, the first thing that strikes you is the American accent in which he delivers his exhortations to fight, a residue of his childhood in New Mexico. But its misleading. Awlaki spent his teens, and his final and most influential years, in ...

LAHORE Countrys leading intelligence agencies have warned the provincial and federal authorities that militants are planning to carry out large-scale and coordinated terror strikes on the Pakistani citizens and Natos supply lines in response to the US drone strikes. At this critical juncture, the ...

Our staff reporter LAHORE - Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif presided over a high-level meeting at the Chief Ministers Secretariat for reviewing various proposals regarding self-reliance and cutting down non-developmental expenditure in the wake of the decision to shun foreign aid. Addressing the ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistans political and military leadership on Saturday agreed to adopt a cohesive policy to the stunning US special raid killing Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on May 2 and evolved comprehensive strategy to tackle the emerging US-related challenges. According to a brief official ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) World Cup 2010 host South Africa fears no fall-out over the deadly ambush on Togos football team in Angola, saying the attack will not affect its staging of FIFAs June showcase. Seen from afar, Africas national boundaries sometimes blur, masking the differences between the ...

Crude prices continued to decline during Asian trade Tuesday amid worries that an outbreak of swine flu globally would hurt air travel, thereby reducing oil demand, analysts said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for June delivery, dropped 20 cents to 49.94 dollars a barrel. Brent North ...

NEW YORK - Russia, which is home to a sizable Muslim minority, fears that a further deterioration in insurgency-hit Afghanistan could spill over the border into the rest of Central Asia -- and onto its doorstep, a leading US newspaper reported Monday. "If Afghanistan and Pakistan are further ...