KATHMANDU: An 82-year-old Nepalese man who holds the world record for being the oldest person to summit Mount Everest will defend his title against a familiar octogenarian competitor, organisers said Thursday. Min Bahadur Sherchan’s record for scaling the world’s highest peak at 76 is ...

ASHRAF BUZDARDERA GHAZI KHAN - Like a large number of other candidates in Dera Ghazi Khan district, Khawja Sheraz Mehmood, a two-time MNA slot winner, is yet to decide his political affiliation though the general elections are around the corner. He is the son of former PPP MNA Khawja Kamaluddin ...

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Once bitter foes, then wary allies, and now firm friends, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are waxing nostalgic about six turbulent years, as she gets ready to swap globe trotting for retirement.The US secretary of state went step-by-step with her boss on his three-day Asian ...

PESHAWAR - Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hassan blamed the United States for conspiring to separate Balochistan and Karachi from Pakistan, saying that the JI would not let the enemy succeed in its ugly mission. Certain imperialist forces are bent upon dividing this country into parts and they ...

LAHORE It should be a matter of great satisfaction for the nation that ultimately the government has taken a stance on the Osama Bin Laden issue which is quite justified and logical. Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said at a news conference that any country that again seeks to raid its territory ...

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a Persian New Year message that Iran will "cut the hands" of anyone who tries to harm the Islamic republic. "The Iranian nation will guard its national security with full strength and will decisively cut any unclean hand from any part of the globe which ...

NEW YORK - US Marines are bracing for a fight against Afghan guerrillas who are surprisingly proficient at tactics the Marines themselves learned in infantry school, according to a dispatch in The New York Times Sunday. The newspaper quoted Marine Sergeant Jacob Tambunga, which fought the deadliest ...