LONDON  - Britain’s Prince William will become the country’s first king to have proven Indian roots after saliva samples revealed direct lineage to the Commonwealth’s most populous nation, the Times reported on Friday.DNA from the second-in-line to the throne’s sample ...

MIRPUR (AJK)AH RaoFor the first time in the 66-year history of Azad Jammu & Kashmir territory, the Indian national flag has been displayed along with the national flags of various other countries at the building of the state-run Kashmir Institute of Management in the capital city of ...

LAHORE - Sikhs on Thursday held a protest outside the Lahore Press Club in a remembrance of the attack on the Golden Temple in India, and its desecration by the Indian Army.The protest was led by leaders of Sikh Sangat Pakistan. On this occasion, the participants said they had and would never ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Thursday refuted Indian allegations that the Inter-Services Intelligence had been backing Sikh militancy in the neighbouring country. “The statement of the Indian home minister about Pakistan’s premier spy agency is uncalled-for and counterproductive. This can ...

SHILLONG - Police are investigating an Indian university suspected of issuing fake PhDs after it awarded more than 400 doctorates in a single year, officers said Wednesday.Police have arrested four senior officials from CMJ University in the northeastern state of Meghalaya on suspicion of fraud and ...

WASHINGTON- A senior lawmaker from India's ruling Congress party said Monday that Pakistan's historic animosity toward New Delhi was fading and called for his country to change its own attitudes.Mani Shankar Aiyar, a diplomat turned politician known for his dovish views, said he saw a shift as ...

AHMEDABAD : Four members of an Indian family mired in debt and under pressure from local money lenders to repay loans committed suicide in the western state of Gujarat, police said Monday.A married couple and three of their children consumed poison on Sunday at their home in Bavla town, 25 ...

NEW DELHI - Two top officials of the Indian cricket board quit on Friday over an escalating spot-fixing scandal, reports said. Sanjay Jagdale, the secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and treasurer Ajay Shirke submitted their resignations to the board president, the NDTV ...

Lahore - US Ambassador Richard Olson and Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Sharat Sabharawal separately called on PML-N President and Prime Minister in-waiting Nawaz Sharif at Raiwind on Friday.During the meeting with the US ambassador, matters of mutual interest and Pak-US ties came under ...

KARACHI  - Pakistan government on Friday released 45 Indian fishermen including three children and three other disabled persons. Ansar Burney and activists of Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) received the freed fishermen, who later left Karachi by a bus to reach Lahore’s Wagha border. ...

SRINAGAR -Gunmen killed four Indian soldiers Friday in an ambush outside Srinagar, sparking a gun battle in which one attacker also died.The Indian soldiers were on a search operation during a patrol when they were ambushed in the village of Hardu Buchoo, 30 kilometres  southeast of Srinagar ...

Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif met US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson and Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Sharat Sabharwal in Raiwind on Friday.During the meeting, Olson said the US wanted to strengthen its ties with Pakistan and was willing to help Pakistan ...

At least 45 Indian fishermen were released on Friday from Karachi’s Malir Prison and are to be handed over to Indian authorities at the Wagah border on Saturday, said Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International.Chairman Ansar Burney said all expenses to send the fishermen to India would be ...

NEW DELHI - A lawyer for one of the Indian cricketers accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars for spot-fixing said Wednesday that police were seeking to tarnish her client's reputation. Rebecca John said police involved in the corruption probe were "deliberately planting leaks" in the ...

NEW DELHI - Addressing media persons in New Delhi, visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said Kabul has given a wish list to India, but did not specify what the list contains. He also ruled out deployment of Indian soldiers in Afghanistan.Karzai said: “We have a wish list that ...

Bhopal - In another horrific incident, a 15-year-old Dalit girl was set afire by a youth’s father whose son was arrested by Indian police on molestation charges filed by the victim.Reports indicate the Dalit girl suffered 90 percent burn injuries and is battling for her life at a hospital in ...

NEW DELHI - Indian police said Sunday they had widened their probe into cricket spot-fixing after the arrest of three players and 11 bookmakers, warning that more teams were under the microscope. Test discard Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was among a trio of players from the Rajasthan Royals arrested on ...

kabul  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan’s disputed border with Pakistan.Kabul’s overtures to New Delhi are likely ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan.Kabul's overtures to New Delhi are likely to rile Islamabad where a ...

SYDNEY : An Australian man who raped and strangled his Indian student neighbour and threw her body into a canal in a suitcase was jailed Friday for 45 years for the "horrifying" murder.Daniel Stani-Reginald, 21, had plotted to rape and murder a woman for years before choosing Tosha Thakkar, a ...

    ISLAMABAD   Prime Minister Justice (r) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has decided to release 51 Indian fishermen on humanitarian grounds as a gesture of goodwill. These prisoners have already served their sentences. The decision was taken at a high level meeting attended by Federal ...

RAIPUR  - Maoist rebels killed three policemen on Sunday during an overnight attack on a state-run broadcaster in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a senior police official told AFP. The shootout with state police who were guarding the building began after national broadcaster ...

The PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has expressed his wish to revive relations with India from the position they were in 1999, adding that he would like to invite the Indian prime minister to Pakistan for the oath taking ceremony.During an interview to the foreign media, Nawaz said he will hold talks with ...

NEW DELHI - Two Indian cabinet ministers quit late Friday over corruption scandals that have engulfed Premier Manmohan Singh’s graft-tainted Congress government, which faces elections within a year.Law minister Ashwani Kumar handed in his resignation after opposition outrage over government ...

NEW DELHI A packed New Delhi courtroom sat in rapt silence this week as an irate Supreme Court judge denounced the elite Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as a “caged parrot” and “its master’s voice”.Justice RM Lodha loudly berated the attorney-general, the ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Najam Sethi while presiding over a meeting of the provincial caretaker cabinet here Thursday expressed deep sense of sorrow and grief over the death of the Pakistani prisoner in India Sanaullah due to brutal torture and said that Punjab government fully shares the grief of ...

It might look odd that India should be making no bones about the background and the purpose of sending Sarabjit Singh to Pakistan, and saying that it was not only Sarabjit, a RAW agent, who was sent here to carry out a mission, but several other missions of this nature were also accomplished in the ...

SIALKOT - The indiscriminate firing by the Indian security forces on Pakistani bordering villages in Shakargarh panicked the villagers on Tuesday.According to Chenab Rangers officials, villagers were offering Fajar prayer, when the Indian forces unleashed firing from Blair post on bordering ...

new delhiScores of Sikhs demonstrated in New Delhi on Monday against the acquittal of a senior Indian ruling party politician on murder charges in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.More than 200 turbaned Sikhs demonstrated, blocking the road near the parliament building and calling for the ...

NEW DELHI :India's Supreme Court gave the green light on Monday to the commissioning of the nation's largest nuclear power plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, despite widespread protests. "The plant has been set up for people's welfare," said the ruling on the Kudankulam plant. "Necessary ...