The United Kingdom has already wasted 14bn on the war in Afghanistan and cannot afford to waste any more in military operations there at a time of financial crisis, Lord Oakeshott has said. "We have wasted 14bn on going to war in Afghanistan, and we are losing hundreds of lives in a futile war ...

Since the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan has behaved toward the United States as both friend and adversary and gotten away with it. The latest evidence of its duplicity is the revelation that Osama bin Laden lived for years in a house near Pakistans national military academy and a local branch of its ...

A 45-minute catnap helps lower blood pressure, American researchers reported last week. They said a daytime snooze could improve heart health, particularly if youre not getting as much sleep as you should at night. This follows a recent six-year Greek study which found that people who took a ...

NEW YORK Modern India, which is moving towards tighter military ties with the United States, is hardly the country envisioned by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, an advocate of non-violence, The New York Times commented Sunday. Gandhi remains Indias patriarch, the founding father whose face is printed ...

LAHORE Former captain Aamir Sohail said Sunday that the Pakistan cricket team is no longer a crowd-puller in world cricket and that is the reason why top international teams are not interested in playing Pakistan. Pakistan cricket team has always been ranked amongst the top three or four teams in ...

Significant leaders of the Pakistani Taliban have been killed or captured in an onslaught of frontier ground and air attacks. The militant command and control centres and their caches have been dismantled or captured, said Major-General Tariq Khan, one of the countrys most experienced commanders in ...

RESEARCH undertaken by the Universities of Reading, Cardiff and Bristol has found that drinking milk can lessen the chances of dying from illnesses such as coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke by up to 15-20 %. In recent times milk has often been portrayed by the media as an unhealthy food. The ...

The chief of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), Maulana Sufi Mohammad has said the parliamentarians who opposed the promulgation of Nizam-e-Adl Regulation in the National Assembly are no longer Muslims. Talking to media on Friday, Sufi said that the Qazis would be appointed at Tehsil ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - The US professor nicknamed "Dr. Doom" for forecasting the financial crisis has said the global recession will last all of this year and probably next, India's Mail Today reported Saturday. New York University professor Nouriel Roubini said that in the best-case scenario, the ...

A killer snake that was longer than a bus, as heavy as a small car and which could swallow an animal the size of a cow, has been discovered by scientists. The 45ft long monster - named Titanoboa - was so big that it lived on a diet of crocodiles and giant turtles, squeezing them to death and ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Chairman Senate Mohammedmian Soomro Saturday said the national security has become a multifaceted undertaking; neither is it the pursuit of military alone nor its management is exclusive preserve of a selected few. "The effective pursuit of national security requires developing ...

President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan is in the hot seat. Under pressure from the international community, he ordered police last week to crack down on Jamaat-ul-Dawa, a charity thought to be the public front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani terrorist group that India blames for the Thanksgiving ...

The US dollar can no longer claim to be the sole world currency, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday before a weekend summit on the global financial crisis that has its roots in the United States. "I leave for Washington tomorrow to explain that the dollar, which at the end of World ...

PARIS (AFP) - Most people diet to trim waistlines a belt notch or two but Bob Cavanaugh and other members of the US-based Calorie Restriction Society are more ambitious. Inspired by animal experiments showing that underfeeding enhances vitality and prolongs life by 30 percent or more, they are ...

France has offered to upgrade India's 51 frontline Mirage 2000 fighters in a "compressed delivery time-frame", which could prove a boon to New Delhi in the backdrop of Indian Air Forces' force levels depleting to an alarming all time low of 32 Squadrons. And as part of the upgradation ...

KARACHI - Baloch Sardars have considerably lost their traditional and conservative hold over their people who are today more educated, forward-looking and liberal and want to pursue the path of democracy and bring about a change in their own society, said Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, central secretary ...

LONDON (AFP) - Mohamed Bin Hammam, president of the Asian Football Confederation, has warned FIFA president Sepp Blatter that he could lose touch with the modern game if he stays in the job for too long. Blatter has been in charge of the global game's governing body for 10 years and shows no ...

The government of Pakistan has said that it could no longer bear the burdens of Afghan refugees, but the return of all the refugees program completion by 2009 is also not being seen possible. Addressing a tripartite Commission's meeting for reviewing and revising Afghan refuges' return, Federal ...

PARIS  - Keep humming "Don't Worry Be Happy". The 1980s New Age-inspired hit got it right. New research shows being happy can add several years to life. "Happiness does not heal, but happiness protects against falling ill," says Ruut Veenhoven of Rotterdam's Erasmus University in a study to ...

WASHINGTON - White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That's eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004. The nation has been growing more diverse for decades, but the process has sped up through immigration and ...

IT doesn't pay to be smart and ignorance really is bliss if you want a long life at least if you're a fly, according to new research by a Swiss university. Scientists Tadeusz Kawecki and Joep Burger at the University of Lausanne said Wednesday they had discovered a "negative correlation between ...