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BY: Adnkronos International Indian government sources claim Pakistan is carrying out 'heightened activity' with its fighter aircraft on its side of the border with India, prompting New Delhi to review its air defence preparedness. The pretext appears to be the recent Pakistani contention...

US Senator John McCain has said he believes that if Pakistan does not act against individuals and groups linked to the Mumbai terror attacks, it could be a "matter of days" before India carries out surgical strikes against such elements. There is enough evidence of the involvement of former...

Nuclear scientist Dr Samar Mubarakmand has said that Pakistan is competent to launch nuclear missiles at a short notice of ten minutes in case India attacks Pakistan. "Pakistan''s long-range Shaheen nuclear missiles were more accurate than comparable Indian missiles. No city in India was...

How much should India fear Pakistan, considering a recent BBC 23-nation survey found that Pakistan and Egypt were the only countries to take a relatively positive view of al-Qaida. The poll said that only 19% of Pakistani respondents had a negative view of Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network...

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday demanded a civilian nuclear agreement with the United States after Washington signed a similar deal with arch-rival India. The US Senate late Wednesday endorsed a landmark US-India nuclear pact, removing the final legislative hurdle for...

Radio Pakistan in its latest bulletin of Punjabi Darbar programme has tried to create divisions among Hindus and Sikhs and affect the fraternal relations shared by them in Punjab. Through the propaganda based Punjabi Durbar programme, Radio Pakistan has stated that Sikhs are a separate...

by : ANI A leading US think tank has warned that Pakistan could soon acquire capability of producing atom bombs, as it was close to completing a second plutonium-producing reactor, and all set to build a third. These reactors could increase its ability to make atomic bombs, which, in turn...

by : Telegraph The United States has increasingly found it has more in common with democratic India, previously a friend of the Soviet Union, than with its Cold War ally against Moscow, Communist China. This crucial shift has left the two Asian giants on opposite geopolitical sides and...

This is the capital of a country enjoying an economic boom, where hundreds of millions have been lifted from poverty and entered the world of shopping malls and mobile phones. But inside a symbol of an old empire, India's military establishment is contemplating the challenge posed by the other...

Ruling Pakistan People's Party chief Asif Ali Zardari was today elected Pakistan's new President, securing a landslide victory in the elections. As PPP lawmakers and workers shouted slogans like "Jeay Bhutto" (long live Bhutto) and "Zinda hai Bibi, zinda hai" (Benazir Bhutto is alive), Chief...

Pakistan presidential hopeful and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was suffering from severe mental illness till last year, as he underwent severe torture during his 11 years of imprisonment in the past two decades in different prisons. He was diagnosed with a range of psychiatric illnesses...

India and Pakistan have fought wars in the past and both of them have a nuclear arsenal.Causing a treat to the whole of the world , if they have a war. What do you Proud Indians think should be done to strengthen the India Pakistan friendship and what steps should be taken by both the...

What can be done to increase hormony among south asian nations in particular and world in general. :confused:

Times of India India is suddenly up and alert after senior Chinese naval officers recently visited the islands to “upgradeâ€￾ facilities there. according to reports reaching India, in an unpublicised visit, a Chinese naval delegation led by Col Chi Ziong Feng, accompanied a Myanmarese...

Sonia Gandhi , Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are in Beijing to attend the Olympics Isn't it a shame that the Chinese invited not the Indian government but the leader of a political party? And Our government claims they have improved relationship with China. I think Sonia should not have...

President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday abruptly cancelled his scheduled visit to China to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in the wake of reports that Pakistan's ruling coalition could be finalising a move to impeach him. Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq told...