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PESHAWAR: The Pakistani Taliban urged the Muslim world to unite in a video message released yesterday as they condemned the French military intervention...

LONDON: A Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls’ education has undergone successful surgery at a British hospital...

  Islamabad: Around 600 documents related to state and public property have been lost by the Pakistani capital’s civic authority in the last four...

ISTANBUL/MUNICH: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel yesterday of waging “state terrorism” as he condemned the air strike on Syria as...

JERUSALEM: Israel’s main political parties began intensive coalition talks yesterday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was formally tasked with forming a...

ISTANBUL: Turkish police have arrested 11 people over the murder of an American woman who disappeared while visiting Istanbul last month, police said...

DUBAI: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday accused the parliament speaker’s family of corruption, during an angry debate reflecting a struggle between the Iranian...

    DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani met here at his Emiri Diwan Office this morning with the United Nations...

KIRKUK, Iraq:  A suicide car bomb followed by an assault by grenade-throwing gunmen on a police headquarters in a disputed ethnically mixed city...

BEIRUT: At least 13 civilians were killed Sunday in a missile attack by the Syrian army on a rebel-held neighbourhood in the embattled...

Monks from the Himalayan Buddhist Culture Association prepare a sand ‘mandala’ as they prepare for the arrival of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday said his government’s flagship MGNREGA scheme had accelerated the pace of financial inclusion in villages while...

New Delhi: With the BJP deciding to boycott Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde over his “Hindu terrorism” remarks, the Congress yesterday said the party...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said yesterday that she would crack down heavily on striking trade unions, who have called for...

by Moiz Mannan The mention of a non-resident Indian (NRI) from the north Indian state of Punjab generally brings to mind the image...

New Delhi: A city court yesterday framed charges of murder, gang rape, kidnapping and on 10 other counts against the five accused involved...

Army members display their skills during a weaponry exhibition in Kolkata, yesterday. The event was held to draw young talent to the country’s...