A little-known political party has put up banners in 13 Pakistani cities urging Army chief General Raheel Sharif to impose martial law and form a government of technocrats. The banners have been unveiled in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Sargodha and Hyderabad among other cities, media reports said on Tuesday. Accord...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting to review the law and order situation in Jammu and Kashmir. "The Prime Minister is chairing a high level meeting on the situation in Kashmir," the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) posted on Twitter. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Defence Minister Manohar Par...
The mastermind behind the December 2014 massacre at Peshawar's Army Public School, has been killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan senior Pakistani security officials claimed. The officials told Dawn on Monday that Umar Mansour was killed, along with another militant leader Qari Saifullah, in the US drone attack in the Bandar ...
British Home Secretary Theresa May on Monday was confirmed as the new leader of the Conservative Party with "immediate effect" and set to succeed David Cameroon as Prime Minister of Britain on Wednesday....
Amid recurring clashes in curfew-bound Kashmir Valley, three injured protesters died in hospitals here on Monday, taking the death toll to 32 in three days of bloodshed following the killing of a top militant that has sparked fresh India-Pakistan tensions....
Former Gujarat BJP MLA Yatin Oza, who was once close to BJP President Amit Shah, has alleged that Shah had a secret pact with AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi ahead of the Bihar polls last year....
The Kasargode police on Monday registered nine 'missing persons' complaints and formed a 27 member team led by a Deputy Superintendent of Police to look into the case of 17 persons said to ...
India is planning to evacuate its nationals from South Sudan where renewed fighting between rival military factions has claimed nearly 300 lives. “I am aware of the developments in South Sudan,†External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted. “We are planning evacuation of Indian nationals,†she said. The latest...
Days after the central government declined Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's request to depute IFS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi as his OSD, the AAP leader has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reconsider the decision. The Aam Aadmi Party leader also said that the central government was not properly utilising the services of the officer. "The...
Curfew continued in parts of the Kashmir Valley on Monday amid fears of more violence where 21 people have been killed in clashes with police and paramilitary forces following the death of senior militant commander Burhan Wani last week. Authorities have also suspended the annual Amarnath pilgrimage and tourists were hastily leaving the va...
