India asks Pakistan for 20 fugitives

Same story of  handing  over fugitive terrorist to India is being repeated again.Last time it was just after the attack on parliament Indian goverment handed over list of terrorist to Pakistan , but Pakistan...

FACTBOX-Highs and lows in Pakistan-India ties

With the most recent violence in mind, a little history lesson is in order:"Source: Reuters Nov 30 (Reuters) - Tension is running high between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan after militants attacked India's commercial capital, Mumbai. India says...

U.S. Intelligence Focuses on Pakistani Group as Substantial Evidence Emerge

"(NSI News Source Info) November 29, 2008: American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Friday that there was mounting evidence that a Pakistani militant group based in Kashmir, most likely Lashkar-e-Taiba, was responsible for this week’s deadly attacks in...

PM's terror stand comes back to haunt him

"NEW DELHI: Of all his formulations, the one that has returned most often to haunt Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the assertion that Pakistan too, like India, was a victim of terrorism. The macabre irony embedded...

Pakistan's Intelligence Chief Will Travel to India to Help

This is a positive sign to ease tensions between two nuclear powers that certainly, and easily, could esqulate out of control... Let's hope that it works, and there is none of the retalitation that many...

India - Two terrorists captured are British nationals: Reports

" British newspaper, Daily Mail, has reported that two of the terrorists captured by Indian security forces are British nationals of Pakistani origin. Attributing to sources in the Maharashtra government, the paper claimed that as many as eight terrorists were captured...

Mumbai attackers may be Pakistani nationals

Identitites of the terrorists involved in Mumbai attacks have started surfacing. Indian investigating agencies have said that Mumbai attackers are all Pakistani nationals. Although Pakistan foreign minister, who is...

Ringed by Foes, Pakistanis Fear the U.S., Too

"By JANE PERLEZ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A redrawn map of South Asia has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites. It shows their country truncated, reduced to an elongated sliver of land with the big bulk of India to the east, and an enlarged Afghanistan to...

After More Balanced Coverage, What Next?

"Tuesday, November 25, 2008 by Mosharraf Zaidi As the world’s attention turns increasingly to Pakistan and its role in tackling the threat of globalised terrorism, the country’s perception abroad is evolving. More than seven years after 9/11, a more nuanced approach to...

An Indian in every Pakistani?

"Shireen M Mazari The writer is a defence analystLack of formal education and sheer ignorance does not by definition imply an innate sense of stupidity. On the other hand, formal education in itself is no guarantee of an intelligent and rational human...

Bomb Plot Mastermind Killed in US Attack on Islamist Militants

FUGITIVE suspect terrorist Rashid Rauf wanted by intelligence services in the UK after an airline "liquid bomb" plot has been killed in a US military attack in the North West region of Pakistan, it has been...

International Performing Arts Fest Spotlights Liberal Pakistan

The Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop has been holding puppetry, theatre, dance and Sufi music festivals for several years now. Here is a report from an independent journalist and filmmaker, Beena Sarwar, about its current...

Separatist billboards

"Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Ahmed Quraishi There is little question that an American-occupied Afghanistan has emerged as the biggest security threat to Pakistan. But you...

US Aid Worker Killed In Pakistan

CNN is reporting that a United States citizen, along with his Pakistani employee, were killed in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan. The article goes on to say that the man and his driver were shot and...

No oxygen in the IMF ventilator

"By Mosharraf ZaidiThe News InternationalBeing of Pakistani origin qualifies an IMF employee to be as much of a Pakistani economy expert, as being of Pakistani origin qualifies a child that eats a lot of Krispy Kreme doughnuts to be an expert in Pakistani child nutrition....

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