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Another terror suspect has been arrested in Bangalore. The Bangalore City Crime Branch picked up Dr Nayueem Siddique...
Mumbai Police on Wednesday released photographs of three alleged terrorists, out of five, that it claimed belonged to banned outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and had entered Mumbai. The three, however, are present in Lahore,...
Researchers working at the intersection of computational social science, political science, and data analytics have developed models that use social media activity, economic indicators, and historical event data to predi...
ISLAMABAD: Hafiz Saeed, the Islamist leader who had a 6 million pounds American bounty placed on his head this week, has been helping Pakistan de-radicalise militants under efforts to stabilise the strategic US ally, a t...
The Pakistani authorities moved on Saturday to demolish the house where Osama bin Laden died at the hands of Navy SEALs last May, erasing a three-story building that had acquired a painful symbolism for Pakistan...
It was not a chant that many had ever expected to hear, as up to 50,000 Russians from all walks of life stood, the snow falling steadily upon them, a few hundred yards across the Moskva river from the Kremlin. "Russia wi...
Going a step ahead of merely condemning the outrageous NATO attack on a military outpost in Mohmand, the Defence Committee of Cabinet (DCC), on Sunday, decided to close with immediate effect the NATO/ISAF logistics suppl...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's decision to overturn Labor Party policy and allow uranium sales to India represented a significant shift in Canberra's nuclear non-proliferation stance and a recognition that Ind...
After years of debate and months of final preparations, the military can no longer prevent gays from serving openly in its ranks. Repeal of a 1993 law that allowed gays to serve only so long as they kept their sexual ori...
When geography changes -- as when the Suez Canal joined Europe to the Indian Ocean, or when the railroads transformed the American West and the Russian East -- old patterns of contact disappear and new ones take hold, tu...
Two weeks before the September 11 attacks, members of a Saudi family in Sarasota, Florida abruptly abandoned their home — leaving behind cars, furniture, clothing, and other possessions — and flew back to Saudi Arabia. T...
The operation that killed Osama bin Laden on the night of May 1-2, 2011 lasted roughly forty minutes from the moment the first helicopter crossed into Pakistani airspace until the last SEAL team member departed the compo...
3 bomb blasts in Mumbai; 17 killed, 81 injured At least 17 people have been killed and 81 others injured in three bomb blasts that rocked Mumbai on Wednesday evening in the crowded Dadar, Opera House and Zaveri Bazar are...
Pakistan could "pull troops Afghan from border" if U.S. cuts aid ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan could pull back troops fighting Islamist militants near the Afghan border if the United States cuts off aid, the defense min...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
The occasion of Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Gilani's official visit to China was an opportunity for both parties to stake a claim to a post-United States future as the closest of allies, with a shared commitment to a s...
A federal trial in Chicago provided new details about the November 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, as prosecutors presented evidence obtained through American investigative channels that India had been unable...
Mosques in four cities observed the Namaz-e-Janaza or funeral prayers for the liquidated al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden on Friday, but not all Muslims agreed with the idea behind such invocations. Tagged with jumma, the...
It seemed an innocuous, catch-up phone call. Last year Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the pseudonym for a Pakistani known to U.S. intelligence as the main courier for Osama bin Laden, took a call from an old friend. Where have yo...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The killing of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad — a city known as a haven for retired Pakistani military officers and home to the prestigious Pakistan Military Academy — has placed Pakistan's government and in...
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Within days of Osama bin Laden's death in a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, hundreds of supporters gathered for what was described as the first public rally in the country held in his honor — a demonstration...
It started with a courier's name. Senior White House officials said early Monday that the trail that led to Osama bin Laden began before 9/11, before the terror attacks that brought bin Laden to prominence. The trail war...
Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of al-Qaeda and the man behind the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, is dead. He was killed in a nighttime raid by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs at a compound...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
The Tunisian revolution — the first of what would come to be called the Arab Spring — had a proximate cause that became one of the defining images of 2011: a twenty-six-year-old street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi, unab...
In an ironic way Tehelka has done a service to the nation by showcasing the passionate speech at The Azadi conference organized in Delhi. Going to the capital of India and arguing for secession is itself amazing, what's...
Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...
In the weeks following WikiLeaks' mass release of US diplomatic cables in late 2010, Pakistani media outlets published what they claimed were cables revealing damaging American assessments of India — cables that turned o...
In what must rank among the more audacious acts of industrial espionage and reverse engineering in modern aerospace history, China found itself in the extraordinary position of outselling Russia by offering cheaper copie...
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia repeatedly exhorted the United States to "cut off the head of the snake" by launching military strikes to destroy Iran's nuclear program, according to leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. A copy o...
Mighty US Dollar is about to go the same way of once mighty British Pound. China daily reports that China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Pr...
The relationship between India and China has been described by strategists as "neither friends nor enemies" — a formulation accurate enough to be almost meaningless, since the same phrase could describe the relationship...
Al-Qaeda's decision in late 2010 to appoint a specific operational leader for its Kashmir-focused activities represented, for analysts of South Asian security, a data point in a long-running debate about whether the orga...
Western defense officials and experts were surprised to see more than 25 different Chinese models of the unmanned aircraft, known as UAVs, on display at this week's Zhuhai air show in this southern Chinese city. It was a...
India and Pakistan's aggressive border closing ceremony has been stopped after soldiers complained the high goose-stepping was wrecking their knee joints and causing foot injuries. The move has been agreed by Pakistani a...
When the Chinese conglomerate made its offer for the mid-sized British engineering firm, the British employees gathered in the canteen to hear a reassuring presentation from the new owners' representatives and came away...
In the tea shops and the shikaras on Dal Lake, in the conversations that visitors to Kashmir have been having with local residents for decades, a recurring theme emerges: the sense among many Kashmiris that their relatio...
News of the planned accord follows talks between Russia's Sukhoi and India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in early 2010 to jointly develop a jet dubbed PAK FA, RIA Novosti reported on 27 October. Russia and India...
