Pakistani Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's plan for resolution of Siachen issue, which includes bilateral withdrawal of troops from the disputed zone, was met with a cautious welcome from India due to the concern on whether Islamabad would authenticate the ground position line at the world's highest battlefield.
As Afghanistan troop withdrawals are scheduled for 2014, Australia has renewed its pledge to adhere to NATO plans. But an abrupt U-turn this week indicates the political difficulties of adhering to an international commitment.
Pakistan has become pariah in the cricketing world.
In an effort to expand its campaign of covert drone strikes in Yemen, the Central Intelligence Agency has asked for the authority to target suspected terrorists without needing to establish their identity first.
China issued a cautious statement that seemed to downplay any threats the missile may pose.
General Ashfaq Kayani, head of Pakistan's military, calls for India and Pakistan to end occupation of the world's highest battlefield
One of the three men who had plotted to blow up the New York City subway system in September of 2009 appeared in Brooklyn Federal Court Tuesday to testify in the trial of co-conspirator Adis Medunjanin.
Recently, India also commissioned a Russian-made nuclear submarine, and it is negotiating with a French company for more than a hundred Rafale fighter jets.
The 50-ton, 20-meter Agni V rocket -- also known as the “China Killer” by Indian media -- could conceivably reach any target in Asia and even parts of Eastern Europe.
The deportation of three wives, eighth daughters and one grandchild of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia was delayed because their passports were not ready, their lawyer said Wednesday.
Livingstone, a self-described Socialist who has often been at odds with the mainstream Labour Party, has a history of espousing far-left views.
''The tests are about trying to create equality with China rather than trying to outdo it,'' an analyst at the New Delhi-based National Maritime Foundation, said, in a published report.
Cancellation of the bilateral agreement may also lead to North Korea seeking to conduct a third nuclear test.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that Sunday's coordinated Taliban attack on Kabul showed a failure by Afghan intelligence and especially by NATO, while Washington signaled the Haqqani group of militants was responsible.
Lord Nazir Ahmed was suspended from the Labour party Monday after reports surfaced that the Muslim life peer offered a bounty for the capture of President Obama and former president George W. Bush.
The prison sentence of would-be shoe bomber Saajid Badat was reduced by two years after he agreed to testify against Adis Medunjanin, one of the men who planned on bombing the New York City subway in 2009.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Karzai went on to praise Afghan forces for handling the situation, saying they had proved themselves capable of defending their country.
A controversial British peer of Pakistani origin, who allegedly announced a £10-million bounty for the capture of US President Barack Obama and his predecessor George Bush, has been suspended from the UK's Labor Party.
New satellite images and data have proved that some glaciers on Asia’s Karakoram mountain range, a part of the Himalayas, have gained ice mass.
The coordinated attacks launched by the Taliban over the weekend on Afghanistan's capital have ended. Security forces unleashed an attack on the Taliban militants near the diplomatic enclave and the parliament before putting an end to the fighting which lasted 18 hours, a spokesman for Kabul's police chief has said.
The latest to have stunned Pakistan's medical fraternity is the birth of a baby boy with six legs in the Sindhi district of Sukkur Friday.
