Most Pakistanis see India as a bigger threat than the Taliban and the Al Qaeda and disapprove of the US military operation that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a new poll.Although Al Qaeda leader bin Laden has not been well-liked in recent years,…

Forty four people were killed and eight injured after a Tu-134 passenger aircraft crash landed in Russia’s northern republic of Karelia, a spokesman for the Russian Emergencies Ministry said Tuesday.The plane en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk crash landed on a highway one km…

At least 28 Taliban militants and eight soldiers were killed in two major clashes with the Pakistani security forces near the Afghan border, Xinhua reported Sunday.A two-day military operation jointly launched by the Pakistan Army, Frontier Corps, police and the air force in Mohmand…

China Friday raised the alert for floods to the highest level as heavy rains pounded the central and southern provinces, forcing the evacuation of more than half a million people, a media report said.Over 555,000 people were evacuated from their homes in seven provinces…

Calling Islamabad “a conjoined twin”, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that the Indian presence in his country is not aimed at “brother” Pakistan.“Indian presence in Afghanistan is in no way and cannot be in any manner used against Pakistan,” Karzai told Pakistan Television…

At least 16 people were killed and more than 40 injured in a suspected suicide bombing that ripped through a bakery in a cantonment area in Pakistan late Sunday, a media report said.The bakery in Nowshera city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was filled with…

Relations between Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and US spy agency CIA – that were strained after the secret mission in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden – have now improved, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Sunday.Talking to journalists, Gilani said Pakistan has made…

Pakistan has finalised a budget of Rs.3.85 trillion for fiscal 2011-12, with Rs.495 billion being earmarked for defence, a media report said Friday.Dawn reported that the budget for the fiscal beginning July 1 envisages a revenue of Rs.2.78 trillion and a fiscal deficit of…

Putting Islamabad squarely in the dock, Pakistani American terror suspect David Coleman Headley has testified that he dealt with senior government officials and terrorists in Pakistan a month before the November 2008 Mumbai attack, the three-day siege of India’s financial capital he said he was…

Despite Pakistan’s warnings that it would not tolerate another US raid, the US has made clear that it would go after the Al Qaeda leadership anywhere in the world.“We’ve made it clear to people around the world that if we locate someone who has…