Indian authorities have removed a copy of the Holy Quran and the Bible from a new statue of a former president after a complaint by a Hindu nationalist party, officials said Tuesday...
The removal of the books has fuelled a religious row over a carving depicting a Hindu holy book placed next to the statue of Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam at Rameswaram in the southern state of Tamil Nadu...
THERE is a famous spoof of a North Korean news broadcast in which the announcer gleefully tells the viewers that the great country is about to win the football World Cup...
The news report flashes a picture of a scoreboard showing North Korea beating Japan 7-0, the United States 4-0 and China 2-0...
KASUR: The Ganda Singh police arrested a man and registered a blasphemy case against him for allegedly burning a Bible and other religious books in a Church at Sanda Phattak village...
Complainant John Masih stated in the FIR that his wife, Sadiqan Bibi, saw a man torching copies of the Bible and other religious books in the church...
Are frontiers meant to make us safe? Or are they always intended to be insecure, a reminder of our own fragility on the edge of the world?You might ask the 100,000 people of Kilis — both the Turks and the Syrian refugees — since they live on a fault line that stretches from the Crusader castle at Ravandra, with its dentist’s nightmare of jagged, broken walls high above the mountains, to the narrow streets of the old town which is enduring a...
Liars cannot lead a nation, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told a charged crowd in Kahuta on Friday, days after the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) planned 'lockdown' of Islamabad on Nov 2 turned into a 'thanksgiving' rally...
"They say 'Pakistan is progressing'," he said in a veiled reference to the opposition...
Afghanistan's Hezb-e Islami party leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Thursday denied having anything to do with either of Daesh, Taliban or Al-Qaeda, claiming that the linking of his party workers with the trio is a "defamation campaign by some liars," Tolo News has reported...
“It is just part of the defamation by some liars," the former two-time Afghan prime minister was quoted as saying by Tolo at a press conference in Kabul...
Israeli scholars have pieced together and deciphered one of two previously unread manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls more than half a century since their discovery, an Israeli university said...
The more than 60 tiny fragments of parchment bearing encrypted Hebrew writing had previously been thought to come from a variety of different scrolls, a Haifa University spokesman told AFP on Sunday...
WASHINGTON: Days before crucial talks with the US defence secretary, Pakistan has welcomed an American offer to take action against militants involved in cross-border raids from the Afghan soil, the Voice of America radio service reported on Wednesday...
The official US news outlet also reported that Pakistan believed the US offer “augurs well” for regional counterterrorism cooperation...
KARACHI: Pakistan 2 overcome fighting Pakistan 1 by 5-4 frames in agonising all-Pakistan final played for the first time in any global event to win the IBSF Team Event Snooker Championship in the Egyptian city of Hurghadha on Thursday evening...
According to information available here, the final that was stretched to limits, lasted for four-and-a-half hours with the country’s second string getting the better of top outfit 76-8, 74-34,...
As Partition approaches in 1947, large convoys of Sikh and Hindu refugees head towards East Punjab, and Muslims flee to the two wings of Pakistan...
It is estimated that over 15 million people were displaced during the Partition of the Indian subcontinent and two million lost their lives in the ensuing communal violence...
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) rallied on the post-election positivity with the benchmark KSE-100 index gaining 750 points to close at 42,089 points...
The index gained over 760 points within minutes of opening, to trade sideways for the most part of rest of the session...
The timing of today's Pak-India clash could not have been better...
Just a day or so after diplomatic relations between the two nations went kaput, their cricket teams are set to face each other, which gives this already tensed fixture an added oomph...
LAHORE: Needless reduction in the number of athletes in Pakistan’s contingent by Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) for the ongoing 13th South Asian Games in Nepal has affected Pakistan’s chances of winning more medals in the mega event...
In a press release, the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) stated on Friday that while small countries like the host Nepal (596 athletes), Sri Lanka (564 athletes), Bangladesh (470 athletes) and India (487...
As Test cricket returns to Pakistan after over a decade, Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bat against Pakistan in the first Test at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Wednesday...
For the hosts, Abid Ali and Usman Shinwari are making their Test debuts today...
PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday once again hit out at the government over inflation and allegedly usurping the rights of provinces, saying Prime Minister Imran Khan had promised a Naya Pakistan "but it turned out to be more expensive Pakistan"...
He was speaking in Hyderabad where leaders of the 10-party opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), had gathered for its latest power show against the...