Islamabad, January 24 The foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India are expected to meet next month, a senior official has said. There was an understanding between the two sides for a meeting in February, but its dates have not been finalised, the official said on Saturday. The January 15Read More

Manama, January 24 India and the Arab League on Sunday vowed to combat terrorism and called for developing a strategy to “eliminate” its sources and extremism, including its funding, as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj made a strong pitch for delinking religion from terrorism. While addressing the 1st Ministerial MeetingRead More

London, January 24 The 100 government files declassified by the Indian government confirm that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose did not live in the former Soviet Union in or after 1945, said a UK website set up to chart the last days of the nationalist leader. The Russian government informed theRead More

Washington: Just ten days before the first critical nominating contests, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has taken a commanding lead in Iowa while Bernie Sanders has overtaken Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race. Real estate mogul Trump led Texas Senator Ted Cruz 37 percent to 26 percent in a newRead More

BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that Germany will make sure that Turkey received scheduled aid by the European Union to cope with the migrant crisis. “One part of our EU-Turkey agenda was that also Europe contributes its share to improve the living situation of Syrians living in TurkeyRead More

Attica: At least 44 people including 20 children have died after their boats sank on their way from Turkey to Greece on Friday, with dozens of other migrants reported missing, coastguard officials in Greece and Turkey said. The Greek coastguard said they had rescued 74 people after two boats ranRead More

Islamabad: The Taliban faction behind a massacre at a university in northwest Pakistan this week issued a video message Friday vowing to target schools throughout the country, calling them “nurseries” for people who challenge Allah`s law. The video, which spread rapidly on Facebook but was not released on official mediaRead More

Moscow: Andrei Lugovoy, one of two Russians named on Thursday by a judge led-British inquiry as the killers of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, said the accusations against him were “absurd”, the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying. The inquiry into the 2006 killing in London concluded that President VladimirRead More

Peshawar, At least 25 people were killed and about 50 others injured today after heavily-armed Taliban militants stormed a prestigious university and opened indiscriminate fire on students and teachers in Pakistan’s restive northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The gunmen entered the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda district of the province, 50 kmRead More

WASHINGTON — After seven years, 2 million-plus deportations, two executive actions and 720,000 “Dreamers,” the bottom line on President Barack Obama’s immigration record still remains an open question for many immigrants and their advocates. In the end, the Supreme Court may fill in the blank. By agreeing to hear aRead More