Islamabad: A 14-year-old Pakistani Hindu girl, whose abduction triggered reports of a planned exodus is now said to have been converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man. Her family, however, says she has been forced to do so. "Abductors have forced her to convert and marry. She can't give up on her religion and is coerced into doing it. If we don't get her back, we will leave...
10:50 PM, Aug 11, 2012
A batch of 250 Hindus on a pilgrimage to India were initially stopped at the border by Pakistani authorities before being allowed to cross over. ...
11:15 PM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian High Commission in Islamabad and Pakistan's Interior Ministry has denied media reports that 250 Hindus were planning to flee the country. However, some Pakistan Hindus who have come to India as pilgrims say they do not want to return to Pakistan. "I will ask the Indian government to allow me to stay here," one of the pilgrims said. "I will ask the Indian govt to grant...
01:20 PM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: An inactive website of the Southern Railways www.southernrailway.gov.in has been defaced apparently by Pakistani hackers. The hacker group that calls itself 'Pak Cyber Pyrates' replaced the home page of the website with a page with content that denounces India's role in Kashmir. The official Southern Railways website moved to a new domain www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in back in 2010. Inactive websites are a soft target for hackers as they are not...
10:15 AM, Aug 07, 2012
London: The girl was murdered by her Pakistani parents for her Western ways. And it was her little sister who bravely told jurors how her mother and father suffocated the 17-year-old with a plastic bag - gripping testimony that led to her parents' murder conviction on Friday. Justice Roderick Evans sentenced Iftikhar, 52, and Farzana Ahmed, 49, to life in prison for killing their daughter, Shafilea, in 2003. The couple...
07:49 AM, Aug 04, 2012
Lahore: Leaders of religious and extremist groups, including JuD chief Hafiz Saeed, have strongly reacted to India's decision to allow investments by Pakistanis, claiming that the move is part of a plan to destabilise Pakistan. Saeed called on "patriotic citizens and businessmen not to fall into the Indian trap." He claimed Pakistanis would reject the Indian offer as they would prefer to invest in their own country, and warned the...
11:43 AM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: India may allow cross examination of witnesses by a Pakistani judicial commission set up for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Home Secretary RK Singh said New Delhi may consider such a request from Islamabad as it wanted conviction of those who were involved in 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai and are now in Pakistan. "We had requested our High Commissioner in Pakistan to approach the government there and...
07:21 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Jammu: Two Pakistani infiltrators, riding a motorcycle, on Sunday "inadvertently" crossed over Indo-Pak border and were arrested close to a forward Border Out Post (BoP) in Jammu district. The two youth crossed the Zeroline along International Border (IB) and landed up close to three-tier border fencing in Tubewell-4 BoP in Karotana Khurd forward belt in RS Pura this morning, BSF officials said. Alert BSF troops observed their movement and challenged...
08:47 PM, Jul 29, 2012
Jammu: A Pakistani Army soldier has been arrested in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir. The soldier identified as Arif Ali of 25 Frontier Force of the Pakistani Army has been handed over to Jammu and Kashmir Police and is being interrogated. A senior Indian Army officer said that Ali was apprehended by the Indian Army along the Line of Control. Pakistani currency worth Rs 13,000 and two SIM cards have been...
01:48 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Islamabad: The emergency landing of an Air India plane in Nawabshah was handed professionally by India and Pakistan and indicated progress in the relations between the neighbours, prominent Pakistani newspapers said on Thursday. The emergency landing of an Air India plane in Nawabshah was "accomplished with a minimum of fuss and stuffy protocol", said The News International while Dawn said the incident pointed to "some progress" in the ties between...
11:31 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Lahore: A teenage girl in Pakistan's Punjab province allegedly shot and killed her father for scolding her for having a relationship with a boy of her neighbourhood, police said today. A 16-year-old daughter of Muhammad Shabbir of Bilal Town in Faisalabad, 100 km from Lahore, allegedly had a relationship with a boy named Muhammad Basharat. "After learning about this, Shabbir asked her not to see the boy anymore," police officer...
01:21 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Mumbai: A group of activists working towards improving India-Pakistan relations on Monday wrote to Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai ahead of his meeting with his counterpart in Pakistan and appealed that he take up the issue of releasing Indian fishermen. "With regard to Mathai's meeting with Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani in New Delhi July 4-5, we have written to him requesting him to address issues that have been troubling...
07:37 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Mumbai: If only wishes were horses! For a group of singers from Pakistan, who have lent their soulful voices to some of the chartbuster tracks of Saif Ali Khans latest film, their dreams of coming to India were crushed. Reason being that the Indian government didnt grant them a visa. If all had gone well, the singers would have been part of an event this month in Mumbai to officially...
01:47 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Mumbai: Pakistani model-turned-actress Veena Malik was expected to find her prince charming on 'Veena Ka Swayamvar', but the reality show was aborted after the Imagine channel decided to shut down its operations. Veena says she is not upset as she knows that her marriage plans are doomed. "You know, my wedding dates have been getting ready ever since I was 14. My dad wanted me to get married since then....
03:23 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden faced accusations of corruption and other wrongdoing long before he was captured by Pakistani intelligence agents and then jailed for 33 years for treason. In interviews over the weekend, several current and former Pakistani officials described the doctor, Shakil Afridi, as a hard-drinking womaniser who had faced accusations of sexual assault, harassment and stealing. They said his main...
12:30 PM, May 29, 2012
Islamabad: Nearly 50 days after an avalanche slammed into a high-altitude Pakistan Army camp in the Siachen sector near Indian border, search teams have found the body of one of the 139 people who were buried under dozens of feet of snow in the world's highest battleground. The body was identified as that of Mohammad Hussain, one of the 128 soldiers from the Northern Light Infantry who were buried by...
12:37 PM, May 27, 2012
Peshawar: A Pakistani doctor who helped the US track down Osama bin Laden was convicted of high treason on Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington. Shakil Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where US commandos...
05:56 PM, May 23, 2012
Shahid Afridi on Tuesday said he finally received his dues from the Bangladesh Premier League in full. ...
11:44 PM, May 22, 2012
Voicing concern over problems faced by minority Hindus in Pakistan, India reminded Islamabad of its responsibility to discharge its Constitutional obligations towards its citizens. ...
11:57 PM, May 09, 2012
In the first incident of its kind, two women BSF constables shot dead a Pakistani intruder on the India-Pakistan border in Punjab. The incident took place at 1.30 pm on Sunday, April 29, near an observation post at Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. The women constables Arti Kaur and Rina Kaur belong to the 74 battalion of the Border Security Force posted at Dera Baba Nanak. Constable...
05:20 PM, May 02, 2012
