South Asia Politics News

This "Grand Jirga"as it is called can actually amend the constitution so if a deal were struck to share power with the Taliban the constitution could be amended to make this legal. However the Taliban have always insisted on foreign...

Two children were killed and five injured in Khar village of Bajaur here on Monday night. Unidentified militants attacked Khar village of Bajaur Agency with heavy and light automatic weapons, local sources said. Many shops were also destroyed in the...

Pakistan ’s Geo TV banned from broadcasting from it Studios in Dubai under pressure from Zardari. In direct negation of democracy and freedom of speech Pakistan’s Zardari has succeeded in getting the Dubai Government to ban broadcasting of a political...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Questions raised by India's prime minister about the control of the Pakistani army and Pakistan's aims in Afghanistan are an excuse for delaying the resumption of talks, Pakistan's foreign minister said on Monday. India's Prime Minister Manmohan...

An excellent idea to look at the US role in Afghan graft. As was the case in Iraq many private contractors have very lucrative contracts that become even more lucrative through corrupt practices. Both Afghan and foreign contractors are no...

NEW DELHI: The Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan Commission of Inquiry of Indian court has indicted former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, current Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani and former BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi,...

RENOWNED singers Shehzad Roy and Jawad Ahmed called on Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif here on Sunday. During the meeting, Shehzad Roy said that after Karachi, the Zindagi Trust would make two schools in Punjab centres of excellence out...

President Zardari is fortunate in that even when the amnesty expires he has immunity from prosecution as president! Benazir Bhutto his wife was also on the list but she was assassinated. Many officials in Zardari's government were named in the...

PRESIDENT PML-N Cultural Wing Punjab and MPA Farah Deeba said beneficiaries of the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) should immediately resign in the larger interest of the country. The PML-N MPA said plunderers of the national exchequer should be brought...

Former army commander general Sarath Fonseka has been named as the common candidate of largest opposition alliance,UNF for the forthcoming presidential election. Deputy General Secretary of main opposition United National Party announced today(23 Nov 2009) that General Fonseka has named...