South Asia Politics News

The United States plans to devote more money and manpower to the ‘information war’ in Afghanistan as Nato-led forces battle an aggressive media campaign by Taliban insurgents, officials said on Friday. US and Nato officials increasingly see public relations as...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday that the United States had had no information about Osama bin Laden in years and still did not know where he was hiding. In an interview to ABC News on Sunday, Mr...

Lahore blasts tally mounts to 37, injures 100 including women when two consecutive blasts ripped through Lahore’s commercial center on Monday, SSP Operations Shafiq Gujar said. Nothing is known so far about the nature of the blasts which occurred at...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked Russia to use its influence with Pakistan to rein in terror groups it says are operating from across the border against New Delhi. In remarks released before his departure on Sunday for Moscow...

A British newspaper citied Taliban warlords has claimed that Osama Bin Laden has fled Pakistan into Afghanistan. The al Qaeda chief escaped as Pakistan stepped up its military campaign on its lawless border area. Qari Hussain - wanted for training...

Iraqi lawmakers finally approved a new version of a stalled electoral law late on Sunday, paving the way for parliamentary polls to be held early next year. "The law has been adopted with near-unanimity," said parliament speaker Iyad al-Samarrai in...

Israel hardened its insistence on Monday that it would do anything it felt necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, just the ultimatum the United States hoped not to hear as it tried to nudge Iran to the...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that prosperity of provinces was essential to strengthen the federation and there was a need to bring provinces closer and remove misunderstandings. The CM was talking to Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani...

I wonder if future historians are going to think that our government was made up of stark raving madmen or rejects from a DNA experiment that went horribly wrong. The Saudis have a "rehab" program for terrorists that they started...

Share He was the junior who won a 2nd national championship, this one his own. And now he is the senior who carry the Gators to 12-0 for just the 2nd time in team history, doing it with the least...