New Delhi, August 16: In a goodwill gesture on India’s Independence Day, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced that India will issue medical visas to Pakistani patients whose requests are pending with the Indian government. In a statement issued in New Delhi Swaraj said that the decision to grant medical visas was being done […]
Washington, August 16 (Reuters and other sources): The United States on Wednesday said it has banned Hizbul Mujahideen, the largest of the anti-Indian Kashmiri militant groups fighting in the state divided between Pakistan and India. The US Treasury Department, in a statement on its website, said it had listed the Pakistan-based group as a counter-designated […]
Unbiased at least he was when he arrived on his mission, Having never set eyes on the land he was called to partition Between two peoples fanatically at odds, With their different diets and incompatible gods. “Time,” they had briefed him in London, “is short. It’s too late For mutual reconciliation or rational debate: The […]
New Delhi, August 11 (newsin.asia): The Government of India on Friday sacked the controversial film censor board chief, Pahlaj Nihalani, before the end of his term in January 2018, and appointed in his place the renowned lyricist and advertising honcho Prasoon Joshi. 1971 born Joshi is the CEO of McCann World group India and Chairman (Asia […]
By Yasmin Khan/Dawn Debates have been raging recently about the role of South Asian soldiers in the Second World War. The lack of Asian soldiers in the film Dunkirk was pointed out by a writer named Manimugdha S Sharma in the Times of India and debate quickly snowballed. The role of the British Raj in the Second World War is certainly […]
India, China and Pakistan have indigenous arms industries in order to sustain their independence and assert their power in the region and beyond, but they, China included, lag behind the West in terms of organizational structure and technology, writes P.K.Balachandran in www.southasianmonitor.com. Indeed, all three countries have come a long way from total dependence on […]
Islamabad, August 6 (newsin.asia): Muslim majority Pakistan has got its first Hindu Minister in twenty years. The new Prime Minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, has appointed Darshan Lal to lead coordination between four provinces of the Muslim majority country, a government official told Reuters news agency. The Late Rana Chandra Singh ,served in the […]
Chanakya or Kautilya, is just one of many people Pakistan has made a pariah without realizing what they stood for, writes Saif Tahir in Dawn after a visit to Taxila or Takshashila, the birthplace of Chanakya in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunwala province. When nearby residents tire of the daily grind, and when the temperatures soar in the […]
Islamabad, July 28: In a landmark ruling on the Panamagate case, the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for not being honest to the nation and the courts. Sharif has since resigned. The court also removed Finance Minister Ishaq Dar from his office as he knew about Prime Minister Sharif’s […]
Multan, July 27 (Reuters): Pakistani police have arrested 25 members of an informal village council accused of ordering the rape of a 16-year-old girl as revenge for her brother’s alleged sexual assault of another girl. The Supreme Court also requested a report on the case, which echoed a notorious case from 2002 in which another […]