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Former petroleum minister and senior PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. (Photo: AFP)

India has much to hide, peace elusive till Kashmir issue resolved,...

Pakistan called upon the international community to urge India to 'respect the Human Rights Charter.'

5 Feb 2018 3:32 PM IST

$The government had expressed \concerns\ over the judicial order and resisted complying with it, but the court said there can be no excuses. (Photo: AFP)$ World

Maldives crisis deepens as court orders President Yameen to comply

Dissidents must be released because their trials were politically motivated and flawed, the Supreme Court said in a...

5 Feb 2018 8:53 AM IST

The Pentagon on Friday released the Nuclear Posture Review in which it said that the US wants to prevent China from mistakenly concluding that any use of nuclear weapons, however limited, is acceptable. (Photo: File)

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China shuns US nuclear report, asks to shun 'cold war mentality'

China said that it is firmly opposed' to the NPR published by the US Department of Defence.

4 Feb 2018 6:49 PM IST

Banks received 3 trillion rupees ($44.4 billion) of 500- and 1,000-rupee notes over the last four days.

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Where's all the money going? 7,000 super-rich Indians shifted base in...

India is home to 3,30,400 high net worth individual. Globally, India was ranked 9th in this aspect.

4 Feb 2018 5:44 PM IST

The company makes 400 custom dolls per month, up from 10 in 2009. It began research into sexbots in mid-2016 and now employs 120 people. (Photo: AFP)

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Love in the time of sexbots: Dolls turn on dishwasher, ask to be...

If every nerd buys a sex doll for himself ... that would free a lot of women from these kind of men.'

4 Feb 2018 1:41 PM IST

The arrested fishermen were handed over to the Docks police for further proceedings and investigation. (Photo: AFP)

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47 Indian fishermen arrested by Pakistan for violating territorial...

The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency arrested 47 Indian fishermen and seized nine launches for illegally fishing in...

4 Feb 2018 12:44 PM IST

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11 soldiers dead, 13 hurt in suicide attack in Pak; Taliban claims...

The Pakistan Army's PR wing said in a statement that the 'suicide attack' in the Swat Valley took place at 'army unit...

4 Feb 2018 10:05 AM IST

The 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind further said the Pakistan government should not ignore the atrocities in Kashmir and play its role to help the Kashmiri people secure freedom. (Photo: File)

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Pakistan government, not India, behind my house Arrest: Hafiz Saeed

He had earlier blamed India and the US for his detention saying the Pakistani government had put him under house arrest...

3 Feb 2018 5:09 PM IST

The examination of the crime scene and dead bodies indicated that the death was caused by firearms. Bijarani received one gunshot in the head while his wife three bullets one on head and two on abdomen. (Photo: File/Representational)

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Senior Pak minister shot his wife dead then committed suicide: Police

Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani killed his wife and then committed suicide with the same weapon.

3 Feb 2018 12:09 PM IST

Unveiling his first National Security Strategy, Trump said Pakistan has to intensify its counter-terrorism efforts and help in eliminating terror sanctuaries as America was making massive payments to it every year. (Photo: File)

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Is this decisive' enough for Trump? Pak has killed 17,600 militants

Donald Trump has asked Pakistan to take decisive action' against terror groups operating from its soil.

2 Feb 2018 7:08 PM IST

The figure is the highest estimated death toll yet of violence that erupted on August 25 and triggered a massive refugee crisis, with more than 6, 20,000 Rohingya fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh in three months. (Representational image)

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Reports, mass graves in Myanmar confirm massacre of Rohingyas

The Myanmar government regularly claims such massacres of the Rohingya never happened.

2 Feb 2018 3:35 PM IST

Concerned Chinese citizens affectionately nicknamed The British PM Aunty May and worried if her legs were warm enough in the Beijing cold. (Photo: AP)

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China likens to British PM, worries if Aunty May' is warm enough

The three-day trade visit has seen May earn assurances from China that Brexit will not affect the country's enthusiasm.

2 Feb 2018 10:58 AM IST