Stung by Sonia Gandhi's criticism of L K Advani, the BJP on Friday hit back at her, saying it needs no lessons in nationalism from the Congress chief who is yet to "fully learn and appreciate" the core ethos of Indian civilisation. The party said the Congress was "solely focussed" on deflecting attention from core national issues like price rise, food security and national security by harping on the Kandahar hijacking episode.
President Hamid Karzai has wondered why Islamabad allowed Indian diplomatic mission on its soil if it was a security threat for them.
Shahid Azmi, the defence lawyer in the 11/7 blasts case, defends the accused while damning the police and the investigation.
Chidambaram pitched for greater autonomy for the restive Jammu and Kashmir yet again on Sunday, drawing stinging criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party, with Union minister Smriti Irani calling it "shocking and shameful".
The film about a plane hijacking will be ready by November.
A spokesman for Taliban, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, rang an international news agency to confirm that the Taliban had kidnapped the four men.
Condemning the terror attack on the Pathankot air force base, China said it may have been launched "intentionally" to disrupt the momentum in Indo-Pak ties.
Musharraf also demanded that coalition fighting Taliban help spread economic development in Pashtun areas to wean them away from the Taliban and ensure that they do not join them.
Pakistan has taken too much of a chance with Pulwama - with the wrong government in India, and at the wrong time.
Shah credited Savarkar for calling the 1857 rebellion as India's first independence struggle.
The key planner Rauf used to be a part of JeM.
This is the third such incident related to targeting of an Indian in that country in the last four months.
Bharat Kumar is the second Indian to be killed in two months by the Taliban.
Suspected Taliban fighters raided a police post in southern Afghanistan on Friday, leaving seven policemen and five of the attackers dead.
A taxi hit the landmine said to have been planted by Taliban rebels on a remote road.
Amjad Farooqi was wanted in connection with an assassination attempt on president General Pervez Musharraf last December, and was indicted in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
'ISI-backed jihadi groups like the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Tayiba are now prepared to cross the International Border and attack targets in Punjab at will,' says Ambassador G Parthasarathy, India's former high commissioner to Pakistan.
Internal files from eight newly disclosed Army criminal investigations indicate a pattern of abuse at US detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In a major crackdown to eliminate the terrorists' sanctuaries, Afghanistan has carried out three air strikes within a week in Kunar province, bordering Pakistan, inflicting heavy casualties on Lashkar-e-Tayiba terror group.
'Trump's new discovery is that Pakistan and its army are virtually god's gift to mankind.' 'They are required to facilitate a relatively orderly American exit from Afghanistan,' points out Ambassador G Parthasarathy, who served as India's high commissioner to Pakistan.
Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar and his brother Abdul Rauf Asghar, mastermind of IC-814 hijack case, are among four persons identified by Indian intelligence agencies as 'handlers' behind the recent Pathankot attack.
On Friday night, Taliban attackers detonated a car bomb outside the guesthouse and stormed the building, and then exchanged fire with security forces, officials said.
'Though the prime minister has talked somewhat needlessly of pilot projects and the real stuff to come, India cannot be sure of a clean victory in any full-fledged conflict -- even if there is reason to engage in such,' points out T N Ninan.
Hein Kiessling has the kind of access in Pakistan that journalists (and spies) would die for, says Kanika Datta.
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