On the sidelines of the SCO visit in Ufa, the two heads met and decided to revive dialogue and find ways to expedite the trial of the Mumbai attacks.
His ministers's conduct may lead to a distancing between the army leadership and Prime Minister Imran Khan reveals Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
Nina Davuluri proves once again that she is much more than just a pretty face.
In the final part of a three-part series on America's war on substandard Indian generic drugs, Aziz Haniffa speaks about American doctors' contempt for drugs exported from India and the ineptitude of the US Food and Drug Administration to stop the menace.
Ranbaxy whistleblower Dinesh Thakur tells Aziz Haniffa that a formal Congress hearing on spurious drugs from India is being sought.
The summary is presently under review by the Finance Ministry that does not find the Foreign Ministry's proposal convincing enough to be given a serious thought, the newspaper quoted officials as saying.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the top 10 flops of 2000.
'The joke has gone on for far too long already. How about a happy ending?' asks Sukanya Verma.
The first-ever Congressional Diwali celebration on Capitol Hill on Tuesday evening was a spectacular event by any measure, with the House of Representatives Rayburn Building lobby overflowing with over 500 members of the Indian American community, scores of United States lawmakers, administration officials and well-wishers ranging from leading American business and industry and policy wonks and think tank heads from some of Washington's premier institutions. Aziz Haniffa reports
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His music was loved by film personalities and political leaders alike, and they took to social media to offer their condolences.
"Pakistan is fighting a war against terrorism on principles. India blaming Pakistan for Mumbai bomb blasts is regrettable," Musharraf said during a meeting with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
Major Sandeep Kumar,Captain Manik Sharma and Naik Arvind Singh Chauhan gunned down the the poster boy of resurgent militancy in the Kashmir valley.
Aziz told the media in Islamabad that he has advised Musharraf not to proclaim emergency in the country.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Commander of 4 Corps (Lahore) Lt Gen Mohammed Aziz and Chief of General Staff Gen Mohammed Yusuf had run a proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s, a new book has claimed.
As suspense mounted over holding of the Indo-Pakistan National Security Advisor-level talks after both sides hardened their positions on the issue of Kashmiri separatists, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday called a press conference in New Delhi.
Sonu Nigam received support from his colleagues in the film industry.
'Bhutto has several corruption cases against her. We have given immunity to her and the Supreme Court is looking at whether this law meets the requirements of the Constitution. The people have had a strong reaction to removal of corruption cases against her," Minister Shaukat Aziz said.
Asked if Narendra Modi as prime minister or for that matter the advent of a BJP government would lead to a different approach in dealing with the jihadi threat in India, Stephen Tankel, one of America's leading experts on terrorism in South Asia felt it is "highly unlikely because of the lack of coordination between intelligence agencies and inter-state police cooperation, as states zealously guarded their authority and prerogatives".'
Claiming that India is yet to share with Pakistan any "tangible" information from the probe into the Samjhauta Express blasts, Islamabad on Saturday vowed to bring to book the perpetrators of terror attack.
India should remember that Pakistan-Saudi Arabia relations will remain special due, not least, to bonds of all Muslims with The Holy Land. They would also be strategic enough, irrespective of whether the ambassador is a military man or a career civilian appointee., notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
The bomber tried to hurl a grenade, which exploded at his feet, killing him on the spot.
When Rice sat down with Aziz during her visit to Pakistan in March, 2005, the Pakistan Premier, who fancied himself as a ladies man, puffed himself up and held forth in what he obviously was his seductive baritone.
She said she had been hurt by the way her adventure in France had been sensationalised.
Images and summary of all the World Cup 2022 qualifiers played across continents on Tuesday.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Islamabad would provide credit to Nepal to buy defence equipment from Pakistan.
The two leaders, while reviewing the progress of the ongoing peace process, are also believed to have discussed Siachen and Sir Creek.
'The story is for the first time, Silicon Valley is mobilising locally to have a voice in American politics. The national Asian American-South Asian Diaspora with the Swadesh Chatterjees and Deepak Chopras and Vinod Khoslas, and Romesh Wadhwanis, and Arshad Zakarias and Mahinder Taks are mobilising in a way that has never happened before.' Ro Khanna, who hopes to represents Silicon Valley in the United States Congress, speaks to Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa.
o dates have been fixed in this regard yet. The ministry of external affairs is expected to make a formal statement in this regard on Thursday.
"As the investigation into the incident progresses, we should also be informed about this," he said at a fuction held at the Governor House in Karachi to distribute compensation cheques to the next of the kin of the victims of the train tragedy.
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets President Obama at the White House on Friday, September 27, former US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the man who set the ball rolling in transforming the United States-India relationship, tells Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa why he believes US-India ties are 'alive and healthy.'
Katrina Lantos Swett, chair, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, tells Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa that the USCIRF will be uncompromising about denying Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi entry into the US.
Former US ambassador to India Frank G Wisner says Americans are going to confront the fact that as prime minister -- if that's where Narendra Modi ends up -- they are going to have to do business with him because the relationship with India is too important to leave it on the altar of disagreements over one man. Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa reports from Washington, DC.
'Crucial intelligence was obtained by a R&AW operative from a couple of moles inside the camps four days before the Balakot operation.'
The programme would begin on January 25 with a ghazal performance by Talat Aziz, who would be accompanied by renowned tabla maestro, Jeetu Shankar.
The Council of Indian Muslims in UK has also condemned the blasts.
