Pakistan launched its nuclear weapons programme after its 1971 military defeat to India in order to 'augment its inferior conventional forces,' a Congressional report has said."Pakistan's nuclear energy programme dates back to the 1950s, but it was the loss of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in a bloody war with India that probably triggered a political decision in January 1972 (just one month later) to begin a secret nuclear weapons programme," the Congressional report said.
With anti-India talk shows being beamed regularly on Pakistani channels, anti-India blogs clocking hits in cyberspace and open letters to Indians getting several columns in newspapers, a newly formed Pakistani web group to condemn the Mumbai attacks has come as a breath of fresh air.
All the glitz and tamasha of Indian weddings on the big screen.
Even as Pakistan continues to claim that India has not provided enough evidence in the Mumbai terror attack case, Interpol has suggested otherwise by issuing an arrest warrant against Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed.
Pakistani authorities on Sunday released dramatic security camera footage of the suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that depicted the final minutes before a truck packed with 600 kg of explosives blew up, causing widespread destruction.The footage captured by the Marriott's close-circuit security cameras showed guards running for cover as the six-wheeled truck, packed with explosives hidden under construction material, rammed into a retractable barricade.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday issued a joint statement after the completion of their dialogue, on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned summit, at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt.Gilani described the talks, the second top-level meeting between India and Pakistan since the terror attack on Mumbai in November last year, as 'free and frank'. Terrorism is a threat to both countries, said the joint statement.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday adjourned till Wednesday the hearing of a review petition challenging the death sentence given to Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh for his alleged involvement in the bomb blasts.
England recorded their lowest total in a Twenty20 international as South Africa bowled them out for just 111 before easing to a seven-wicket win in the World Cup second round match on Thursday.
In a tit-for-tat response, Sports Ministry has virtually prompted the Government to pull out from upcoming sporting events in India, who decided against touring Pakistan for a cricket series citing a diplomatic stand-off following the recent Mumbai terror attacks.
A Pakistani court has admitted a petition seeking registration of a case against the private Geo News channel for beaming a report that said Ajmal Amir Iman, the lone terrorist captured for the Mumbai attacks, is a resident of a village in Punjab province.
Pakistan on Friday sought to assuage Afghanistan's concern over the former's talks with local tribal leaders, stating that the country has not been negligent of its obligation towards peace and stability in Afghanistan.Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who made a day-long visit to Kabul, said his country has not forgone the military option while pursing talks with the Taliban, aimed at ending militancy in the northwestern tribal areas.
"We have asked for the government clearance and will decide once it comes," Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Shashank Manohar told Reuters.
The teenage girl who was filmed being flogged by the Taliban in Pakistan's restive Swat Valley has denied that the incident ever occurred in a statement made to government officials, media reports said today.
The death of 11 French engineers in Karachi and Pakistan's secret plot to destabilise India.
In his book Shadow War -- The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir, Pakistani journalist Arif Jamal, unveils the involvement of Pakistan in the insurgency and provides some new and quite startling details of the jihad that Pakistan waged against India in Kashmir.
During a meeting in Islamabad, Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik told Indian High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal about the inquiry being conducted by a three-member team into the information provided by New Delhi on the Mumbai attacks and other aspects of Pakistan's probe, official sources said. Pal, who sought the meeting with Malik, told PTI that the interior ministry chief had briefed him on the steps "already taken by the government by Pakistan.
Observing that Pakistan has taken the United States for a ride with massive aids for its support in the war on terror, an influential lawmaker in Washington D.C has asked the Obama administration to make sure taxpayers' money provided in assistance is accounted for and does not go down the drain.
It is understood that Harry, an Army Lieutenant in the Household Cavalry's Blues and Royals division, is very much unlikely to face formal charges and could escape with a little more than a 'dressing down' from his current Commanding Officer, a British daily said.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader S S Ahluwalia in a coversation with rediff.com has ridiculed Pakistani claims that it has arrested a resident of Kolkata for his alleged role in the Lahore car bomb blast .
The drug lord Paki Mian was admitted to Guwahati Medical College Hospital on December 19, as per the Guwahati Jail's medical officer's orders.Mian is wanted in three cases of murder and 21 cases relating to drug smuggling. He managed to drug the two armed Assam police guards before escaping from the hospital bed, much to the embarrassment of the Assam police.
The time is ripe for reduction of troops in a phased manner and moving the rest of the army units on internal security remit to the Line of Control.
The actress makes her comeback with Toh Baat Pakki.
Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sand sculpture to pay tribute to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto at a beach in Puri.
'Everybody knows that any solution would upstage and expose official bungling.' 'That is something Mrs Sitharaman's masters will not allow.' 'No matter how high the cost in human misery, they will squander a fortune on the unnecessary Central Vista extravaganza,' notes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Three British teenagers have pleaded guilty to the sensational killing of an Indian sailor in a racially motivated attack on a ship in the United Kingdom in October 2007. Gregory Fernandes, 32, was set upon by a group of teenagers who boasted that they wanted to 'beat a Paki' when they saw him and his colleague, Vinod P, return to their ship near Southamton after a drink in a local hotel in Fawley.
Though the main aim of both the LeT and the Inter-Services Intelligence was to strike at India and create maximum destruction, under no circumstances did they want a Pakistan link cropping up in the end.
Asking Pakistanis to desist from militant acts outside the country, President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday fixed the blame of a number of recent blasts and suicide strikes in the country on foreign terrorists.
While India captain Anil Kumble will surely play at his favourite ground, the Kotla, in the third Test against the Aussies, Harbhajan Singh is suffering from a toe injury and there are question marks regarding his fitness.
Lauding the Sri Lankan Cricket's (SLC) pathbreaking move of uplifting the ban on players who featured in the ICL, the former Pakistan captain and coach of the rebel league team Lahore Badshahs, Moin Khan, has urged the PCB to follow the same suit.
Pakistan's ruling PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is expected to meet his rival, Pakistan Muslim League-N president and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's brother Shahbaz, in London to discuss modalities for the latter's return to the country ahead of the general election. Hussain is currently in London for a medical check-up but sources in his Pakistan Muslim League-Qaid party said he had been tasked with finalising the details for Shahbaz's return to Pakistan.
People of Pakistan will not accept a 'rigged victory' for the pro-Musharraf parties.
The Indian skippers beat South Africa in straight sets to make the grade.
This was the third launch of a ballistic missile in as many weeks.
"They will come here by tonight and undergo the fitness test tomorrow morning," team manager Lalchand Rajput told newspersons at the Eden Gardens.
Regarding Pakistan's role, he said Bangladesh was being developed as a new base for its 'anti-India operations' and Pakistan has reportedly 'shifted almost 200 terrorist training camps from Pak-occupied Kashmir to Bangladesh'.
Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon had met his Pakistani counterpart Riaz Mohd Khan in Islamabad in March this year.
US State Department Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey ruled out a deal with Pakistan.
7/11: Home secy given evidence of Pak hand
A 64-run victory over Bangladesh kept the Islanders in the race for a semi-final berth in the Twenty20 World Cup.
Baig is suspected to be associated with some Pakistan-based terrorist organisation and has also undergone training in Pakistan.
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