At a talk organised by South Asia Centre, London School of Economics' (LSE) Pakistan Development Society and the South Asia Future Forum in London, the two former spy chiefs agreed that cricket can serve as a peacemaker and can be helpful for the national interest of both countries.
A high-tech Chinese research ship docked at the strategically important Hambantota port departed from Sri Lankan waters on Monday after a controversial six-day visit.
Fighter's distressing lack of thrills and sizzle reduces the exercise to an excuse for tedious amounts of Pakistan bashing, observes Sukanya Verma.
'It's scary to know that those arrested passed on sketches of warships etc to the ISI.' 'Who are the people behind the masks? Are they hiding in our various defence units?'
The 50 per cent increase ordered by Bush in the CIA's clandestine operations calls for a new training facility and aggressive recruiting or lowering the quality of people, a former CIA official said.
The Union home ministry has alerted the defence ministry about an alleged spy ring being run by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, which is trying to use ex-servicemen in the garb of providing job opportunities and financial aid.
There are some interesting sequels coming up, with one magic name attached to them: Ayan Mukerji!
Kangana Ranaut seems to be in fine form in Tejas, observes Mayur Sanap.
Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port authorities said the high-tech Chinese research vessel that was to dock there on Thursday won't reach the port as scheduled, according to a media report, days after India expressed security concerns over its presence in the island nation.
Sports drama, spy thriller, haunted houses and many more films and shows you can catch on OTT this week.
China's embassy in Colombo has sought an urgent meeting with senior Sri Lankan authorities after Colombo sought a deferment of the planned docking of a high-tech Chinese research vessel at the strategic Hambantota port over which India raised concerns, sources said.
Samantha and Vijay Deverakonda gave Hyderabad an evening to remember during a live concert on Independence Day, promoting their upcoming film, Kushi.
China has spent half a century plotting to defeat America and in some respects, the Chinese military is already at par with the US armed forces, Haley said in a major policy speech on the economy in the key early primary State of New Hampshire on Friday.
The advance booking so far indicates that Tiger 3 will take the best opening ever when it comes to films that have released on Diwali.
Germany's foreign ministry has called in British Ambassador Simon MacDonald to demand an explanation over allegations that his mission in Berlin is operating a "secret listening post" to spy on the German government.
During his joint interrogation by Delhi Police and intelligence agencies, expelled Pakistani High Commission staffer Mehmood Akhtar had claimed that 16 other employees of the diplomatic mission were in touch with spies for extracting sensitive information and documents pertaining to army and the Border Security Force deployment, said a senior police officer privy to the probe.
It is quite likely that the Pakistanis are cleverly using the Jadhav card to derail the outcome of the JIT process.
Kashmir Singh slammed the Central governments that were in power during his imprisonment for not providing financial support to his family. Punjab chief minister Prakash Singh Badal announced a monthly pension of Rs 5000 for Kashmir Singh and his wife, a government job for his son, and that the government would bear the expenses of the construction of his new house.
He has been widely named as the author of the memo, published in some US media containing extensive allegations about Trump's personal life and his campaign's relationship with the Russian state.
Interrogation of the last three accused arrested in the suspected ISI-linked espionage racket by Delhi Police brought to fore a conflict within the spying ring which might have led to its busting.
Germany's foreign intelligence agency helped the Central Investigation Agency track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, before the Al Qaeda leader was killed by United States special forces in May 2011, according to a media report today.
The British government has been accused of spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, sparking an outrage among civil rights campaigners in the country.
Police claimed to have arrested a suspected Chinese spy from Mcleodganj in Dharamsala. Pema Tsering of Tibetan origin was arrested on Wednesday evening on the complaint of Tibetan government's security agencies in Dharamsala, Balbir Thakur, superintendent of police, Kangra said.
An Army man and his relative have been arrested in Kutch district by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on charges of spying and passing on Indian Army's confidential documents to Pakistan-based intelligence agencies, ATS officials said.
A federal said he was told by a senior intelligence officer, just days before the blast, that the service feared Sikh extremists might blow up a plane at some point.
In yet another show of its 'barbaric' justice, the Taliban blew up two alleged United States spies in a village near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan in Pakistan.
Shoojit Sircar's Madras Cafe, starring John Abraham as a RAW agent, is a political espionage thriller.
A suspected Pakistani spy was on Thursday arrested from Indo-Pak international border in Rajasthan, police said. The arrested, identified as Ismail Khan, used to work as an Inter-Services Intelligence agent, a senior police officer said.
Mosab Yousef, the son of a founder of the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, says he was a spy for Israel's Shin Bet for a decade as he felt that the spy agency had more morality than his own people.
Chinese ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong said that China was happy that the matter was dealt with and Beijing and Colombo jointly safeguard each other's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.
Deepa Gahlot lists some 2023 movies that you need to watch if you haven't already.
Siddharth Anand's artistry bespeaks an upbringing filled with GI Joes, plastic combat boots and plastic bayonets, fake punching noises and fake sounds of gunshots, rudely interrupted by an adult voice saying, 'Beta, all this is good, but try bringing in some feelings too', observes Sreehari Nair.
The ISI was taking no chances and wanted no repeat of Pulwama; it wanted to make it clear at a political level it was not involved with the revenge attack being planned, but was only giving India a friendly tip-off. A stunning excerpt from Ambassador Ajay Bisaria's Anger Management: The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship between India and Pakistan.
Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence is providing safe haven to the Taliban leadership and the West need not mount a military operation to capture Mullah Omar as the elusive insurgent chief "is with them," according to Afghanistan's former spy chief.
The Bihar police have detained a suspected Chinese woman in Bodh Gaya in connection with alleged threat to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and are interrogating her, J S Gangwar, ADG (headquarters) confirmed to ANI.
Months before the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Kashmiri separatist leader Ghulam Nabi Fai, it had forced a Pakistani Consulate official in New York, who spied on Pakistanis living in the United States in a systematic Inter-Services Intelligence campaign, to leave the country.
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