PATHANKOT: Hours before terrorists struck at the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot early on Saturday, at least one of them spoke to their families back in Pakistan. Sources told Zee Media that Indian intelligence agencies intercepted four international calls to Pakistan from in and around Pathankot after 12:35 am on Friday midnight. The terrorist spoke to his mother on phone ...

Saudi Arabia-led coalition could resume bombing raids in Yemen that are targeting Houthi rebels after it decided to end a ceasefire that had begun on December 15. The break in fighting between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi anti-government forces had been regularly broken by both sides over the last couple of weeks. “The leadership of the coalition supporting legitimacy ...

‘Big Brother’ eats up everything and doesn’t give anything to others PESHAWAR: Without naming anyone, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak on Saturday said that “big brother eats up everything and does not give anything to others.” “Elder brother will have to mend his ways and change his philosophy, centre eats up everything and provinces are ignored,” the Chief Minister ...

MOSCOW: A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia’s national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the west have deteriorated in recent years. The document, “About the Strategy of National Security of Russian Federation”, was signed by President Vladimir Putin on New Year’s Eve. It replaces a 2009 version, ...

AFGHANISTAN: Rival factions of the Afghan Taliban agreed to stop deadly infighting, officials said, but tensions remained over the status of new leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who has not been seen since reportedly being shot last month. Leadership of the Taliban has been in dispute since the confirmation last July of the death of the hard-line Islamist insurgency’s founder, Mullah ...

INDIA: At least seven people are dead after gunmen launched an attack on an Indian air force base near to the border with Pakistan on Saturday, officials said. A group of gunmen raided the Pathankot air force base in the northwestern state of Punjab. An Indian government official told CNN that two members of the Indian Security Forces, one civilian, ...

AFGHANISTAN: Nearly 59 individuals who were held captive by Taliban militants in Greshk and Nahr Siraj districts in Helmand were freed in a special military operation by Army Commando troops on Friday night. The Defense Ministry spokesman, Dawlat Waziri, said the special operation was launched on Friday and the hostages were freed in a special operation by Army Commando troops ...

BRISBANE: Maria Sharapova will open her Australian campaign with a match against Ekaterina Makarova following Friday’s draw for the Brisbane International. Defending champion and third seed Sharapova will play world number 23 Makarova in a rematch from last year’s Australian Open semi-final. “This was a grand slam semi-final last year in Australia,” five-time grand slam champion Sharapova told reporters. “For ...

‘Surkh Salam’ is about communist politics and class activism in Pakistan between 1947 and 1972 KARACHI: The major failure of the communist movement in Pakistan was that Marxism was taken as an engineering manual by communist parties. Marxism is a science. It should be applied creatively to society, which was not done. This was the point raised by Director of ...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia executed 47 people on Saturday for terrorism, mostly said to be Al Qaeda members but also a prominent Shia Muslim cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, Interior Ministry said in a statement broadcast on state television. The conservative Islamic kingdom, which usually executes people by public beheading, detained thousands of militants after a series of Al Qaeda attacks from 2003-06 ...