CANADA: His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam of the worldwide Shi’a Ismaili community and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network, was awarded the inaugural Adrienne Clarkson prize Global Citizenship for his his commitment in advancing pluralism. Clarkson, Canada’s former governor general, earlier said that when picking a recipient for the new award in her name she was looking for ...

NEW DELHI: India signed a deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France on Friday for close to 7.8 billion euros ($8.7 billion) on Friday. The long-awaited deal was inked in Delhi between defence minister Manohar Parrikar and his French counterpart Jean Yves Le Drian. The 7.8 billion euro deal is crucial for the Indian Air Force that is ...

KARACHI: After the names of 259 Pakistanis with links to offshore companies surfaced in one of the world’s biggest-ever data called the Panama Papers in May, another cache of leaked documents emerged on Wednesday carrying the names of 150 Pakistanis who own companies in the Bahamas, a constellation of over 700 islands. The data shared by the International Consortium of ...

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh termed Pakistan a ‘terrorist state’ in an anti-Pakistan rant on Sunday, hours after suspected militants attacked in Indian army base in India-held Kashmir (IHK). “Pakistan is a terrorist state and should be identified and isolated as such,” Rajnath tweeted. Pakistan is a terrorist state and it should be identified and isolated as such. — Rajnath ...

Afghanistan condemned a deadly attack on the Indian army base in the Indian-administered Kashmir urging to isolate those sponsoring terrorism in the region. “Terrorism is a common threat to the entire region&world;thus,requires joint fight to eliminate terrorists&isolate those who sponsor them,” the Afghanistan National Security Council (NSC) said in a statement. The statement further added that “the people of Afghanistan ...

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed punishment for those involved behind a deadly attack on army base in Indian-administered Kashmir. Strongly condemning the attack on the army base in Kashmir, Modi said ” I assure the nation that those behind this despicable attack will not go unpunished.” At least 17 Indian soldiers lost their lives in the attack ...

A group of militants launched a deadly attack on an army base in Indian-administered Kashmir earlier today with preliminary reports suggesting at least 17 soldiers were killed in the attack. According to the local media reports citing relevant sources, a gun battle is still underway near the base as at least 4 militants have been killed so far. There are ...

NEW DELHI: Controversial preacher Zakir Naik‘s NGO Islamic Research Foundationhas been banned from receiving foreign funds directly and the Home Ministry has asked RBI to seek prior permission from it before releasing any money to the NGO. The decision has been taken after a preliminary inquiry conducted by the Home Ministry found that the NGO was carrying out activities contrary ...

WASHINGTON: The US State Department has said that the Haqqani network and other terrorist groups that operate inside Pakistan and along the Afghan border are a continued security threat to the entire South Asian region and beyond. At the Tuesday afternoon news briefing, spokesman John Kirby also said that a trilateral dialogue of the United States, India and Afghanistan would ...

NEW DELHI: The United States and India on Tuesday reaffirmed their common view on cross-border terror albeit with varying emphasis and even a good word from US Secretary of State John Kerry for Islamabad’s efforts to curb the menace. “The US stands with India on all matters of terrorism, no matter where it comes from,” Mr Kerry said at a ...