ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of Parliament this week
ISLAMABAD: Fighter jets bombed Taleban hide-outs in Pakistan’s troubled northwest while troops pushed into militant territory on the ground, killing at least 40 insurgents in a 24-hour siege,
ISLAMABAD: Predictions that Pervez Musharraf will have to flee Pakistan to escape treason charges have died along with the coalition that drove him from the presidency. The ex-general can now
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WASHINGTON: John McCain’s running mate was raised in a Pentecostal church, has called herself “as pro-life as any candidate can be” and already has energized conservative religious
DAMASCUS: A military court in Damascus has sentenced former Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam to hard labor for life, a lawyer involved in the case told AFP yesterday. “Judge Mohammed
RAFAH, Gaza Strip: Hamas and Egyptian authorities yesterday temporarily opened the Rafah crossing for the first time in weeks, allowing some 2,000 Gazans to cross into Egypt or to return to the Gaza
KARBALA, Iraq: An Iraqi court yesterday condemned to death a senior leader of the Mehdi Army Shiite militia over a killing spree last year that left 52 people dead in the central shrine city of Kerbala. The
TEHRAN: A senior military commander warned yesterday that any attack on Iran would start a new world war, as Tehran pressed on with its controversial nuclear drive despite the risk of further UN sanctions.
PATNA: Indian authorities, hampered by heavy rain and damaged roads, were struggling yesterday to get aid to millions of displaced villagers in the eastern state of Bihar, hit by the worst flooding
SRINAGAR: A seven-day-old curfew was briefly lifted in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar yesterday, prompting panic buying by residents to stock up on food. Stores reported
KOLKATA: Indian industrialist Krishna Kumar Birla, whose business empire spanned sugar, fertilizer, heavy engineering, shipping and newspaper publishing, has died, said a family spokeswoman. He was
PUNE: With escalating prices of newsprint soaring, print media have been facing a severe crisis with spiraling newspaper costs for the last six months. Newspapers have been left with no alternative
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Philippine Muslim rebels fighting government forces accused the military yesterday of preventing food aid from reaching refugees in the troubled region of Mindanao. Radio network
ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Philippine opposition yesterday blamed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the bungled homeland deal with the country’s largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation
