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  • Pakistani toll in Siachen avalanche rises to 128

    The death toll in an avalanche in the Siachen glacier region last year has risen to 128, following the recovery of three more bodies, the Pakistani military said. The bodies of three soldiers were recovered from Gayari sector of Siachen Saturday, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported. On April 7, 2012, at least 140 soldiers of the 6 Northern Light Infantry Battalion and a few civilians ...

  • Sarabjit death probe Pakistani official may visit India

    A one-man inquiry tribunal comprising Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of Lahore High Court may visit India to complete the judicial inquiry into the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, a media report said. Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in Pakistan, died May 2 after a group of Pakistani prisoners attacked him April 26 Kot Lakhpat Jail. Sarabjit was on death row since 1990 ...

  • Chinas Premier to Visit India

    NEW DELHI Chinese Premier Li Keqiang begins a three-day visit to India Sunday. His visit comes in the wake of a tense border standoff in the Himalayan mountains, but the Asian giants are trying to downplay the disagreement. Syed Akbaruddin, India's Foreign Ministry spokesman, said it was appreciated that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is making India the first stop of his first overseas ...

  • Top Pakistani Politician Gunned Down in Karachi

    A top Pakistani politician has been shot and killed in Karachi. Police say Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot twice in the head Saturday during an attempted street robbery outside her home. She died on the way to the hospital. A spokesman for Hussain's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, calls her killing an act of terrorism. Hussain was a senior vice president of PTI, which ...

  • China manoeuvres to create space for itself in Afghanistan

    Afghan policy that suits its strategic and business interests, has been interacting with various Afghan lobbies, discreetly reaching out to Northern Alliance leaders as well as the Taliban, while also coordinating with Pakistan to create space for itself in possible political deliberations on the future of Afghanistan. Even as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang prepares to tour Pakistan soon after ...

Movie Review

The Mexican

Although the majority of Gore Verbinski's crime-comedy The Mexican does take place south of the border, the title of the movie refers to a mystical handgun that sets the plot in the motion. At three separate points in the movie, three different characters explain the gun's mythology, and each time the myth is a little bit different. Each of the various versions involves a poor gunsmith ... ...

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  • Phone probe has hurt our ability to gather news AP chief says

    Gary Pruitt, the president and CEO of the Associated Press (AP) has said that US justice department's seizure of phone records is hurting the agency's ability to gather ...

  • Scandals risk tainting Obamas second term

    White House in recent days. After wavering initially, the US president has launched an all-out offensive to contain fallout from the trio of controversies. Senior Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer, doing the rounds of weekly television talk shows, went into damage control mode on the scandals, including one related to alleged abuses by the ...

  • 17 killed in offensive against insurgents Nigeria military says

    extremists and three soldiers. Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, a military spokesman, said in a statement that one soldier also was missing as "forces have been engaging a large number of heavily armed terrorists" for the last two days. He did not say exactly where the fighting occurred but that about 20 people were arrested. There was no independent confirmation of the military's ...

  • The ABCs of preparing for the Asean integration

    Asean integration is upon us. Whether Filipino organizations recognize it or not, the prospect of economic integration is changing business dynamics across the region, creating new opportunities and with it, new risks. Embracing a new reality is not always an easy task, even for experienced businessmen. There are a lot of adjustments that they will need to make, as the Asean Economic Community ...

  • Burma Cyclone Threatens Displaced Muslims

    Enlarge A woman from the Thandawli village uses an broken umbrella to shelter herself from the rain in a Rohingya internally displaced persons (IDP) camp outside of Sittwe, Burma on May 14, ...

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