Pakistan

How India, Pakistan resumed peace talks

India and Pakistan agree to resume high-level peace talks after a stalemate of three years.
10 December 2015, 14:55 PM

[Watch] Journey of surrendered Pakistanis to POW camp in India

After their surrender, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers had to take an arduous journey to prisoners of war camp in India. They were first taken to Narayanganj and later to Khulna to be transported to West Bengal later by train.
10 December 2015, 13:24 PM

Arrest warrants issued for 8 Mymensingh ‘war criminals’

A tribunal in Dhaka issued arrest warrants against eight war crimes suspects of Mymensingh for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
9 December 2015, 07:13 AM

Pakistan still in denial and self-deceit

More than four decades on, the present day government of Pakistan has unabashedly and deliberately chosen to deny history. This is not just shameful; it is infinitely more immoral.
8 December 2015, 18:00 PM

California shooters had target practice: FBI

Investigators believe the married couple who massacred 14 people in California last week - a US-born husband and his Pakistani wife - had been radicalised "for quite some time," but no clues pointing to an international plot have yet emerged, the FBI said on Monday.
8 December 2015, 04:57 AM

Of Pakistan's denials of war crimes and the world's silence

We understand the position of international rights bodies against the death penalty. But why should they remain silent when Pakistan denies its army's role in committing war crimes?
7 December 2015, 18:00 PM

‘Bangladesh reviewing ties with Pakistan’

Govt is assessing Bangladesh-Pakistan ties, considering measures need to be taken over Pak reaction after execution of 2 war criminals, says foreign minister.
6 December 2015, 12:22 PM

California shooting investigated as 'act of terrorism'

The mass shooting in California is being investigated as "an act of terrorism," the FBI said, amid reports the female assailant had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group on Facebook.
5 December 2015, 05:25 AM

Is the ice melting?

Suddenly there was summer. A chance 160-second meeting between Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Nawaz Sharif has melted the ice, which seemed frozen beyond change.
3 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Pakistan hangs 4 over Peshawar school attack

Pakistan has hanged four men linked to last December's massacre at an army school which killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
2 December 2015, 07:11 AM

Pakistan committed war crimes, atrocities: BNP

Hitting out at Pakistan for its denial of committing war crimes and atrocities during the 1971 Liberation War, BNP says it is a fact that Pakistani forces had carried genocide and atrocities.
1 December 2015, 12:22 PM

Pakistani among 4 JMB men held from Dhaka

Detectives arrest four activists of militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) along with foreign currencies and passports at Uttara in Dhaka.
30 November 2015, 04:20 AM

‘Pakistan will summon Bangladesh envoy’

Pakistan has decided to summon Bangladesh’s envoy to lodge a protest and convey Islamabad’s concerns over the recent executions of two war criminals – Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
26 November 2015, 08:48 AM

Militants storm India Kashmir army camp

Three militants force their way into an army camp in Indian-administered Kashmir and ensued in a gun battle, the army says.
25 November 2015, 06:51 AM

International bomb plotter jailed for 40yrs in US

A Pakistani man extradited from the UK to the US has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for plotting attacks in several countries.
25 November 2015, 04:40 AM

‘Pak passion proves war criminals were its agents’

Pakistan’s top rights activist Asma Jahangir criticises the Pakistan government for demonstrating ‘disproportionately high passion’ against the execution of two top war criminals in Bangladesh. “The government (Pakistan) was only confirming the fact that two men were political agents and working for the cause of Pakistan,” she says.
24 November 2015, 10:31 AM

Pakistan's statement on hanging of war criminals

We are outraged by Pakistan foreign ministry's statement expressing 'deep concern and anguish' over the execution of two war criminals who...
23 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Stay out of our affairs

Precisely what will be achieved by making derogatory remarks on the judicial process, that has allowed for Bangladesh to bring to a close the demand of a nation and its people who have sought for the better part of four decades redress for crimes committed against an unarmed people, is still unclear.
23 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Govt protests Pak statement

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam protests Pakistan’s reaction over the execution of two top war criminals but says it would not affect the two countries’ bilateral relations.
23 November 2015, 10:29 AM

Protest memo handed to Pakistan envoy

Bangladesh has handed a strong-worded protest memo to Pakistan envoy in Dhaka after the country’s statement on execution of top war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
23 November 2015, 09:51 AM