A group calling itself the "Deccan Mujahedeen" claimed responsibility for the assaults on the landmark Taj Mahal and Trident hotels in the south of the city and a number of shooting and bombing incidents elsewhere in the city.
Maharashtra state chief secretary Johnny Joseph said 78 people had been

Naseem Bibi is facing miserable life and lost her 9 years old son without proper medical aid last week because she is living in hiding in Pakistan.
Gulzar Masih, husband of Naseem Bibi is facing immense difficulties to find manual labour to make two ends meet of his family of four children.
Naseem

Police said the attackers seized the man from a convoy of relief vehicles in the Dir region on Monday. Other aid workers escaped after villagers fired on the attackers.
The UN's World Food Program (WFP) said the victim was distributing wheat and cooking oil on its behalf. WFP spokesman Amjad Jamal

"My trust in Chinese officials has become thinner and thinner," the Tibetan spiritual leader told nearly 600 delegates after a week-long review of the Dalai Lama's strategy towards Beijing.
"In the next 20 years, if we are not careful in our actions and planning, then there is great danger to the T

The deceased was Professor of English in Forman Christian College FC and living within boundary of this academic institute established before partition of India and formation of Pakistan in 1947, by Protestant Missionaries.
Professor Khurshid Alam Gill was 55 and living at Bungalow number 10 in FC

We are a coalition of Indian-American groups and individuals representing diverse faiths, interests, and political affiliations, who are looking forward to working with the administration of President Obama to ensure that the interests of all Indian-Americans have a place in its policies. We represe

Lahore: November 21, 2008. (Jawad Mazhar for PCP) A Christian man Shamsher Masih 25, was set free from his cruel Muslim captor Irfan Awan. The ill fortune of the Christian man turned into good fortune, after the Lahore High Court on Monday Nov 17th was told that all the Station House Officers (SHOs)

"What you have announced before ... that you will withdraw (US) troops from Iraq (and send them) to Afghanistan is a policy that is doomed to failure," Zawahiri said in the message made available by the SITE Intelligence Group.
"If you still want to be stubborn about America's failure in Afghanista

Dr. Azeem was Sunday speaking on phone from Quetta with veteran journalist and founder of American Friends of Baluchistan, Ahmar Mustikhan, in connections with the upcoming International Tribute to Nawabzada Bala'ach Marri in Washington DC on November 29, under the auspices of the American Friends o

Karzai told reporters he would offer the protection even if it meant defying Afghanistan's international partners, who could remove him from his job or leave the country in disagreement.
"If I hear from him that he is willing to come to Afghanistan or to negotiate for peace ... I, as the president

The new US administration must allow us to have the capability of doing more. We want to do more. It’’s our war, cbsnews.com quoted him as saying in an exclusive interview.
To a question if US must inform Pakistan about the strikes, Zardari said: The US yeah, of course, that would be a welcome step

Celebrations are from Nov 11 to 13 with the main religious event being at Gurdwara Janamsthan in Nankana Sahib on Nov 13.
About 25,000 pilgrims from across the world, including over 3,000 from India, are participating in events commemorating the special occasion.
Around 1,200 Sikh pilgrims have al

'We strongly condemn human rights abuse on both sides of the divide; and that our struggle is against all those who have occupied our homeland'.
KNP leaders said, 'Jammu and Kashmir State is one political entity and must remain so whatever the future outcome of the State'. They said, 'The dispute i

According to police a suicide bomber blew him up outside sports stadium when Senior Minister of NWFP left few minutes before blast while two provincial ministers were in venue with more than twenty thousand game lovers.
Peshawar is gateway to Afghanistan and provincial capital of NWFP and under pre

Indonesia stepped up security at tourist spots and embassies following the executions of Amrozi, 47, his brother Mukhlas, 48, and ringleader Imam Samudra, 38, which sparked brief clashes between police and hundreds of mourners.
The three men were killed with shots to the heart shortly after midnigh