The negligible presence of Muslims and the absence of any single dominant political caste are, inter alia, factors responsible for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s defeat in state elections in India’s Himachal Pradesh. This is a state where the Congress got the better off the saffron ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Sunday expressed grave concern over confirmation of BJP leadership’s direct involvement in anti-Muslim violence during the horrific Gujarat riots of 2002 that led to killing of over two thousand Muslims. Pakistan also urged India to immediately constitute an ...

India's top court Friday ordered the release of six people convicted over the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Gandhi was 46 when he was killed by a woman suicide bomber at an election rally in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in 1991. The assassination was carried out by ...

TORONTO – Despite vocal protest by Narendra Modi’s government and fierce opposition from Canadian Hindutva groups, in a massive turn out more than 75,000 Canadian Sikhs voted in Khalistan Referendum Phase II in Mississauga, for the secession of Punjab from India to create an independent Sikh ...

KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board said on Tuesday England have offered to be a neutral host for future Pakistan-India Test series, opening the possibility of the two countries playing bilateral cricket for the first time in over 15 years. On Tuesday, the British newspaper, the Telegraph, said ...

ISLAMABAD – A leaked phone call allegedly between Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and a government official is making rounds on social media. In the so-called leaked audio, the authenticity of which has yet to be verified, the premier could be heard saying that PML-N vice ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is scheduled to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit this month in Uzbekistan. The meeting of SCO China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, Pakistan and India will take place on 15-16 September 2022 in Uzbek ...

NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday expressed sympathy for the Pakistan flood victims as his neighboring country faced widespread destruction and lost more than 1,000 lives. In a tweet from official Twitter, the Indian premier expressed sadness over the floods in Pakistan and ...

MUMBAI – Indian police on Tuesday detained a state lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party for “promoting enmity in the name of religion”. Muslim groups had demanded his arrest for his comments in a video about Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The detention of T. Raja ...

For decades, India believed China did not represent a military threat, said Lieutenant General DS Hooda, who from 2014 to 2016 headed Indian military’s Northern Command, which controls India-administered Kashmir, including Ladakh. But that calculus changed in mid-2020 when a clash high in ...