Nepal gets its new constitution, but here’s why it has got India worr...
India has reasons to be perturbed about the volatile situation in Nepal, a country with which India shares an open and contiguous 1751-km-long border. India’s biggest concern is that Madhesis are up in arms against the secular and democratic constitution that Nepal has put into effect on 20... read more »
Pak Senate chief warns against another military takeover
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Senate chief has warned that constitutional checks to prevent yet another military takeover have become redundant in the country which has seen army rule for nearly half of its 68 years of independence. Raza Rabbani was winding up the debate in the upper house to... read more »
Pakistan’s first indigenous drone kills 3 militants
PESHAWAR: Pakistan for the first time on Monday used an indigenous drone to attack a terrorist compound in restive North Waziristan, killing at least three high-profile militants. “The first-ever use of Pakistan made Burraq drone today hit a terrorist compound in Shawal Valley killing three... read more »
Four killed, 56 injured in suicide bomb attack in Pakistan
Peshawar: At least four persons were killed and 56 others injured today when a suicide bomber targeted a vehicle of a line officer in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal region, officials said. An earlier blast in Peshawar. Image courtesy: ReutersAn earlier blast in Peshawar. Image... read more »