RAWALPINDI ,March 4: With his white turban, untrimmed beard and worn Army jacket, the man known uniformly here by his nom de guerre, Col. Imam, is a particular Pakistani enigma.
A United States-trained former colonel in Pakistan’s spy agency, he spent 20 years running insurgents in and out of Afghanistan, first to fight the Soviet Army, and later to support the Taliban, as Pakistani allies, in their push to conquer Afghanistan in the 1990s.

New Delhi ,March 4: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday praised finance minister Pranab Mukherjee for his deft handling of the Union Budget while asking party MPs to counter the Opposition’s “propaganda” on it. She also sent a strong message that she was fully behind the government on the fuel price hike.

Islamabad ,March 4: Pakistani investigators are searching for four retired military officials who were allegedly involved in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, official sources said. This is the first time that investigators are probing the possibility of the involvement of Pakistan Army soldiers in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Interior ministry officials said the missing soldiers are retired Army personnel who were among the eight Army soldiers related to the main accused and a proclaimed offender in the case.

Hyderabad, March 3: The awe of a scintillating aerobatics display at the start of the India Aviation-2010 air show on Wednesday turned to shock after a naval plane lost control and crashed into a two-storey residential building, killing both pilots — Commander S.K. Maurya and Lt. Commander Rahul Nair — and injuring around

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy arrive to greet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana (unseen) before a state dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Tuesday. PHOTO: AP

Washington, March 3: Four Lashkar-e-Tayyaba gunmen, who stormed into the Kabul guesthouses packed with Indian officials, came clad in burqas to hide their strapped explosives and appeared to have deta

New Delhi, March 3: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday threatened that there would be a “yudh (war)” if the governmen

New Delhi, March 3: The Lok Sabha witnessed some sparring between PM Manmohan Singh and NDA working chairman L.K. Advani on Wednesday during the debate on the motion of thanks on the President’s address.

London, March 3: The UK Metropolitan Police has arrested a terrorist wanted in India for 17 years over his role in the Surat bomb blast of 1993.
The extradition unit of the Metropolitan Police on February 16 arrested 49-year-old

London, March 3: A rare sword and a bronze cannon are among Tipu Sultan’s weapons and artefacts being auctioned in London next month. The Tipu Sultan Collection will be auctioned at Sotheby’s during its bi-annual Arts of the Islamic