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Kashmiri youth shunning violence, Pakistan: Survey

Kashmiri girls participating in a youth festival in January. The IRIIS survey says the young in Kashmir spend more time listening to music and watching Hindi movies and also watching cricket. SRINAGAR: Kashmiri youths are increasingly leaning...

JI rejects elections under Zardari Gilani

Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hassan has said that people would not accept elections held under the supervision of Asif Zardari and Yusuf Raza Gilani. He also demanded that care-taker government set-up should be formed with the advice...

Most Americans see China as friendly: Poll

WASHINGTON: Despite a slew of disputes, most Americans view China as a friendly nation although they are divided in their general attitude toward the rising power, a poll showed Tuesday. Major US polling company Gallup, in a survey conducted...

Imran says Gilani should step down

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has demanded resignation from Prime Minster Yusuf Raza Gilani following the Supreme Court of Pakistan indicted him in contempt charges. Talking to media in Karachi on Monday, Imran Khan said that...

NRO & the curious case of Zardari

I don’t know how the Swiss do it but somehow, every single time, they get away with everything but murder. Just about every bloodthirsty, hate-mongering, genocide-loving piece of work seems to have found his haven in the hamlets and half-cities...

16 million women married to gay men in China: Expert

BEIJING: An estimated 16 million women in China may be married to homosexual men, “silently suffering” the consequences to sustain their wedlock, a leading Chinese expert claimed today. Prof Zhang Bei-chuan from Qingdao University,...