Chandigarh, Nov 22 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has been invited to Pakistan for the ground-breaking ceremony of the Guru Nanak Dev University being set up by the Pakistan ...

By Ashok Easwaran Chicago, Nov 18 (IANS) Even as the Indian government announced it was investigating the issue of a visa by the Indian consul general in Chicago to terrorism suspect Tahawwur ...

Islamabad, Nov 4 (IANS) The US will help train police personnel in Pakistan's Punjab province which has faced terror strikes by the Taliban, a media report said Wednesday. Carol M. Sniegowski, US ...

Faisalabad (Pakistan), Nov 3 (IANS) Pakistan will deploy guards at schools in the Punjab province to boost security against terror attacks, a media report said Tuesday. The local administration has begun a survey ...

Amritsar/Chandigarh, Nov 2 (IANS) Millions of devotees lined up at gurdwaras across Punjab and elsewhere in the country early Monday morning to celebrate Gurparab -- the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, ...

Islamabad, Oct 29 (DPA) US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday praised Pakistan's offensive against the Taliban and Al Qaeda near the Afghan border, saying "this is a fight that has ...

Lahore, Oct 28 (IANS) Qari Ishtiaq, the mastermind of the attack on Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi, was arrested here Tuesday, the police said. Ishtiaq guided his associates on phone during the ...

Lahore, Oct 27(ANI): The Lahore High Court has allowed the lawyer of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian currently on death row in a Pakistani prison, to hold a meeting with him. Earlier, ...

Chandigarh, Oct 27 (IANS) The Haryana government Tuesday cancelled the pilgrimage to Sikh shrines in Pakistan following a travel advisory issued by the union home ministry. The home ministry asked Indians to ...

Lahore, Oct 27 (IANS) Educational institutions across Pakistan's Punjab province were closed Tuesday due to "unsatisfactory security arrangements" for students as the army continued its assault against the Taliban in South ...

New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) After a Taliban suicide attack near a reported nuclear weapons complex in Pakistan's Punjab province, India Friday hoped that the Pakistani government will take effective steps ...

Islamabad, Oct 21 (DPA) All educational institutions across Pakistan remained closed Wednesday, a day after twin suicide bombings rocked Islamic University in the capital, killing eight people. The explosions were apparently part ...

Washington, Oct.21 (ANI): While the Pakistan Army has launched a major offensive in South Waziristan, the Taliban's stronghold, the recent spate of terror attacks across the Punjab province has raised concerns ...

Chandigarh, Oct 14 (IANS) Haryana voters set a new record for the state, registering 72.71 percent balloting in Tuesday's assembly election. The previous record was 72.65 percent in 1967. Haryana was created out ...

By Asit Srivastava Lucknow, Sep 27 (IANS) It's a Ramlila with a difference and a link to their past. Refugees who came here from the Punjab province of Pakistan after Partition have kept ...

Lahore, Sep 22 (IANS) A group of 379 Sikh devotees from India have arrived here for ceremonies to mark the 470th death anniversary of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, the world's ...

New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday welcomed the Pakistan police's move to file complaints against suspected Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, and said even "a half ...

Fateh Jhang (Pakistan), Sep 18 (IANS) Seventeen people were killed and 55 others wounded Friday in a head-on collision between two passenger buses in eastern Pakistan, a media report said. The accident occurred ...

Islamabad, Sep 17 (IANS) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided $150 million loan to Pakistan to carry out developmental works in the country's Punjab province, the Online news agency reported Thursday. Punjab ...

Islamabad, Sep 15 (DPA) Gunmen staged a failed attack on an oil storage facility in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, killing one of the security guards, the police said Tuesday. Three ...

Islamabad, Sep. 14 (ANI): A banned terrorist outfit that was involved in the attack on the Indian parliament and the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, is setting up a huge ...

Islamabad, Sep 6 (DPA) Gunmen shot dead three policemen deployed at a railway bridge in Pakistan's Hassanabdal town, media reports said Sunday. Bodies of the three policemen were found Sunday morning inside their ...

Lahore, Aug.29 (ANI): Pakistan Punjab province's Crime Investigation Department (CID) has released its 12th 'Red Book' containing names of most wanted high profile terrorists. The book, which also includes the names of ...

Lahore/Islamabad, Aug.27 (ANI): Over 100,000 people in India, including former test cricketers and chief justices, have signed a petition addressed to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari seeking clemency for Sarabjit Singh, ...

Islamabad, Aug.22 (ANI): Things can be sorted out with amazing ease in Pakistan by just making a call to the higher authorities, but yes, for raising a storm in the country's ...

Islamabad, Aug.21 (ANI): The Pakistan Government is reported to have raised the issue of its agrarian lands drying up due to India's water conspiracy with visiting US Special Representative to Pakistan ...

Islamabad, Aug.19 (ANI): Authorities in Pakistan have once again charged India with reducing the country's agro-based economy to tatters by building the Wullar Barrage/Tulbul Navigation Project on the Jhelum River. The News quotes ...

Lahore, Aug. 17 (ANI): The Christian community in Pakistan's Punjab Province has asked the government to provide security for an annual Christian congregation at Maryamabad, in Sheikhupura district, following threats of terror ...

Lahore, Aug.15 (ANI): The Governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, Salman Taseer, has urged President Asif Ali Zardari to ask the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to boycott its matches scheduled to be held ...

Islamabad, Aug 11 (IANS) Holding that attacks on minorities posed a "great challenge", Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday reiterated the government's resolve to safeguard their rights as envisaged in ...