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By Josh Chin Two weeks after its first known execution of a Chinese hostage, extremist group Islamic State has published a war chant in Mandarin that calls on the country’s Muslims – or at least its Muslim men — to take up arms. The four-minute song was released Al-Hayat Media ...

Islamabad: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will hold talks with Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Wednesday, on the margins of what is called the 5th Ministerial Conference on Heart of Asia Istanbul Process. Ahead of his meeting with Swaraj, Aziz said, “My expectations are good and ...

by KHALEEQ KIANI IT has become almost an annual ritual. The sugar industry is sitting on a surplus carryover; sugarcane-crushing is about to pick up pace; farmers are impatient to offload their hard-earned produce at the first available window; and consumer prices are rising again amid calls for a subsidised ...

Srinagar, Two militants were killed at Sempora, Pampore after a brief shootout on the Srinagar-Islamabad highway on Tuesday evening. Official sources told Rising Kashmir that as soon as the SOG men intercepted a TATA mobile vehicle for security check the suspected militants travelling in the vehicle started firing. They said that in ...

Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to set up a State Food Commission to oversee execution of the National Food Security Act (NFSA), which the state will implement “directly” from 1 February , and has begun a massive drive to enroll more than 1.19 crore beneficiaries. “The government ...

SRINAGAR Former state assembly speaker Mubarak Gul Tuesday led protest demonstrations at Press Enclave here against Hindu Mahasabha National Working President Kamlesh Tiwari for making derogatory remarks about Islam and circulating pamphlets against Muslim community. Gul along with other party activists assembled under the banner of “J&K Rural Development Society”, a ...

New Delhi, The Delhi High Court today quashed the pleas of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and sonRahul Gandhi challenging of summons issued to them, in a case relating to acquiring ownership of National Herald daily. The High Court has also declined to grant Rahul and Sonia Gandhi exemption from personal ...

New Delhi, The Centre is planning to set up an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Jammu and Kashmir and the state government has been requested to identify suitable land for this purpose, the government today said.  HRD Minister Smriti Irani shared this information in Lok Sabha in a written ...

New Delhi, First there was the icebreaker in Paris between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif. Then the thaw in Bangkok with the National Security Adviser level talks. And now, foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj is leaving for Islamabad tomorrow to attend a conference on Afghanistan. The minister ...

Muhammad Anwar  The writer is executive director of the Centre for Governance and Public Accountability Dear Mr President, You may consider yourself only a ceremonial head of Pakistan’s parliamentary system, but for the country’s tribal areas, you are the real king. The cumulative area of this region surpasses that of ...