More than 100 people have turned themselves in to police following anti-China riots in Tibet’s main city, Lhasa, Chinese state media has said. People surrendered to secure leniency in response to a deadline set by the authorities, Xinhua news agency said. China had said it would harshly punish those who failed to surrender. Police in Lhasa have been searching houses and making arrests, activists... 

BERLIN, March 19 — In a new audiotape released Wednesday, Osama bin Laden warned Europeans that they will face a “severe reckoning” for repeatedly publishing cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in newspapers and magazines. The five-minute speech was the second time in four months that bin Laden has delivered threats to European countries. He made only one oblique reference to President... 

Pakistan’s caretaker minister and Human Rights activist Ansar Burney has said that he will not help Sarabjit Singh, as he has ”no sympathy for terrorists”. Sarabjit, an Indian national, faces a death warrant slated for April 1 in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail. ”Sarabjit Singh was a terrorist, I have no sympathy with him. There is a big difference between Kashmir Singh and... 

NEW DELHI: India has strongly rejected observations of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) that Kashmir issue should be resolved as per UN resolutions, saying that the 57-member grouping had “no locus standi” to comment on India’s internal affairs. “We note with regret that the OIC, in the documents issued following its summit held at Dakar in Senegal on March 13-14,... 

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Three bombs, apparently dropped by an American aircraft, killed nine people and wounded nine others on Sunday in the tribal area of South Waziristan that provides sanctuary to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, a Pakistani security official said. The strike, the third American attack on suspected terrorists in Pakistan’s tribal area in less than three months, appeared to signal a... 

Panaji : Continuing her attack on the Goa Police and politicians, Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain British girl Scarlette Eden Keeling, on Saturday alleged that Home Minister Ravi Naik and state Director General of Police of being in nexus with drug mafia. “I had been informed that there is a strong nexus between drug mafia, Ravi Naik (current home minister) and Director General of Goa Police... 

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two powerful explosions in suicide attacks minutes apart rocked the eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing 24 people, the Interior Ministry said. The first blast ripped through the regional office of the Federal Investigation Agency, Pakistan’s chief federal law enforcement agency, killing 12 agency officials and 9 others. A suicide bomber detonated his truck packed with... 

ANKARA, March 3 - The head of Turkey’s military General Staff said on Monday further land operations against Kurdish PKK separatists in northern Iraq could be launched if necessary. “As needed, land operations will continue after this,” General Yasar Buyukanit told reporters in a briefing. “We gave them (the PKK) a lesson and we have more lessons to give,” he said. Turkey... 

Accusing President Pervez Musharraf of turning Pakistan into a US colony, PML-N chief and former premier Nawaz Sharif on Sunday ruled out the possibility of any compromise with him and the PML-Q, the party which backed the former military ruler.President Musharraf turned Pakistan into a US colony and killed Pakistani nationals through the use of force, Sharif said, ruling out any compromise with the... 

Economic growth for 2007-08 has been pegged at 8.7 per cent, compared with 9.2 per cent in the last fiscal. Although the macroeconomic fundamentals continue to be strong, holding on to this growth rate would prove to be difficult for the government with inflation and infrastructure staring in the face as the biggest challenges. As per the 11th Five Year Plan, the infrastructure investment required...