In a statement issued on Thursday evening, General Ashfaq Kayani, Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan army, said that the Pakistan had "turned the tide" against Taliban
It was revealed late last week that a former British civil servant is suing former British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Jamil Rahman, who was born in south Wales, alleges that
The secretary to the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry insisted that the country's stance that Pakistan must apologise for acts of genocide committed during the 1971 Liberation War remains unchanged.
Sixteen days ahead of crucial Lebanese elections, United States Vice-President Joe Biden was in Lebanon on Friday, ostensibly to reinforce support for an "independent and sovereign Lebanon." However,
A spokesman for Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told reporters on Friday that she supports an independent inquiry into the violence in Sri Lanka. The call
At 4:25pm on Saturday Dr MA Wazed Miah, husband of Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, died after a long battle against illness. He was 66 years old
Diplomatic pressure on Israel mounted this week as Rose Gottemoeller, the US assistant secretary of state for verification and compliance, said at the UN on Tuesday that it was a
On Thursday, Bangladeshi law minister Shafique Ahmed affirmed that the words "Bismillahir rahmanir rahim" will remain in the preamble to Bangladesh's constitution, even if the Fifth
Mexican ambassador and UN Security Council President Claude Heller announced today that in the view of the council, withholding an IMF loan from the Sri Lankan government was "unnecessary&
The Director General of the Bangladesh Rifles Border Guards, Major General Moinul Islam, said on Saturday that any investigation into a number of deaths among BDR mutineers currently held in
Law Minister Shaufiq Ahmed toldreporters on Thursday that the process to prosecute those guilty of war crimes in Bangladesh's 1971 War of Liberation has begun. Ahmed went on
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said on Thursday that the United States is ready to talk to Cuba. Speaking the day before the Summit of the Americas, which will
