Pakistan State Funeral

Pakistani soldiers on Saturday carried the flag-draped coffin of German-born Catholic nun Ruth Pfau to a state funeral where she was honoured after devoting her life to eradicating leprosy in the country.

The feeling of discrimination extends from ill-treating Kashmiris in the rest of India, to the PM not attending the funeral of Chief Mufti though doing so in the case of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, to arresting the children under the infamous Public Safety Act and keeping them in regular jails with hardened criminals instead of juvenile homes, to ...

A suicide bomber targeted a Pakistani funeral on Thursday, killing up to 38 people and wounding dozens more, mostly police officers in a rare attack claimed by the Taliban in the turbulent southwest.

The Bihar government has announced a state funeral for four soldiers from the 21 Bihar Regiment who were killed on Tuesday in an ambush by the Pakistani troops along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. A compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the family of each of the four soldiers has also been announced by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The death toll from a suicide attack at a funeral in Pakistan rose to 34 today after seven victims died overnight in hospital, police said.

India reacted furiously to this morning's death in a Pakistani jail of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was badly beaten last week by fellow inmates. His body has been handed over to Indian officials and will be brought back to Amritsar in Punjab in a special plane. The state government has declared him a martyr and decided to accord him a state...

Pakistani soldiers on Saturday carried the flag-draped coffin of German-born Catholic nun Ruth Pfau to a state funeral where she was honoured after devoting her life to eradicating leprosy in the country.

The feeling of discrimination extends from ill-treating Kashmiris in the rest of India, to the PM not attending the funeral of Chief Mufti though doing so in the case of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, to arresting the children under the infamous Public Safety Act and keeping them in regular jails with hardened criminals instead of juvenile homes, to ...

A suicide bomber targeted a Pakistani funeral on Thursday, killing up to 38 people and wounding dozens more, mostly police officers in a rare attack claimed by the Taliban in the turbulent southwest.

The Bihar government has announced a state funeral for four soldiers from the 21 Bihar Regiment who were killed on Tuesday in an ambush by the Pakistani troops along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. A compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the family of each of the four soldiers has also been announced by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The death toll from a suicide attack at a funeral in Pakistan rose to 34 today after seven victims died overnight in hospital, police said.

India reacted furiously to this morning's death in a Pakistani jail of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was badly beaten last week by fellow inmates. His body has been handed over to Indian officials and will be brought back to Amritsar in Punjab in a special plane. The state government has declared him a martyr and decided to accord him a state...