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New Maldives president Mohamed Waheed Monday welcomed a Commonwealth mission to investigate the ousting of his predecessor after overnight clashes during protests in the...

Civil society activists at press conference on Saturday expressed concern over the events in Maldives, where an elected government was ousted in a coup...

The Bangladesh army on Thursday said it had foiled a plot last month by some “religiously fanatic” serving officers to overthrow the elected government...

Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday said the age of military coups was over and there would be no coup in Pakistan despite opposition’s...

Government on Friday denied a media report that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had called the British envoy and sought his support to prevent...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani telephoned the top British diplomat in the country this week expressing fears that the Pakistani Army might be about...

In a sudden shift of fate, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) noted, that Brazil has now officially overtaken the UK as...

This letter is in apropos to a recent news item “There will be no military coup, assures Kayani” published in your newspaper. The army...

The civilians at odds with the military On the face of it, the army doesn’t have to do a coup to topple this government. All...

But how to make that smell go away? Conventional wisdom says that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a...

Now, eyeball to eyeball Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani – usually soft spoken and compromise-seeking – thunderously declaring “there can be no state within a...

They run the show still… That the armed forces and the ISI constitute a state within a state is no secret. That they intend to...

Pakistan's army chief on Friday categorically denied that the military was plotting to seize power, confronting head on frenzied speculation that the government's days...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday said there was no threat of a “judicial” or “military” coup, as both institutions were pro-democracy and...

After days of mysterious silence, the Foreign Office on Friday rejected as speculative and total fabrication an article in a leading UK-based English newspaper...

Osama bin Laden suspected a coup plot against him when he ordered one of his proteges to be arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks,...

The rich strains of eastern music have for centuries wafted across the rooftops of old Lahore. Now you might hear something new: jazzy riffs...