ISLAMABAD - VISITING British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday that Pakistan needs to act more quickly against extremist networks operating on its soil in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.
NEW DELHI - INDIA on Friday demanded a 'transparent' probe by Islamabad into the Islamist militant attacks in Mumbai that New Delhi says had the support of 'official agencies' in Pakistan.
PESHAWAR (Pakistan) - TENS of thousands of students in Pakistan's troubled northwestern Swat valley are facing a year without classes after the local Taleban banned girls from schools, officials said on Friday.
SHANGHAI - A COURT in central China has sentenced a woman to death for hiring someone to strangle her 9-year-old son so she could have another child with her new husband without violating population laws, a court official and reports said on Friday.
