| Bollywood goes on strike | | 3:41pm Wednesday 1st October 2008 | | More than 100,000 Bollywood actors, technicians and cameramen went on strike today for better pay and working hours, halting dozens of movies and television productions. | | Reader comment (1) |
| US policy radicalising Pakistan says Khan | | 10:31am Friday 26th September 2008 | | Washington's policy in Afghanistan is radicalising Pakistan's tribal groups and failing to win peace, Imran Khan warned this afternoon. |
| Airport security increased | | 10:55am Thursday 25th September 2008 | | Pakistan authorities boosted security at Islamabad's international airport today after a telephone threat warned of a suicide bomb attack. |
| Boss beaten to death | | 1:13pm Tuesday 23rd September 2008 | | More than 60 former employees of an Italian manufacturing company in India have been arrested for allegedly beating to death the company's local chief executive, police said today. |
| Leaders were meant to be at hotel | | 3:42pm Monday 22nd September 2008 | | Pakistan's president and prime minister were due to dine at the luxury hotel destroyed in a weekend bombing but changed their minds at the last moment, it emerged. |
| Pakistan forces 'will fire on US raiders' | | 11:24am Wednesday 17th September 2008 | | Pakistan's army says its forces have orders to open fire if US troops launch another raid across the Afghan border, raising the stakes in a dispute over how to tackle militant havens in the unruly border zone. |
| Suspect detained for 7 years without charge | | 1:29pm Monday 15th September 2008 | | A suspected Syrian terrorist who has spent seven years in mostly segregated custody in Canada is claiming that his indefinite detention without charge or trial amounts to cruelty. |
| Kylie to perform in Dubai | | 10:27am Monday 15th September 2008 | | Kylie Minogue is in line for a massive pay-day after agreeing to perform in two concerts in Dubai, with the cheque for one appearance alone coming to a reputed four million US dollars (£2.23 million). |
| Bush 'approved raids into Pakistan' | | 10:24am Friday 12th September 2008 | | President George Bush secretly approved new US military raids in Pakistan, a former intelligence official said today. |
| Islamic leader dies in US | | 1:17pm Thursday 11th September 2008 | | Imam W.D. Mohammed, who succeeded his father as leader of the Nation of Islam but abandoned its teachings of black supremacy and moved thousands of its followers into mainstream Islam, has died at the age of 74. |
| Studio seals Bollywood deal | | 1:11pm Wednesday 10th September 2008 | | Twentieth Century Fox has set up an Asian unit specialising in local production, starting with India, becoming the latest Hollywood studio to venture into Asian movies. |
| Ex-baggage handler convicted | | 1:10pm Wednesday 10th September 2008 | | A former Australian airline baggage handler was convicted of a terrorism offence today for publishing a book on the internet about how to carry out holy war against non-Muslims. |
| Iranian President 'should be kidnapped' | | 1:02pm Wednesday 10th September 2008 | | An Israeli Cabinet minister and one-time spy said kidnapping the the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was acceptable. |
| Search for missing flood victims | | 1:22pm Tuesday 9th September 2008 | | Rescuers started searching for missing flood victims today after more than one million people were evacuated in flood-devastated northern India. |
| Zardari wins presidency | | 12:56pm Saturday 6th September 2008 | | The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan after winning a landslide victory in today's election. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Cameramen arrested by US forces | | 4:55pm Thursday 4th September 2008 | | An Iraqi cameraman and three of his family were arrested by the US military during a raid on their Baghdad home, a television station said today. |
| PM survives assassination attempt | | 1:52pm Wednesday 3rd September 2008 | | Pakistan's prime minister survived an apparent assassination attempt when at least two shots hit his limousine as he drove toward Islamabad. |
| Blair's sister-in-law stranded in Gaza | | 1:51pm Wednesday 3rd September 2008 | | The sister in law of former Prime Minister Tony Blair says she is among four foreign activists blocked from leaving the Gaza Strip by Israel and Egypt. |
| Disease now major major fear in Indian floods | | 3:36pm Monday 1st September 2008 | | Doctors and medical equipment were being rushed to flood-devastated northern India in hopes of preventing disease spreading among the hundreds of thousands of victims crowding into refugee camps. |
| Etihad boosts flights to Saudi | | 10:49am Monday 1st September 2008 | | Etihad Airways is to provide an additional 24 flights during the holy month of Ramadan between Abu Dhabi and Jeddah and add special flights to Medina Al Munawara. |
| Arrests after anti-English campaign | | 5:30pm Thursday 28th August 2008 | | A regional party in India says Marathi-language signboards must tower over English signs in Mumbai, which considers itself India's most cosmopolitan city. |
| Floods appeal | | 4:55pm Thursday 28th August 2008 | | The Ummah Welfare Trust has launched it's appeal to assist those affected by the floods in India. | | Reader comments (4) |
| Appeal after floods | | 2:37pm Wednesday 27th August 2008 | | Save the Children has launcheed it's £1 million appeal after worst floods in over 50 years in India. |
| 'Hari Putter' film sparks lawsuit | | 3:37pm Tuesday 26th August 2008 | | Bollywood producers set to release a film called Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors are working to fend off a lawsuit filed by Warner Bros that claims the movie title is too close to their boy wizard franchise. |
| Musharraf to resign | | 9:23am Monday 18th August 2008 | | Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he is resigning on Monday to avoid an impeachment battle that would harm the nation's interests. |
| Rights group slams trial | | 5:24pm Wednesday 6th August 2008 | | The trial of Salim Hamdan exposed the fundamental flaws of the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights Watch said. |
| Baby could end-up with no parents | | 10:55am Wednesday 6th August 2008 | | A surrogate baby born to an Indian mother could end up with no parents after the Japanese couple who paid for her split up. |
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