Punjabi people

ISIS extremists started celebrating the shooting in San Bernardino, where 14 people died and 17 were wounded, creating the hashtag #America_Burning.

The Islamic State, however, has not yet taken credit for the shootings in the postings.

As many as three people killed at least 14 people and wounded another 17 during a Christmas party at a center for the disabled in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday. Three shooters, reportedly clad in military-style gear and masks, barged into the center and opened fired in the deadliest mass shooting to take place in the United States in three years.

British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor said on Aug. 12 he would take legal action based on copyright concerns after noting a close similarity between a huge stainless-steel, globe-like sculpture in China and his "Cloud Gate" sculpture in Chicago.

Pakistani police killed the leader of the sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, his two sons and 11 others on July 29 in a shootout after gunmen attacked a police convoy and freed him as he was being moved, police said. 

Indian security forces were on July 27 battling an armed attack on a police station near the Pakistan border in which at least four people have been killed, three of them civilians.

Vandals have sprayed yellow paint on a controversial sculpture on display in the gardens of France's famed Palace of Versailles that has become known as the "queen's vagina".
 
"Damage to the work 'Dirty Corner' was discovered June 17 morning. It was lightly sprayed with paint. The work is being cleaned," the estate's management said.
 

A Pakistani military helicopter crashed May 8, killing six people including the Norwegian and Philippine envoys, with the Taliban claiming they downed it as part of a plot to kill Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
 

India’s hottest couple Shahid Kapoor, hearthrob, and Mira Rajput, student, are to tie the knot in Greece on June 10, setting Bollywood abuzz. Reports say wedding preparations are in full swing.

I happened to be in Islamabad on Women?s Day in Pakistan last week. The occasion was the sixth Think Thanks Forum of Islamic Countries; I used the opportunity to visit this beloved country for the third time and Pakistan?s Women?s Day was a good surprise.

DUBAI - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Pakistan's Aisam Qureshi are through to the semi-finals of the Dubai ATP doubles tournament after beating the French-Czech pair of Jeremy Chardy and Lukas Rosol 6-1, 6-2 in the quarter-finals on Thursday.