Punjabi people

Britain's Africa minister Mark Simmonds resigned on Monday, barely a week after another Foreign Office minister quit over the government's policy on Gaza.
      
Officials insisted that Simmonds' decision was unrelated to that of Sayeeda Warsi, who quit last Tuesday in protest at the government's failure to take a tougher line against Israel over its assault on Gaza.

A British minister who was the first Muslim woman to sit in the Cabinet has resigned over the British government's policy on Gaza, she said Tuesday.
      

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry July 31 opened his first meetings with India’s right-wing government as he seeks to reboot a relationship seen as a bulwark against a rising China.

World renowned Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor’s work titled “Double” has been included in the permanent collection of the Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM). The work, which is open to display in the garden of the museum, is the first artwork from a museum collection in Turkey that is open to visits.

LONDON – Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic and Australia’s Samantha Stosur eased into the semifinals of the mixed doubles event at Wimbledon, after defeating Russia’s Mikhail Elgin and Australia’s Anastasia Rodionova 6-3, 6-1 late on Thursday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has written to his new Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to express satisfaction with their "meaningful" first meeting as the rival neighbours attempt better relations, an official said June 11.

Clashes broke out between sword-wielding Sikhs on Friday at the Golden Temple in northern India on the 30th anniversary of a notorious army raid in which hundreds of people were killed.
     
At least 10 people were wounded in the violence at the temple in the city of Amritsar, which is the holiest shrine in the Sikh religion.
      

The husband of a pregnant Pakistani woman bludgeoned to death outside a courthouse murdered his first wife, he told AFP on Thursday, in a twist to a story that has shocked rights activists.
      

The husband of a pregnant Pakistani woman who was beaten to death outside Lahore's High Court for marrying against her family's wishes vowed Wednesday to fight for justice.
      
Farzana Parveen, 25, was attacked outside Lahore's grand high court building by more than two dozen brick-wielding attackers including her brother and father, who has been arrested, police said.

BARCELONA - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and his Canadian colleague Daniel Nestor qualified for the Barcelona WTA men's doubles semifinal as they defeated India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi in the Friday match, 6-7 (7-9), 7-5, 10-7.