Islamabad, Pakistan News

A Pakistani Muslim demonstrator throws a tear gas shell back towards riot police during their attempt to reach the US embassy during a protest against an anti-Islam film in Islamabad.

ISLAMABAD : Water inflow in all major rivers has risen due to shooting up mercury level in the country and on Tuesday it was recorded as 255,250 cusecs against the outflow of 240168 cusecs.

Islamabad: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who is visiting Pakistan from today, will be conferred Nishan-e-Pakistan, the country's highest honour.

Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang is in Pakistan for a two-day visit aimed at bolstering economic and strategic cooperation.

His plane landed on Islamabad's Noor Khan airbase where he was given warm welcome with 21-gun salute.

A soldier walks near a bus as he helps to secure the area and clear the roads before the motorcade of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang passes by in Islamabad, May 22, 2013.

Good, bad or ugly, the 2013 elections are over; and now testing times are ahead for the new incumbents.

Noreen, 13, uses candlelight as she studies during a power outage in a slum in Islamabad April 29, 2013.

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court today granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.

Federal Minister for Interior, Malik Mohammad Habib Khan, on Monday chaired a high-level meeting at Ministry of Interior to review security plan made for the upcoming visit of Chinese Prime Minister from May 22.

Islamabad : Mountaineer Samina Baig has become the first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain with a peak at 8,848 metres.

A Pakistani court has granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a case related to the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

A woman cooks over a wood-burning fire under a battery-run emergency light during a power outage in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan, Apr.

A top American military officer says Pakistan has taken steps to prevent fertilizers made in Pakistan from being used for roadside bombs targeting American troops in Afghanistan.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police today claimed they had arrested the leader of the gang that kidnapped former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haider, even as security forces were continuing their search for him.

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Islamabad, May 19 : A Pakistani newspaper Sunday lauded army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani for breaking convention and calling on incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Islamabad, May 19 : A one-man inquiry tribunal comprising Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of Lahore High Court may visit India to complete the judicial inquiry into the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, a media report said.

Islamabad, May 19 : A senior woman politician in Pakistan's port city of Karachi was gunned down by motorcycle-riding assailants outside her residence late Saturday, a media report said Sunday.

Pakistan took a 'quantum leap' into the league of established democracies at the back of last week's historic elections, the outgoing Pakistani ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman, said at a farewell reception Friday night, while expressing satisfaction over the improved Islamabad-Washington relations.