Islamabad, Pakistan News

Islamabad has ordered a probe into the alleged killing of a Pakistani national by the Indian security forces at the Wagah border crossing, a media report said Sunday.

ISLAMABAD: The President Asif Ali Zardari has said a dictator sowed the seed of Taliban and Al-Qaeda on July 5, 1977, which played fierce havoc with the entire world in its infancy, and now it is up against Pakistan.

Followers of the Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Pakistan, aim for a "bloodless military coup" and creation of the caliphate in Islamabad, The Sunday Times reported.

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has approved a $50 million IDA credit to Pakistan, designed to improve water resource management and enhance agricultural productivity in Sindh.

PARIS : Anti-terror judges leading an inquiry into the 2002 killing of 11 French engineers in Pakistan have asked France's defence minister to open up classified government files, a source said Saturday.

Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The World Bank committed $1.7 billion in fiscal year 2009 to help Pakistan cope amid the global economic crisis, the institution's highest ever year-on-year support to the country.

Clashes between tribesmen and Taliban militants left 16 people dead in Pakistan's northwest on Saturday, officials said, in the latest violence between pro-government tribal militias and insurgents.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani talks to US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napilitano who called on him at the Prime Minister's House on Friday.

The UAE has announced a contribution of US $500,000 to the UN Trust Fund for Benazir Bhutto Inquiry Commission.Presidential Spokesperson Farhatullah Babar in a statement on Friday said that the UAE Embassy in Islamabad had informed Pakistan's Foreign Office conveying the decision of the government of UAE.

ISLAMABAD: A motorcycle-borne suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying government employees in Rawalpindi on Thursday, killing himself and leaving 25 people injured.

Pakistan on Friday said that the peace in the region cannot be discussed without the resolution of the long-standing issue with India, stepping up its rhetoric on Kashmir.

LONDON: Pakistan and Britain are working together to deal with terrorism and other security issues for their mutual interests, said Interior Minister Rehman Malik and British Home Secretary Alan Johnson at a joint press conference.

Karachi News.Net Friday 3rd July, 2009 Islamabad, July 3 : Pakistan has spent about 10 billion dollars in the war on terror during the financial year 2008-09, the chairman of the Panel of Economists of the Planning Commission, Hafiz Pasha has said.

Norway's embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan has closed for security reasons, according to local media reports on Thursday.

Ahead of the meeting between Indian and Pakistani leaders in Egypt mid-July, India Wednesday said it is not 'afraid to talk' to Pakistan but wants Islamabad to take 'concrete and visible action' against the perpetrators of the Mumbai carange before deciding on resuming the dialogue.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah may have been killed during an operation in the restive Swat Valley, a media report said Thursday.

RAWALPINDI: A suicide bomber blew himself up after ramming his motorcycle into a bus in this Pakistani city, killing at least six people and injuring 25.

Pakistan's army has deployed more troops to a stretch of the Afghan border to stop Taliban militants fleeing a major U.S. offensive in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman said Thursday.

ISLAMABAD: Fugitive Taliban leader Fazlullah has been critically injured in the ongoing military operation in Malakand Division, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Wednesday.

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