Islamabad, Pakistan News

Islamabad, Nov 30: An American expert on South Asian affairs has said that Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is on the way out of power following his decision to handover key responsibilities to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said Pakistan's objectives in Afghanistan are not necessarily those of the United States, a rare, harsh criticism of Islamabad by a man seen as trying to reduce tension between the arch rivals.

Highlighting themes likely to be taken up by President Obama in his military policy speech on Tuesday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain has demanded that Afghanistan and Pakistan match plans for increased allied troop levels in Afghanistan by taking tough actions of their own, including, in Pakistan, a stepped-up effort to capture Osama bin ...

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The Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers were in this Trinidad and Tobago capital to attend the Commonwealth summit, but did not meet for talks as expected as the Indian side felt that Islamabad had done little to address its concerns.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari listens to U.S. President Barack Obama speak after trilateral talks at the White House May 6, 2009 in Washington, DC.

Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah. IANS NEW DELHI: In a shift of stand, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today favoured triangular talks among India, Pakistan and separatist leadership and also offered to be a facilitator if militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen wanted to come to the negotiating table.

President Barack Obama last week hosted India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House as his administration's first official state visit.

South East Asia News.Net Saturday 28th November, 2009 Islamabad, Nov.28 : With the constitutional restrictions on him ending today , former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has started planning his return for another stint in his country's politics.

Islamabad, Nov 28 : Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's public relations officer Saturday confirmed that terror suspect David Coleman Headley was his half- brother but said there had been "very little contact" with him for the past seven years.

The road to the legendary Swat Valley twists through the Malakand pass and beneath the Malakand Fort, from which young Winston Churchill sent newspaper dispatches about a "mad mullah" trying to drive the British army out.

ISLAMABAD: Eid-ul-Azha is being celebrated today throughout the country with religious zeal and fervour in commemoration of the supreme sacrifice offered by Hazrat Ibrahim Khalilullah and his son Hazrat Ismail Zabiullah in the fulfilment of the divine order.

Stressing on the need of cordial relations between India and Pakistan, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that substantial action by Islamabad against the Mumbai attack perpetrators is the key to deescalate tension between the two neighbours.

Islamabad, Nov.28 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has transferred the powers he held as the chairman of the National Command Authority to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, thereby handing over the nuclear command to him.

ISLAMABAD: A report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry recommending a series of extreme steps against Pakistan such as surgical strikes, "deniable" covert actions by India in Pakistani territory and blocking imports in the event of another Mumbai-type terrorist attack has caused outrage here.

New Delhi: India hopes that international opinion and its pressure, combined with the refusal to engage in a dialogue, will force Pakistan to change its attitude towards terror groups operating from its soil, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has said.

Karachi News.Net Tuesday 24th November, 2009 Islamabad/Continuing to remain in denial mode, Pakistan Tuesday said India had not provided any evidence of terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed's involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

South East Asia News.Net Thursday 26th November, 2009 Islamabad, Nov.26 : The United Nations inquiry commission probing the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has sought a three-month extension from the Pakistan government.

Slamming Pakistan for not putting an end to terror groups operating from its soil, Defence Minister AK Antony on Friday said that country has allowed them to thrive, demonstrating no will to act against such outfits.

While Americans are focused on the U.S. fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, an equally critical battle is being waged by the Pakistani army against Taliban groups next door.