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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan needs to do more to prevent Taliban militants from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory.

Karachi News.Net Sunday 20th July, 2008 Islamabad, July 20 : Pakistan Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar has ruled out any possibility of an attack by American armed forces in the country's volatile and ...

Their meeting featured "very open" and wide-ranging talks, Merkel spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said in a statement issued after the hour-long session.

TWO Italian climbers trapped for 11 days on a Himalayan peak in northern Pakistan have been rescued by helicopter.

New Delhi/Washington: The United States will convince Pakistan into not voting against the India-specific safeguards agreement when the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency meets in ...

The operational chief of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan also said that the recent attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad was conducted by his organisation.

WASHINGTON: A senior US official has said that even while maintaining Washington`s line that there is no credible evidence of the Pakistani intelligence agency`s involvement in the suicide bombing of the Indian ...

New Delhi, July 21 : Visiting Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir on Monday rejected the Indian Government's charge that Pakistani intelligence agencies had a role to play in perpetrating the July 7 ...

Lawyers say a court has eased some restrictions on the disgraced architect of Pakistan's nuclear program, allowing him travel inside the country to meet with relatives.

Government lawyer Ahmer Bilal Sufi said Islamabad High Court on Monday also ordered authorities to allow Abdul Qadeer Khan to get treatment from any doctor of his choice.

Khan has been largely restricted to his villa in the capital since 2004 when he confessed to leaking nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.

With infiltration bids and terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir recording an increase lately, India is expected to press Pakistan to take concrete action to curb flow of terrorists from its soil at the Foreign ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A rescue helicopter has spotted two Italian mountaineers stranded on one of the world's deadliest peaks in northern Pakistan, the Italian embassy said on Saturday.

The two climbers -- Simon Kehrer and Walter Nones -- had been stranded on Nanga Parbat, also known as Killer Mountain, since early this week when their colleague, Karl Unterkircher, fell into a crevasse and died.

"They have been spotted. They have also been reached with some equipment, food and other things. We dropped them a bag with some equipment," Italian embassy spokesman Oddo Sergio told Reuters.

Senior leaders of al-Qaida may be diverting fighters from the war in Iraq to the Afghan frontier area, the top American commander in Iraq told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Gen. David Petraeus also said al-Qaida may be reconsidering Iraq as its highest priority war front.

'There is some intelligence that has picked this up,' he said in the interview in his office at the U.S. Embassy along the Tigris River. 'It's not solid gold intelligence,' he added, stressing that the reliability of the information has not been confirmed and that it does not mean al-Qaida has given up on Iraq.

By Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: Mah Weng Kwai, President of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific , on Friday said that there was no need for any constitutional amendment to reinstate the judges of the ...

Pakistan is rejecting allegations that its intelligence agencies and armed forces have been behind a recent string of attacks across Afghanistan.

Declassified US intelligence and State Department documents have revealed that Pakistan gave substantial military support to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, when it was in power between 1996 and 2001.

Pakistan's defense minister denied India's charge that his country's spy agency was involved in last week's Indian Embassy bomb attack in Afghanistan.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India will hold talks on confidence-building measures in Islamabad on July 18 here.

Rejecting India's claim that the country's spy agency was behind the suicide attack on its embassy in Kabul last week, Pakistan on Sunday said it had no interest in whipping up that kind of an environment.

JORHAT, ASSAM: The deafening roar of the aircraft flying overhead is his constant companion.

Iran's president said that even before its enemies "get their hands on the trigger" the country's military would cut them off, media said on Sunday, in a growing war of words that has intensified Middle East ...