Pakistan Travel News

Pakistani militants blew up a government girls' primary school in northwest Pakistan's Khyber tribal area, local TV channel reported Tuesday.

As the United States ponders its Afghan strategy, Pakistan is waiting nervously, worried that a US troops surge would widen the war but also keen to see a robust US commitment that would convince the Taliban to talk.

New Delhi/Jammu and Kashmir's separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was free to travel anywhere he wanted to, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said here Friday.

Friday, November 20, 2009 KARACHI: Italy has allocated $10 million for setting up a plant to locally produce self-destructive syringes under a joint venture between an Italian company and Pakistani counterpart from the private sector.

Daily Times Monitor LAHORE: A New Delhi-Srinagar agreement with Pakistan on board is one of the key objectives of the ongoing Track II initiatives between India and Pakistan and the 'quiet dialogue' between the Centre and Hurriyat, All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said.

RAWALPINDI: Indian Embassy would fully cooperate with the Pakistani business community to boost the bilateral trade relations between the two countries and also give visa relaxation to the Pakistani businessmen.

New Delhi, Nov 17: Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday said that Iran and Pakistan had already started work on the gas pipeline, and road is open for India to join the project.

Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The government would provide subsidy of one billion rupees on sugar to ensure its availability at Rs 38 per kilogramme at all Utility Stores Corporation outlets, Managing Director Utility Stores Corporation, Arif Khan said.

Saturday, November 14, 2009 Our correspondent Islamabad Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, an exhibition of photograph's opened on Friday at the hall of changing exhibitions within Heritage Museum at Shakarparian.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways will commence Eid Operations from November 10, preparations for which have been finalised to fully facilitate thousands of passengers leaving for their hometowns on Eid-ul-Azha. A comprehensive strategy has been chalked out to cope with the Eid rush as millions will leave for Eid celebrations after November 15.

'It's not all about terrorism,' said Dr Vincent Loos, referring to the country. 'Low-key is good in Islamabad these days, where the threat of Taliban suicide bombings has filled the capital with checkposts, blast walls and a queasy air of anxiety.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 By our correspondent LAHORE: The United States is committed to extending maximum cooperation to Pakistan for revival of its economy and will ensure more investment in potential sectors, a US official said.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 By Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: Chairman Board of Investment Saleem H Mandviwalla on Tuesday told a high powered US delegation that Washington should not link Pakistan with other states like Afghanistan and Iraq keeping in view its potential in various walks of life.

South East Asia News.Net Wednesday 11th November, 2009 Islamabad, Nov.11 : Japan has promised to provide two billion dollars in aid to Pakistan over the next five years.

President Barack Obama leaves on Thursday on his first Asian trip since becoming president on January 20.

Barack Obama this week makes his first trip to Asia as president, leaving behind a host of domestic problems with a visit that recognizes the region's economic and diplomatic importance to the United States.

Islamabad: Pakistan on Sunday angrily rejected a media report that raised fears of a militant takeover of the Taliban-hit nation's nuclear weapons and suggested that the US had a hand in protecting the arsenal.

UNDER growing pressure from US missile strikes, the al-Qaeda terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to counterterrorism officials and analysts.

FBI agents in the US have recovered two highly inflammatory Al Qaeda videos. The videos have been recovered from the house of Pakistan-born Canadian, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who was arrested last month along with another accused, David Coleman Headley, a Pakistan-born American national.

The United States has been negotiating highly sensitive understandings with the Pakistani military about the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine.