Benazir Bhutto News

The visiting Federal Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Senator Babar Awan, on Thursday discussed the current situation in Pakistan with UN General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto when he called on the 192 member body chief.

Two deadly separate US missile strikes slammed into South Waziristan Agency, a stronghold of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Chief Baitullah Mehsud, on Wednesday, killing 50 suspected militants, security officials said.

Zardari stresses need for greater national reconciliation ISLAMABAD, Jul 8 : President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday while stressing the need for greater national reconciliation said that he intends to keep all political forces together because Pakistan cannot afford confrontation at this juncture.

We all know that the Pakistani Army developed, funded, armed, trained, and supported the Taliban way back when Bill Clinton was conducting an orientation program for interns in the Oval Office.

LAHORE: The dissident group in the Pakistan Muslim League-Q has announced it will boycott the party elections, being held on July 8. The group has also challenged the unlawful election in the Election Commission of Pakistan .

Pakistan's President tells Isambard Wilkinson about his new concentration on extremists.

The UN investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto began yesterday.

Even 18 months after her assassination, Benazir Bhutto's presence is ubiquitous in Pakistan.

The Mozambique parliament in Africa passed the first draft of a bill against domestic violence on June 29, reported the nation's official press agency.

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.

A UN crapshoot in Pakistan By Sreeram Chaulia More than 18 months after the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the United Nations has begun a formal international inquiry into the "facts and circumstances" surrounding the traumatic day of December 27, 2007, in Rawalpindi.

Pakistani public opinion remains supportive of the military's fight against the Pakistani Taliban, said a new poll released Wednesday.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi claims public opinion has turned against Islamists, paving way for government military successes Pakistani soldiers stand guard on top of a mountain overlooking the Swat valley in north-west Pakistan Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images Pakistan is claiming to have "turned the tide" in its battle with Islamist militants ...

A United Nations inquiry into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is to begin.

Pakistani militants in a northwestern region have scrapped a peace deal with the government and vowed to launch attacks, threatening to open a new front against the army already fighting in two areas.

French magistrates investigating a bomb attack in the Pakistani commercial hub city of Karachi in 2002 that killed 11 French naval engineers have concluded the murder was arranged by senior Pakistani officials upset that previously agreed bribes were no longer being paid.

Pakistan has offered a Rs.50 million reward for information on Baitullah Mehsud, a senior leader of the Tehrik-e-Taliban who is linked to the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday ruled out any dialogue with terrorists, saying the war against anti-state elements had entered its final phase and the military operation would be completed soon.

First visit to Islamabad, maiden air travel: Warm welcome for Quaid's family in city * Jinnah's great grandson Aslam says he, family travel by plane for the first time * Says lives in a Karachi slum, makes plastic bags to earn a living By Imran Asghar RAWALPINDI: Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's great grandson and family got warm welcome on ...

Pakistani warplanes killed at least a dozen Taliban fighters yesterday, in a strike on their stronghold near the Afghan border, while police in the southern city of Karachi shot dead five militants.