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Wagah , Dec.3 : A delegation of over a hundred businessmen from Pakistan entered India on Wednesday through the Wagah check post in Punjab.

December 03, 2009, 8:46 AM / Pakistani security forces killed 15 militants in separate clashes in northwestern Pakistan, officials said Thursday.

Facing the prospect of more American deaths in Afghanistan as the war escalates, lawmakers lashed out at neighboring Pakistan on Thursday as an unreliable ally that could spare the U.S. its bruising fight with al-Qaida if it wanted.

Four men wanted for the 1986 hijacking of a Pan Am plane have been added to the FBI's most wanted terrorist list - with a $5 million reward for each.The suspects were allegedly part of the Abu Nidal terrorist group when they attacked Flight 73 during its stop in Karachi, Pakistan - leading to the deaths of 20 passengers and crew, including two ...

Pakistan-based LeT's operations chief and Mumbai attacks mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi today failed to get any reprieve from the Lahore High Court, which disposed of his two petitions challenging his indictment for involvement in the 26/11 strikes.

Afghans and Pakistanis on Wednesday greeted President Obama's plan to send 30,000 to 35,000 troops to Afghanistan with limited enthusiasm, skepticism that the United States has enough staying power to defeat the Taliban-led insurgency and even suspicion that the rapid surge will be followed by a speedy exit.

FRANKFURT: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday invited the Pakistani community in Germany to help strengthen Pakistana s economy by making investments in the fields of energy, industry, housing and agriculture.

Although the US President Obama has announced that he will send an extra 30,000 US troops to fight the war in Afghanistan, yet his revised strategy also includes exit strategy as he has indicated that withdrawal of forces will start in July 2011.

Relative and paramedics shift an injured victim of a suicide bombing into the bed at a local hospital in Saidu Sharif, a town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Tuesday, Dec.

Karachi News.Net Tuesday 1st December, 2009 A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban provincial lawmaker in Pakistan's restive Swat valley Tuesday, police said.

President of the World Editors Forum within the World Association of Newspapers , Xavier Vidal-Folch presents the Golden Pen Award to editor-in-chief of the Friday Times and Daily Times in Pakistan, Najam Sethi, during WAN's annual conference in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad yesterday Pakistani editor Najam Sethi, repeatedly jailed under ...

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan should not be portrayed as a war zone.

This is a summary from the White House of President Barack Obama's plans for the war in Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night did not always match the reality on the ground in Afghanistan.

"Media in India, Pakistan entrapped in narrow nationalism, scuttling the nations from reaching pacts" - Photo: Mohammed Yousuf Voice of moderation: The former Editor-in-Chief of the Friday Times and Daily Times in Pakistan, Najam Sethi , receives the 'Golden Pen of Freedom' prize from World Editors' Forum president Xavier Vidal Folch at the ...

The top Pakistani court says it has taken up petitions challenging the amnesty from graft charges granted to more than 8,000 people, including President Asif Ali Zardari.

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.

Washington's hint of an Afghanistan endgame in saying U.S. troops won't still be there in 2017 might help win over a war-weary public, but there is no guarantee a notoriously patient Taliban won't just wait the Americans out.

Home >> Regional >> Islamabad >> Kapoor's statement on limited nuke war irresponsible: Gilani Prime Minister Syed Raza Gilani on Monday termed the statement of Indian Army chief about limited nuclear war as irresponsible and urged restoration of composite dialogue process to resolve the key Kashmir issue.

While India and Pakistan governments are finding out ways to resume dialogue, an incident of a Sikh being brutally beaten up and asked to convert to Islam has come to light.