Pakistan News

By our correspondent ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani made a telephone call to his Indian counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh on Thursday and said Pakistan attached immense importance to its relations ...

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad has reportedly warned the US against attacking Pakistan, and added that if Washington committed this foolish mistake, every Pakistani would give a befitting reply.

RAWALPINDI: President Pervez Musharraf said that all efforts are being made for ensuring that Pakistan Armed Forces are adequately equipped to face the challenges.

The State Department wants to use about two-thirds of its proposed military equipment aid for Pakistan's anti-terrorism programs to help the key U.S. ally upgrade its aging fleet of U.S.-made F-16 fighter ...

Following intelligence reports that a female terrorist might enter the UK from Pakistan, security forces in Pakistan and Britain, have been put on high alert and are on the look out for the suspect female ...

KARACHI (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior security officer for Asif Ali Zardari, head of Pakistan's ruling party, in the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday, police and party officials said.

Zardari is the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide gun and bomb attack in the city of Rawalpindi on December 27 while campaigning for an election that her party subsequently won.

Ejaz Durrani, a spokesman for Zardari in Karachi, said the assailants ambushed the security officer, Khalid Shehanshah, outside his house in Karachi's upmarket Defense neighborhood.

By Simon Cameron-Moore

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's security forces made a rare arrest of a senior Afghan Taliban commander near the southwestern city of Quetta on Saturday, Pakistani security officials and coalition forces in Afghanistan told Reuters.

A statement issued by British forces in Afghanistan late on Tuesday said Mullah Rahim, operational commander of Taliban forces in Helmand, had surrendered to "authorities in Pakistan".

Western officials in the past have suspected the Pakistani security services of turning a blind eye to the presence of Taliban leaders in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani official says an army helicopter has saved two Italian climbers from one of the world's highest mountains.

An international rights group pressed Pakistan's new government on Wednesday to quickly investigate the disappearance of hundreds of people allegedly at the hands of its security agencies.

AFP, Islamabad Leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition met on Wednesday to discuss the threat of Islamic militancy and rifts over the restoration of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, officials said.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday launched monsoon tree plantation campaign, dedicating year 2009 to environment protection and greener Pakistan.

Gunmen shot and killed a bodyguard of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday, police and a party official said.

A senior al-Qaida leader has urged Pakistanis to help Afghans fight U.S.-led coalition forces and condemned President Pervez Musharraf for arresting Arab and Afghan fighters and handing them over to Washington.

At least six Pakistani paramilitary troops and 30 separatist rebels have been killed in clashes in the troubled southwestern province of Baluchistan, security officials said Monday.

Security forces killed 15 militants and detained 60 others, the army said Sunday, in the first major action against insurgents under Pakistan's new government.

Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said five troops have been wounded in five days of fighting near the town of Hangu in the troubled northwest. Abbas said helicopter gunships were providing cover for troops on the ground.

The military began the operation on Wednesday, three days after armed supporters of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud killed 17 troops in an ambush. Five militants were also killed in that clash.

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.

PESHAWAR: The NWFP government has decided to deal firmly with the elements responsible for creating law and order situation in the province.

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Pakistan Bar Council has announced August 14 as deadline for the government to reinstate the deposed judges.

By Krittivas Mukherjee

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's top foreign official travels to India next week to resume peace talks but suspicion of Pakistan's hand in last week's deadly bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul could overshadow progress.

While ties have warmed since a peace process started in 2004, after the countries nearly went to a fourth war, there has been little progress in their main dispute over Kashmir, and both suspect each other's involvement in revolts raging in border areas.