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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.

Tajikistan News.Net Monday 30th November, 2009 London, Nov.30: While talking to some Kashmiris in London, Sardar Shaukat Kashmiri told us a story that on the day of Hashim Qureshi's wedding in Rawalpindi a famous writer and leader Dada Amir Haider was also present .

Highlighting themes likely to be taken up by President Obama in his military policy speech on Tuesday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain has demanded that Afghanistan and Pakistan match plans for increased allied troop levels in Afghanistan by taking tough actions of their own, including, in Pakistan, a stepped-up effort to capture Osama bin ...

Lahore, Nov. 30 : Pakistan Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has that President Asif Ali Zardari to abolish the 17th Amendment of the Constitution and relinquish most of his powers.

The road to the legendary Swat Valley twists through the Malakand Pass and beneath the Malakand Fort, from which young Winston Churchill sent newspaper dispatches about a "mad mullah" trying to drive the British army out.

Lahore, Nov. 27 : Blaming India for tarnishing Pakistan's international image, the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry has suspended the sending of all trade delegations to India till bilateral talks between the two countries resume.

KARACHI: Spokesman of Bilawal House Aijaz Durrani has said that some black sheep within Muttahida Qaumi Movement are taking dictation from the dictator and conspiring even against their party chief Altaf Hussain.

Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah. IANS NEW DELHI: In a shift of stand, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today favoured triangular talks among India, Pakistan and separatist leadership and also offered to be a facilitator if militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen wanted to come to the negotiating table.

While Americans are focused on the U.S. fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan, an equally critical battle is being waged by the Pakistani army against Taliban groups next door.

Islamabad, Nov 28 : Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's public relations officer Saturday confirmed that terror suspect David Coleman Headley was his half- brother but said there had been "very little contact" with him for the past seven years.

LAHORE: Ajmal Kasab and nine other terrorists who attacked Mumbai last year were in constant touch with top LeT commanders in Pakistan during the strikes and received instructions to kill "political leaders, foreigners and prominent personalities of India." This was stated in the six-page chargesheet filed against the seven suspects in custody in ...

Daily Times Monitor LAHORE: International opinion and pressure from India combined with a refusal to engage in a dialogue will force Pakistan to change its attitude towards terror groups operating from there, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Friday.

ISLAMABAD: Eid-ul-Azha is being celebrated today throughout the country with religious zeal and fervour in commemoration of the supreme sacrifice offered by Hazrat Ibrahim Khalilullah and his son Hazrat Ismail Zabiullah in the fulfilment of the divine order.

Islamabad Beleaguered President Asif Ali Zardari transferred control of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and said he intended to strip the presidency of more powers by year-end. Zardari divested himself of the powers of the Chairman of the National Command Authority which controls the country's atomic weapons and ...

Islamabad, Nov 26: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has appointed Justice Rana Bhagwandas as the chairman of the Federal Public Service Commission under Article 242 of the Constitution.

Saturday, November 28, 2009 By our correspondent ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau will wait for specific orders of the prime minister to arrest any of those hit by the NRO, when it expires today, NAB sources said on Friday.

Karachi, Nov 26 : A Pakistani court has directed that its order summoning former president Pervez Musharraf in a treason case be published in newspapers in London where he is on a lecture tour.

Nov 26-28, 2008 - three days that took India-Pakistan ties from a high note of hope to a crashing low.

Sky-rocketing prices and security concerns are keeping butchers' knives sheathed in Pakistan ahead of the Muslim feast of sacrifice this year, with people buying less livestock for ritual slaughter.

He lost his sister and brother-in-law in the 26/11 attacks by Pakistani terrorists here last year.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today said Pakistan will produce evidence of India's alleged involvement in fomenting unrest in the tribal areas and Balochistan when there is a need to do so.

Suspicions by Pakistan's powerful army that the country's civilian leadership is growing too close to the United States are fueling a political crisis that analysts here believe threatens the survival of the government and could divert attention from the battle against Islamic extremists.

Islamabad, Nov.26 : The United States has rejected media reports regarding the presence of controversial private security firm, Blackwater, in Pakistan.

Islamabad: The bizarre episode last year when the Pakistani government alleged that Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee had called up their president Asif Ali Zardari and abused him, has now found resolution with the revelation by Pakistani news paper Dawn that the whole episode was a hoax pulled by none other than Daniel Pearl killer, and LeT ...

ISLAMABAD: No serving army officer has been detained for possible links with two men arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges, army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said on Wednesday.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A roadside bomb targeting a police officer exploded in the main northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, injuring three people in the latest of a wave of attacks to strike the area since the army launched a major anti-Taliban offensive last month.The bomb was detonated by remote control as Riaz Ulislam, the head of a police ...

DUNEDIN: Pakistan Vs New Zealand 1st Test Day 3 Live Streaming , Mohammed Asif claimed his fourth wicket as Pakistan quickly mopped up the New Zealand tail at the start of day three of the first Test in Dunedin.

Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani moved Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench on Tuesday against inclusion of his name in the National Reconciliation Ordinance beneficiaries' list.

The collapse of a deal granting Pakistan's president and thousands of other officials freedom from prosecution on graft charges has triggered fresh political turmoil just as the army wages a major battle against Taliban militants near the Afghan border.

By Masood Rehman ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court would take the missing persons case to its logical end, Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Monday.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani prosecutors charged seven men on Wednesday with planning and helping execute last year's Mumbai terror attacks.

Suspected Taliban militants on Wednesday attacked and destroyed a tanker supplying fuel to Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said.

Sources said Balochistan claimed Rs 300 billion in gas surcharge arrears from the federal government.

These clowns again. Why is Obama continuing to sanction their use and give them access to high level intelligence? What's to stop Blackwater, or should I say Xe, following their own agenda? At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of ...

Unless dispenses with its visceral animosity towards Pakistan, attaining viable peace and security in South Asia will be even more elusive Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has accused India of supporting insurgents in Pakistan, including areas bordering Afghanistan.

NRO in Pakistan and what all saying in Pakistan news updates.

Pakistani troops killed 18 militants in a fresh offensive Tuesday against insurgents blamed for a wave of recent bombings in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.

ISLAMABAD: The list of the beneficiaries of the controversial amnesty law against corruption and criminal cases, released by the government includes the names of three federal ministers from the PPP and two from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.

Pakistan on Monday celebrated the rollout of a multi-purpose jet fighter manufactured in the country under a joint venture with China.

"Militants are the enemies of culture," said Abdul Nasir Khan, curator of Taxila Museum, one of the premier archaeological collections in the country.

KESC admits to daily load shedding of three hours: KESC, PPP Karachi Coordination Committee to meet every month KARACHI: The Karachi Electricity Supply Company has admitted to daily load shedding of three hours.

Lahore, Pakistan news :- List of NRO Beneficiaries , The government has issued list of 8041 persons who benefited from NRO including 34 politicians.

By Nadeem Sarwar Islamabad, Nov 23 As the families of the hundreds of victims killed or injured in last year's terrorist attacks in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai wait for justice, the Pakistani Islamist groups believed to be behind the carnage are still alive and kicking.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Sunday it was not clear if Pakistan's president was in control of the army and said Pakistan's objectives in Afghanistan were not necessarily those of the United States.

By Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: With the release of the first ever official list of those accused of robbing the masses blind, of killing and torturing adversaries, the ugly truth of abuse of power has a face.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has been invited to Pakistan for the ground-breaking ceremony of the Guru Nanak Dev University being set up by the Pakistan government at Nankana Sahib, the birth place of Guru Nanak Dev - the founder of Sikhism.

An inquiry has revealed that the Indian Consulate in Chicago was guilty of a major security lapse while issuing visas to Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani- Canadian arrested by the FBI for allegedly plotting terror strikes in India, and his wife.

The trip from a strict Pakistani boarding school to a bohemian bar in Philadelphia has defined David Headley's life, according to those who know the middle-age man at the center of a global terrorism investigation.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday that the campaign against militants is achieving success and more troops will be dispatched to Waziristan tribal area.

South East Asia News.Net Friday 20th November, 2009 Lahore, Nov.20 : Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has reportedly funnelled a large amount of money to his former aides in the country in order to improve his image, as he is planning a return to the country's political scene.

Karachi News.Net Saturday 21st November, 2009 Four Pakistani soldiers were killed in a Taliban rocket attack on their camp in the troubled northwestern borderlands, while the forces killed six militants in retaliatory fire, officials said Saturday.

Come Friday prayers in Lahore, it is not hard to find the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks.

Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 5:54 pm under Pakistan Breaking news Govt Releases List of NRO Beneficiaries The government has issued list of 8041 persons who benefited from NRO including 34 politicians.

Police initially said it was a bomb but later determined it was an accident. The conflicting statements reflect the atmosphere of fear that has taken hold in Peshawar , the largest city in the northwest and the main gateway to the al-Qaida and Taliban -infested frontier region.

Nov 19 - Militants have struck again in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, close to the Afghan border.

Friday, November 20, 2009 By our correspondent KARACHI: Overall teledensity of the country reached 62.4 per cent in September 2009, according to data released by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority.

Govt pursuing child rights agenda, says Zardari; Gilani for protecting children against violence Friday, November 20, 2009 ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has said the government is implementing a National Plan of Action for Children that mainly focuses on child education, health and protection, and pushing forward the child rights agenda for ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is likely to start importing 500,000 tons of white crystal sugar by December to meet domestic needs and maintain strategic reserves, a top government official said on Thursday.

Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar has shifted his base from Quetta to Karachi with the help of Pakistana s Inter Services Intelligence, the Washington Times reports.

Islamabad, Nov.19 : Pakistan's Awami National Party has proposed to change the country's name from the 'Islamic Republic of Pakistan' to the 'People's Republic of Pakistan'. According to a private television channel, the ANP proposed the change in the country's name during a meeting of the Parliamentary Reforms Committee, which was supported by ...

A look at major attacks in Pakistan since the beginning of October: - Nov. 19: A suicide bomber kills 19 people outside a courthouse in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.

Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that India is playing an active role in destabilising Pakistan by its direct involvement in Balochistan and Waziristan affairs.

NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday trashed a reference to South Asia in a US-China joint statement that seemed to suggest a role for China in resolving disputes between Delhi and Islamabad.

Pakistan : A suicide bomber on Thursday attacked the judicial complex on Khyber Road here, killing 19 persons including three policemen besides injuries to 45 others in deadly blast that rocked the city.

Another 17,546 families were declared ineligible because of multiple registration, invalid national identity cards or because they were not from the affected areas.

A suicide bomber killed 16 people Thursday outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting back against an army offensive in the nearby Afghan border region.

India Gazette Tuesday 17th November, 2009 New Delhi, Nov 17 : The Delhi Police team today claimed that it had arrested a close accomplice of a suspected Pakistani agent.

Nov 18 - Over a thousand women from the Jamaat-e-Islami party march through the streets of Islamabad to condemn American policies in Pakistan.

Pakistan is estimated to have more nuclear warheads than India and the two Asian neighbours along with China are increasing their arsenals and deploying weapons at more sites, two eminent American atomic experts have claimed.

Pakistan ranks 42nd in the global list of most corrupt countries, the Transparency Internationals latest report has revealed.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Quaid Nawaz Sharif has said that he does not consider President Asif Ali Zardari his rival and that it is not odd to hold meetings with political leaders of all parties.

PAKISTANI forces have captured most main Taleban bases in their offensive in south Waziristan and will soon fan out into the rugged countryside to hunt for militants.

Islamabad, Nov 16 : Pakistani intelligence agencies have captured a top leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan from a major city of Punjab after tracking him for a week.

Granite Falls residents are suspicious of any newcomers, let alone a Muslim native of Pakistan who moved to this rugged, blue-collar mining town to open his own bar.

Pakistani volunteers and local residents search for the victims in the rubble following a suicide car bomb blast on the outskirts of Peshawar yesterday.

Police say a bomb targeting a police chief's vehicle in southwestern Pakistan has killed one person and injured six others.

The United States has warned Pakistan that failing to expand its fight against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda would undercut the new American strategy and troop increase for Afghanistan that President Barack Obama is preparing, a leading US newspaper reported Monday.

LOS ANGELES: The CIA has paid millions of dollars to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence since 9/11, "accounting for as much as one-third of the foreign spy agency's annual budget", says a media report.

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that no time frame can be given for conclusion of operation in South Waziristan, however, added that it will conclude successfully well before expectations of the nation.

Nov 16 - Suicide car bomb near Peshawar badly damages a police station outside the Badaber air base on the city's outskirts.

Karachi News.Net Sunday 15th November, 2009 Islamabad, Nov.15 : Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit has blamed India of acquiring a casual approach towards important bilateral issues, including Kashmir.

Intensifying its probe into suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley's role in the Mumbai terror attacks, a team of National Investigation Agency sleuths Sunday conducted raids at several places in Mumbai and is likely to question Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt's son Rahul over his alleged friendship with the Pakistan-born ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is sinking into a political and constitutional crisis that threatens to sideline its vital role in the battle against Islamist insurgents and U.S.-led efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan .

Reporting from Washington - The CIA has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Pakistan's intelligence service since the Sept.

RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Saturday visited Ladha and Srarogha areas in South Waziristan Agency to meet the field commanders and troops deployed for operation Rah-e-Nijat. During the visit, the Army chief appreciated the morale and spirit of the troops and lauded the swift and successful conduct of ...

India Gazette Sunday 15th November, 2009 Multan, Nov.15 : Pakistan has once again raked up the issue of India's alleged involvement in fanning insurgency in Balochistan, with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani saying that Islamabad would provide the evidence to New Delhi at a 'suitable time'. "The evidence will be presented at a suitable time," ...

More than a dozen militants opened fire on the house of an anti-Taliban mayor in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, but security guards repelled the attack, killing three assailants, said police.

LAHORE: The Pakistan Government has decided to hold a fresh probe into the May 2002 killing of 11 French engineers in a suicide bomb attack outside the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi in the backdrop of allegations that the attack might have been masterminded by those in Pakistan who had been denied cash kickbacks which were promised to them in a 1994 ...

Islamabad, Nov 13: Some Western diplomats are attaching dummy bombs to their vehicles to test the alertness of Pakistan police amid deteriorating security caused by suicide attacks, a media report said Friday.

Gilani said it was a sensitive region and the government should not give a message of interference by Pakistan in the election.

Authorities say at least 10 people are dead and about 55 wounded in a bombing outside the regional headquarters of Pakistan's spy agency.

UK officials proposed a strategic reconciliation between the Afghan government and Taliban leaders, a leaked memo has showed.

Islamabad, Nov.13 : In an attempt to resolve the Kishanganga Dam dispute with India as soon as possible, Pakistan has proposed both the establishment of a court of arbitration and the appointment of neutral experts.

Home >> Regional >> Islamabad >> President sends references against six HC judges President Asif Ali Zardari sent references to Supreme Judicial Council against six High Court judges, state news television said on Thursday.

Hours after a report in one of the leading US newspapers reported that China had provided weapons-grade uranium, sufficient for making two atomic bombs, to Pakistan in 1982, Islamabad has rejected the report terming it as baseless.

The election results for 23 constituencies would be announced Nov 14. Voting for one constituency was postponed following the death of a candidate.

Suicide car bombers killed 16 people and wounded more than 80 in two attacks in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, including a devastating strike on the regional headquarters of the spy agency overseeing much of the country's anti-terror campaign.

Home >> Regional >> Islamabad >> Balochistan package discussed with PM, says Nawaz Pakistan Muslim League , quaid Mian Nawaz Shairf has said that he presented his viewpoint on the governmental package for Balochistan in the meeting with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani held at PM House on Thursday, report said.

In Washington, the ultimate Pakistani nightmare is that the country's nuclear arsenal could fall into the hands of Taliban militants or rogue soldiers.

During talks with a US Congressional delegation headed by John Tierney, Gilani said, 'The US and ISAF forces should coordinate and improve the current level of intelligence-sharing with Pakistan to solidify the ongoing operation against militancy on both sides of the Pak-Afghan border.' He urged the US to channel its economic assistance through a ...

Pakistani police have arrested seven suspected militants planning to attack security agency offices and officials in the commercial hub of Karachi, police said on Thursday.

The ceremony was held at the Sindh Chief Minster's House. Secretary for Works and Services Department, Mukhtiar Ahmed Soomro and an official, Kin from the Deok Jae Construction Ltd signed the agreement.

Displaced Pakistani tribal people who fled the tribal area of Waziristan along the Afghanistan... Displaced Pakistani tribal people who fled the tribal area of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border due to fighting between security forces and militants, wait for relief supplies in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan.

Mourners in northwestern Pakistan buried the victims of another market bomb blast on Wednesday.

Islamabad, Nov.11 : Trouble for Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari seems to be expanding with each passing day as he has now been accused of receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks during the purchase of three submarines from France in 1994.

Pakistan news: President Zardari Allegedly Received $4.3m in Submarines Sale, A French newspaper allegedly blamed that President Asif Ali Zardari is suspected of having received millions of dollars in kickbacks from the 1994 ...

Pakistan is going to purchase 36 J-10 fighter aircraft from China in a major move to boost its air warfare capability and with this USD 1.4 billion deal, options are open for induction of more identical aircraft.

SKARDU: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the government has empowered the people of Gilgit-Baltistan and elected representatives of the area will run its affairs in future.

'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.

As reports are confirming the elimination of Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, including Pakistani sources to al Jazeera, a growing debate is widening in the international media about the "value" of that event.

Staff Report RAWALPINDI: All Pakistan CNG Association started one-day shutter-down strike in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Jhelum, Attock and Chakwal districts as a token protest from 12am on Monday against a government decision for closures of CNG stations for two days a week.

Home >> Regional >> Islamabad >> Iqbal's teachings beacon of light in darkness: Nawaz Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz chief Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said that the teachings of Allama Iqbal are like a beacon of light to maintain tolerance, peace and stability in the society.

It has been reported that consultation on N-security between US and Pak intensified after the announcement Obama's Af-Pak policy.

LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said the issue of the 17th Amendment would be resolved in accordance with the Charter of Democracy.

A suicide bomber attacked a livestock market in the suburbs of the violence-racked northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Sunday, killing a mayor who had opposed the Taliban and 11 other people.

Islamabad, Nov 9 : Former President Pervez Musharraf has said that Indian influence can be seen at work in the Afghan intelligence network, which routinely blames Pakistan for harbouring Afghan Taliban, who are actually based in and operate from Afghanistan.

Nov 9 - Pakistani police have shot dead a suspected suicide bomber they say was about to blow himself up near a security checkpoint in Islamabad.

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Updated: November 09, 2009, 3:55 AM / Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida 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.

Our Army officers are not crazy, like the Taliban. A mutiny would never happen in Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: The law-enforcement agencies are continuing search operation against terror suspects and they arrested 200 persons from different areas of Rawalpindi division and Islamabad during the last 24 hours.

Sunday, November 08, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE Lahore High Court Bar Association vice-president Munawar Iqbal Gondal has demanded that relatives of judges, especially sons and family members, should not be allowed practice in their jurisdiction in order to realize the dream of independent judiciary in the true sense.

Lahore, Pakistan News : 132nd birth anniversary of poet-philosopher Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal will be celebrated here on Monday.

Intelligence agencies have warned the Federal Interior Ministry regarding possible terrorist acts at the Pakistan Air Force Bases in Karachi, TheNation learnt here on Friday.

Via Xinhua: Afghan A/H1N1 flu patient dies in Pakistan . Excerpt: An Afghan female who was infected with A/H1N1 influenza died at a hospital in northwest Pakistan's city of Peshawar on Saturday, hospital authorities confirmed.

Peshawar, Pakistan news :- A suicide blast near Cattle Market in Matni area of Peshawar killed five people and injured several others including union nazim Abdul Malik on Sunday.

A U.N. team investigating the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto issued a request to speak to former President Pervez Musharraf .

The schoolhouse is so tiny that dozens of pupils have to sit outdoors. They're lucky if their teachers have more than a basic education.

Washington, Nov.7 : While the Pakistan government has blamed the banned terror outfits such as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda for the devastating car bomb blast in Peshawar's Meena Bazaar, in which over 100 people were killed, many Pakistanis believe it was countries like the US, India and Israel which were the real enemies of the state and not the ...

South East Asia News.Net Saturday 7th November, 2009 Islamabad, Nov.7 : Pakistan would soon discuss the issue of India's involvement in terror activities inside its geographical boundaries with New Delhi, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit has said.

TEHRAN: The deputy head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards charged on Friday that Pakistan arrested and later released Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Reigi a few days before the group claimed a suicide bombing in Iran.

HYDERABAD: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said there was a Pakistan link to the terror plot to attack National Defence College in New Delhi, which became known after the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Pakistan expatriates David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana in the U.S. last month.

The United Nations is sending about 600 foreign staff out of the country or into secure compounds because of the deadly Taliban attack on U.N. workers, warning the Afghan government Thursday that international support will wane unless it cracks down on corruption fueling the insurgency.

Gunmen on a motorcycle wounded a senior army officer and soldier in the Pakistani capital Friday, the third such attack in about two weeks as militants retaliate against a new military offensive along the Afghan border.

DEAR ISMAIL KHNA: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mehsud has urged his fighters to stand fast against the military offensive in South Waziristan, warning them in an intercepted message obtained on Thursday that cowards will go to hell.

South East Asia News.Net Friday 6th November, 2009 Islamabad, Nov.6 : Pakistan has once again raked up the issue of India's alleged hand in terror activities inside its territory, saying New Delhi must explain its role in promoting terrorism in the country, The Daily Times reports.

Home >> Politics >> Clinton encouraged by 'overwhelmingly positive' Pakistani response Describing the response to her candid engagement with the Pakistani civil society as 'overwhelmingly positive,' Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the U.S. is building a strong base for ties between the two nations.

Brussels, Nov 5 Some members of the European Parliament have expressed "great concern" over Pakistan imposing its rule in Gilgit Baltistan rather than allowing the people to decide their political future.

The escalating war against terrorism in Pakistan has affected migratory birds as their route has been disturbed.

Pakistan's fashion week began on Wednesday in defiance of the Taliban's preference for strict adherence to modest Islamic veils.

The phrase "too big to fail" has gained currency in the United States to describe large and troubled financial institutions since the beginning of the banking crisis last year.

The anxious wives were on the phone again to their husbands in the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi, a terrorist target where daily routine can turn to horror in an instant.

WANA, Pakistan: US Drone Attack In SWaziristan, 4 killed, At least four persons were killed and four others injured in the attack of suspected US unmanned spy plane on Norok tehsil of Mir Ali in South Waziristan Agency late on Wednesday ...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's tense exchanges with Pakistani civilians and Arab diplomats over a harrowing week of foreign stops exposed the confining limits of her office.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - It has been a week since the bomb exploded at the women's market here, but people still talk about the images of its aftermath: women's bodies, naked and broken.

Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban fighters Wednesday in the streets of a key militant stronghold, officials said, as government forces pressed ahead with their offensive in the tribal region of South Waziristan.

New Delhi: India yesterday refuted Pakistan's accusation that it was instigating trouble in the neighbouring country and rejected any connection with its internal developments.

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan raised the Kashmir issue at a meeting of the UN panel on humanitarian issues, prompting a strong response from the Indian side which said Islamabad has no right to raise the issue as Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India.

Islamabad, Nov 3 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday defended the government's decision not to table the National Reconciliation Ordinance in parliament for ratification.

Islamabad would take up with New Delhi the tangible Indian efforts directed to destabilising Pakistan after its security forces have discovered a huge quantity of Indian origin arms and ammunition from terrorists' hideouts in South Waziristan.

A passenger train rammed into a cargo train outside of the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday after the driver apparently missed a signal to stop, killing 10 people including an infant, officials said.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Monday Pakistan's principled stance on the Kashmir problem remained unchanged and the government would continue extending political, moral and diplomatic support to the people of Kashmir.

South East Asia News.Net Monday 2nd November, 2009 Quetta , Nov. 2 : Iranian marine guards have apprehended eight Pakistani officials, who allegedly crossed into Iran's territorial waters.he arrest of eight officials of Pakistan's Fisheries Department, including a marine inspector, comes in the wake of 10 Iranian Revolutionary Guards personnel ...

Since finishing runners-up to Australia in the Champions Trophy last month, New Zealand's problems have multiplied, following injuries to key players and the sudden departure of coach Andy Moles.

Pakistan Vs New Zealand 1st ODI Today Live Streaming, Lahore, Pakistan:- Pakistan vs New Zealand 1 ODI updates, Pakistan and New Zealand will face each other in the first of three one-day internationals in Abu Dhabi tomorrow.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 30 - To the west of Peshawar on the Jamrud Road that leads to the historic Khyber Pass sits the Karkhano Market, a series of shopping plazas whose usual offering of contraband is now supplemented by standard issue U.S. military equipment, including combat fatigues, night vision goggles, body armour and army knives.

KUALA LUMPUR: Pakistan said on Sunday it wanted to be consulted over the United States' new strategy on Afghanistan, saying that its expertise and coordination were vital to success.

Lahore, Pakistan:- Lahore Motorway Interchange Blast, Latest reports are coming soon

LAHORE: US President Barrack Obama has decided to initiate a dialogue process with the Afghan Taliban and has requested Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to help initiate the talks, a private TV channel reported on Sunday.

A Pakistani police officer keeps position behind a tire at a checkpoint in Shakhupura near Lahore, Pakistan Sunday, Nov.

IF you are of the view that nurture trumps nature, you might not have predicted a career as a professional comic for Kumail Nanjiani.

Some unknown gunmen, riding motorcycle, shot dead a top government official in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Saturday, police said.

It is a worrisome first: an American accused of going to Europe to plot a terrorist attack there.

Islamabad, 31 OCT: Prime Minister Mr Yousuf Raza Gilani today said Pakistan saw India's offer of talks 'positively,' saying solutions to problems between the two countries cannot be found through wars.

Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan - Every time Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to win over Pakistanis during her three-day charm offensive last week, they fired back a polite but firm message: We don't really trust your country.