IAEA blames Iran for hampering a long-running investigation into its controversial nuclear program by objecting to agency’s choice of inspectors, while Tehran insists its nuclear program is solely for energy production.

 ISLAMABAD: Eight parliamentarians appeared in person or through counsel before the investigation committee of the Election Commission on Monday and two abstained as all of the cases were adjourned till next date.

 HAVANA: Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, wearing his green military cap and clothing like the comandante of old, made his first speech before the Cuban public yesterday since falling ill in 2006, warning of the threat of nuclear war.

BERLIN: A German held by American forces in Afghanistan has revealed details of planned terror attacks in Germany and other European countries, Der Spiegel weekly reported Saturday.

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ISLAMABAD,Sep1: The Embassy of Uzbekistan has expressed the solidarity with flood victims in Pakistan and decided to refrain from organizing the annual reception on the occasion of Independence Day in Islamabad.

The notorious security company ‘Blackwater’ formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries worldwide to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company drew flak for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported.

US President Barack Obama urges Israeli and Palestinian leaders that they shouldn’t let the chance of a permanent peace deal slip away. He says this moment of opportunity may not soon come again and pledges US support for the new negotiations.

BRUSSELS,Sep1: An emergency meeting were held at the European Parliament in Brussels to develop a strategy to help deal with the floods crisis in Pakistan.

KABUL: The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan from next July will begin with a general ‘thinning out’ of forces rather than any large-scale drawdown, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces said on Tuesday.

The world observes 13th death anniversary of Princess Diana who died in Paris in a road accident. Lady Diana, the Princess of Wales and a popular media icon of the late 20th century.

ISLAMABAD: Flood-stricken Pakistan urgently needs more international aid to combat potential instability and extremism, a U.S. official said, as hunger and disease threaten millions of victims.

BRADFORD, Aug29: Thirteen men were arrested Saturday in the ethnically mixed British city of Bradford as a far right anti-Islamist group clashed with anti fascist demonstrators in the streets.

BRADFORD, Aug29: Thirteen men were arrested Saturday in the ethnically mixed British city of Bradford as a far right anti-Islamist group clashed with anti fascist demonstrators in the streets.

KABUL, Aug29: Seven US soldiers and an Afghan man running for the nations parliament have been killed in a wave of attacks this weekend in some of Afghanistans most volatile regions

BEIJING, Aug29: China will hold live fire naval exercises in the Yellow Sea this week, state media reported Sunday, after voicing opposition to similar war games to be staged there by the United States and South Korea.

Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rains swept through a town in northern Turkey, killing at least 12 people, officials said Friday.

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said on Friday it would double the number of U.S. helicopters to help with relief efforts in Pakistan after epic floods that have overwhelmed the fragile government there.

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said on Friday it would double the number of U.S. helicopters to help with relief efforts in Pakistan after epic floods that have overwhelmed the fragile government there.

Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis fled floodwaters Friday after the surging Indus River smashed through levees in two places, but many refused to leave the danger zone while others took shelter in an ancient graveyard for Muslim saints.

Canadian Police today claimed to have foiled a major Al-Qaeda bombing plot by arresting three Ottawa residents,

The United States has confirmed to divert 50 million US dollars from a development package for Pakistan towards relief funds, the top US aid official said, returning to Washington after touring a flood victims camp in Pakistan.

SAEEDABAD: Hakim Machhi has been camped out on a river bank for three days, waiting in vain for Pakistani aid workers to pluck him to safety after stinking flood waters swallowed up his home.

OTTAWA: Two Ottawa residents reportedly linked to senior Al-Qaeda figures in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region were charged Thursday with terrorism-related offences during a brief court appearance.

NEW YORK,Aug 26: Israel has offered aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan which is experiencing record-breaking floods that have uprooted millions of people.

TEHRAN: Iran has test fired its home-built surface-to-surface Fateh 110 missile, state television reported on Wednesday, less than a week after a similar test was carried out on another missile.

Australia was facing its first hung parliament in 70 years on Saturday after a night of vote-counting failed to deliver a majority to either prime minister Julia Gillard or her challenger Tony Abbott.

TEHRAN: Iran unveiled a prototype long-range unmanned bomber on Sunday, the latest in a stream of announcements of new Iranian-made military hardware as tension mounts over its nuclear programme.

WASHINGTON,Aug 21:  Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, who was away from his country when it was hit by the worst floods in 80 years, has topped a unique list of influential people who were conspicuously absent when they were needed the most.

Using data collected via its Earth-observing satellites, the American space agency is currently piecing together a clear picture of what happened just before, during and after the massive wave of floods that affected Pakistan in late July 2010, according to US media reports.

A new poll shows nearly 20 percent Americans misidentify Obama as Muslim. Like his place of birth, Obama’s religion has been the subject of internet-spread rumors and falsehoods

JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of Palestinians lined up at West Bank checkpoints early on Friday morning, waiting to be granted access to the holy city of Jerusalem for prayer on the second Friday of Ramadan.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 20 : Representatives of nations from around the world Thursday called for global solidarity to help flood-hit Pakistan in the wake of the country’s worst disaster in living memory and for generous support for vital relief operations.

 KABUL: NATO warplanes pounded insurgent strongholds near the Afghan capital, killing two dozen rebels, the alliance said Thursday, as a foreign soldier lost his life in violence elsewhere in the country.

WASHINGTON: Nearly two years after Barack Obama’s election as U.S. president, a growing number of Americans misidentify his faith as Muslim, according to a new poll released Thursday.

Afghanistan marked independence day Thursday as the Taliban-led insurgency drags on, with foreign troop deaths at record highs and the government under pressure to honour pledges on corruption and security.

WASHINGTON: The U.S. troop strength in Iraq is 56,000, a senior Obama administration official said on Wednesday evening, correcting his earlier statement the troop level was down to the 50,000 level Washington has targeted for the end of the month.

 SOCHI (Russia), Aug 18 : The Second Quadrilateral Summit of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan held in this Russian city on Wednesday concluded with the issuance of a joint statement that called upon the international community

SRINAGAR,Aug 18: After a one-day break, a strict curfew and restrictions on civilians’ movement remained in force in most parts of the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday with reports of fresh demonstrations and clashes between paramilitary forces and protesters.

MOSCOW,Aug 18: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hosts the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan on Wednesday, a sign the nations are seeking closer ties ahead of any eventual U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

ISLAMABAD,Aug 17: Only a small fraction of the six million Pakistanis desperate for food and clean water have received any help as the United Nations battled donor fatigue and appealed urgently on Tuesday for more funds.

BEIJING, AUG 17: Professor Li Xiguang, Dean of Journalism Department, Tsinghua University called on Ambassador Masood Khan at the embassy on Tuesday and donated his one month salary for the affectees of recent floods in Pakistan.

KABUL,Aug 16:A man and a woman who allegedly had an adulterous affair have been stoned and killed in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz.The punishment happened in a crowded bazaar on Sunday in the Taliban-controlled village of Mullah Quli.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he has never seen anything like the flood disaster in Pakistan, and urged foreign donors to speed up assistance to the 20 million people affected.

TEHRAN: Iran will begin building its third uranium enrichment plant in early 2011, a top official said, defying world powers who have imposed new sanctions on Tehran for pursuing the sensitive nuclear work.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 13 : Premier Wen Jiabao of China, in a message addressed to Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani conveyed on behalf of the Government and people of China, deep sympathy and condolences on the situation arising from the recent floods.

SRINAGAR,Aug 12:PM’s all party meet in New Delhi was unfortunately hijacked by National Conference to project its so-called Autonomy manifesto whereas the noble cause for which Dr. Manmohan Singh ji had convened this meeting for the restoration of normalcy and peace in Kashmir remained in dormant.

 By Raja zahid A Khanzada

DALLAS ,Aug 12: Pakistan Council of Dallas Fort Worth hosted a grand Urdu Mushaira to celebrate the Pakistan’s 63rd independence day in a local hotel on August 6. The Mushaira was split into two sessions.

KABUL,Aug 10 Civilian casualties have risen by 31 percent in the first half of 2010, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said on Tuesday, a much sharper rise than that estimated by an independent Afghan human rights body.

KABUL: Taliban insurgents publicly executed an Afghan woman for alleged adultery, a police official said on Monday, in a reminder to the era when the militant group ruled Afghanistan.

By Bassem al-Anbari

Sporting a long blue dress and white headscarf, Umm Omar barely blinks as she whips out a pistol in her garden. For her, the gun is a necessary evil to protect her young family.

TEHRAN: Iran has started a website with cartoons on the Holocaust aimed at undermining the historic dimensions of the mass murder of Jews during World War II, Fars news agency reported on Thursday.

LONDON: President Asif Ali Zardari and British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet today followed by informal talks held here on Thursday.

SRINAGAR,Aug5: Prof. Bhim Singh, Chairman, National Panthers Party and Member, National Integration Council has expressed deep shock on the ignorance of Mr. P. Chidambaram, Union Home Minister who has tried to argue a lost case of NC Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir who has turned a security threat.

BEIRUT, Aug04: Three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli officer have been killed in the first serious border clash since Israels 2006 conflict with Lebanons Hezbollah.The Lebanese army says Israeli soldiers

NEW YORK, Aug04: A disgruntled employee went on a shooting rampage Tuesday at a beer distribution firm in Connecticut, killing eight co-workers before turning the gun on himself, police and officials said.

TEHRAN, Aug04: Iran will make the strategic Gulf region unsafe for all if it comes under attack by the United States over it nuclear programme the deputy head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday.

BEIRUT, Aug04: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survived an attack on his convoy in Iran onWednesday Lebanons Future television quoted the Iranian presidency as saying. Al Arabiya television said an attacker had thrown a

WASHINGTON, Aug04: President Barack Obama announced a freeze in bonuses for federal employees, who are political appointees, a symbolic gesture during a period of high unemployment.

JERUSALEM, Aug03: Israel hopes its decision to cooperate with a U.N. investigation into a deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla will improve relations with its once close ally Turkey, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor said on Tuesday.

SEOUL: The US and South Korean military Tuesday practiced attacks on potential seaborne North Korean infiltrators on the third day of a major naval exercise designed to deter the communist state.

BUCHAREST: Six Israeli soldiers and one Romanian were killed Monday when a military helicopter crashed in central Romania, local media said, quoting defence sources.

KABUL, Jul26: The creation of local militias, such as a newly announced police unit, is an attempt by the United States to split up Afghanistan ahead of the withdrawal of its troops, the Taliban said on Monday.

MONTERREY: Mexican authorities now say the remains of 51 people have been found buried in mass graves near the northern city of Monterrey.

TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dubbed his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev the mouthpiece of Irans enemies in the latest tirade born of rising differences between Tehran and Moscow.

TEHRAN : Iran has set up an eight million dollar fund to conduct serious research in the area of nuclear fusion atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Saturday.He said 50 people have been hired for the work which Iran began nearly three

SEOUL, Jul24 : North Korea said on Saturday it would begin a sacred war  against the United States and South Korea at any time necessary  based on its nuclear deterrent in response to reckless  military exercises by the allies.

NEW YORK, July 22 : Not only Pakistani folk singers and musicians won the hearts of New Yorkers on Tuesday, the opening day of the first-ever Sufi Festival here, their stirring performance in the City’s Union Square won a rave review in a prestigious American newspaper. 

NEW DELHI: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi should be a more respectable foreign minister, said the Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna in an interview with an Indian TV channel Wednesday.

KABUL, July 20: Pakistan on Tuesday extended its full support to Afghanistan’s efforts at reconciliation and called for making the reintegration process “broad-based, inclusive, Afghan-owned and Afghan-led.”Addressing the International Conference on Afghanistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the process needs to be consistent with the war-torn country’s social and cultural milieu.

KABUL,Jul 20: Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought to convince an international conference in Kabul on Tuesday that his government could assume full leadership by 2014 and demanded greater control of aid money.

WASHINGTON: The US intelligence network created after the September 11, 2001 attacks is so unwieldy, even principal actors within it are unable to grasp its size, according to a two-year probe by the Washington Post published Monday.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced a date for the general election as predicted this weekend.

UNITED NATIONS, July 18: Pakistan has paid warm tributes to the “very able” Africa’s leadership for enabling the continent to make strides towards addressing the challenges of peace, security and nation building that the rest of the world could emulate.

NEW DELHI , JUL 17: Held Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah met with Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram here today.

NEW DELHI: Indian newspapers on Saturday blamed Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi for the ‘failure’ of peace talks earlier in the week between the two countries.

MOSCOW,Jul 16: The Russian parliament on Friday passed a controversial bill expanding what rights groups warn are the already formidable powers of the successor to the Soviet-era KGB security service.

LONDON,Jul16: Afghan forces should be able to take control of several provinces from Western troops by next spring, a senior British official said, scaling back a previous British and NATO goal of starting handovers in 2011.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend high-level security talks in Pakistan before heading to a July 20 Afghanistan donors conference, special envoy Richard Holbrooke said Wednesday.

JERUSALEM: Israeli warships warily shadowed a Libyan aid ship on Tuesday even as officials said the vessel was diverting its course from Gaza and heading for a nearby Egyptian port.

Srinagar,Jul13: Prof. Bhim Singh, Chairman, J&K National Panthers Party today urged Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh to act boldly and urgently vis-à-vis Jammu and Kashmir Govt. so that the innocent Kashmiries

TRIPOLI: Israeli authorities have given a Gaza-bound Libyan aid ship an ultimatum of midnight on Tuesday to change course, in a radio contact with the vessel, an organiser of the mission on board said.

RAMALLAH: The Palestinian president says direct talks with Israel would be futile under current circumstances.President Mahmoud Abbas is under pressure from the U.S. to resume negotiations that

KABUL: Militant attacks in once-calm northern Afghanistan have killed at least 11 police and a government official whose car was hit by a remote-controlled bomb, officials said Sunday.

HELD AL-QUDS, Jul 11 will not allow an aid ship sent by a Libyan group to reach Gaza, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday, just over a month after Israeli commandos killed nine activists in a raid at sea.

HOUSTON,Jul7: – Raja Zahid Akhter Khanzada: The president Indian Supreme Court Bar Association (ISCBA), the chairman Kashmir Committee and a member of Rajeya Sabha Ram Jethmalani disclosed Tuesday Kashmir issue could have been long resolved peacefully if General Musharrf, the then Pakistani President, would remain in power for a little longer.

Defending President Obama’s Afghanistan war policy, US Vice President Joe Biden said the strategy rightly puts the onus on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to step up to the plate, root out corruption and train up his own national police and army.

NEW DEHLI,Jul5: The Delhi High Court today issued contempt notice to the Indian Army chief after he failed to comply with its previous order directing grant of permanent commission to serving women officers, who were selected on short service commission basis.

 TEHRAN, Jul04: Iran has submitted "evidence" to the Swiss embassy that its nuclear scientist was abducted by US intelligence agents, a website of local news channel reported on Sunday."The evidence related to the abduction of Shahram Amiri by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) has been handed over to the Swiss embassy in

KABUL, Jul;04: Gen. David Petraeus prepared to formally assume command Sunday of a 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan at a time of rising casualties and growing doubt about the nine-year war.June was the deadliest month for the allied force since the war began in October 2001 with 102 deaths, more than half of

SRINAGAR, Jul04: Laying stress upon quick solution of Kashmir row, the Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has said that Kashmir Issue should be kept on top of dialogue between India and Pakistan.He said neither water distribution nor Siachin but Pakistan and India must focus on Kashmir issue while holding parlays.

Jammu,Jul3:The Chief Minister Mr. Omar banned the entry of Prof. Bhim Singh, Chairman JKNPP to Baramulla, Sopore and Anantnag where the Panthers Party Supremo wanted to visit and expresses condolences to the families of the youth killed during the past two weeks.

WASHINGTON,Jul 3: The employment report for June released by the US Labor Department confirms that the United States is in the grips of a protracted economic slump with no recovery in sight. If anything, the report suggests that the economic situation would best be described as a depression, rather than the official designation of a slow “recovery.”

KINSHASA: More than 200 people were killed and 100 injured when a fuel tanker overturned and exploded in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo late on Friday, a local governor said on Saturday.

KABUL,Jul3: US General David Petraeus made his public debut Saturday as commander of the war in Afghanistan, attending the celebration of US independence Day at the heavily-guarded American embassy.

LONDON, July 2: A UK-based Kashmir organisation has in a letter despatched to Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman, Chairman, Parliamentary Kashmir Committee of the National Assembly, has urged him to move motion in the Pakistani parliament on the continued violence

BRUSSELS,Jul2: Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly adopts statement on Israeli attack. Sajjad Karim MEP who sits on the Euro - Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, stated after the meeting held to negotiate the statement at the European Parliament in Brussels,

SRINAGAR,Jul2: Prof. Bhim Singh, Sr. Attorney-at-Law in the Supreme Court of India and a Barrister was not permitted to meet Shri Ali Shah Geelani, Hurriyat (G) President who is detained in government hut in Chasma Sahi, Srinagar under Public Safety Act by the government of J&K.

LONDON: British foreign policy under its new government will aim to "inspire others with our values of political freedom and economic liberalism", Foreign Secretary William Hague said Thursday.

ISLAMABAD,Jul1: A commando contingent of the Pak Army’s special force Thursday left for China from the PAF Base in Chaklala to participate in the third joint military and training exercises between the two countries.

VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog said on Thursday its top investigator Olli Heinonen, head of probes into Iran and Syria, will leave his position for personal reasons after nearly 30 years at the Vienna-based agency.

US Senate unanimously confirmed Gen David Petraeus as the new commander of the Afghanistan war with a 99-0 vote.

NEW DHELI,Jun30: A massive demonstration was held in New Delhi today by Delhi Pradesh National Panthers Party workers at Jantar Mantar urging Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress in a memorandum to withdraw support to the government of NC Chief Minister

STRASBOURG/Jun30: Italy on Wednesday began its appeal against a European Court of Human Rights ruling condemning the display of crucifixes in Italian schools in a case that could affect all of Europe.

WASHINGTON,Jun30: U.S. President Barack Obama opened a broad attack on Republican lawmakers on Wednesday, accusing them of being out of touch with the American people for opposing Wall Street reforms.

HONG KONG,Jun30: Asian men from rich countries such as Japan and South Korea are increasingly seeking brides from poorer ones like Vietnam and the Philippines -- as economically liberated local women get picky.

WASHINGTON, June 30: The United States is working hard to regain Pakistan’s trust following years of estrangement in the pre -9/11 period, but the effort is going to take time, according to America’s top military officer.

UNITED NATIONS: Efforts are underway for the release of a United Nations-contracted cargo ship, which was detained by India last week as it sailed towards Pakistan with decommissioned weaponry from a UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia, a UN official said on Monday.

New Delhi,Jun29: Prof. Bhim Singh, Chairman, National Panthers Party and Member, National Integration Council while addressing a press conference in New Delhi urged Dr. Manmohan Singh and Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, the President of Indian National Congress to withdraw Congress support to the J&K Chief Minister who has lost control over the administration in J&K resulting into a total constitutional breakdown.

KABUL: The death toll for foreign soldiers in Afghanistan neared the grim milestone of 100 for June alone Monday as the CIA chief warned the anti-Taliban war would be tougher and longer than expected.

TORONTO,Jun28: Canada and India signed a landmark nuclear deal on Sunday, ending a quarter of a century of mistrust after India used Canadian technology to build its first nuclear bomb.

The G8 group of major world powers set a five-year timeframe for the government of Afghanistan to take increasing control of its own security.

DHAKA : Security forces in Bangladesh arrested more than 200 people Sunday as the first nationwide general strike since elections in 2008 was marred by violence, police said. In the capital Dhaka, security forces fired tear gas and used batons to disperse hundreds of opposition

KYRGYZSTAN, Jun27:Kyrgyzstan is holding a referendum on a new constitution amid fears it could inflame ethnic tensions.The proposed constitution would give parliament more power and set the stage for a general election in September. Several hundred people died in clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in

 SRINAGAR, Jun26: A complete strike is being observed today in held Kashmir against the firings on mourners and killing of four innocent Kashmiri youth by Indian troops in Sopore town, yesterday. According to Kashmir Media Service, call for the strike has been

 KABUL, Jun26 : A huge blast was heard in the Afghan capital on Saturday as a US military chief arrived for meetings to explain the sacking of the US commander of foreign forces in the country, witnesses told AFP.The blast took place in the centre of the city at 9.55 am (0525 GMT), witnesses said.

Pakistan is exploiting the troubled United States military effort in Afghanistan to drive home a political settlement with Afghanistan that would give Pakistan important influence there but is likely to undermine United States interests, Pakistani and American officials said.

ISLAMABAD,Jun25:Indian Home Minister Chidambaram has arrived in Pakistan to attend SAARC Interior Ministers Conference.

BISHKEK,Jun25: Kyrgyzstan is to vote in a constitutional referendum Sunday that interim authorities insist is vital for easing tensions after deadly ethnic clashes but that some fear could spark new unrest.

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen is on a tour to Afghanistan and Pakistan while Defense Secretary Robert Gates reassured leaders in the region that Washington’s strategy would not be affected by McChrystal’s departure.

WARSAW: Poland urged its NATO allies on Thursday to draft a new strategy for leaving Afghanistan and said it would bring its own troops home by 2012 regardless of what other countries decided.

KATHMANDU,Jun24: It was advised at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation immigration authorities that the issuance of visa stickers to member countries be eased, said sources Thursday.

JAMMU,Jun23:One day conference on Palestine praised the efforts of the Arab League Secretary-General Amour Mousa to ensure free passage for Flotilla shipment to Gaza to deliver aid to the starving Palestinians in Gaza. In a resolution the conference congratulated the Arab League Secretary-General who entered Gaza from Rafa, last week to find out the situation.

SRINAGAR, KASHMIR,Jun23: Today on Jun 21, 2010 an extra-ordinary meeting of Bhutto Memorial Trust was held at PPP headquarters, Rajbagh, Srinagar, Kashmir in connection with the 57^th birth anniversary of slain leader of Pakistan, Muhtarma Benazir Bhutto.

The UN is studying a letter from the Pakistani government, which includes some comments and observations on the report of the UN commission on the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the world body’s spokesman said on Tuesday.

LONDON, Jun22: Britain’s outspoken special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan has taken an extended leave of absence following reports of rifts between the former ambassador and his US colleagues in the region, Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed.

TEHRAN, Jun22: Iran said on Tuesday its barring of two nuclear inspectors serves as “notice” to the chief of the IAEA, but added Tehran was ready for talks with the UN atomic agency as suggested by France.“This action (banning the inspectors from entering Iran) is in reality a regulatory notice to (Yukiya) Amano to

WASHINGTON, Jun22: The United States should consider offering a criteria-based nuclear deal to Pakistan instead of sending it to the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a key US think-tank suggested on Monday.On the day when the 46-nation NSG begins a four-day meeting in New Zealand, which is likely to take up a

SRINAGAR, Jun22: Indian security forces said Tuesday they had killed a senior local commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group in Indian-administered Kashmir during a gunbattle that also killed a policeman.

BEIJING, Jun22: China said on Tuesday it was concerned about reports that a U.S. aircraft carrier may join a military exercise with South Korea amid a tense standoff with North Korea over the sinking of a warship from the South.

SRINAGAR, Jun21 : Occupation authorities in Indian occupied Kashmir on Monday deployed thousands of Indian police and paramilitary forces to stem demonstrations in the main city of Srinagar over the recent killings of three protesters.

KABUL, Jun21 : Six Nato soldiers were killed in three separate incidents Monday in southern Afghanistan, where the US-led alliance is mounting an ambitious campaign to flush out Taliban militants, the military said.In the deadliest incident, three Australian commandos and a US soldier were killed when their

TEHRAN, Jun21 : Iran has told the UN nuclear body that two of its inspectors will be prevented from coming to the country after they leaked information and filed false reports, ISNA news agency reported on Monday quoting atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi.

WASHINGTON, Jun21: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates rejected suggestions Sunday that US forces will move out of Afghanistan in large numbers in July of next year under a deadline set by President Barack Obama."That absolutely has not been decided," Gates said in an interview with Fox News Sunday.

BERLIN, Jun21: Germany slammed Israel for preventing Development Minister Dirk Niebel from entering the Gaza Strip to meet with Palestinian refugees during his current visit to the region. I believe that Israel has a need for transparency to render credible the idea that it is changing its political

BEIJING, Jun21: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called for extra efforts to battle flooding in central and south China, where torrential rains have left 175 people dead and 107 missing, according to the latest toll Monday. Over one million people have been evacuated from flooded areas in

BAGHDAD, Jun20 : Twin car bombs in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday killed 26 people and wounded 53  many of them women or traffic police  the interior ministry said.The bombs exploded within minutes of each other at around 11:30 am (0830 GMT) in the Al-Yarmuk neighbourhood of west Baghdad  a

SHANGHAI,Jun190: Floods and landslides across southern China have killed at least 69 people and left 44 missing in a week, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

LONDON: Britain has banned a radical Indian preacher, who claimed that "every Muslim should be a terrorist," from entering the country, a paper reported Friday, citing the interior minister.

RIYAD,Jun18:Saudi Arabia may mine and enrich uranium to fuel power plants if it embarks on a civilian nuclear energy program, a consultant preparing a draft nuclear strategy for the Kingdom said.

GENEVA,Jun17: The United Nations estimates that deadly inter-ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan have forced at least 400,000 people to flee the country or their home, a spokeswoman told foreign news agency Thursday.

SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, along with dozens of Hurriyet leaders and activists were arrested while leading a protest march towards the UN Military Observer Group headquarters, today.

ISLAMABAD,Jun16:An American construction worker held in Pakistan on suspicion of wanting to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden underwent medical tests Wednesday amid concerns for his health, officials said.

LONDON,Jun16: British police are to probe strange claims of a Pakistani-born woman that she was forcibly kept in a slave labour camp in Pakistan for nearly a decade.

KABUL,Jun13:Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday appealed to hundreds of tribal and religious leaders to support a major operation in their southern province, the heartland of a Taliban insurgency.

ISLAMABAD,Jun13: Pakistan has rejected the controversial report, published by the London School of Economics, a leading British institution, on Sunday.

KABUL,jUN12: More than three dozen school girls were treated after becoming ill from suspected poisoning at their high school in Ghazni province, in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday.

NEW YORK,Jun10: US court has sentenced Syed Fahad Hashmi, who was born in Pakistan and raised in New York to 15 years in prison here on Thursday.

FLORIDA,Jun10: Pakistani filmmaker Faraz Siddiqui for the first time has claimed spot along with two Nepalis in the finals of the 2010 US State Department’s ‘Democracy Video Challenge ’.

KABUL,Jun9: At least four foreign service members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan were killed on Wednesday when their helicopter was brought down by insurgent fire, the alliance said.

WASHINGTON,Jun9: US foreign office said in a statement here on Wednesday that the Kashmir is a critical issue between Pakistan and India that should be immediately resolved.

ISLAMABAD,Jun8: Chinese Vice Premier Zheng Dejiang is scheduled to pay an official two-day visit to Pakistan on June 9. According to Foreign Office, this would be his first bilateral visit to Pakistan, during which he would call on the President, Prime Minister and Chairman Senate and would be on meeting with the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Chief of Army Staff.

ISLAMABAD,Jun 8:A number of follow-up sectoral meetings will be held here during June to carry forward the process of comprehensive Pakistan-US engagement, initiated at the Pakistan-US Strategic Dialogue held in March 2010 in Washington.

WASHINGTON,Jun8: The brazen discrepancy which emerges quite conspicuous from the duality of character sported by the US regarding the freedom of speech, when Veteran 89-year-old White House correspondent,

WASHINGTON,Jun8: A massive explosion rocked the US oil and gas industry last night, with three people reported dead and ten missing.

ISLAMABAD,Jun 8:Palestinian Ambassador to Pakistan Hazem Hussain Abu Shanab said that an international resolution is required to condemn the brutal action of Israeli on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla in which nine peace activists were killed.

ISLAMABAD,Jun 8:Talks on science and technology sector under Pak-America Strategic Dialogue would be held on June 9 in Islamabad. US vice defence secretary Kerry N. Johnes and Pakistani federal secretary K.B. Rind

DHAKA,Jun6: Bangladesh lifted a ban on Facebook on Sunday, a week after it blocked the popular social networking site over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and "obnoxious" images of its leaders.

WASHINGTON,Jun5: President Barack Obama named retired general James Clapper as his new director of national intelligence on Saturday, selecting a defense veteran to coordinate action between numerous U.S. intelligence agencies.

TEHRAN, Jun01: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that Iran has precise information that Israel plans to launch a "massive attack" on Gaza in the wake of its deadly raid on an aid flotilla.

GUATEMALA CITY, May31 : The first tropical storm of the season has left more than 100 people dead across Central America, triggering flash floods and mudslides that swept away homes and destroyed roads, officials said.Tropical Storm Agatha also forced

BANGALORE, May30 : At least 30 people, including 10 children, were burnt alive on Sunday when a bus bound for the southern Indian city of Bangalore ploughed into a roadblock and caught fire, police said.The state-owned vehicle overturned in a ditch and its fuel tank burst into flames, engulfing the bus, the Press

KUNDUZ, May30 : A roadside bomb struck a police patrol Sunday in the remote northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan, killing seven officers, officials said, in the latest violence blamed on the Taliban.Separately a military commander said up to a dozen Taliban-linked militants, including their commander,

WASHINGTON: The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season may be one of the worst on record, US officials warned Thursday, amid fears it could deepen an oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico and bring new misery to Haiti.

Yemen's security chief warns tribes against harbouring Qaeda

SANAA, Jan17: Yemen's chief of central security warned the country's tribes on Sunday that if they harbour suspected members of Al-Qaeda they could face dire consequences.General Yahya Saleh, nephew of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, said "we broadly tell citizens in the concerned regions that they should not accept the presence of Al-Qaeda elements amongst them.

3 foreigners among 20 killed in NWA drone attack

WANA, Jan17: Twenty militants were killed and several others wounded on Sunday after a US drone fired two missiles at a militant compound in North Waziristian tribal region near Afghan border.Three foreigners were also among the dead. According to reports, the unmanned US spy plane targeted a house situated in Shaktoi area, killing 20 militants, some of them foreigners.

Working on legal, diplomatic fronts for Aafia’s release: Haqqani

NEW YORK ,Jan 16: The Pakistan government is doing all it can at the diplomatic and legal fronts to win freedom for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the neuroscientist whose trial on murder charges takes place next week, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani said Friday.

US refuses payments without audit

One die as forces’ vehicle ambushed in Rawla Kot

TTP chief seriously injured in US missile strike: Officials

PESHAWAR,Jan 15: Hakimullah Mehsud, leader Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been seriously injured in the USSouth Waziristan on Thursday, official sources disclosed on Friday. drone missile strike launched in

PM urges political forces to show patience

US should revise drone attacks, screening policies: Zardari

LAHORE, Jan 15: US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has assured that the United States will review its screening policy.

Police foiled attacks on parliament: Malik

Jan 15: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has disclosed before the Senate on Friday that police have foiled attacks on the parliament thrice, and one terrorist has also been held.

Longest solar eclipse in 1,000 years enthrals world

,Jan 15:The world is experiencing the longest partial solar eclipse including Pakistan after about 1,000 years. A partial solar eclipse is being observed in Pakistan today and it is the first solar eclipse of 2010.

Holbrooke expresses displeasure over criticism on US

ISLAMABAD ,Jan 15: US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke get annoyed over a criticism on US and conveyed strong displeasure to Pakistani politicians.

PPP wants state institutions’ respect: Asif Zardari

LAHORE, Jan. 14 : President Asif Ali Zardari has said the PPP-led government wants state institutions’ respect and strengthened democracy for Pakistan’s survival. Addressing party workers at the Governor’s House here Thursday, he said the PPP did not want any clash among institutions which could be detrimental not only for the government but also democracy.

US-India deal; Pakistan not to accept restrictions: PM

Hakimullah escapes as 10 killed in Waziristan drone attack

PPP. MQM finalize recommendations on LG system

Two children killed, 3 injured in Taank blast

Two children killed, 3 injured in Taank blast

World gears up to help quake-stricken Haiti; presidential palace collapses;hunhereds missing

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 13: Haiti's presidential palace and numerous other buildings in the country's capital Port-au-Prince collapsed Tuesday after a massive 7.0 earthquake, Haitian television streaming online reported.

12 kids dead in Mian Channu accident

Saudi cleric bans Muslims from joining al-Qaeda

DUBAI ,Jan 12: A prominent Saudi scholar has issued a fatwa banning Muslims from joining al-Qaeda and labeled it a violation of Islam's teachings, press reports said on Tuesday, amid concerns about the growing strength of operatives in Yemen.

China tests anti-missile defense system

BEIJING,Jan 12: Amid rising tension between Beijing and Washington over the US weapons delivery to Taiwan, China test fires a system for intercepting missiles. A successful test report of "ground-based midcourse missile interception technology" was released on

PM orders early approval of Balochistan’s uplift projects

ISLAMABAD ,Jan 12: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said the federal government attaches high priority to the socio-economic development of Balochistan and would utilize all possible resources for the uplift of the province.Talking to a delegation of Balochistan cabinet led by Chief Minister

PPP, MQM set up peace committee

KARACHI ,Jan 12: For maintaining peace in Karachi, a committee has been formed comprising members of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).This was decided in a meeting, headed by President Asif Ali Zardari, here at the Bilawal House. Members of the

Firing, target killings over in Lyari;Committee not linked with PPP: Malik

KARACHI ,Jan 12: The spate of firing and target killings, continued for last 10 days in Lyari, has come to an end today on  Tuesday morning.Meanwhile ,Federal Interior Minister Rehman A Malik said the government will take action against anyone who challenges the writ of the government, on  Tuesday.

Commander Zeidan killed in US drone attack

DUBAI ,Jan 12: A Jordanian Taliban commander, moved to Afghanistan in 1999 and stayed on to fight US-led forces, was killed in a US drone attack in Waziristan, extremist websites monitored by US-based SITE Intelligence said on Monday.

China tests anti-missile defense system

PM orders early approval of Balochistan’s uplift projects

ISLAMABAD ,Jan 12: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said the federal government attaches high priority to the socio-economic development of Balochistan and would utilize all possible resources for the uplift of the province.

PPP, MQM set up peace committee

Saudi cleric bans Muslims from joining al-Qaeda

Firing, target killings over in Lyari;Committee not linked with PPP: Malik

Commander Zeidan killed in US drone attack

NATO revises Afghan death toll down to five

Taliban takeover of Pak govt impossible: think tank

Senate passes bill allowing retiring MPs to retain facilities

Court will not let loan defaulters to flee: CJP

ISLAMABAD ,Jan 11: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Monday said that nobody would be allowed to escape from the country after looting the national exchequer.

Business faces more asset damage

Target killing continues in Karachi

KARACHI ,Jan 11: Another 10 people have been killed in target killing incidents during the last 24 hours in Karachi. Ten people have been killed during

PPP, MQM to maintain peace in Karachi: MalikKARACHI ,Jan 10: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) would maintain peace in the city, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said while addressing the Press Conference with MQM leaders after the meeting of PPP and MQM leaders on Sunday.

US drone strike kills four in NW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD ,Jan 10: A US missile strike on Saturday killed at least four militants in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, Pakistani security and intelligence officials said.The missile struck a compound in Ismail Khel village, 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border.

Malik announces withdrawal of all FC posts in Gwadar

Target killing continues in Karachi

KARACHI ,Jan 11: Another 10 people have been killed in target killing incidents during the last 24 hours in Karachi.

Target killing continues in Karachi

KARACHI ,Jan 11: Another 10 people have been killed in target killing incidents during the last 24 hours in Karachi.

MQM vows to fight Talibanization

KARACHI ,Jan 11: Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Waseem Akhtar said that the government was not accepting the view point of MQM that Talibanization is taking place in the city.

PPP, MQM to maintain peace in Karachi: Malik

US drone strike kills four in NW Pakistan

Malik announces withdrawal of all FC posts in Gwadar

Pakistan, Britain need to enhance cooperation

KARACHI ,Jan 10: President Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday that Britain and Pakistan needed to work closely to further strengthen their partnership in various areas particularly in trade and investment and educational development with a view to eliminating militancy

Al-Qaeda holed up in Yemen after Pakistan: Petraeus

 WASHINGTON ,Jan 10: The U.S. military does not intend to put ground troops in Yemen, a country where al Qaeda operatives have become an increasing threat, Gen. David Petraeus said while talking to a US-based news channel in an interview to be aired Sunday.

MQM MPs ready to sit in Opposition

KARACHI ,Jan 9: Members of National Assembly and Senate belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have strongly demanded of the party’s Rabita Committee that they should be allowed to sit in the Opposition over irresponsible attitude of the Sindh Government.

UK links Pakistan stability to Afghan peace

 ISLAMABAD ,Jan 9 : Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said boost in bilateral relations and trade have been discussed during talks with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband whereas British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said stability of Pakistan depends upon stable Afghanistan.

Saboteurs on go to target Karachi: Malik

Rangers protest with IBSF over cross-border terrorism

LAHORE, Jan09: Officials from Pakistan rangers have extended contacts with Indian Border Security Force (IBSF) in order to hold Flag Meeting over registration of protest against unprovoked cross-border terrorism from Indian forces on Wagha Sector on Saturday morning. Rangers officials said IBSF opened unprovoked fire on Wagha Sector inside Pakistan territory at 12:35 am today, subsequently, Pakistan

Civil nuke cooperation can improve US image: PM

ISLAMABAD ,Jan 8: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said Pakistan was committed to a durable strategic partnership with the US premised on mutual interests, respect and trust.

PML-N flays ‘foreign intrusion’, drone attacks in FATA

Six dead in Karachi blast

KARACHI ,Jan 8: At least six  people have been killed and several others injured in an explosion occurred in a house located in Balida Town area of Karachi on Friday.

Drone strikes should continue in Pakistan: McCain

KABUL , Jan 7: The use of drone strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan is an effective part of US strategy and should continue, Republican Senator John McCain said Thursday.

Federal govt to rehabilitate terror hit areas: PM

 PESHAWAR ,Jan 7: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Thursday said that the Federal Government will bear all the expenses on the development of insurgency affected areas besides rehabilitation of the people.

Hidden truth behind Mumbai attacks

BY AFSHAIN AFZAL

December 15, 2009, was probably the saddest day for Indian authorities, especially the Indian Military Intelligence (MI), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and a couple of other agencies who participated in Mumbai attacks drama to make it look real. In the past, India had been blaming Pakistan for the Mumbai attacks.

Gulf states warned of possible Qaeda attacks

India given suggestions on improvement of ties: FM

KARACHI ,Jan 6: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Wednesday that steps taken by Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks were commended in India, however, these were not formally acknowledged on the state level.

awaz rules out anti-govt move

KARACHI ,Jan 6: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif said the country is beset with the kind of problems which could not singly be tackled by one party; accordingly, it is not time that any movement aimed at dismantling the government be initiated  on Wednesday.

N Waziristan drone strike toll mounts to 5

Three killed in Rawla Kot blast

Solution of Kashmir issue must for peace: Zardari

MUZAFFARABAD ,Jan 5: President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday vowed to continue struggle for Kashmiris in getting their right of self-determination, saying that Kashmir will also be liberated from Indian occupation as the Pakistan was once achieved.

NWFP Assembly reposes full confidence on Zardari

QUETTA, Jan05 : NWFP Assembly unanimously passed a resolution reposing full confidence in the polices of President Asif Ali Zardari during the assembly session.According to the channel, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) parliamentary leader Abdulla Akbar Khan Awami National Party's parliamentary leader Bashir Ahmed Bilour tabled the resolution in favour of President Zardari while the parliamentarians of JUI, PML-N, PML-Q and PPP Sherpao group opposed the resolution.

Nawaz vows to foil plot against democracy

KARACHI, Jan05: Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday that his party would foil every plot aimed at destabilizing democracy in the country.Addressing a news conference after chairing the meeting of the party’s Organizing Committee here, Nawaz Sharif said there was no conspiracy against President Asif Ali Zardari, but added the PML-N would resist any such move even before the government.

ISLAMABAD ,Janb 5: A judge of Supreme Court (SC) Justice Javaid Iqbal, in his remarks, while conducting hearing of cases of missing people, has said state has completely botched in rendering obligations levied upon it, adding, Balochistan adversities can never be addressed properly unless the resolution of missing people issue.

US militant suspects 'wanted to help' in Afghanistan

Performance queries premature: Gilani

ISLAMABAD ,Jan 4: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said people have elected the present government for five years but questions have been raised about one and half year of our tenure. If we failed to fulfill the promises in five years, we will not contest the next elections.

Gilani, Nawaz discuss new accountability bill on phone

ISLAMABAD, Jan03: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Sunday spoke to PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif on phone and discussed new accountability bill with him.According to Mian Nawaz Sharif, he made few suggestions in the bill and sent it back to the government. He hoped that the bill would be brought to the Parliament soon.On this occasion, the prime minister said that good governance and transparency were the top priorities

Eight militants gunned down, says ISPR

PM stresses govt to act upon CoD

 ISLAMABAD, Jun03: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani stressed that Charter of Democracy (CoD) would be implemented and said it is the biggest mistake of the government to avoid acting upon it. Talking to media, he said the government achieved extraordinary successes in the war against terrorism and the spell of successes does not stop here, adding the government has to its credit a biggest success that it won public support for war on terror.

Ex-Minister among 4 killed in roadside blast in Hangu

HANGU, Jan03: Former Provincial Minister Ghani-ur-Rehman and three others have been killed in a roadside remote-controlled bomb blast in Bagtu area of Hangu.As per details, the blast occurred when former minister was traveling with three other people. All the 4 passengers in the car have been killed while the vehicle is badly damaged in the incident. The victims have been shifted to District Headquarter Hospital Hangu. Moreover, the police has

Yemen deploys troops to attack Qaeda terrorists

SAN'A, Jan03: Yemen deployed several hundred extra troops to two mountainous eastern provinces that are al-Qaida's main strongholds in the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber may have visited, security officials said Saturday. The reinforcements, aiming to beef up the military's presence in a remote region where the government has little control, were Yemen's latest move in a stepped-up campaign to combat al-Qaida. The United States plans to more than double

PPP has offered sacrifices for country: Kaira

Eight militants gunned down, says ISPR

US considers new sanctions against Iran: report

WASHINGTON, Jun03:The administration of US President Barack Obama believes domestic unrest and signs of unexpected trouble in Iran's nuclear program make the country's leaders particularly vulnerable to strong and immediate new sanctions, The New York Times reported late on Saturday. Citing unnamed officials, the newspaper said the long-discussed sanctions proposal

PPP has offered sacrifices for country: Kaira

PM stresses govt to act upon CoD

 ISLAMABAD, Jun03: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani stressed that Charter of Democracy (CoD) would be implemented and said it is the biggest mistake of the government to avoid acting upon it. Talking to media, he said the government achieved extraordinary successes in the war against terrorism and the spell of successes does not stop here, adding the government has to its credit a biggest success that it won public support for war on terror.

Ex-Minister among 4 killed in roadside blast in Hangu

HANGU, Jan03: Former Provincial Minister Ghani-ur-Rehman and three others have been killed in a roadside remote-controlled bomb blast in Bagtu area of Hangu.As per details, the blast occurred when former minister was traveling with three other people. All the 4 passengers in the car have been killed while the vehicle is badly damaged in the incident. The victims have been shifted to District Headquarter Hospital Hangu. Moreover, the police 

Yemen deploys troops to attack Qaeda terrorists

SAN'A, Jan03: Yemen deployed several hundred extra troops to two mountainous eastern provinces that are al-Qaida's main strongholds in the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber may have visited, security officials said Saturday. The reinforcements, aiming to beef up the military's presence in a remote region where the government has little control, were Yemen's latest move in a stepped-up campaign to combat al-Qaida. The United States plans to more than double

Eight militants gunned down, says ISPR

RAWALPINDI, Jun03 : Eight terrorists were killed and four others injured in operation Rah-e-Nijat during last 24 hours, said an ISPR press release on Sunday.According to the press release, security forces carried out sanitization operation in Shuza Algad near Sara Rogha. During exchange of fire, three terrorists were killed while four others

US considers new sanctions against Iran: report

WASHINGTON, Jun03:The administration of US President Barack Obama believes domestic unrest and signs of unexpected trouble in Iran's nuclear program make the country's leaders particularly vulnerable to strong and immediate new sanctions, The New York Times

PPP has offered sacrifices for country: Kaira

HAFIZABAD, Jun03: Federal Minister of Interior Qamar Zaman Kaira has said Peoples Party has given sacrifices for the country.Addressing the inaugural ceremony of the new building of Hafiziabad Press Club on Sunday, Kaira said former president Musharraf wanted to get rid of Mian Nawaz Sharif but the wisdom of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto

PM stresses govt to act upon CoD

 ISLAMABAD, Jun03: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani stressed that Charter of Democracy (CoD) would be implemented and said it is the biggest mistake of the government to avoid acting upon it. Talking to media, he said the government achieved extraordinary successes

Ex-Minister among 4 killed in roadside blast in Hangu

HANGU, Jun03: Former Provincial Minister Ghani-ur-Rehman and three others have been killed in a roadside remote-controlled bomb blast in Bagtu area of Hangu.As per details, the blast occurred when former minister was traveling with three other people. All the 4 passengers in the

Yemen deploys troops to attack Qaeda terrorists

SAN'A, Jun03: Yemen deployed several hundred extra troops to two mountainous eastern provinces that are al-Qaida's main strongholds in the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber may have visited, security officials said Saturday. The reinforcements, aiming to beef up the military's presence in

US considers new sanctions against Iran: reportWASHINGTON, Jun03:The administration of US President Barack Obama believes domestic unrest and signs of unexpected trouble in Iran's nuclear program make the country's leaders particularly vulnerable to strong and immediate new sanctions, The New York Times reported late on Saturday.

PPP has offered sacrifices for country: Kaira

PM stresses govt to act upon CoD

 ISLAMABAD, Jun03: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani stressed that Charter of Democracy (CoD) would be implemented and said it is the biggest mistake of the government to avoid acting upon it. Talking to media, he said the government achieved extraordinary successes in the war against terrorism and the spell of

Ex-Minister among 4 killed in roadside blast in Hangu

HANGU, Jun03: Former Provincial Minister Ghani-ur-Rehman and three others have been killed in a roadside remote-controlled bomb blast in Bagtu area of Hangu.As per details, the blast occurred when former minister was traveling with three other people. All the 4 passengers in the car have been killed while the vehicle is badly damaged in the incident.

Yemen deploys troops to attack Qaeda terrorists

SAN'A, Jun03: Yemen deployed several hundred extra troops to two mountainous eastern provinces that are al-Qaida's main strongholds in the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber may have visited, security officials said Saturday.The reinforcements, aiming to beef up the military's presence in a remote

Democracy, inaction cannot work hand in hand: Nawaz Sharif

LAHORE, Jun02: Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif Saturday urged the people to stand together against corruption and inaction just like they did before for becoming an atomic power and restoration of judiciary.He expressed these views during the meeting of provincial

Thick fog in Punjab; one dead several injured

Yemen deploys troops to attack Qaeda terrorists

SAN'A, Jun03: Yemen deployed several hundred extra troops to two mountainous eastern provinces that are al-Qaida's main strongholds in the country and where the suspected would-be Christmas airplane bomber may have visited, security officials said Saturday. The reinforcements, aiming to beef up the military's presence in a remote region where the government has little control, were Yemen's latest move in a stepped-up campaign to combat al-Qaida. The United States plans to more than double its counterterrorism

Democracy, inaction cannot work hand in hand: Nawaz Sharif

LAHORE, Jun02: Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif Saturday urged the people to stand together against corruption and inaction just like they did before forbecoming an atomic power and restoration of judiciary.He expressed these views during the meeting of provincial

Lakki Marwat death toll mounts to 93

LAKKI MARWAT, Jun02: The 93 victims of Lakki Marwat suicide blast have laid rest as the toll reached to 95.The blast-affected people are waiting for the government assistance under open sky in extreme cold since last night.The huge blast was Pakistan's deadliest in more than two months,

No internal threat to democracy: Asfandyar

PESHAWAR: Chief of Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Saturday said that Pakistan fighting a war of survival today and that the country is facing no threat to its democracy.Addressing a press conference in Peshawar, he said: "There is no fear of democracy derailment by the present Army Chief."

Obama blames al Qaeda affiliate for airliner attack

HONOLULU, Jun02 : US President Barack Obama on Saturday for the first time accused an al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen of arming and training a young Nigerian man for a thwarted suicide mission to blow up a US airliner.Obama, in his weekly radio and video address posted on the White House website, promised to hold the group, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,

No differences between army and government: Gilani

ISLAMABAD, Jun02 : Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said the impression of differences between army and civilian government is wrong and each of the institution is working within its own framework.Talking to media here, prime minister said there is no deadlock in constitutional

Death toll in Laki Marwat blast climbs to 55

LAKI MARWAT, Jun01: At least 55 people were killed and several other wounded on Saturday after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a volleyball ground in Shah Hassankhel town of Laki Marwat. The blast took place at a time when a volleyball match was in progress at the targeted ground.

Once again in the same rut

BY TALIMAND KHAN

Again we are stuck in the same rut in regards to terrorism and militancy. A national consensus was built to fight terrorism and the media has played a very positive role in the process of enabling the national parliament to reach a decisive conclusion. In

Death toll in Laki Marwat blast climbs to 39

LAKI MARWAT,Jan 1: At least 39 people were killed and several other wounded on Saturday after a suicide bobmer blew himself up at a volleyball ground in Shah Hassankhel town of Laki Marwat.

5 dead in Bajaur Agency bombing

KHAR, Jun01: Fiver people were killed in a remote-controlled blast in tehsil Salarzai of Bajaur Agency.According to sources, a roadside planted in Mandal area of tehsil Salarzai was exploded when a car was passing from the area killing five people. A tribal chief Sardar Malik Gul Shali was also among the deceased. The car has been

Karachi shuts to protest Ashura procession attack

KARACHI, Jun01: Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi nearly shut down on Friday as religious and political leaders called a strike to protest against violence after a suicide bomber killed 43 people at a Ashura procession. The streets of Karachi were nearly empty. The stock exchange was closed. Karachi Transport Ittihad, Muttahida Qaumi Movement,

Al-Qaeda threat looms into new decade, warns Brown

LONDON, Jun01: The failed Detroit plane bombing showed that terrorism remains a "very real" global threat as the world enters a new decade eight years after 9/11, Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Friday.World leaders needed to cooperate "urgently" to tighten security at airports and on aircraft following the December 25 attack

Peace desire not be misread as weakness: FO

ISLAMABAD, Dec31: Pakistan has made it clear to India that it’s desire for peace should not be considered as weakness, and that the ball is now in Indian court for the solution of all outstanding issues between the two countries. Briefing the media in Islamabad Thursday, the spokesman of Foreign Office said the solution

Jet plot shows growing ability of Qaeda Affiliates: report

WASHINGTON, Dec31: The plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight over American soil on Christmas Day represents an ominously new and lethal ability by a branch of Al Qaeda to attack the United States directly, according to government and independent counterterrorism specialists. Until now, American officials had expressed concern over the capability

No threat to system, says Nawaz Sharif

LAHORE, Dec31: The leader of Pakistan Muslim League (PML)-N Mian Nawaz Sharif said there is no threat to system neither anyone is hatching conspiracy.Addressing a party meeting, Nawaz Sharif said undemocratic attitude of government could poses threat. He said country’s situation

4 militants killed, 25 arrested in Wana

WANA, Dec31: Four militants were killed and more than 25 arrested during security forces operation in a private hospital in Wana, capital of South Waziristan.According to sources, several militants were wounded during forces offensive in Ladha area. They were brought to a private hospital in Wana

Gwadar: NFC Award signed

GWADAR, Dec30: The Chief Ministers of four provinces signed the historic 7th National Finance Commission Award (NFC) on Wednesday.The ceremony was witnessed by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and members of his cabinet.The Award was inked by the finance ministers of the four

India Army ready for war against China, Pakistan

NEW DELHI, Dec30: India is preparing for a possible `two-front war' with China and Pakistan.The newspaper said the Indian Army is now revising its five-year-old doctrine to effectively meet the challenges of war with China and Pakistan, deal with asymmetric and fourth-generation warfare,

Pakistan waging war against those who are weakening the country:President Zardari    

LARKANA, Dec 29 : President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday said the government was waging a war against all those who were trying to weaken the country.“We will wage Jehad against those who murdered Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, those who burnt Karachi and were killing our soldiers,”

Malik sees calculated plot behind Karachi blazes

KARACHI, Dec29: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said it was not Azadars who torched buildings and vehicles; instead, it was a calculated conspiracy to set ablaze the properties,.He said this while talking to media after

Obama vows to hunt extremists after al Qaeda claims jet attack

KANEOHE, Dec29 : President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to hunt down extremists wherever they plot attacks against the United States as al Qaeda claimed it hatched the attempt to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

Terrorists creating obstacles in national progress: PM

GWADAR, Dec29: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said the terrorists are serving as the stumbling block in the way for the national progress.Talking to media, he appealed to the citizens of Karachi to stay calm and said that terrorists

Karachi tragedy: funeral prayers of 6 martyrs offered

KARACHI, Dec29: The funeral prayers for six martyrs of Yaum-e-Ashur suicide blast in the main mourning procession yesterday, have been offered in Mehfil Shah Khurasan at Numaish.The Shiite ulema from across the country attended the

Blast kills 35, injures 80 at Karachi Ashura procession

KARACHI, Dec28: At least 35 people were killed and 80 others injured in a bomb blast at Ashura procession on MA Jinnah road on Monday.The blast triggered stampede and panic among the mourners, who pelted stones at the police vehicles. Some eyewitnesses

Orakzai clash claims 15 lives

PESHAWAR, Dec28: At least nine tribesmen and six extremists were killed in clashes between the local tribesmen and the extremists in Orakzai Agency.According to sources, the extremists turned up to occupy the house and ‘hujra’ of a local tribesman Malik Sharif

Govt determined to defeat militancy: Zardari

ISLAMABAD, Dec28: President Asif Ali Zardari has said, two years ago the world stopped for me and for my children. Pakistan was shaken to its core and all but came apart. Women everywhere lost one of their greatest symbols of equality. And Islam,

Yaum-e-Ashur being observed with reverence

ISLAMABAD, Dec28: The Yaum-e-Ashur is being observed with reverence and religious fervour throughout the country and Azad Kashmir on Monday to pay tribute to Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and his companions for the supreme sacrifices rendered by them

10 killed, 81 hurt in Muzaffarabad blast

 MUZAFFARABAD, Dec27: At least 10 people were killed and 81 injured on Sunday after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of the CMH in Muzaffarabad.Meanwhile, Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir has announced financial support of Rs200,000 for the victims.

Non-state actors want to enervate Pakistan: Zardari

 GARHI KHUDA BUX, Dec27: President Asif Ali Zardari said only the people of Pakistan can save their country Pakistan and they are standing by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP.Addressing the public gathering held here to observe the second anniversary of Benazir Bhutto’s

Democratic forces have to strengthen federation: Gilani

 ISLAMABAD, Dec27: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that the life and death of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto has become a torchlight for the people of Pakistan because she strived for the restoration of democracy, public welfare, national security and political

Thousands mourn Benazir’s death anniversary

GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH, Dec27: Government officials on Sunday led thousands of loyalists in mourning the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, two years after her killing here at her grave. Several thousand faithful gathered outside the mausoleum

Muharram 9th processions being taken out in country

ISLAMABAD, Dec27: The processions in connections with the ninth of Muharramul Haram are being taken out across the country today.A Majlis-e-Aza was held in Lahore area of Nicholson Road and later procession of Shabih-e-Zul-Janah was taken out attended

19 injured in Karachi car blast

KARACHI, Dec26: At least 19 people have been wounded in a car blast at Khilafat Chowk in Paposh Nagar Karachi.SSP Javed Baloch confirmed that it was a car blast, which went off when a Muharram procession was passing through Paposh Nagar.

Forces killed 4 militants in Mohmand

  PESHAWAR, Dec26: Security forces killed four militants and injured seven after an attack on check posts in Mohmand Agency.According to sources, militants attacked forces checkpoints in Chamarkand area in tehsil Lakro last night injuring three security

PPP, MQM vow to work together

KARACHI, Dec26: A delegation of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) met with President Asif Ali Zardari here at Bilawal House.The MQM delegation comprised of Deputy Conveyer MQM Dr. Farooq Sattar, Governor Sindh Dr. Ishratul Ibad, Provincial IT Minister Raza Haroon,

US embassy requests bulletproof vehicles

 ISLAMABAD, Dec26: The US embassy has made formal request to government of Pakistan to provide bulletproof vehicles for its staff deputed in Pakistan.The sources said concerned authorities started mulling over the request. According to diplomatic rules,

Christmas Eve around the world

VATICAN CITY ,Dec 25: Pope Benedict XVI's Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter's Basilica got off to a tumultuous start Thursday after an apparently deranged woman jumped the barriers and knocked him down on his way to the altar.

Change of guards ceremony at Quaid’s mausoleumISLAMABAD Dec 25: The 133rd birth anniversary of the Founder of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is being celebrated across the country including Azad Kashmir today, Friday in a befitting manner.

Forces nab 32 suspects in Kohat

KOHAT ,Dec24: At least 32 suspected persons including Afghan nationals and other foreigners were arrested during joint search operation of police and security forces as part of security measures ahead of Muharram 10 – the Aashora Day, here from parts of Kohat on Wednesday.

PESHAWAR , Dec 24: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Liaquat Ali said at least four people were killed and 20 others were injured in the suicide blast in Peshawar area near State Life Building situated at Mall Road in Saddar on  Thursday.

CJ advises eunuchs be appointed for loans recovery

ISLAMABAD , Dec 23: The Supreme Court (SC) advised the government to ponder over the appointment of the eunuchs for the recovery of loans from the defaulters on  Wednesday.

Bin Laden’s family in Iran

LONDON ,Dec 23: Osama Bin Laden’s daughter, Eman, has managed to escape from Iranian police and seek refuge at the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Tehran, the London-based Arabic daily reported.

Journalists in mourning at press club attack

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 23: The investigation team has been constituted to probe into suicide attack, launched on main gate of Peshawar press club yesterday, meanwhile, the human body parts, obtained from blast site,

Some alleged terrorists held in Peshawar: IG NWFP

PESHAWAR ,Dec 23: The Inspector General NWFP police Malik Muhammad Naveed Khan has said some suspects, accused of carrying out terror activities, have been detained from parts of NWFP including some foreign nationals on Wednesday.

No assurance on demanding resignation from President: Nisar

ISLAMABAD  ,Dec 22: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Tuesday said his party cannot give any assurances for not demanding a resignation from President Asif Ali Zardari and that a decision of PML-N in this regard is linked to the implementation on the Supreme Court’s verdict.

CJ issues final warning to loan defaulters

ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: The Supreme Court has issued a final warning to the persons who got their loan written off during the last 38 years.

SBP submits list of write off loans to SC

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 22 : State Bank of Pakistan submitted a list of the individuals and organizations that had got 193 billion rupees bank loans written off from 1997 to 2009.

Three die, 18 hurt in Peshawar suicide blast: police

 PESHAWAR ,Dec 22: At least three persons lost their lives and as many as 10 sustained injuries when a suicide bomber exploded himself in front of the main gate of Press Club Building located on Sher Shah Sori Road in Saddar locality of Peshawar on Tuesday morning,

PM meets President Zardari

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 21: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday called on President Asif Ali Zardari hours after his meeting with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President and Chief Minister Punjab, Mian Shahbaz Sharif.

New accountability law after consultations with political parties:PM 

LAHORE,Dec 21:Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Monday said that a new accountability law would be finalised after consultation with all the political parties of the country.“The new law is under process and suggestions of all the political parties will be considered before finalising it,”

PPP-MQM differences on administrator’s issue persist

KARACHI,Dec 20 : In its core committee meeting, Pakistan People’s party (PPP) Saturday urged the appointment of government officials as administrators

Shortage of  CNG : people face problems

ISLAMABAD,Dec 20: The two-day closure of CNG stations has caused troubles to people in in different parts of the country including Islamabad,Rawalpindi,Peshawar and Lahore; now, they are foerced to run their vehicles on petrol on Sunday.

Shortage of  CNG : people face problems

ISLAMABAD,Dec 20: The two-day closure of CNG stations has caused troubles to people in in different parts of the country including Islamabad,Rawalpindi,Peshawar and Lahore; now, they are foerced to run their vehicles on petrol on Sunday.

PPP to fight cases in courts: minister

PESHAWAR ,Dec 20: Federal Minister Najam-ud-Din Khan has said that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will fight its cases in the courts while tendering resignations without proven guilty is out of question.

Police expect Mumbai-style attack on London

LONDON ,Dec 20 : Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a Mumbai-style attack on the capital.In a briefing in the City of London 12 days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: “Mumbai is coming to London.” 

25 insurgents perish in SW,Orakzai,Malakand skirmishes

ORAKZAI , Dec 20 : Security forces claimed to have killed at least 21 miscreants during ongoing military offensive in parts of South Waziristan and Orakzai Agencies much before dawn on Sunday.

PPP to face cases revived after NRO verdict: CEC

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 19: The Central Executive Committee of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has passed a resolution putting complete confidence in the leadership of PPP Co-chairman and President Asif Ali Zardari.

Non-bailable warrant issued for Law Minister

RAWALPINDI ,Dec 19 : A Rawalpindi local court issued non-bailable warrant for the arrest of Federal Law Minister in twin cases of row on  Saturday.

Swiss cases reopening challenged in SC

 LAHORE ,Dec 19: A petition has been filed in Supreme Court against decision of reopening of cases filed against President Asif Zardari in Switzerland.

13 militants bodies found in Dera Adam Khel

KOHAT ,Dec 19: Thirteen bodies of militants have been recovered in Darra Adam Khel area near Kohat. Sources said 13 bodies of militants have bee found in Akhorwal graveyard and Indus Highway on Saturday morning.

Terrorism in galore in Pakistan

BY AHMAD ALI  

During Musharaaf rule terrorists had frequently targeted government installations, security forces and offices of intelligence agencies. Now militants targeting regularly crowds of civilians with much ease tocreate a havoc. The last three months of this year proved bloodiest inwhich huge number of civilians lost their precious lives.

12 dead, 28 hurt in Dir mosque attack

DIR, Dec18: At least 12 people were killed and 28 other wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque situated in Khurshid Police Line, Temar Garah.

NAB Court issues Malik’s arrest warrants

KARACHI ,Dec 18: The Accountability court has issued arrest warrants of Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday.

Kasab denies all charges

NEW DELHI ,Dec 18: The main accused of Mumbai attacks Mohammad Ajmal Kasab on Friday retracted from his earlier statement and claimed he was forcibly made to confess.

Your Lordship!

BY TALIMAND  KHAN

Your unanimous landmark verdict of the - otherwise sinister- sixteenth of December was of course historical, scraping the infamous National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) and bringing the expected jubilation to the country, at least for the time being.

US judges praise Pakistan judiciary

ISLAMABAD , Dec 18: Two judges of United States District Courts Friday stated that lower judiciary in Pakistan was doing much in the available infrastructure.

US judges praise Pakistan judiciary

ISLAMABAD , Dec 18: Two judges of United States District Courts Friday stated that lower judiciary in Pakistan was doing much in the available infrastructure.

17 militants killed by Jet fighters  in Orakzai

ORAKZAI, Dec 18: Security forces backed by fighter planes bombed suspected Taliban’s hideouts in Orakzai tribal region, killing 17 extremists, and injuring several others.

Six killed, many hurt in Timergira suicide blast

TIMERGIRA ,Dec 18: At least six people were killed in a blast occurred in a mosque in Khurshid police lines in Timergira area of Lower Dir on Friday noon. The sources said that the blast was suicide.

NAB Court issues Malik’s arrest warrants

KARACHI ,Dec 18: The Accountability court has issued arrest warrants of Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday.

Kasab denies all charges

NEW DELHI ,Dec 18: The main accused of Mumbai attacks Mohammad Ajmal Kasab on Friday retracted from his earlier statement and claimed he was forcibly made to confess.

Ahmed Mukhtar stopped from leaving country

ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Federal Minister for Defence Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, whose name is on ECL, has been stopped from leaving the country for China here at Islamabad airport on Thursday.

Cases against President, 52 others sent to courts

KARACHI , Dec 16: To reopen the cases against 52 people including Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Provincial Minister Agha Siraj Durrani and Principal Secretary of President Asif Zardari, Usman Farooqi, files have been sent to courts, said Deputy Prosecutor General of NAB Sindh

7 foreigners among 19 killed in US drone strikes

 MIRAMSHAH , Dec 16: Nineteen people were killed, including seven foreigners when unmanned US aircrafts fired 10 missiles at a house in North Waziristan on Thursday.

Elimination of terrorism, sectarianism vital for Pak’s security: President

ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: President Asif Ali Zardari has urged the country’s Ulema and Mashaikh to adopt a joint strategy for the elimination of terrorism and sectarianism, as it was vital for the security of Pakistan.

NAB orders reopening of accountability cases

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 17: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has ordered reopening of accountability cases after Supreme Court declared National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) null and void.

Govt respects SC verdict on NRO: Babar

ISLAMABAD,Dec 16: Responding to the Supreme Court’s verdict about National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), the President’s spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that the government accepts the court and its verdict.

Supreme Court declares NRO unconstitutional

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 16: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has struck down the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), saying it is unconstitutional.

CJ says NRO short order any time soon

ISLAMABAD , Dec 16: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said court would announce the short order about NRO cases any time soon.

CJ says NRO short order at 4:30

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 16: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said court would announce the short order about NRO cases at 4:30 pm.

NRO against Quranic teachings: Justice Javed

ISLAMABAD,Dec 16: Federal Law ministry has informed Supreme Court that letter for withdrawal of Swiss cases had been written on the directives of President Asif Zardari lawyer Farooq H Naek.

Zardari resists Obama for expansion operations in tribal areas

ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: President Asif Ali Zardari has resisted a direct appeal from President Obama for a rapid expansion of Pakistani military operations in tribal areas and urged the United States to speed up military assistance to its forces.

29 dead, 90 hurt in DG Khan blast

DERA GHAZI KHAN, Dec 15 : As many as 29 persons, including women and children, were killed while 75 others sustained serious injuries in a bomb blast in khosa market in front of house of Senior Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab Zulfiqar Khosa,

Zardari foreign bank accounts details presented in SC

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 15: Acting Attorney General Shah Khaver presented National Accountability Bureau (NAB) report regarding Swiss banks accounts to the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday.

LHC orders against detainee’s deportation

LAHORE ,Dec14 : Lahore High Court (LHC) issued order against any possible bid to deport the five Pakistan-origin US nationals detained in Pakistan on Monday.

Sufficient proof of Indian involvement in attacks: FM 

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 14: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has categorically said Pakistan is not involved in the Mumbai terror attacks. On the contrary, he said, Islamabad has substantial evidence to prove New Delhi’s hand in terror activities in the country.

Pakistan must pressure Afghan Taliban: Petraeus

MANAMA: Pakistan needs to put pressure on the leadership of the Afghan Taliban operating inside its borders for long-term progress to be made in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus said on Sunday.

PM vows action, if govt writ is challenged

MULTAN ,Dec 13: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Sunday ruled out any possibility of talks with the extremists, saying the government will take action wherever there is militancy and writ of the government is challenged.

Forces kill 19 insurgents in Kurram, Swat

KURRAM AGENCY ,Dec 13: The security forces’ action against rebels is underway in Kurram Agency and Swat Valley meanwhile, as many as 19 suspected miscreants have been killed in parts located in the heart of Kurram while 7 more were killed in Swat on Sunday morning sources said.

PM hints operation in Orakzai Agency 

 LAHORE ,Dec 12: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that operation in Orakzai Agency is under consideration. He said this while talking to the media after addressing GC University.

CIA terminates contrct with Blackwater:Report

WASHINGTON ,Dec 12: The US Central Intelligence Agency has cancelled a contract with a security company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide that allowed the company to load bombs on CIA drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan, The New York Times reported late Friday.

NFC consensus actualization of Quaid’s dreams: PM

LAHORE ,Dec12: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif called on Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at his residence in Lahore Saturday morning.

Clinton says US officials met detainees in Pakistan

WASHINGTON,Dec11: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the US officials met with five US nationals detained in Pakistan on terror-related charges .

 ISLAMABAD, Dec 10 : President Asif Ali Zardari Thursday directed Benazir Income Support Program to devise a comprehensive assistance package for the victims of terrorism. Addressing the third draw of Waseela e Haq Program at Aiwan e Sadr here,

Drone attack kills nine in South Waziristan

WANA ,Dec 10: Nine militants including four foreigners have been killed in US drone attack in South Waziristan.

Gilani orders withdrawal of army from Balochistan; offers talks with dissident leaders

ISLAMABAD,Dec 9: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday reiterating offer to hold talks with dissident Baloch leaders announced replacement of army with the FC, addressing a long standing demand of the people.

589 militants killed in operation Rah-e-Nijat

ISLAMABAD , Dec 9: A total of 589 terrorists have been killed while 79 security forces personnel have embraced Shahadat in operation Rah e Nijat so far, Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) said, on Wednesday.

Indian evidence should be brought before world: Nawaz

LAHORE ,Dec 9: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif has said that he is extending his support to the government for the stability of democracy and country.

CMs vow to wipe out terrorism

LAHORE ,Dec 9: Four Chief Ministers on Wednesday visited Jinnah Hospital and enquired the health of the victims of Moon Market blasts in Lahore.

Obama’s Conflict-ridden Afghan Plan

BY SHAMSA ASHFAQ

According to a recent US Government Accountability Office audit report, nearly 13,000 attacks were recorded in Afghanistan between January and the end of August 2009. There was an average of 100 attacks a day on international forces, Afghan security forces and ordinary civilians, which makes the figure 2.5 times higher this year than that of 2008.

Four India trucks carrying arms caught: Malik

ISLAMABAD,Dec 9: Federal Minister for Interior Affairs Rehman Malik revealed security forces have caught as many as four Indian trucks, laden with arms and ammunitions, from here Islamabad on Wednesday.

Zardari Swiss accounts, references presented in SC

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 9: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) presented the details of President Asif Ali Zardari’s Swiss accounts; while Sindh Advocate General presented the list of criminal cases abolished through National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) in Sindh.

Sindh list of NRO-abolished criminal cases presented in SC

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 9: Attorney General Sindh Wednesday presented the 180-page list of people in Sindh who took benefit in their criminal cases through National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).

 Mullen says raised Balochistan issue with India

WASHINGTON,Dec 8: Chairman of the US Joints Chief of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said he has raised the issue of interference into Balochistan with the Indian leadership Wednesday.

127 killed in spate of Baghdad explosions

 BAGHDAD, Dec08 : Five massive vehicle-borne bombs rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 127 people, including women and students, and wounding hundreds in the third co-ordinated massacre to devastate the city since August.

Twin blasts hit Multan Cantt, 12 dead

 MULTAN, Dec08: At least 12 people were killed and 35 others injured in a suicide attack at offices of a sensitive agency in Qasim Bela area of Multan Cantt.According to reports, gunmen stormed at a building of a sensitive agency and opened fire on police officials.

PPP to change destiny of nation: President

 ISLAMABAD, Dec 8 : President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan Peoples Party will change destiny of the nation and extricate people from lawlessness, backwardness and militancy no matter what the opponents said or did against the party. He said that those who were talking of cutting short the tenure of the party were living in a fool’s paradise

NRO beneficiaries names presented in SC

 ISLAMABAD, Dec08: The list of NRO beneficiaries has been presented in the Supreme Court (SC), Tuesday. According to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) sources  that the list contains at least 248 names of NRO beneficiaries.

Pindi suicide blast: Enough is enough

BY U.K. DAR

The act of killing innocent children and women offering their Friday prayers in a country created on the name of Allah is a brazen act of the shadowy figures whose origin is indistinguishable. Many would blame Taliban for these inhumane acts

US New Strategy – An Analysis

BY BASSAM JAVED

Finally, the much awaited Afghan Strategy was unfurled by President Obama in a speech delivered at the United States Military Academy on 1st December 2009. In the back drop of former President George Bush’s call to arms post 9/11, Obama’s wartime address sounded like an endgame rather

Govt attaches high priority to development of FATA: PM

ISLAMABAD, Dec 7 : Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Monday said the government attaches high priority to development of FATA and would ensure provision of increased funds for better health and education facilities besides

Balochistan Empowerment Package to be implemented speedily: Zardari

ISLAMABAD, Dec07 : President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday said the government was determined to speedily implement the Balochistan Empowerment Package after discussion and debate in the Parliament.

 Lahore twin blasts kill 30, 100 injured

LAHORE, Dec07: At least 30 people were killed and over 100 others injured including women and children when two consecutive blasts ripped through Lahore’s commercial center on Monday, CCPO Lahore Pervez Rathor said. Meanwhile,

Federal, provincial govts not to defend NRO in SC

ISLAMABAD , Dec 7: The federal and all four provincial governments refused to defend the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) before the Supreme Court (SC)on Monday.

SC hears NRO petitions

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 7: The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan has started hearing petitions related to the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).

Pak nukes are fully secure: India

NEW DELHI, Dec06: Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, rejecting concerns about safety of Pakistan nukes falling at the hands of terrorists, said Sunday that they are fully secure.

Terrorism in Pindi: Enough is enough

BY U.K. DAR

The act of killing innocent children and women offering their Friday prayers in a country created on the name of Allah is a brazen act of the shadowy figures whose origin is indistinguishable.

The collective failure of PPP Leadership

 Dr Nazir Ahmed

Zardari alone is not responsible for PPP perils today. Being the president of a country his problems is now hampering the progress of Pakistan.

US to launch new effort to capture Osama: JJ

WASHINGTON ,Dec 6: The United States will launch a new effort to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, who is believed to be hiding along the mountainous Afghan-Pakistani border, US national security adviser James Jones said on Sunday.

SC to start hearing of NRO cases from today

ISLAMABAD ,Dec 7: A 17-member larger bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will start hearing of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) cases from Monday today.

US will not pursue Taliban in Pakistan: Gates

WASHINGTON, Fec06: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday the United States would not pursue Taliban leaders in Pakistan and that it was up to Islamabad to address the threat posed by militants on its territory.His comments followed

Pak nukes are fully secure: India

NEW DELHI, Dec06: Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, rejecting concerns about safety of Pakistan nukes falling at the hands of terrorists, said Sunday that they are fully secure.In an interview with an Indian TV channel,

Babri Mosque Demolition and Indian Secularism

BY FATIMA SYED

Recently, Indian media leaked some part of Liberhan Commission report according to which Liberhan Commission of inquiry has indicted former Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee along with current leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha

Enough is Enough

BY U.K. DAR

The act of killing innocent children and women offering their Friday prayers in a country created on the name of Allah is a brazen act of the shadowy figures whose origin is indistinguishable.

No good US intelligence on Bin Laden for 'years:' Gates

WASHINGTON, Dec06 : The United States does not know where al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is and has lacked reliable information on his whereabouts for years, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told ABC News on Sunday.Gates made

Key commanded among 4 terrorists killed in Swat

 SWAT, Dec06: At least four extremists have been killed including a key Taliban commander amid skirmishes with security forces in Dangram – an outskirt area of Mingora on Sunday morning.Swat media center said the exchange of fire occurred in Dangram area,

Aitzaz urges NRO beneficiaries to resign

LAHORE, Dec05 : Pakistan Peoples Party leader Aitzaz Ahsan has called upon the ministers, who benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), to step down in party’s interest.Speaking to media after attending the meeting of Law and Justice Commission here on Saturday, he said these ministers

ISLAMABAD, Dec05: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday appreciated Allama Tahirul Qadri for issuing fatwa against suicide attacks and termed it a welcome step. In a statement issued here, Malik said that the edict issued by Dr. Tahirul Qadri

We live and die for the glory of Islam and Pakistan: Kayani

RAWALPINDI, Dec05: The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani attended funerals of some of Shaheeds of yesterday’s tragic terrorist attack on a Mosque during Juma Prayers, in which officers, soldiers, elders,

No danger of Taliban taking over Pakistan; it is out question: PM    

ISLAMABAD, Dec 5 : Rejecting any possibility or danger of Taliban ever taking over Pakistan, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said Pakistan is a country and “not some vegetable” which could taken away by Taliban. “Certainly not.

Pindi saddened over terrorism incident

RAWALPINDI , Dec 5: The city of Rawalpindi is deeply saddened over the worst terrorism incident occurred yesterday here while the affected areas are being strictly monitored reported.

WANA, Dec05: Six militants were killed and a security man martyred during clashes between security forces and militants in different parts of South Waziristan Agency (SWA) as operation Rah-e-Nijat is on in the area.According to sources,

52 martyr in Pindi mosque attack

RAWALPINDI At least 52 people were killed and several injured Friday when gunmen stormed a mosque in Rawalpindi, detonating bombs and shooting at worshippers including four senior army officials.

15 dead, several hurt in Pindi mosque blasts, firing

RAWALPINDI, Dec04: At least 15 persons have been killed and several wounded in a mosque locate in Chohar chowk Westridge area in Rawalpindi on Friday. According to DG ISPR, at least six to seven gunmen entered into Parade Lanes mosque

Bin Laden is in Afghanistan:Taliban detainee

LONDON,Dec  4: A Taliban detainee in Pakistan claims to have information about Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts in January or February of this year.

Conspiracy of Equating Militancy and Islam

BY ALAM RIND

It is quite fashionable to use the term "Islamic Militants" even by local print media to identify "Muslims" who perpetrate acts of terror in the country and around the world. Of course, people responsible for such acts need to be condemned in the strongest possible terms, but, heedless use of the expression "Islamic Militants" has far reaching negative implications.

NATO states commit more troops to Afghanistan

BRUSSELS, Dec 4: More than 20 countries plan to send more troops to Afghanistan following U.S. President Barack Obama's increased commitment to the war, NATO said on Thursday, but the overall number falls short of U.S. expectations.

‘Do more’ or ‘No more’

BY DR GHAYUR AYUB 

Obama’s rhetoric of ‘change’ during his campaign is coming to an end demonstrated by a sweeping decline in his popularity graph. In the context of Pakistan, he spoke of Kashmir as a troubled spot and burning issue between the two neighbouring countries.

Pakistanis are not contracted troops, says PM

LONDON, Dec03 Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said Pakistan is fighting the war against terrorism in its own interest.In an interview with a British news channel, the PM Gilani said, ‘We are not contracted troops for others to assess our performance.’

Over 2,358 beneficiaries: Rs 60 billion loans written off in Musharraf era

Part of Afghan policy may have negative impact on Pak

ISLAMABAD, Dec03: Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesman Thursday said that some points of the United States new Afghan policy might have negative impact on Pakistan.The FO spokesman Abdul Basit said this at a weekly briefing here.He said the war cannot

Britain says will continue assist Pak to fight terror

LONDON, Dec03: Pakistan and England have vowed to jointly fight terrorism and enhance bilateral partnership for the cause.Addressing a joint press conference here Thursday following a meeting at No 10 Downing Street, the Prime Ministers of the two countries owned the

Qaeda members slipping to Somalia, Yemen from Pakistan: US

WASHINGTON, Dec03: Obama's national security adviser, James Jones has said the members of Al-Qaeda are fleeing into Yemen and Somalia after being pressed by military offensive ongoing in Pakistan.This he said to an interview with a US television channel

15 militants killed in Swat clashes

MINGORA, Dec03 : At least 15 militants have been killed in fresh clashes with security forces in Swat on Thursday. According to sources, Abu Faraj - a top militant commander, among fifteen terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in

Pakistan itself to tackle internal issues: Clinton

WASHINGTON, Dec02: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday said Pakistan itself will have to cope with its internal challenges. she said she discussed the matter relating raise in presence

Failure means ‘Taliban takeover’ of Afghanistan: Gates

WASHINGTON, Dec02: Defense Secretary Robert Gates is telling Congress that a U.S. failure in Afghanistan would mean ``a Taliban takeover'' of the war torn South Asian nation.In remarks prepared for

Forces clear Dunai Killi: ISPR

PESHAWAR, Dec02: As many as 15,577 Cash Cards have been issued to displaced families of Wazirsitan, said an ISPR statement here on Tuesday.The operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan Agency continued today as well. On Jandola Sector,

New Afghan policy: U.S. to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan

One killed as suicide bomber hits naval HQ

ISLAMABAD, Dec02: A Navy official Ashraf has been killed and three others injured in a suicide attack at the entrance of Naval Headquarters in sector E-8 in Islamabad.According to sources, a suicide bomber

Kashmir leaders’ response positive: India

NEW DELHI, Dec02: India Home Minister P Chidambaram Wednesday said Kashmiri groups have responded positively to the Centre's initiative of "quiet talks" and hoped a solution will emergeReplying to questions in the Rajya Sabha, he said the government

FICCI report 'unhelpful to cause of peace in South Asia': FO

ISLAMABAD, Nov27 : Expressing concern over the 'National Security and Terrorism' report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Pakistan on Thursday said it regards such views as unhelpful to cause of peace in South Asia.In response to a question, Foreign Office Spokesman

Govt believes in complete freedom of media: President

ISLAMABAD, Nov27: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday said the government believes in complete freedom of media and would take all possible measures to ensure that media is facilitated in its professional pursuits. The President was talking to a delegation

Stoning the devil, animal sacrifice mark Hajj's 3rd day

MAKKAH, Nov27 : Pilgrims pelted pillars symbolising the devil with pebbles to show their defiance on the third day of the hajj on Friday as Muslims worldwide marked the Eid ul-Azha holy day with mass animal sacrifices.Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims filed by the three

Altaf appreciates President’s statement

LONDON, Nov27: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Quaid Altaf Hussain has highly appreciated the statement of the President, Asif Ali Zardari directing the leaders of the People’s Party not to issue statement against MQM.In a statement issued here, Altaf Hussain said President’s statement augured well. He also advised MQM

Eid ul Azha being celebrated in Gulf

JEDDAH, Nov27: Eid ul Azha is being celebrated today in Saudi Arabia, Gulf countries and Japan with great reverence and religious dedication, while the faithful are offering sacrifices of animals in pursuance of Sunnat-e-IbrahimiEntire Middle East including Saudi Arabia celebrating Eid ul Azha today with all the religious faith and

15 militants killed as troops regain Gorgari town

PESHAWAR, Nov24: Security forces started operation against militants in tehsil Bara of Khyber Agency.Fifteen militants have been killed and six arrested during security forces took control of Gorgari 

Closely consulting Pakistan on Afghanistan: Holbrooke

WASHINGTON, Nov24: US official envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke rejected on Monday Islamabad’s complaint that the US had not consulted Pakistan as closely as it should have

Two militants apprehended during last 24 hours: ISPR

Balochistan package proposals presented in Parliament

ISLAMABAD, Nov24 : The historic proposals for ‘Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan’ were presented to Joint Sitting of the Parliament pledging inquiry into Nawab Akbar Bugti's killing, payment of gas

PM extends dialogue offer to all forces in Balochistan

ISLAMABAD, Nov24: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday said Pakistan is unlikely to achieve the destination of prosperity until the provinces are strengthened.Addressing the joint session

US, Israel lack courage to attack: Ahmadinejad

BRASILIA,Nov24: Visiting Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said that US and Israeli military threats against Iran were a thing of the past, and that, in any case, "they don't have the courage" to attack Iran

Jammu & Kashmir disputed territory, needs settlement through UN resolutions; FO

ISLAMABAD, Nov 23 : Pakistan Monday once again reminded India that Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory and it should be resolved and settled in accordance with the resolutions of United Nations.

President, PM discuss political situation, Waziristan operation, Balochistan package

ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani called on President Asif Ali Zardari here in the Presidency on Monday. During the meeting matters relating to the current political situation,

Self-reliance in defence production must to achieve goal of progress: PM

ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday said without achieving self reliance in the defence production, the goals of progress and prosperity could not be achieved.

Security forces kill 10 militants in Orakzai Agency

PESHAWAR,Nov23: Ten militants were killed and several others injured in fierce clashes between security forces and Militants in Orakzai Agency and adjoining areas.Troops, sources said, killed ten militants

First JF-17 Thunder fighter plane handed over to PAF

ISLAMABAD, Nov23: The first state of the art JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighter plane produced in Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Kamra handed over to Pakistan Air Force.Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza

Pandemonium in Indian Lok Sabha over Babri mosque report

NEW DELHI, Nov23: The row over the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry into the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition led to the Lok Sabha adjournment until 12 noon Monday after opposition members boycott the session

5 killed, 30 hurt as three blasts shake India’s Assam

 GUWAHATI, Nov 22: Three blasts rocked Nalbari district in Lower Assam on Sunday morning, in which five persons have reportedly been killed while another 30 have been injured, Geo news quoted Indian media as reporting.

Government issues list of 8,041 names

ISLAMABAD,Nov 21: 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. Eight thousand and forty one faces to be precise.

550 soldiers embraced martyrdom in Swat: Kayani

SWAT, Nov22 : Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has said the troops will stay in Swat till restoration of complete peace in the region and no one should have doubt over the Pak Army’s role as we are

No NRO beneficiary resigning from govt office

ISLAMABAD, Nov21: The present ministerial and government office holders intend not to resign or step down in the aftermath of the National Reconciliation Ordinance-beneficiaries list made public on Saturday.

5 killed, 30 hurt as three blasts shake India’s Assam

Four terrorists killed in fresh SWaziristan offensive

WANA, Nov22: At least four extremists were killed and nine others injured in fresh army offensive in parts of South Waziristan Agency (SWA) early on Sunday morning. The security forces’ operation

First made in Pakistan fighter to roll out tomorrow

ISLAMABAD, Nov22: The first state of the art JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighter plane produced in Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Kamra will roll out tomorrow.This will kick start a new era in Pak-China

Malik says will quit if Blackwater exists in country

ISLAMABAD, Nov21: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said he will resign if Blackwater, found operating anywhere in Pakistan.Talking to media in Islamabad, Malik denied presence of Afghan

23 Taliban killed in separate clashes in Afghanistan: police

KABUL, Nov21 : Afghan and foreign troops killed 23 Taliban militants in separate operations a day after the president pledged to take responsibility for security in his new five-year term, police said Saturday.The militants were killed

14 militants killed during last 24 hours: ISPR

RAWALPINDI, Nov21 : At least 14 terrorists were killed while six soldiers including an officer were martyred and four others injured in South Waziristan operation Rah-e-Nijat during last 24 hours, said an ISPR press release on Saturday.Security

Zardari tops list of NRO beneficiaries

ISLAMABAD, Nov21 : Government of Pakistan Saturday released the list of the beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance on the directives of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani.State

Army to work in sync with govt for Swat rehab: Kayani

SWAT, Nov21: Army Chief General Ashfaqu Pervaiz Kayani Saturday said the Pak Army will stay every moment with the people of Swat.Today, the Army Chief arrived in Swat where he attended a children

31 dead, 82 trapped after China mine blast

BEIJING, Nov21: An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early Saturday killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, state-run China television said, the latest deadly incident to hit the industry. The blast happened at 2:30 am

Bombings kill 18 in Afghanistan

 HEART, Nov20: Bombers on Friday killed 18 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai's second term in office that underscored spiraling insecurity nine years into the US-led war.A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck the capital of the southwestern

US must share contours of its road-map towards Afghanistan: PM

ISLAMABAD, Nov 20 : Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has emphasized that the United States must fully share the contours of its road-map towards Afghanistan and ensure incorporation of Pakistan’s input in it. The Prime Minister was talking to Director of the US Central

Pak rules out Mullah Omer presence in Karachi

ISLAMABAD, Nov20 : Spokesman for foreign office, Abdul Basit has ruled out presence of Mullah Omer in Karachi, saying that Taliban leadership is in Afghanistan, WTP reported on Friday.According to the channel, Abdul Basit said that reports of presence of Mullah Omer in Karachi are based on speculations, adding they are baseless.

3 militants killed in S Waziristan clashes

WANA, Nov20: Three militants were killed and seven injured during clashes between security forces and militants as operation Rah-e-Nijat continued in South Waziristan.Sources said three militants

Eight dead in US drone strikes in North Waziristan

Islamabad suicide attacks master mind arrested

Fighting terrorism is our own war: PM Gilani

Army kills seven militants in last 24 hours: ISPR

Hamid Karzai sworn in as Afghan president

19 killed, 45 injured in Peshawar suicide blast

Consensus on resource distribution formula: Tarin

Qureshi, Krishna discuss bilateral ties

Obama visit triggers protest in S Korea

Zilhaj moon sighted; Eid-ul-Azha on Nov 28

Provinces to get more in NFC: Tarin

BB assassination: UN investigators question Musharraf

COAS warns not to misjudge Pakistan’s defence capability

Handful of foreign elements trying to disrupt peace in country; Gilani

Iran to face 'consequences' on nuclear issue: Obama

One dies, seven injured in Quetta bomb blast

Ready to meet political challenges: Zardari

Britain offers to hold summit on Afghanistan

SWA: security forces kill 180 terrorists

WANA,Nov17: Pakistan Army has taken full control of Sararogha amid ongoing operation in Southern Waziristan killing a large number of Uzbek militants there Tuesday. During a press briefing

SC  asks for details on handing-over Pakistanis

ISLAMABAD, Nov16: Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan has ordered Federal Interior Ministry to present details about handing-over Pakistani citizens to other

OGRA to decide POL prices

KARCHI, Nov16: The government has empowered Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) to decide petroleum product prices in future.According to officials,

Security forces consolidate on all three axes in SWA: ISPR

RAWALPINDI, Nov16 : Security forces are consolidating their positions on all three axes in South Waziristan operation Rah-e-Nijat during 24 hours, said an ISPR press release on Monday.