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Last Updated: 2009-11-20T13:40:49+05:30
About 8 people lost their lives in a suspected US drone attack which happened in the tribal areas of North West Pakistan on Friday.
 
Two missiles were fired by an unmanned aircraft at Mir Ali tehsil in North Waziristan tribal agency located on the borders of Afghanistan.
 
Yesterday ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-19T14:51:47+05:30
A court complex in Peshawar was shaken up when a suicide bomber struck on Thursday. When reports last came in at least 16 people were killed and 25 were injured.
District Coordination Officer Sahibzada Anis said that a suicide bomber wanted to enter the complex of courts on the city's busy Khyber ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-16T17:27:32+05:30
The trial of the Mumbai 26/11 attack has been adjourned by the Pakistani anti-terrorism court for Nov 23. The court was conducting the trial of seven suspects including LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi
 
"The proceedings were adjourned till November 23 as the Punjab bar association ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-16T12:25:26+05:30
As President Barack Obama prepares to announce his new strategy for Afghanistan, his administration is stepping up pressure on Pakistan to expand and reorient its fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the New York Times reported on Monday.
 
As Obama travelled to Asia, his national ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-16T11:44:26+05:30
Police of Pakistan's Malakand division has set up a special school security wing for providing security to schools from Islamists.
 
"We have established the SSSW to ensure protection to the schools, colleges and university all over Malakand," said Mohammad Idrees Khan, the deputy ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-16T10:16:15+05:30
It looks as if the terrorists are not satisfied with the attacks they have been launching in Pakistan, especially in Peshawar, since 8 of the total blasts which have been rocking Pakistan since last month happened in this province.
 
In the latest of the blasts, which took place today at ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-14T10:34:11+05:30
In a disclosure likely to embarrass Beijing on the eve of President Barack Obama's visit, a leading US daily on Friday reported that China gifted 50 kg of uranium to Pakistan with a do-it-yourself kit to make two atomic bombs in 1982.
 
Citing accounts by controversial Pakistani scientist ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-13T12:35:38+05:30
It looks like the terrorists are not satisfied with the attacks they had been launching in Pakistan since last month. About 13 people lost their lives in the latest attack, which happened today. A suicide bomber left himself off in front of the ISI agency at Peshawar, a few hours after which a ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-13T12:17:20+05:30
A Danish official used a "dummy bomb" to test the security arrangement outside his embassy premises following a string of massive blasts across the country, a media report said Friday.
 
The interior ministry objected to the incident, saying: "Such type of exercises without ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-13T09:16:16+05:30
A car bomb went off outside an intelligence agency at Peshawar. About 7 people have been feared to be dead.
 
Reports fear that about 35 people have been wounded in the blast which happened in the Khyber Road area of Peshawar at around 6:45 a.m., said Abdullah Khan, a duty officer ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-12T12:02:01+05:30
The Daily Times, one of the prominent Pakistani daily, has mentioned that Al Qaeda might have conspired with the Pakistani Taliban for creating the unrest in Pakistan.
 
"It seems as if there is some other force helping the local Taliban and from the pattern of suicide bombings, it ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-11T14:47:55+05:30
Pakistani forces have swiftly overrun most Taliban redoubts in their South Waziristan offensive but the gains might not ensure eradication of terror networks in the region.
 
Under what they term a "strategic retreat", the Taliban have fled towns and villages to save their men and ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-11T14:31:12+05:30
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while citing that the "safe haven” of Al Qaeda in Pakistan is “very troubling”, has mentioned that Al Qaeda and Pakistan Taliban together are posing severe threat to Pakistan.
 
The US was in Afghanistan "because we believe ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-11T11:56:36+05:30
Pakistan's top military commander has rubbished a report that the country was in talks with the US over "added security" for its nuclear arsenal, saying the armed forces were capable of safeguarding the arsenal.
 
The remarks came after the New Yorker magazine cited anonymous ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-10T12:08:37+05:30
The US has assured Pakistan that it has no intention of seizing Pakistan's nuclear weapons or material, saying it has confidence in Islamabad's ability to provide adequate security to its nuclear programmes.
 
"The US has no intention of seizing Pakistani nuclear weapons or ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-10T10:23:17+05:30
Pakistan will now be holding the trials of brothel owners of Punjab under Anti-Terrorism Act since terrorists choose the prostitution houses as their den.
 
Muhammad Pervez Rathore, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) of Lahore, mentioned that the Lahore prostitute houses have been turned by ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-09T11:53:32+05:30
The deteriorating security conditions of Pakistan have hampered the tourism industry of Pakistan and it has reflected on the world tourism ranking of the nation. Pakistan, which had held the 111st rank in world tourism, has now dropped by two places to stand at 113.
 
According to reports ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-09T10:43:32+05:30
According to reports from Geo News, a blast which happened in Patang Chawk area of Peshawar, which is located within the Faqirabad police station, on Monday morning, has claimed the lives of three people.
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According to reports, at least three people were killed in the blast at a police picket. ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-05T13:54:54+05:30
The anti-terrorist war which has been launched by Pakistan is hampering the route of migratory birds.
 
An unusual delay in the arrival of migratory birds to Sindh this winter can be attributed to the war on terror, a Pakistani official has said.
 
Sindh Wildlife Department (SWD) ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-05T13:54:11+05:30
Admiral Mike Mullen, while urging for a sustained relationship with Pakistan, cited that Islamabad was "very concerned about India. That's not going to go away overnight”.  Admiral Mike Mullen is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the US.
 
Mullen, who was ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-04T16:30:44+05:30
Pakistan has approved the Anti-Money Laundering Bill, which has declared the financing for terrorism-related activities to be criminal offences.
 
The Anti-Money Laundering Bill 2009 was approved by the National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday and has declared ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-04T11:57:37+05:30
A media report on Wednesday suggested that the US will be providing training to the police force of Punjab Province of Pakistan for combating the terrorist attacks.
 
The US embassy assistant legal attaché, Carol M. Sniegowski and Tariq Saleem Dogar, the Punjab Inspector General of ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-02T15:27:17+05:30
At least 34 people were killed Monday when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle triggered a powerful explosion close to a luxury hotel and a bank in this garrison city abutting capital Islamabad. The blast occurred barely 500 metres from the Pakistani Army Headquarters, which had come under Taliban ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-02T12:36:50+05:30
Pakistan has offered five million dollars as reward for anyone who captures the Taliban warlord of Pakistan Hakimullah Mehsud and his 18 lieutenants, dead or alive. The award was published in The News daily as well as flashed on Pakistani television channels on Sunday night.
 
50 million ...

Last Updated: 2009-11-02T12:15:41+05:30
It looks as if Pakistan has lost completely to terrorism. And the proof is the massive explosion, considered to be a suicide bomb attack, which rocked a mall in Rawalpindi today morning around 11 am.
 
The Shalimar hotel is situated near the Five Star Pearl Continental hotel and cantonment ...

Last Updated: 2009-10-31T15:34:15+05:30
An editorial in a leading English daily on Saturday maintained that much of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's harsh words on Pakistan's lack of seriousness in tackling the Al Qaida were true and that Islamabad should be honest enough to accept this.
 
Another editorial in the same vein ...

Last Updated: 2009-10-31T14:46:36+05:30
Despite India expressing concerns over US providing aids to Pakistan, George W. Bush, while talking at the HT Leadership Summit in Mumbai on Saturday, mentioned that India really wished that the US has "a friendship" with Pakistan.
 
"It is in India's interest that the US has ...

Last Updated: 2009-10-30T11:39:15+05:30
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is currently in Pakistan as a part of her three-day itinerary, has stressed that she believes that Al Qaeda exists in Pakistan and expressed her disbelief that the Pakistan government is unaware of its whereabouts.
 
“I find it hard to believe ...

Last Updated: 2009-10-29T13:19:37+05:30
The Taliban and the Al Qaeda have distanced themselves from the deadly market blast in Peshawar that claimed 105 lives, saying they don't explode bombs in such areas, reported a Pakistani paper Thursday.
 
The News quoted an Al Qaeda statement as saying the group was not involved in the ...

Last Updated: 2009-10-29T10:12:42+05:30
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday assured Pakistan full support in its struggle against terrorism, after a car bombing killed more than 100 people in the Islamic country's north-western region.
 
"These attacks on the innocent people are cowardly. They are not ...



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