According to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, the al-Qaida chief, Osama bin Laden, is no more. But he has requested for more international help as those areas, which the Americans feel Osama is hiding, can be explored.  
 
Stressing that Pakistan government was fighting against the ...

A new education policy has been approved by the cabinet of Pakistan on Wednesday. The subject had been a source of debating for the last four years.
 
Education Minister of Pakistan, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, has disclosed that the policy has been finalized in consultation with federal and ...

The trial of the eight accused of the Mumbai 26/11 terrorist attacks has been postponed by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court to Sep 19. The Pakistani court has also remanded a suspect to judicial custody.
 
The details of the proceedings are not available as the media has been banned by Judge ...

The trial of the five LeT operatives who have been accused of hatching the Mumbai 26/11 terrorist attacks have been adjourned to Sep 1 by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday. The coverage of the trial by media has also been banned by the court.
 
 
The media blackout was ...

The Pakistan’s Kamra aeronautical complex and Italian firm Selex Galileo collaboration have initiated the production of drone planes, Falco UAV, which does not require a pilot.
 
According to Kamra’s head, Chief Air Marshal Farhat Hussain, Falco UAV has a viotal role in boosting ...

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has requested the US to grant drone technology to Pakistan. He also demanded US to bring to an end the drone attacks inside Pakistan.
 
Gilani made the request during a meeting that was held with US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard ...

According to sources, Pakistan is looking for a civilian nuclear deal with the US so that it can surmount its energy needs as this cannot be avoided in future.
 
According to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Asif Ahmed Ali, Pakistan has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ...

Hakimullah Mehsud and Mufti Wali-ur-Rehman, the two rival Taliban leaders were killed following heated argument over the issue of succession of Baitullah Mehsud, media reports said.
Hakimullah Mehsud and Mufti Wali-ur-Rehman along with pther Taliban militants had gathered in the country's volatile ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be providing a $3.1-billion loan to Pakistan. This information was given by Pakistan’s Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen.
 
IMF was requested for the funds as the country did not receive any financial help from Friends of Democratic Pakistan ...

The Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) of Hafiz Saeed, which India has accused as the mastermind behind the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, as well as 24 other religious and welfare organisations have been banned by Pakistan.
 
The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group found by Saeed has also been banned. LeT was ...

A bill against domestic violence to protect women, children and families vulnerable to crimes at home was unanimously passed by the National Assembly, the lower house of Pakistan's parliament on Tuesday.
 
Moving The Prevention of Domestic Violence Bill, 2008, Yasmeen Rehman of the Pakistan ...

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf, who has been ruled guilty of illegally imposing emergency two years ago, faces exile in Britain because his presence may destabilise the country, a British newspaper reported Saturday.

Musharraf, a former military general who was ousted from power in ...

The first among the four Chinese F-22P frigates constructed for the Pakistan Navy was handed over at a ceremony at the Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai.
 
The delivery ceremony was followed by the commissioning of the ship, during which the Pakistani flag was hoisted on the ship with a ...

Sufi Muhammad, who had brokered a controversial peace deal between the Taliban and the government in Pakistan's restive northwest, is being investigated for the extent of his links with the Taliban and Laskhar-e-Taiba.
 
Interrogators are probing into the depth of the cleric's contacts with ...

Sufi Muhammad, a pro-Taliban priest, who brokered a peace deal between the militants and the provincial government about six months ago in Swat Valley, was arrested by Pakistan authorities on Sunday from north-western city of Peshawar.
 
The influential cleric and his two sons, Ziaullah and ...

Admiral Mullen, the top most US military official said that Pakistan's spy agency, ISI, has been "fomenting chaos" in Kashmir and advised Islamabad to restrain it.
 
"I believe that in the long run the ISI has to change its strategic thrust which has been to foment chaotic ...

Disapproving the US assessment about Islamabad's change in approach towards terrorism, India has requested Pakistan to "show the same force" in fighting anti-India terrorists like Lashkar-e-Taiba as it has done in combating the Taliban and other anti-West militants.
 
Dismissive of ...

Without naming Pakistan, Home Minister, P. Chidambaram said on Wednesday that while India sympathised with its people for suffering from terrorism, it was also the responsibility of its rulers to deal with the scourge.
 
"One of the epicentres of terror is a country on our borders. That ...

According to Ajay Maken, the Minister of State for Home Affairs Women, terrorists are being trained in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir for anti-India activities.
 
“Pakistan-based terrorist groups, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), are reported to be active in organising ...

The leading English dailies in Pakistan on Tuesday front-paged the news but otherwise downplayed the confession of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone gunman captured alive during the Mumbai terror attacks, owning up to his role with the only comment being a statement from defence minister dismissing the ...

The foreign policy chief of European Union, Javier Solana, will visit Pakistan on Monday for talks with the country's leadership.
 
He will make a two-day stop in the country on his way to attend the Association of South-East Asian Nations' (ASEAN) regional forum meetings on Wednesday and ...

Pakistan has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records by planting 541,176 saplings in one day to break the Indian record of 447,874 trees that was set on June 12.
 
Pakistan's environment ministry arranged the plantation drive on the eve of National Year of Environment that is also ...

News from Geo TV, on Friday, said that out of the six militants who have been killed in two separate clashes that happened in the North West region of Pakistan, a Taliban commander was also present.
 
 The report said that the security forces had bombed two Taliban hideouts on Thursday ...

Pakistan's victory in the world Twenty20 championship is "the best news" for the trouble-torn country since former president Pervez Musharraf's exit and gives Pakistanis a new weapon to fight the Taliban, according to a noted Forbes columnist.
"As Pakistan fights for its survival ...

The Pakistani government has raised the salaries and pensions of its employees by 20 percent, a senior minister has said. The salary hike will be effective for employees in grades 1 to 16.

"On our request, the prime minister directed the concerned authorities to raise the government ...

Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and his German counterpart Gen Schneidrhan have pledged to boost defence cooperation and enhance strategic partnership, the Online news agency said on Friday.

During a meeting here, the two officials discussed the ongoing war on terrorism and the ...

A militant leader who broke away with Pakistan's Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud has accused him of killing former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a media report said Friday.

Haji Turkistan Baetani, former right-hand man of Mehsud, claimed that Mehsud had planned the assassination of ...

The European Union (EU) is to give Pakistan over 100 million euros ($138 million) in aid, more than half of it for victims of the recent fighting in the Swat Valley, EU officials said Wednesday at the first ever EU-Pakistan summit in Brussels.

"I will be able to announce today more than 100 ...

The US has sought an extra aid of $200 million to help the displaced civilians in the Swat region of Pakistan. This is in addition to $110 million that has been already sanctioned. Pakistan army has been doing offensive operations against Taliban for over a month now.

The $200 million aid ...

Lahore Court has freed the outlawed Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed. Saeed, who was suspected to be the mastermind behind the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, was released by the three-judge bench of the Court, after hearing the arguments by the JuD chief's counsel AK Dogar. Saeed was ...