Pakistan’s army has consolidated its position on Swat valley after days of battle with Taliban, according to the officials. Swat is a former tourist valley located 120 km northwest of Islamabad. Talibans had earlier captured Swat region and were moving towards Islamabad even as the Pakistani ...

At least 40 people were killed and over 150 were injured when a high-intensity car bomb exploded outside the office of the emergency police service in Lahore. The explosive-loaded car bomb blasted just near the three-storeyed Rescue-15 Building that collapsed immediately. The building is located ...

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday (13th April) ratified a regulation for enforcing of Shariah laws in Swat valley. He signed the accord after the Parliament asked him to approve the measure as part of a peace deal with the Taliban in this region. A media quoted senior minister Bashir ...

Pakistan’s Supreme Court today (31st March) reinstated Shahbaz Sharif as the chief minister of Pakistan's Punjab province. Zafar Ali Shah, Shahbaz's lawyer, told reporters outside the court building in Islamabad Today (31st March). The decision will ease tension between Shahbaz's brother and ...

Within less than a month after the terrorist attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, a group of terrorists struck at a police training academy in the city on Monday (30th March) killing at least 20 police trainees and injuring many. Authorities in the city said that, the terrorists also took ...

On Monday (16th March), the Pakistani government accepted the demands for the reinstatement of the country's sacked chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to avoid further escalation of the ongoing political turmoil. In a televised address to the nation, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ...

In a major setback to the ruling Pakistan People Party (PPP), senior party leader and Pakistan's Information Minister Sherry Rehman resigned from the Cabinet on Friday (13th March). Media reports said Rehman put her papers after differences emerged on the issue of handling the media in the context ...

Pakistan and China on Saturday (7th March) signed an agreement for the serial production of 42 JF-17 Thunder jet fighter aircraft. JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft are expected to form the backbone of the Pakistani aerial combat fleet in the coming years. The agreement was signed at the Pakistan Air ...

At least six Sri Lankan cricket players were injured when some unidentified gunmen fired on the bus carrying the team to Gaddafi stadium in Lahore on Tuesday (March 3) morning. According to media reports, as many as 12 gunmen surrounded the team bus and opened fire indiscriminately. The injured six ...

Islamabad has set a deadline of mid-March for India to reply to the 30 queries on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. The 30 questions were submitted by Pakistan in response to New Delhi's dossier indicating the involvement of Pakistani elements in the terror incidents. According to reports, the ...

At least 29 people were killed and 50 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a funeral procession in north-western Pakistan on Friday (February 20). According to reports, the fatal incident occurred in the Dera Ismail Khan town near the Afghan border when some Shiite Muslims were ...

The interior minister of Pakistan, Rehman Malik said on Saturday (February 14) that his country may seek the custody of Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist nabbed alive during the Mumbai terror attacks. Malik stated that Pakistan may urge India to hand over Kasab if the investigation demands adding ...

Finally, the government of Pakistan admitted that a part of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack was planned in the country. While addressing a busy news conference, the interior minister of Pakistan, Rehman Malik stated that the terrorists who attacked India's financial capital and killed more than 170 ...

According to a Pakistani news channel, the authorities of the country have filed a case against Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist caught alive during the Mumbai attacks. Apart from Kasab, cases were filed against 13 others in connection with the 26/11 terror incidents.
 
Report says that ...

The government of Pakistan has decided to file case against Ajmal Amir Kasab; the solitary terrorist nabbed in 26/11 Mumbai atrocities. According to Pakistani media, the government took the decision of a filing a case against Kasab after Federal Investigation Agency's probe report. According to ...

On Friday (6th February) a Pakistani court declared disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan free, ending his five years of house arrest. He was at the center of the world's most serious proliferation scandal. Khan had played the central role in development of atomic bomb in Pakistan and ...

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) of Pakistan came out with new revelation on 26/11 Mumbai attack stating that banned Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami (HuJI) of Bangladesh may have played a role in the terror incidents. The investigation report of FIA claimed that the banned terrorist outfit had been ...

A UN official named John Solecki has been kidnapped from Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Monday (February 2). According to local police, the UN official is an American national and was heading the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in Quetta. Report says that on Monday ...

A top Pakistan military commander has said that, the Pakistan Navy has decided to acquire drones, spy planes, and submarines in coming days. These acquisitions will act as force multipliers to augment the capabilities of the Pakistan Navy.
 
On Thursday (29th January) Pakistan Navy ...

To tackle the sluggish economic conditions and to counter the ever increasing problem of poverty, The World Bank (WB) is expected to give Pakistan a ‘soft loan’ of $500 million. However the WB will grant this soft loan on the condition that Pakistan carries out a slew of political and ...

With a motive to ease out India-Pak tension, a Pakistani delegation of 24 members arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday (January 21). The delegation under the banner 'Peace Mission from Pakistan' consists of social activists, journalists and intellectuals. The South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) and ...

The army chief of Pakistan Ashfaque Parvaiz Kayani said in a statement that Islamabad is eager to resolve the India-Pak tension but shuns any type compromise or pressure. Kayani made this statement to a private TV of Pakistan while meeting visiting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband. ...

The government of Pakistan constituted a three-member panel to investigate the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. As per media reports, the newly named committee will exchange direct information with Indian investigation agencies. Additional Director General Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Javed ...

Cable operators in Pakistan may soon have to black out airing Indian channels as the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting has recommended a ban on all Indian channels being telecast by the cable operators across the country, The Daily Times reported.
 
PML-Q leader Tariq ...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday (9th January) conferred one of Pakistan's highest civilian honours on U.S. Vice-President-elect Joseph Biden in recognition of his consistent support for democracy and socio-economic development in Pakistan and for his outstanding contribution of strengthening ...

The national security advisor of Pakistan Mahmud Ali Durrani was sacked by PM Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday (January 7). According to reports, the security adviser was fired because he first disclosed that Mumbai attacker Ajmal Kasab is a Pakistani national. According to statement released from ...

Islamabad is likely to constitute a joint investigative committee to probe the evidences of the Mumbai terror attacks. According to media reports, the committee will undertake thorough investigation of the Mumbai-attacks evidences provided by New Delhi. Report also says that the probing committee ...

US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher has been conferred with the highest civilian honours of Pakistan for his role in promoting stable, broad-based and long-term bilateral ties. The civilian award called 'Hilal-i-Quaid-i-Azam' was presented to Boucher by Zardari at a special ceremony in ...

Rejecting India's demand to extradite the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks to the country, Pakistan has said such a move will be "harmful" for it as there was no extradition treaty between the two neighbours. Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mehmood Qureshi gave this information ...

Top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zarar Shah, captured in the crackdown on militants earlier this month in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir, has confessed the group's involvement in terror attacks in Mumbai, a media report said on Wednesday (31st December).
 
Shah has also implicated other LeT ...