Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan is committed to defuse tensions in South Asia and will reopen dialogue with India. He made the remarks while meeting Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei, at the President House on Monday (29th December).
 
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Pakistan has offered to buy the Indian share of gas from the proposed $ 7.5 billion pipeline project involving India, Iran and Pakistan itself. Islamabad claimed that India seems reluctant to move the venture forward especially after signing the nuclear deal with the U.S. In order to discuss the ...

Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence has no links with the Mumbai terror attacks claims Harlan Kenneth Ullman an American expert on national security and terrorism. He is a combat veteran who has close links with Pakistani government officials, military leaders and intelligence officers, believes ...

The Pakistan government has announced that it will not hand over any of its citizens to India or any other country in the wake of the Mumbai terror attack. The recent move was decided during a meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad. Both ...

The government of Pakistan has issued an order to shut down the offices of the Saudi-financed 'charitable' organisation, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD). The front organisation of the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), JuD was alleged by India to mastermind the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai. Following the ...

Sources in Pakistan have confirmed that the suspected terrorist outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawa could be banned on the request of the UN Security Council. The Jamaat-ud-Dawa is believed to be the front for the Laskhar-e-Toiba, the group behind the Mumbai terror attacks. This has been confirmed by Pakistan's ...

Swung into the action after the 26/11 terrorist attack in Mumbai and resulted international pressure to combat terrorism, Pakistani authorities have reportedly imposed restrictions on the movement of Jaish-e-Mohammed founder Maulana Masood Azhar. He has been confined to his multi-storey building in ...

A bomb attack killed at least 10 people and wounded 40 at the funeral for a Shi'ite Muslim on Friday (November 21) in the northwest Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan.
A foreign news agency quoted NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain as saying that 10 people were killed and up to 30 ...

US strikes on North and South Waziristan of Pakistan have killed 32 people and have left many more injured. In consequence to strike on the village of Mir Ali, North Waziristan about 20 persons, including an al-Qaeda leader have been killed. The attack may raise tensions between USA and partner in ...

A powerful earthquake in southwest Pakistan has claimed thirty lives and injured another forty people. According to US Geological Survey, the epicenter of the tremor was 70 km northeast of the city of Quetta. The 6.2 magnitude quake occurred at about 5.10 am on October 29, 2008. The chief of the ...

Renowned Pakistan human rights activist Ansar Burney has won the 3rd annual Mother Teresa Memorial Awards for social justice. On the occasion of receiving of the award at a glittering ceremony held at Sahara Star hotel, the jubilant Burney said that the award is special for him as it helps joining ...

The government of Pakistan has decided to come up with new strategy to combat terrorism in its country. Last week, the military and intelligence official of the country have briefed an anti terror strategy to the legislators. This anti-terror strategy has been discussed in Parliament on October 12, ...

According to CNN report Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud is dead from kidney failure. He is the same person on whom the Pakistan government has put allegation that he had killed former Pak PM Benazir Bhutto on December 27, 2007. The confirmation of his death has come from local TV channels Geo ...

Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha has been appointed as the new chief of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency of Pakistan. The decision of appointing him as new chief was made by the army headquarters in Rawalpindi. Besides this, major changes have been made in top-level of Pakistan army. According to ...

A huge explosion ripping through a luxurious hotel in Islamabad has reportedly killed nearly hundred people. The blast that happed at the Marriott hotel at around 8pm left the entire hotel burning for hours. The high intensity blast has been unprecedented in recent years. US authorities have ...

Northwest Pakistan witnessed a moderate earthquake on Saturday, September 20, 2008. Officials informed that the quake measured 5.4 on the Richter scale and occurred at about 8.55 a.m. No immediate reports of any damage or casualties have come in yet. Mohammad Akram, an official from the ...

Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, was sworn-in as president of Pakistan. Zardari is the country's 14th president and succeeds the former army general Pervez Musharraf, who vacated his post upon receiving threat of impeachment the previous month.
 
A grand swearing-in ceremony ...

The coming week will see Pakistan's president-elect Asif Ali Zardari visiting China to negotiate a nuclear deal like the one being worked out between US and India, an official has revealed. On conditions of anonymity, the official added that Pakistan has already apprised China of its plans about ...

Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has become president of Pakistan. Zardari who is holding co-chairman post of ruling party PPP received a tremendous mandate from electorates. The National Assembly voted in favor of Zardari where Zardari received 281 votes out of 426 votes. There ...

PML-N of Nawaz Sharif has walked out of ruling coalition of Pakistan on the issue of nomination of presidential candidate. PML-N spokesman Siddique-ul-Farooq has alleged that there is no need for his party to be part of the coalition government if one party is taking decisions unilaterally. The ...

According to a revelation by Karimullah Osan Habib Khan to the police, Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, India's most wanted mafia don is under the protection of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in Karachi. Karimullah, an accused in the March 1993 blasts, also disclosed the fact that Dawood ...

Sherry Rehman, Information Minister in Pakistan government informing media people has said that the leadership of the PPP has decided to field Asil Ali Zardari for the post of president of Pakistan. Mr Zardari is husband of assassinated Pakistan leader Benzir Ali Bhutto of Pakistan People Party ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced on Friday, August 22, that the Presidential election in Pakistan will be held on September 6. ECP Secretary Kanwar Dilshad informed that from August 26 onwards the nomination papers will be received.
 
The ECP Secretary was further quoted ...

In one of the most atrocious terror attacks on Pakistan, suicide bombers killed 67 people at its biggest arms factory at Wah on Thursday, August 21. This came as a severe jolt to Pakistan, which is already staggering from the political turmoil that is threatening to bring down the ruling ...

Pervez Musharraf, who stepped down as army chief last year, has now resigned from the post of President today. His resignation has not surprised political observers as major political parties in Pakistan already had decided to impeach him and this was the only safe corridor for him. However, where ...

Islamabad International Airport has been awarded with its new name of Benazir Bhutto International Airport after the slain former prime minister on country’s 61st independence ceremony.
 
Prime Minister Yusaf Raja Gilani had decided to rename the airport in June 2008. After receiving ...

According to reports published in Pakistan newspapers, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has almost decided to quit his post soon after Pakistan Independence Day which is celebrated one day ago of India’s on August 14. According to Pakistan daily Waqt, higher sources from government have ...

Pakistan government is all set to impeach its president Pervez Musharraf. And, in this regard a meeting of the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament will be held on Monday evening to initiate the impeachment process. Pervez Musharraf has been charged for abrogating the constitution and ...

Two Pakistani ruling parties have reached into an understanding of impeaching of Pak president Pervez Musharraf. According to reports, an unnamed PPP leader talking with Pakistan newspaper ‘the Dawn’ has said that PPP and PML-N have agreed upon to go ahead with impeachment procedure. ...

The CBS News has reported that it had received an intercepted letter from Pakistan where it is visible that Zawahari was injured and needed doctor to treat. The intercepted letter believably was written by Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud. In the letter, referring to Zawahiri he wrote that ...