Pakistani PM YR Gilani wants US to give it civil nuclear deal similar to India’s. Addressing the leaders gathered in the summit of Council on ‘Foreign Relations and the Middle East Institute’ he said that like civilian nuclear status to India, Pakistan would also expect the same ...

According to ‘The Times’ newspaper, US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen has said that if Pakistan is not able to stop cross-border terrorism in Afghanistan, US forces might bomb frontier areas targeting terrorist camps. The strong reaction came after nine American soldiers ...

The war of words does not seem to stop after the ghastly bomb blast at the Indian embassy in Kabul. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has directly blamed Pakistani intelligence agency ISI for carrying out the bomb blast stealthily. Pointing towards ISI, Karzai said that it is clear that who ...

Pakistan has sought 500,000 tonnes of wheat from the United States and is also on the verge of receiving $500 million from the World Bank to deal with the food and energy crisis that is gripping the country. The 500,000 tonnes of wheat will be provided under PL-480, a US food assistance programme ...

The lengthy march to Islamabad by the thousands of Pakistani lawyers and workers demanding reinstatement of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf concluded on a bitter note. This happened because of some lawyers and political activists who stressed upon staging a sit-in outside the Parliament ...

Pakistani lawyers and workers numbering in thousands, in the final course of a long march, neared Islamabad on Friday, June 13, 2008 demanding the reinstatement of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf. A huge cavalcade of over 400 cars and buses carrying the protestors passed the eastern ...

A recent clash on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan has resulted in the death of about 18 people. At least 10 of those who have died in the clash are reported to belong from Pakistani troops, revealed officials who did not want their names to be disclosed. It was also reported that some ...

PML-N has prepared a ten-point charge sheet against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan, announcing the charge sheet in a press conference, said that these are not just allegations. He said that there is substantial evidence against Musharraf which would be presented in ...

Providing credibility to strong whispers about President Pervez Musharraf being made to relinquish power, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari recently remarked that the Pakistani President may get impeached under democratic process incase he refuses to quit. These ...

A bomb went off in the Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, outside the Danish embassy on Monday, June 02, 2008. A security source at the scene revealed that perhaps it is a bomb attack and the bomb has created deep craters. Official sources have, however, not as yet been able to give any figures ...

Pakistan’s beleaguered President, Pervez Musharraf has been given an ultimatum to quit from his office by the ruling coalition. A spokesman for the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which leads the ruling coalition in the Parliament, warned that the former dictator would face impeachment if ...

The prominent human rights activist of Pakistan, Ansar Burney who raised his voice for the release of Indian death row prisoners Kashmir Singh and Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan, was on Saturday 31 May deported from New Delhi back to Dubai. Sources inform that Ansar Burney, who has served as the Human ...

AQ Khan, the dishonored nuclear scientist of Pakistan, has turned against the beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf, who had pardoned him for embroilment in proliferation activities four years ago. Khan, who is presently under detention in his home, in a recent statement has blamed Pervez ...

The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf has termed as baseless the reports about him offering to resign to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) if his actions during the time of emergency imposed by him in the country last year, is provided indemnity. Sources inform that it was during a ...

A dozen militants are believed to have been killed in a suspected US missile attack in the Damadola area of the Bajaur tribal Agency of Pakistan. A senior security official told that two missiles, which were fired by a US drone aircraft, destroyed a house and a compound used by suspected al Qaeda ...

Differences in the six week old Pakistan coalition are on the rise, as fresh dispute over whether to remove President Pervez Musharraf from office or not are doing the rounds. Nine ministers from Nawaz Sharif’s party withdrew from the Cabinet today. This was owing to the fact that the former ...

Pakistan’s military on Thursday, May 08, 2008 revealed that the country has carried out a successful test of Hatf VIII or Raad, early on the same day. The cruise missile is capable of carrying nuclear weapons, according to Pakistan’s defense sources. Hatf VIII or Raad meaning thunder ...

The Election Commission (EC) of Pakistan has declared that the deferred by-election will now be held on 26 June. A spokesperson declared that May 13 has been designated as the final date for the submitting of nomination papers. A total of eight national assembly seats and 30 provincial ones ...

A book named \'Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army and the Wars Within\' has revealed that the Kargil war was planned much before it actually happened in 1999. The book says that Benazir Bhutto, the slain leader of the PPP, and President Musharraf had discussed about the Kargil war when he was the ...

The Pakistan government on Monday 28 April postponed the date on which the Indian national Sarabjit Singh was to be hanged. This is for the second time that the date for hanging Sarabjit, accused of carrying out bomb blasts in Lahore and Faisalabad in 1991, has been deferred. Earlier, it was ...

Jemima Khan, the ex-wife of Imran Khan who is the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf and also a famous former cricketer, has recently got death threats from Islamist fundamentalists. The reason for the threat is Jemima Khan\'s support for a Muslim think-tank, Quilliam Foundation, that ...

The militants who have kidnapped Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin have demanded the release of an important Taliban leader along with few other Pakistani and Afghan colleagues. Even the Al Arabiya television showed a videotape, in which ambassador Tariq Azizuddin conveyed ...

Taliban is still alive and operating. The message is being sent to the world by Pakistan envoy to Afghanistan, Tariq Azizuddin, when he appeared in a video of a news channel Al-Arabiya saying that he has been held by Taliban.
 
It is to be noted that Azizuddin went missing earlier this ...

Shaheen II, the long range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear and conventional explosives was test fired by Pakistan on Saturday. Shaheen II, also known as Hatf-VI surface to surface ballistic missile, is capable of targeting Indian cities.
 
Shaheen II is capable of hitting ...

The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group will convene at London on 12 May to deliberate whether Pakistan should be allowed reentry into the 53-nation grouping. Pakistan was suspended after its President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency on the country the previous year. The secretary general of ...

The ban that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had imposed on the country’s media the previous year will soon be lifted. This announcement was recently made by Information Minister, Sherry Rahman who has introduced a parliamentary bill proposing to end the ban on live broadcasts. The bill ...

The clash between the lawyers turned very much violent on Wednesday and killed at least ten people. Cars and offices were burnt in the various parts of the city. Supporters of Musharraf were protesting against the assault on a cabinet minister on Tuesday by the attorneys.
 
A former ...

A gas leak in a crucial Pakistani nuclear plant on Tuesday (8 April) has left two workers killed. The concerned authorities have said that no harm has come to the public as the situation was soon brought under control. The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission said that this leak happened at 2.30 pm ...

Fitna, a film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, is facing mass protest in Pakistan. The film tries to explore Quranic motivation for terrorism, Islamic universalism and Islam in Netherlands. Thousands of protestors came out on the streets of Pakistan to protest against the film, which they say is ...