A 14-year-old girl who risked her life so she and her peers could attend school in Pakistan's Swat Valley is recovering from a gunshot wound has been moved to a military hospital in Rawalpindi. Doctors say Malala Yousufzai's condition is now stable. While doctors have removed the bullet from her head and say she is stable for now and they also shifted her to a Rawalpindi hospital for better care. ...
08:47 AM, Oct 12, 2012
Islamabad: Amid a tense standoff between Pakistan's civilian and military leadership, the government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it has no intention to sack the Army and intelligence chiefs who were accused of acting in an "unconstitutional and illegal" manner in the memo scandal. Attorney General Anwar-ul-Haq informed a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry of the government's position while responding to a petition that had...
07:16 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Army chief General Kayani are set to come face to face on Saturday. This will be their first meeting since the memogate scandal. The country's cabinet committee is also scheduled to meet on Saturday to discuss crucial issues related to national security and US relations. The government has convened a meeting of the Defence Committee of the Cabinet, Pakistan's highest decision-making body for...
06:59 AM, Jan 14, 2012
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari's ruling party, facing intense pressure from Pakistan's powerful generals, lobbied its coalition partners on Friday for support as tension raised fear over the stability of the country. A disputed memo allegedly from Zardari's government seeking US help in reining in the generals soured relations between the civilian leadership and the military to their lowest point since a coup in 1999. Political sources said the government...
01:40 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Will the Pakistan government prevail in both confrontations - one with the judiciary, the other with the Army? ...
09:17 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Washington: General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Pakistani Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani to discuss with him military-to-military ties between the two countries, his spokesman has said. "The call was cordial and professional. It is a routine part of the relationship and another opportunity to understand what is most important to each military as we confront common threats," Col Dave Lapan, spokesman of the...
02:39 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's military chief met top commanders on Thursday amidst a widening rift between the powerful armed forces and the civilian government. Military spokesman Major Muhammad Ali Diyal declined to say what the talks at army headquarters were about, but the meeting is likely to fuel speculation about the Army's next move in the country's political and legal crisis. While most analysts say Army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has...
02:20 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Islamabad: Former President Pervez Musharraf contacted army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani to discuss his planned return to Pakistan from self-exile, according to a media report on Monday. Musharraf informed Kayani about the "security obligations" for a former President and army chief, Dawn News channel quoted its sources as saying. The channel quoted its sources as further saying that Musharraf would meet former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, British...
10:44 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Kabul: Voicing cautious optimism, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan said that he's seeing signs of a possible lifting of Pakistan's communications blackout imposed on the US-led coalition after NATO airstrikes killed two dozen Pakistani forces last month. Marine Gen John Allen revealed for the first time that he spoke on the phone on Monday with Pakistan army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani their first conversation since just after the...
08:59 AM, Dec 14, 2011
Washington: Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has received an unusual support from a leading Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, who described him as 'a man of principal' and the stability factor. "The only thing that saves... that helps us is that General Kayani, who is in charge of that, is a man of principle. He would not let that happen frivolously and he would do everything he can...
09:03 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Washington: Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani refused an American request to confiscate the cell phone of jailed LeT commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi being used to direct group's operation from the Rawalpindi jail, reflecting connection between the country's military and the terrorist outfit. "Kayani rejected a US request that authorities take away the cell phone Lakhvi was using in jail, according to the memo to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
11:51 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Washington: General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani is the most powerful man in Pakistan, according to top US military commander Mike Mullen, who said that the Army chief controls the military run ISI, which supports terror groups like Haqqani network and LeT, using them as proxies. Standing by his statement that Haqqani network is the 'veritable arm' of the ISI, Mullen asserted that Pakistan Army uses terror groups like Haqqani network and...
01:53 PM, Sep 29, 2011
New Delhi: As US-Pakistan ties plunges to a new low, Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has cancelled his visit to Britain, where he was expected to meet UK Defence Minister Liam Fox. Pakistani officials say the visit has been called off because Kayani is a part of crisis talks over the freeze in US-Pak relations. Last week, Pakistan had rejected America's charge that the intelligence agency, ISI is...
04:41 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Washington: Pakistan Army and its Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani should be given some time and space for introspection in the aftermath of the US raid in Abbottabad that killed al-Qeada chief Osama bin Laden and the developments since then, top Pentagon official said on Thursday. "What he's (Kayani) going through right now, what the Pakistani military is going through right now, obviously, is considerable introspection based on recent events?...
02:29 AM, Jun 17, 2011
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Not only is the Pakistani public angry, but this is the first time in the country's 63 years that the Army chief and the head ...
10:13 AM, May 23, 2011
Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon visit Pakistan to have a 'strategic in-depth discussions' with the country's leadership and send her Special Representative Mark Grossman to prepare the ground work for her trip, a senior official said. "The Secretary does plan to visit Pakistan in order to have an in-depth strategic discussion about our cooperation and to convey the US Government's views on the way forward of...
08:01 AM, May 17, 2011
US officials said ISI "did not really bother to cover its tracks". ...
12:26 PM, Sep 12, 2008
Birmingham: Rain had the final say as the third and final Test between England and West Indies ended in a draw at Edgbaston here on Monday. In a match where three days out of a possible five were washed out, it was no surprise neither side had got in a position to force victory. And, after yet more rain, the umpires finally called the game off shortly before 3.15pm local...
08:51 PM, May 30, 2008
Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals all-rounder Johan Botha said he is ready to move down the order in his side's remaining IPL matches when Australian Shane Watson returns from national duty. Watson hit a record 15 sixes in a career-best 185 not out in Australia's nine-wicket win over Bangladesh in Dhaka on Monday and Botha said he is ready to vacate the number three slot he occupied against Deccan Chargers for the...
04:43 PM, Jan 14, 2008
