Islamabad: Ahead of its key talks with India on the Siachen issue, Pakistan has claimed that the biggest hurdle in resolving the military standoff on the world's highest battlefield are the armies of the two countries. Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, who was the Defence Minister till yesterday and has now been given the water and power portfolio in a minor Cabinet reshuffle, said India and Pakistan both stand to benefit from...
01:10 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: The growing thaw in Indo-Pak bilateral ties is spilling over to the sporting field with Hockey India (HI) proposing an annual eight-team tournament featuring the top four domestic sides of both the countries, starting this year. HI is all set to invite its Pakistani counterparts for a meeting later this month to fix the modalities of the event, to be called the Indo-Pak Champions Cup. According to HI...
12:59 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Islamabad: Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, has refused to eat meals provided by the jail authorities in Peshawar fearing he may be poisoned. Sources told Geo News, Afridi has refused to eat prison food, and that on his demand, prison authorities have provided him with essential items and cooking utensils so that he could prepare his own food. Afridi...
12:38 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Colombo: A batch of 75 former LTTE members rehabilitated by the government was on Saturday released to their families in the northern Sri Lankan town of Vavuniya. "Out of the 12,000 sent for rehabilitation we have already released 11,000. Around 700 only remain to be released from four rehabilitation centres. "There are also another 600 suspects in custody who would be sent for rehabilitation", A Dissanayake, the secretary to the...
08:54 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani opposition lawmakers and members of the treasury benches on Friday engaged in fisticuffs as Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh presented the government's new budget in Parliament amidst uproar. Members of the main opposition PML-N, who were protesting against power cuts and corruption during Shaikh's speech, scuffled with lawmakers of the ruling Pakistan People's Party in the National Assembly or lower house of parliament. Several lawmakers were seen raining...
11:04 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan has increased its defence budget by nearly 10 per cent to Rs 54,500 crore ($5.8 billion) for the 2012-13 fiscal year. The government had earmarked Rs 49,500 crore in the 2011-12 fiscal year. However, the actual expenditure was Rs 50,932 crore. The current allocation amounted to 18.4 per cent of Pakistan's total budget outlay of Rs 2,96,000 crore for the fiscal July 2012 to June 2013, Xinhua reported....
10:57 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday increased the defence allocation in its fiscal 2012-13 budget to Rs 545 billion (about $5.82 billion), marking an increase of 10 per cent over the outlay for the current fiscal. The allocation for the defence services amounted to 18.4 per cent of the federal budget of Rs 2,960 billion for fiscal 2012-13. Further details, including allocations for the three services and weapons acquisition programmes, were not...
12:05 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Four years after he stepped down as Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf claims he's ready to head back home. ...
03:59 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday said he had no plans to resign after the presentation of the next budget this week in the wake of his conviction of contempt by Pakistan's Supreme Court. "After all the achievements, why should I resign after the budget?" Gilani said during an appearance on the monthly television programme "Prime Minister Online", during which he answers questions from people around the...
03:43 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: India on Thursday said a new liberalised visa regime could not be worked out with Pakistan as some internal approvals were pending there. "Some internal approvals are pending there... Pakistan wants home ministers of both the countries to sign the pact," Home Secretary RK Singh told reporters. Singh held two-day talks with his Pakistani counterpart Khwaja Siddique Akbar in Islamabad May 24-25, but a pact for relaxing the...
02:46 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Impressed with India's successful effort in polio eradication, Pakistan is keen to emulate the model to achieve polio-free status even as it allayed fears of exporting the virus to the Indian side. A nine-member Pakistani delegation on Thursday met India's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and senior officials of the Ministry and took tips on the polio eradication programme. "We are learning from your country. We hope that...
10:29 PM, May 31, 2012
Hi! Good to have you back following our live updates on India's campaign at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia. It's the battle between the archrivals today - India vs Pakistan. After losing to Argentina yesterday, India were left with only an outside chance to qualify for the championship match, whereas Pakistan too needed to win both their remaining matches to hang onto their brittle hopes. But India came...
03:02 PM, May 31, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday gave Interior Minister Rehman Malik a day to submit documents to back his claim that he had renounced his British nationality. A three-Judge bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry issued the order while hearing a petition challenging the dual nationality of some members of the two Houses of Parliament. The apex court earlier suspended the membership of parliament of Farahnaz Ispahani, the media...
10:47 AM, May 31, 2012
Ipoh (Malaysia): Great Britain got back to winning ways as they defeated New Zealand 2-1 in an Azlan Shah Cup match on Wednesday while Malaysia rallied from a two-goal deficit to pull off an upset 3-2 victory over Asian Games champions Pakistan. Malaysia's match-winner came in the 69th minute through a penalty corner conversion by Muhammad Razie. Amir Farid and Faisal Saari had earlier lifted Malaysia back from the two-goal...
08:35 PM, May 30, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani cricketer Umar Gul's house in Peshawar was raided by the Pakistan Army commandos on Tuesday. Reports say his brother Meraj was arrested for allegedly providing shelter to his uncle Haji Daly, who is believed to be an active member of the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Islam. Two others were also arrested, said a report in The Express Tribune. Reports say Daly was injured in an operation in Bara and had...
12:23 PM, May 30, 2012
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