Islamabad A Baloch nationalist leader based in Switzerland has welcomed a bill moved in the US Congress seeking the right to self-determination for the Baloch people, saying he would support any foreign intervention in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan. Brahamdagh Bugti, the chief of the Baloch Republican Party, said the US must intervene in Balochistan and stop the ethnic cleansing of Baloch people . Addressing reporters at Quetta...
02:33 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Islamabad: A powerful car bomb ripped through a bus terminal in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar city today, killing at least 12 people, including two children, and injuring 36 others. The bomb containing about 40 kg of TNT explosives was hidden in a car parked near the gate of the bus terminal, police officials said. The explosion, which was heard from several kilometres away, created a large crater at the site. "It...
01:42 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Islamabad An 80-year-old man who is languishing in an Indian prison since 1971 should be released, pleaded the prisoner's son in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Gul Rehman of Batkhela town said that his now 80-year-old father, Abdul Jalil, and his uncle, Ghulam Sarwar, had gone to Bangladesh to earn a living before the fall of East Pakistan. They disappeared in 1971 and were later reported to be in an Indian...
12:40 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would meet her Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar in London on Thursday, on the margins of the international conference on Somalia. While the two leaders are expected to discuss a lot of issues, the focus of the meeting would be to bring the relations back on track, the State Department spokesman Mark Toner, told reporters in Washington. "Obviously we've got a lot of...
08:21 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Islamabad: The commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan was forced to apologise after the burning of copies of the Koran in a rubbish pit sparked a furious protest outside a military base. About 2,000 people gathered outside the gates of Bagram air base to throw rocks and burn tyres on Tuesday as word spread that copies of the Muslim holy book had been incinerated in a waste pit....
08:31 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Islamabad The magnificent ancient site of Mohenjo-Daro has been badly neglected, a leading Pakistani daily observed on Wednesday, pointing out that much more needs to be done even though Rs 100 million has been allocated for it. An editorial in the Dawn said it is at long last that a sum of Rs 100 million has been allocated to maintaining, conserving and building some facilities at Mohenjo-Daro. "Much more is...
12:10 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Washington Pakistan's national career has placed a firm order for five 777-300ER Boeing airplanes valued at nearly $1.5 billion at list prices, the company said. The order also includes purchase rights to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) for five additional 777-300ERs, Boeing said in a statement. "We are proud that Pakistan International Airlines is a special Boeing customer that continues to invest and trust in the industry-leading capabilities of the 777...
11:05 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have finalised arrangements to record via a video link from London the testimony of American businessman Mansoor Ijaz regarding a mysterious memo that had sought US help to stave off a possible coup last year. Zahid Bukhari, the lawyer of Pakistan's former envoy to the US, Husain Haqqani, and two of his associates were issued British visas on Tuesday to go to London to cross-examine Ijaz. Haqqani...
08:30 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's largest grouping of hardline organisations held a protest in Islamabad on Monday despite a ban on some of its leaders, including Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, entering the federal capital. Members of groups that are part of the Defa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) gathered at Aabpara in the heart of Islamabad for the protest. Authorities recently imposed a ban on the entry of three DPC leaders into Islamabad - Hafiz...
02:27 PM, Feb 20, 2012
New York: Pakistani Taliban and its aligned terror groups have embarked upon a campaign of high-profile kidnappings which has armed the insurgents with millions of dollars in ransom being used to galvanise a sophisticated network of jihadi gangs whose reach spans the country. Wealthy industrialists, academicians, Western aid workers and family members of military officers have been targets in a spree that began three years ago, the 'New York Times'...
01:31 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Islamabad: Goods worth more than $154,000 (Rs 14 million) were traded through the Pakistan-India border in Rawalakot on a single day on Thursday, officials said. About 25 trucks carrying chillies, onion, coriander, herbs and tamarind from India crossed into Pakistan through the Taitrinote-Chakan-Da-Bagh point. In addition, 10 trucks loaded with almonds, dry dates, oranges, embroidery items and Peshawari sandals from Pakistan crossed into India. Trade facilitation officials on both sides...
02:20 AM, Feb 20, 2012
Kamra: Inside a high-security air force complex that builds jet fighters and weapons systems, Pakistan's military is working on the latest addition to its sprawling commercial empire: a homegrown version of the iPad. It's a venture that bundles together Pakistani engineering and Chinese hardware, and shines a light on the military's controversial foothold in the consumer market. Supporters say it will boost the economy as well as a troubled nation's...
12:51 AM, Feb 20, 2012
Washington: An architect regularly employed by the ISI worked on the compound in which Osama bin Laden sheltered for years in Abbottabad and the slain al Qaeda chief communicated regularly with LeT from his hideout, a media report said on Saturday. Though the original property records for the compound near the elite Pakistan Military Academy have disappeared, the architect who worked on the structure was regularly employed by the ISI,...
07:49 AM, Feb 19, 2012
Islamabad: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Friday said Mullah Mohammad Omar, the supreme commander of the Afghan Taliban, was not in Pakistan and it was "preposterous" to think that Islamabad could ensure his participation in peace talks with the Afghan government. Khar made the remarks during an interaction with reporters at the conclusion of a joint news conference in Islamabad by the Presidents of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. She...
08:57 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan's ties with Iran will not be "undermined" by any international pressure, asserting that Islamabad is determined to forge ahead with projects with Tehran, which include a strategic gas pipeline. "We need to inter-depend on each other and a safe Pakistan is a prosperous Pakistan. Our bilateral relationships cannot be undermined by any international pressure of any kind," Zardari told a news...
03:55 PM, Feb 17, 2012
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