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
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
Islamabad: There is disappointment for Indians and Pakistanis who were hoping for easier cross-border travel. An agreement on the liberalised visa regime between the two countries was on Friday postponed for a later date as the Home Secretary level talks concluded. Although both sides have agreed in principle, the modalities of the visa agreement still need to be worked out. In what is being seen as a snub to India,...
07:04 PM, May 25, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Sunday briefly blocked access to Twitter on the ground that it was being used to promote a contest on Facebook for blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed before Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stepped in to end the ban. The Information Technology Ministry said Twitter was blocked for publicising "blasphemous and inflammatory content". Calls for participation in the contest for blasphemous caricatures were being made on...
11:48 PM, May 20, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities today blocked access to Twitter in several parts of the country despite Interior Minister Rehman Malik's claim that no restrictions were being imposed on the micro-blogging site. There was no official word on the development but users from different parts of Pakistan, especially Islamabad and the nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi, reported that they were unable to access the site on their computers and mobile phones. The...
04:04 PM, May 20, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani officials on Saturday promised a full investigation into the crash of a domestic flight that killed 127 people, saying they were examining all possibilities, from a technical fault to the age of the Boeing 737. Grieving relatives claiming the remains of loved ones at a hospital expressed grief and anger over the crash in a storm as the plane approached Islamabad on a flight from Karachi, Pakistan's commercial...
09:23 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday conducted an aerial survey of the area in Siachen sector where Pakistani troops are involved in a frantic search for 138 people, mostly soldiers, buried under dozens of feet of snow following an avalanche that hit an army camp 11 days ago. The visit to Gyari area by the President, who is the supreme commander of the armed forces, was aimed at...
04:34 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Monday said former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, a "proclaimed offender" in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, could not be given another opportunity for further hearing as he failed to appear before the court and surrender. Chaudhry made the remarks when a three-judge bench led by him resumed hearing a petitioned filed by slain former premier Bhutto's ex-protocol officer Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam, who has...
08:24 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is headed to India this weekend on a personal visit. Zardari to be accompanied by Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The US though maintains the Hafiz Saeed move should not strain ties between India and Pakistan and called Zardari's scheduled visit 'very constructive'. Zardari will be in India on...
11:59 AM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Pakistan has beefed up security at the residence of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed in Lahore after the US announced a 10 million dollar bounty for the man accused of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Besides nine policemen from Punjab Police deployed at Saeed's two-storey home at E Block of Jouhar Town, the JuD posted more armed volunteers to ensure foolproof security. JuD leaders said they...
07:30 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Islamabad: The US on Monday night announced a bounty of $10 million on Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed. While the move was welcomed by India, the JuD chief hit back at the US saying he was not hiding in caves for bounties to be set on finding him. The LeT founder was quoted as saying by Al-Jazeera news channel that the US was frustrated as he was protesting against the resumption...
11:39 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities foiled a plot to attack Parliament during President Asif Ali Zardari's address to a joint sitting of the two houses and arrested several terrorists and an employee of the Foreign Ministry, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday. The terrorists had planned to attack Parliament when Zardari was addressing a joint session of the National Assembly and Senate on March 17, Malik said. Several terrorists arrested in...
06:56 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Ministry has written to France-based Interpol for a Red Corner Notice against former President Pervez Musharraf for his arrest and extradition to the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Sunday. "We have sent a request to Interpol for the arrest of Pervez Musharraf," Malik told journalists during an interaction at the National Press Club. He, however, furnished no other details. The request was sent to Interpol...
10:48 PM, Mar 04, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday that money earned from trafficking of drugs and arms is being used to finance terrorist activities in the country. "I have strong indicators and data that terrorists have a role in drug trafficking and other illegal activities to generate quick money," Malik said at a ceremony where the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)...
11:40 PM, Jan 27, 2012
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