Islamabad: Pakistan Army on May 29 declared all the 139 soldiers as dead who were buried alive by an avalanche at a high-altitude camp in the Siachen sector, proclaiming them as "shuhada" (martyrs). A military statement declaring them dead came days after rescuers recovered three bodies from the remote glacier where a huge avalanche buried them in early hours of April 7. The military said that the decision to proclaim...
01:07 PM, May 29, 2012
PIA, the carrier that connects India with Pakistan, is often referred to, in jest, as the short form of 'please inform Allah' by domestic flyers. ...
08:58 PM, May 28, 2012
Islamabad: The US Embassy in Islamabad on Thursday issued an emergency message asking American citizens in Pakistan to take precautions for the next two weeks though it did not give any reasons for the alert. "This security message from the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan alerts US citizens to travel restrictions for US Embassy staff during the next two weeks," said the message posted on the Embassy's website. The message...
02:05 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Islamabad: Hope is fading for news of any survivor in the plane crash in Pakistan as over 12 hours has passed since the incident. Over 127 people were on board the Bhoja Air Boeing 737. The flight had taken off on Friday evening from Karachi and crashed 9 km away from Islamabad, most likely due to bad weather. Meanwhile, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that an FIR will...
08:12 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Pakistan Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said the authorities are trying to retrieve the black box of the Boeing 737 aircraft. ...
09:30 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: A civilian plane crashed in the outskirts of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad near Chaklala airbase due to bad weather and all 127 people on board the flight are feared dead. The Bhoja Airlines-213, a domestic carrier that has just four planes and only resumed operations last month after suspending them in 2001 due to financial difficulties, was flying from Karachi to Islamabad. There were 127 people on...
08:04 PM, Apr 20, 2012
London: The third and youngest wife of Osama bin Laden has accused his first spouse of betraying the Al Qaeda chief and revealing his location. The two wives -- currently in custody in Pakistan -- were involved in a "vicious catfight" when the elder accused the younger wife of "sticking to Osama like a prostitute", The Sun, the popular tabloid, reported here. The two are in custody since bin Laden...
05:54 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Washington The US was pleased by the willingness expressed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to talk directly to the Taliban, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland has said. "I think we have been gratified to see President Karzai speaking out publicly in support of Afghan-to-Afghan reconciliation," she told reporters at a briefing on Tuesday, adding that the US had been working on this "for some time". Her comment came after Karzai...
01:25 PM, Feb 22, 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
Islamabad: An American national, working with the US Embassy was briefly detained at the airport in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Tuesday after security officials found 13 bullets in his luggage. The American was set to fly from Peshawar to Islamabad when he was detained. He was questioned before being handed over to officials of the US Consulate, police officials said. Official sources said the detained American was a...
04:57 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Islamabad, A US drone targeted a compound in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan on Thursday, killing four suspected militants, including a man who acted as a conduit between the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The unmanned spy plane fired two missiles at the compound in Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency early on Thursday morning, officials said. The compound was being used by suspected militants and four...
11:52 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Davos: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday refused to be drawn out on the issue of another Mumbai-like attack originating from Pakistani soil but said India should share any information it has on terrorist activities so that they can be countered by his government. Gilani described his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh as a "genuine person" who is desirous of resolving all issues with Pakistan, including the "core issue of...
09:03 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Islamabad: Former Pakistan's ambassador to US Husain Haqqani on Monday said that the right of Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz to depose before a judicial panel probing the memo scandal should be withdrawn if he failed to appear before the panel on Tuesday. In an application filed with the three-judge commission appointed by the Supreme Court, Haqqani said Ijaz should lose his right to testify on the memo issue if he...
07:50 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Jaipur: One of Pakistan's leading young voices and estranged scion of the Bhutto family, Fatima Bhutto on Sunday lamented the fact that the chasm between the people of her country and those in power was widening by the day. Speaking at a session at the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival to discuss Pakistan and its burning issues, Bhutto said while there is a huge gulf between the two sides of Pakistan,...
09:40 PM, Jan 22, 2012
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