Islamabad: Pakistan has deployed army in the sensitive diplomatic enclave in Islamabad after a protest over an anti-Islam film turned violent, leaving 86 people injured, including 36 policemen, as angry demonstrators tried to breach the high security area to reach the US embassy. Members of student groups, including the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba, began gathering outside the Red Zone in the heart of Islamabad, which includes the US embassy, Indian High Commission...
08:48 AM, Sep 21, 2012
Islamabad: Thousands of people stormed the diplomatic enclave in Islamabad on Thursday during protest rally over anti-Islam film. The crowd damaged billboards and signal lights in the area even as the police found themselves vastly outnumbered by the protestors. The Pakistan Army has been summoned while protestors pelted stones on vehicles and buildings near the diplomatic area. Police fired tear gas shells as the protests spread. Police say several protestors...
06:31 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist AQ Khan has claimed that he had transferred nuclear technology to 'two countries' on the orders of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto. "The then Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto summoned me and named the two countries which were to be assisted and issued clear directions in this regard," Khan said in an interview with the Jang media group. He did not name the two countries....
10:03 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Indian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers finished their talks on Saturday evening amidst an atmosphere of positivity, and though there were few concrete assurances on the 26/11 trial in Pakistan, both nations signed a new liberalised visa agreement. ...
11:44 AM, Sep 09, 2012
New Delhi: India and Pakistan will set the ball rolling on a new round of dialogue on Saturday when External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar meet in Islamabad. The two leaders spoke positively about the impending meet. "We look to the future our two countries are able to live together in the atmosphere of friendliness and all-round cooperation, free from terror and violence," said...
08:43 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna reached Islamabad on Friday on a three-day visit. Upon his arrival in the capital, Krishna said that he brought a "message of goodwill from India for the people of Pakistan". "India wants a stable and prosperous Pakistan. We are committed to finding solutions to all issues through peaceful dialogue," he said. Krishna is expected to meet President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Raja...
12:52 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Lahore: Former President Pervez Musharraf is keen to return to Pakistan from self-exile when an interim government headed by a "neutral" Prime Minister is formed ahead of the general election scheduled for early next year. According to his party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, Musharraf has started contacting friends in the powerful Army and in political circles to assess the possibility of his homecoming under a caretaker set-up. Musharraf, who...
12:42 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Even though questions remain over the signing of the new liberalised visa agreement between India and Pakistan during the upcoming Foreign Ministers-level talks, the two countries are likely to ink a MoU, highly placed sources on Wednesday said. The sources said that the MoU is likely to be signed between Pakistan and Indian during External Affairs Minister SM Krishna's visit to Islamabad from September 7-9. However, the sources...
12:31 AM, Sep 06, 2012
Islamabad: Against the backdrop of reports of mass migration of Pakistani Hindus to India, President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the Sindh government to frame a draft law to amend the Constitution as part of efforts to prevent forced conversion of the minorities in the southern province. The President made the decision after he was briefed about the concerns of Hindus by his sister Faryal Talpur, a lawmaker of the...
03:25 PM, Aug 18, 2012
A batch of 250 Hindus on a pilgrimage to India were initially stopped at the border by Pakistani authorities before being allowed to cross over. ...
11:15 PM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian High Commission in Islamabad and Pakistan's Interior Ministry has denied media reports that 250 Hindus were planning to flee the country. However, some Pakistan Hindus who have come to India as pilgrims say they do not want to return to Pakistan. "I will ask the Indian government to allow me to stay here," one of the pilgrims said. "I will ask the Indian govt to grant...
01:20 PM, Aug 10, 2012
London: At a time when both countries are trying to mend their ties, Pakistan's top envoy in UK said some factions in the US still prefer to work with "just one man" rather than a democratic government, and accused Washington of "talking in miles" when it comes to democracy but of "moving in inches". The remarks were made by Pakistan High Commissioner to the UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, who was...
07:48 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan has decided to curb efforts to normalise trade relations with India and the prospects of abolishing a negative list regime by December have "considerably dimmed", according to a media report on Friday. "Efforts to normalise trade with India have been dealt a serious blow, allegedly due to New Delhi s reluctance to reciprocate moves made by Islamabad to ease trade restrictions," the 'Express Tribune' said in a report....
01:20 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Pakistan's new High Commissioner to India, Salman Bashir has said they are not taking Abu Jundal's claims on Pakistan's role in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks lightly. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, he, however, suggested it was unlikely that Islamabad would investigate the role of state actors in the attacks. Below is the edited transcript of the excerpt from the interview: Karan Thapar: Given the fact that your foreign...
08:55 AM, Jul 15, 2012
Islamabad: Cash-strapped Pakistan is expected to receive $2.5 billion as financial assistance from the US during the current fiscal following the end of a standoff between the two sides on NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. The disbursements, especially reimbursements from the US Coalition Support Fund (CSF) for Pakistan's expenses on the war on terror, might relieve the government of pressure it is facing because of depleting foreign exchange reserves which...
12:49 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan People's Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has been studying at a top London law college but has been unable to appear for examinations due to his hectic schedule and an inability to focus on demanding subjects, according to a media report today. The 23-year-old nominal chief of Pakistan's ruling party took admission in BPP University College, a prestigious private institute, in January last year after obtaining a degree...
12:12 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Islamabad: A cleric in Pakistan's Punjab province has warned that a jihad would be launched against polio vaccination teams at a time when the World Health Organisation has expressed concern at the emergence of new cases of the disease across the country. Maulvi Ibrahim Chisti of Muzaffargarh district declared the anti-polio campaign as "un-Islamic" and announced at the local mosque that jihad(holy war) should be carried out against the polio...
12:37 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Islamabad: Indian and Pakistani officials have made no forward movement on resolving the military standoff on the Siachen glacier, with both sides sticking to their stated positions in two-day talks, diplomatic and official sources said on June 11. During talks on June 11 between an Indian delegation led by Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma and a Pakistani team led by Defence Secretary Nargis Sethi, the two sides "explained their respective stances"...
01:33 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan has refused to budge from its position seeking a US apology for a NATO air strike that killed 24 of its soldiers in 2011, saying that was necessary for ending a six-month blockade of vital supply routes for foreign troops in Afghanistan. "(The apology is) something which should have forthcome the day this incident happened, and a partnership not only demands, but requires," Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar...
03:29 PM, Jun 05, 2012
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
