Islamabad: Pakistan will review its foreign policy at a conference of envoys following the NATO airstrikes that killed two dozen soldiers. According to the Association Press of Pakistan, the conference will be held on December 12 and 13 to review the situation. NATO helicopter gunships had targeted two border posts in Mohmand Agency on November 26, killing two dozen soldiers and sparking outrage in the country. Islamabad has stopped the...
11:29 AM, Dec 09, 2011
Islamabad: The inquiry report into the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by US special forces in his Pakistani hideout will be made public. Following the killing of bin Laden in Abbottabad on May 2, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had formed a five-member inquiry commission under a Supreme Court judge to probe the presence of the world's most wanted man in Pakistan, Xinhua reported. Justice (retd)...
09:40 AM, Dec 09, 2011
Islamabad: Spewing venom, leaders of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, a banned group blamed for the Mumbai attacks, have vowed to convert Pakistan into a "Taliban state" and to train youths to wage jihad against the US and India. Addressing a protest meet outside the Lahore Press Club on Tuesday against the recent NATO strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, senior JuD leader Ameer Hamza said the Pakistan Army chief should know he...
02:40 PM, Nov 30, 2011
Beijing: China and Pakistan are to hold joint military exercises on the outskirts of Islamabad with Beijing claiming that the war games were not aimed at putting pressure on India. The annual 'Friendship 2011' joint military exercises are billed as anti-terror maneuvers aimed at handling non traditional security threats, a Chinese Defence Ministry statement published in state-run China Daily said on Wednesday. However, the statement did not specify the dates...
03:25 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Islamabad: The police guard sentenced to death for assassinating Governor Salmaan Taseer filed an appeal against the verdict in a Pakistani court on Thursday. The appeal against the anti-terrorism court's verdict was filed in the Islamabad High Court by Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri's lawyer Shuja-ur-Rehman. Anti-terror court Judge Pervez Ali Shah had convicted Qadri and given him two death sentences for two counts of murder and terrorism on October 1....
06:28 PM, Oct 06, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan will extend its 'full political, moral and diplomatic support' to Kashmiri people; Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday and underlined the need to resolve the Kashmir issue through negotiations. Gilani made the remarks while addressing a session of the Council of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir that was held in Islamabad to approve the body's budget for 2011-12. The government and people of Pakistan will "always stand by their...
01:23 AM, Oct 06, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan and Iran on Thursday agreed to step up efforts to complete the multi-billion gas pipeline project, as Islamabad allowed Tehran to open a bank in the country to boost bilateral trade and business. Iranian Foreign Minister Akbar Salehi on Thursday met Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and the two leaders decided to speed up the pipeline project, a statement from the Prime Minister office said in Islamabad....
01:06 AM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: The India-Pakistan border appears as an orange line in a photograph taken by the Expedition 28 crew on the International Space Station (ISS) on August 21, 2011. The photo was released on September 4, 2011. The fence between the two countries is floodlit for surveillance purposes. In the photo: Srinagar (L), Islamabad (bottom C), Lahore (centre near the border line) and Delhi (top C) can be seen as...
02:57 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Islamabad: A battered al Qaeda suffered another significant blow when Pakistani agents working with the CIA arrested a senior leader believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the globe, Pakistan announced on Monday. Younis al-Mauritani's arrest - made public five days before the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks - was seen as damaging al Qaeda's central leadership in Pakistan, further degrading...
10:26 PM, Sep 05, 2011
Islamabad: The US lodged a strong protest with Pakistani authorities after Ambassador Cameron Munter was stopped at the Islamabad airport by officials enforcing a rule that requires all foreign diplomats to have a "no-objection certificate" for travelling outside Islamabad. Munter, who reportedly possessed the NoC, was stopped at Benazir Bhutto International Airport and asked about the document while he was travelling to Karachi last week. The envoy "strongly protested" about...
10:27 PM, Jul 31, 2011
Islamabad: An IED explosion along a road in the restive South Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan killed a soldier and injured another on Tuesday, security officials said. The improvised explosive device went off near Sholam, 12 km from Wana, one of the main towns in South Waziristan Agency. One soldier was killed instantly by the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. The army says it has cleared South...
05:07 PM, Jul 26, 2011
Islamabad: A Swiss couple was abducted by unidentified armed men in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Friday, a senior police official said. "Unidentified gunmen intercepted the foreigners' vehicle...and took them at gunpoint to an unknown destination," said Ghulam Ali Lashari, the police chief of Loralai district. The Swiss nationals were abducted in Sirki Jangle area of Loralai, over 250-km from provincial capital Quetta. Lashari identified them as...
03:20 AM, Jul 02, 2011
Islamabad: The dreaded Pakistani Taliban has split over the issue of suicide bombing and the first casualty seems to have been a senior terrorist commander, known for training and deploying over 1,000 suicide bombers, who was on Monday shot dead in the restive North Waziristan. Fazal Saeed Haqqani, a Taliban commander in Pakistan's volatile tribal belt has broken away from the militant outfit to form his own group as he...
08:33 PM, Jun 27, 2011
Islamabad: In an unprecedented move, a Pakistani parliamentary panel has directed the Defence Ministry and the army's General Headquarters to submit a report on corruption charges against three retired generals who were serving in a military-run transportation company. The generals Lt Gen Khalid Munir Khan, Lt Gen Mohammad Afzal Muzaffar and Maj Gen Khalid Zaheer Akhtar violated rules and regulations by allegedly investing funds from the National Logistics Cell (NLC),...
10:29 PM, Jun 26, 2011
New Delhi: India and Pakistan aim to nudge forward the peace process on Thursday, when Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will meet her counterpart Salman Bashir in Islamabad. But, given the fragile relationship, hopes are deliberately being kept low. The Government said that the Foreign Secretary went to Islamabad with an open and constructive mind, and also with realistic expectations. "The thrust of our approach will be to narrow the...
07:43 AM, Jun 23, 2011
Washington: The United States on Wednesday acknowledged that there are bumps in its relationship with Pakistan and it is working with leaders in Islamabad to address such challenges. "Are there bumps in the road? Certainly. Are there challenges? Of course," State Department spokesman, Mark Toner, told reporters at his daily news briefing responding to volley of questions about commitment of Pakistan in the war against terrorism. "We need to work...
02:28 AM, Jun 16, 2011
Islamabad: The Pakistani army denied on Wednesday that one of its majors was among a group of Pakistanis who Western officials say were arrested for feeding the CIA information before the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The New York Times, which first reported the arrests of five Pakistani informants on Tuesday, said an army major was detained who copied license plates of cars visiting the al-Qaida chief's compound...
01:45 AM, Jun 16, 2011
Washington: US Defense Secretary today dismissed as harsh reality the arrest of CIA informants in Pakistan who provided information to the American intelligence in the run up to the killing of Osama bin Laden. "That's the real world that we deal with," Gates told a key Congressional committee when asked about such a arrest in Pakistan, but he did not confirm the report. "I would say based on 27 years...
01:15 AM, Jun 16, 2011
Islamabad: On the outskirts of the Pakistani capital lives a militant considered so powerful that Osama bin Laden consulted with him before issuing a fatwa to attack American interests. Fazle-ur-Rahman Khalil heads Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen, a terrorist group closely aligned with al-Qaida and a signatory to bin Laden's anti-US fatwa in 1998. Khalil has also dispatched fighters to India, Afghanistan, Somalia, Chechnya and Bosnia, was a confidante of bin Laden and hung...
12:36 AM, Jun 16, 2011
Islamabad: CIA Director Leon Panetta met over dinner on Friday with Pakistan's spy chief and army head for talks on how to repair ties between the two countries that were fractured by the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a Pakistani and an American official said. Panetta's visit was his first to Pakistan since the unilateral American operation on May 2 killed the al-Qaida leader in a Pakistani army...
01:20 AM, Jun 11, 2011
