Davos: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that there was 'no chance' of a military coup in Pakistan ever as all stakeholders including the army, desires democracy and stability in the country. "I don't think there will be a coup in Pakistan ever. There is no threat to democracy," Gilani told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos in Switzerland. No state institution, including...
02:40 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Washington: The Pakistan-US relationship is certainly not going through "normal" times, Islamabad's ambassador to Washington Sherry Rehman has said. Rehman further asked the Pakistani-American community for their support to bring the two countries closer. The relationship has never been as important, yet the tensions have never been so grave, Rehman was quoted as saying by the Online news agency. "This embassy is not going to work alone in Washington. It...
08:26 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama during his last address before the Presidential elections on Tuesday night said for the first time in two decades Osama Bin Laden is not a threat to US. Obama said, "For the first time in last 9 years there is no American fighting in Iraq." While giving the State Union Address, Obama called for a fair shot economy, where everyone does their fair share. "Last...
07:59 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Islamabad: Controversial Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz could fly into a military airbase in Rawalpindi and granted a visa on arrival so that he can testify tomorrow before a judicial commission probing the memo scandal, according to a media report today. Ijaz's lawyer has said he will testify before the Supreme Court-appointed commission that is investigating the memo scandal on Monday. "Arrangements have been finalised for his chartered flight (at Chaklala...
02:48 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Islamabad: Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has said the current bilateral relationship between Islamabad and Washington was at its lowest ebb, even lower than that after the 9/11 attack. "We're at a very poor level. I don't think they were at this level even before 9/11, when I took over," Musharraf told CNN in an interview to a query on the relationship between Pakistan and the US, reported Pakistan's Online...
11:58 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Washington: Pakistan's former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has said that the current bilateral relationship between Islamabad and Washington is at its lowest ebb, lower than those post 9/11 attacks on the US. "We're at a very poor level. I don't think they were at this level even before 9/11, when I took over," Musharraf told the CNN in an interview when asked about the relationship between Pakistan and the...
12:49 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan has decided to demolish Osama Bin Laden's hideout so that it isn't turned into a shrine. The Pakistani Army has been planning to destroy the walled compound in Abbottabad with a series of rocket strikes before rolling in bulldozers. Bin Laden had lived in the squalid three-storied house in the military town for almost five years before he was killed by the US Seals last year. ...
09:00 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Islamabad: Al-Qaeda continues to preach jihad or holy war through an Urdu monthly magazine that is delivered to homes in cities across Pakistan by post, according to a media report on Monday. The 200-page magazine, Hiteen, is named after the battlefield where Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi defeated the Crusaders and features articles that preach jihad and praise Osama bin Laden. The magazine was started in June last year, a month after...
03:25 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani actor Ali Zafar seems to be having a tough time perfecting his dance steps for a Bollywood item number."Most painfully joyous process. Dance rehearsal for an item number! Fully Bollywood! Must sit in a tub full of ice before sleeping!" Ali wrote on his Twitter page. The actor-singer is currently busy shooting for filmmaker David Dhawan's 'Chashme Buddoor' remake. Apart from Ali, the film also stars Anupam...
11:29 AM, Jan 09, 2012
Jerusalem: Pakistan's former President General Pervez Musharraf has denied having knowledge about the al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden living in his country during his tenure. In his first ever interview to an Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, Musharraf insisted on his innocence and said he was 100 per cent sure about himself that he did not know he (Osama bin Laden) was there. "I am very sure about my answer. Especially so...
09:21 AM, Jan 08, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama on Thursday said that the US has delivered justice to al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and put his terror group on the path of defeat. "We've decimated al-Qaeda's leadership, delivered justice to Osama bin Laden, and put that terrorist network on the path to defeat," Obama said in his rare appearance at the Pentagon, the head office of the US department of Defense. "We've made important...
12:09 AM, Jan 06, 2012
London: Pakistan's embattled former ambassador to US, Husain Haqqani, fears he will be murdered if he leaves his sanctuary in the official residence of the Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, a media report on Wednesday said. Haqqani who is at the centre of the memo scandal said the allegations against him are part of a "psychological war" against Pakistan's civilian government by "certain powerful quarters." Haqqani said he has...
05:13 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistani parliamentary panel investigating the Memogate scandal on Friday decided to summon former envoy Husain Haqqani, businessman Mansoor Ijaz and ISI chief Lt Gen Shuja Ahmed Pasha to appear before it next month. The Parliamentary Committee on National Security has been asked by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to conduct an inquiry into the alleged memo that sought US help to prevent a possible military takeover in Pakistan...
09:05 AM, Dec 31, 2011
New Delhi: Former chief of Pakistani Army Gen Ziauddin Butt has told Dawn News that Osama bin Laden was kept in an Intelligence Bureau (IB) safe house in Abbotabad and former president General Pervez Musharraf knew about it. Butt also said that Osama was kept there under instructions from then director of the IB Brig Ijaz Shah. Brig Shah is also responsible for hiding Omar Saeed Sheikh who killed journalist...
02:44 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday in an unprecedented tongue-lashing against the powerful military said it is "unacceptable" if the army "considers itself a State within State" and warned that "conspiracies" are being hatched to "pack up" his government. Prime Minister Gilani also strongly criticised the army for failing to detect Osama bin Laden's presence in the country and said government firmly stood with the institutions and fully...
02:48 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan wants new rules of engagement with the US and an assurance of "no Abbottabad-like unilateral action in future", Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said. The prime minister was referring to the May 2 killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US commandos who carried out the daring raid by swooping into Abbottabad town without informing Pakistan. Gilani on Wednesday said that Pakistan wanted new rules...
12:41 PM, Dec 22, 2011
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said the US must guarantee Pakistan's sovereignty and ensure that there is no unilateral action like the raid that killed Osama bin Laden under the new terms of engagement that will define bilateral relations in future. Gilani made the remarks while addressing a meeting of Afghan and Pakistani parliamentarians at the Prime Minister's House. Pakistan wanted to take up three issues with...
09:29 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's ailing President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday scotched speculation that he could be ousted under a constitutional provision that provides for the removal of a president on the ground of "physical or mental incapacity". Talking to a senior Pakistani journalist who had written a column on the same issue on Friday, Zardari said he was "absolutely fine" but doctors treating him in Dubai were not giving him permission...
07:38 AM, Dec 17, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday said there was "no truth" in the alleged secret memo sent to the US military to help prevent a possible takeover by the Pakistan Army after the killing of Osama bin Laden in May. Addressing a meeting of parliamentarians of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, Gilani said the "Memogate" affair was a conspiracy against his government and democracy. The meeting was...
12:39 AM, Dec 17, 2011
Washington: Strongly defending his record as US President during the nearly first three years of his tenure, Barack Obama has said he deserves to be re-elected as he has not only revived the nation's economy, but also secured the country. "Not only saving this country from a great depression, not only saving the auto industry, but putting in place a system in which we are going to start lowering health...
07:03 AM, Dec 13, 2011
