Lahore: Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Saturday met Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif for over three hours, exchanging views on regional situation and the war on terror. The meeting, sought by Kayani, was the first between the two since Sharif's PML-N emerged victorious in the May 11 general election and is all set to form the government. During the meeting, which lasted over three hours, the army chief...
08:09 PM, May 18, 2013
Islamabad: The PML-N and two nationalist parties have agreed to form a coalition government in Balochistan but differences remain on the issue of choosing a Chief Minister for the insurgency-hit province in southwest Pakistan. The Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP), which represents the Pashtuns living in northern parts of Balochistan, emerged the single largest party in the May 11 polls by bagging 10 of the 51 directly elected seats in...
03:45 PM, May 18, 2013
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday extended by 14 days former President Pervez Musharraf's judicial remand over the detention of judges during the 2007 emergency. Judge Syed Kausar Abbas Zaidi of the anti-terrorism court also accepted a plea from Musharraf s lawyers that he should be exempted from appearing in the court on Saturday. 69-year-old Musharraf could not be produced in court for security reasons, officials said. The judge...
02:59 PM, May 18, 2013
Lahore: A Pakistani judge investigating the murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the matter to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days. Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court is investigating the death of Sarabjit following a brutal assault by prisoners within Kot Lakhpat Jail. "The Indians are required to get themselves registered with...
01:12 PM, May 18, 2013
Karachi: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Friday announced that it would boycott the re-polling at 43 polling stations of the National Assembly constituency 250. MQM's senior leader Reza Haroon told a press conference that the decision to boycott the re-polling was taken by the party high command as it was clear that efforts were made to snatch the party's mandate in Karachi. Earlier in the day, the Election Commission...
12:25 AM, May 18, 2013
Edinburgh: Pakistan established a target of 232 in their one-day international against Scotland in Edinburgh on Friday after spinner Majid Haq claimed three wickets for the home side. The tourists are using the game to gear up for their Champions Trophy campaign, which kicks off against the West Indies at The Oval in London on June 7. They made a slow start after winning the toss and opting to bat...
12:13 AM, May 18, 2013
Islamabad: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who will travel to Islamabad next week to hold talks with President Asif Ali Zardari and caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, will also meet PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, who is set to form Pakistan's new government. Li will meet Sharif on May 23. Sharif, whose PML-N emerged the single largest party in Parliament in the May 11 general election, is expected to arrive...
08:19 PM, May 17, 2013
Acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair's 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' is based on a novel of the same name by Mohsin Hamid, and stars Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson in the pivotal roles. Shabana Azmi and Om Puri will also be seen in the film. The film is about the meteoric rise and fall of a Pakistani migrant in the US. It shows a young man chasing corporate success on Wall Street and...
06:24 PM, May 17, 2013
Jaipur: An employee of the Army Supply Corp, posted in the South Western Command in Jaipur, was arrested for allegedly passing confidential information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, police said on Friday. "The accused Upper Division Clerk BK Sinha (43) was spying for ISI and sharing classified information and documents regarding Army's transport related movements to Nepal based ISI agent," said Additional DG (Intelligence) Dalpat Singh Dinkar. Sinha was arrested by...
04:56 PM, May 17, 2013
Lahore: A serving judge has been named by a Pakistani court to probe the murder of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died earlier this month after being assaulted within the Kot Lakhpat Jail here. Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial appointed Justice Syed Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi to investigate the matter and submit a report to the court. However, no deadline has been given to Naqvi...
04:48 PM, May 17, 2013
Islamabad: Two blasts ripped through as many mosques in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 15 people and injuring 25 others, security officials said. The blasts occurred during Friday prayers in the mosques at Bazdara area of Malakand district, an erstwhile stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. Fifteen people were killed, officials of the Levies militia told the media. The mosques were damaged by the blasts. Local...
04:22 PM, May 17, 2013
Barmer: In the special series, 'India's forgotten spies', CNN-IBN heads to border villages in Barmer in Rajasthan. CNN-IBN's Swati Vashishtha met former prisoners and families of those who are still languishing in Pakistan jails. Lakshmi Devi last saw her husband Bhagu Singh 28 years ago. He strayed across the border, grazing cattle, in 1986. Since then, no letter or phone call has been received, but just the information of his...
04:03 PM, May 17, 2013
Islamabad: Suspected militants attacked NATO supply trucks in Pakistan's restive northwest on Thursday, killing two drivers, officials said. Two armed men riding a motorcycle targeted a truck in Jamrud area of the lawless Khyber tribal region and killed its driver, officials told the media. Another NATO supply truck was attacked on the outskirts of Peshawar and its driver shot dead, police officials said. No group claimed responsibility for both attacks....
03:00 AM, May 17, 2013
Karachi: Pakistan's former captain, Aamir Sohail has reacted strongly to reports that he was engineering a move to oust Zaka Ashraf as chairman of the PCB after the Pakistan Muslim League's victory in the general elections. Ashraf interestingly became the first elected chairman of the board just few days before the elections were held on May 11 with many former heads of the board and players criticising the haste and...
10:56 PM, May 16, 2013
Karachi: Pakistan's cricketers who are presently in Scotland preparing for the Champions Trophy, have had to accept clauses in their new central contracts, which make them answerable to the team management at any time during the tour as part of anti-corruption measures taken by the board to avoid a repeat of the 2010 spot-fixing scandal. Official sources in the PCB confirmed that the vigilance officer, who has flown to Scotland...
10:35 PM, May 16, 2013
Lahore: AAwais Sheikh, the lawyer of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh who died after a murderous assault on him inside Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail, was allegedly abducted along with his son on Thursday morning in Pakistan and freed after a few hours in captivity. A few hours after the abduction, Sheikd told some media persons that he and his son had been freed. Sheikh had claimed a threat to his life...
01:08 PM, May 16, 2013
Islamabad: Six suspects, including two women, were arrested on Thursday during an operation to trace the kidnapped son of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani in Pakistan's restive northwest, officials said. A joint team of police and law enforcement agencies raided the property of a man named Sardar Ali near Akhora Khattak in Nowshera district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province early Thursday morning. The team arrested six suspects and freed a kidnapped man...
12:59 PM, May 16, 2013
Lahore: Imran Khan on Wednesday promised to cooperate with Nawaz Sharif to tackle key challenges like terrorism despite "serious political differences" with the PML-N chief who is set to become Pakistan's next Prime Minister. "We have serious political differences but we decided that we will work together to solve the country's problems, including terrorism," the cricketer-turned-politician said in a video message aired at a news conference by his Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf...
10:10 PM, May 15, 2013
Thirty six years ago a young Vinod Sahni crossed the Line of Control as Agent 22. After months as an active spy, Sahni was captured and given 11 years in a Pakistani jail. After undergoing inhuman pain and torture for 11 years, When he returned to India, Sahni found his recruiters had ignored his family. Vinod Sahni, former Indian spy who served in a Pakistani jail, joined IBNLive readers for...
05:48 PM, May 15, 2013
Lahore: Over 1,400 prisoners went on hunger strike at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore on Wednesday where Indian national Sarabjit Singh was killed, to protest against the hostile attitude of the prison staff. The prisoners refused to have breakfast or lunch, sources said. Senior jail officials were trying to persuade them to end the strike. Jail superintendent Kamran Anjum, however, denied that prisoners had gone on strike. "Some prisoners have...
05:41 PM, May 15, 2013
