Islamabad: Pakistan's interior minister has said elements of the Afghan government are likely supporting a senior Pakistani Taliban leader who is fighting to topple the Islamabad government, accusations which could further raise tensions over cross-border raids by militants. Pakistani officials say the Taliban commander known as Fazlullah has been orchestrating raids on Pakistani security forces from Afghanistan, where he fled several years ago after a Pakistani army offensive against his...
09:09 AM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: Heads have begun to role in Pakistan after a sting by a British tabloid exposed a visa scam that could allow potential terrorists an easy route to sneak into the UK posing as support staff for Pakistan's Olympics contingent. Islamabad on Monday suspended eight government officials for helping the undercover reporter acquire a computerised national identity card which is a prerequisite to obtain a Pakistani passport. On Monday,...
06:40 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Islamabad: Rehman Mailk, Pakistan's advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Affairs, on Tuesday resigned from the Senate over a month after the Supreme Court suspended his membership of Parliament. Malik said at the Karachi airport that he had submitted his resignation to the Chairman of the Senate or upper house of Parliament. On June 4, the apex court suspended Malik's membership of the Senate on the ground that he had...
03:36 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Islamabad: Days after he claimed terror suspect Zabiuddin Ansari could have mounted a "sting operation" to carry out the Mumbai attacks from Pakistani soil, Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik on Sunday demanded that India apologise for sending Surjeet Singh to spy in Pakistan. Malik made the demand while addressing a news conference in London, the Pakistani media reported. He demanded an apology from India for sending Singh "for spying in...
09:56 PM, Jul 01, 2012
New Delhi: Mumbai terror attack plotter Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal's family has expressed desire to meet their son to confirm his identity, saying if Jundal is guilty, he must be punished. Jundal's cousin said that he should be punished but his family members must not be troubled. "The government should conduct a DNA test of Jundal and his parents to confirm his identity, he said. Earlier, Jundal was...
07:28 AM, Jun 28, 2012
Pakistan hits back after Chidambaram claims Jundal confirmed the country's involvement in the 26/11 attacks. ...
10:26 PM, Jun 27, 2012
Though Home Minister P Chidambaram said that Abu Jundal had confirmed Pakistan involvement in 26/11, he did not pinpoint to any particular agency. ...
09:28 PM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi/Mumbai: Abu Jundal's confessions on Wednesday triggered a new India-Pak war of words. While Union Home Minister P Chidambaram claimed Jundal had confirmed the involvement of the Pakistan government in the 26/11 attacks, Pakistan hit back saying Jundal is an Indian citizen and that they were never involved in the Mumbai attacks. Sayeed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jundal issuspected of directing the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks from a Karachi control...
09:15 PM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan on Wednesday hit back at India over allegation that Pakistani state institutions were involved in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Coming to the defence of the ISI, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik dismissed India's charges and claimed that the allegations against the intelligence agency were baseless. Rubbishing 26/11 Mumbai terror attack plotter Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal's claims of ISI's involvement in the 26/11 attacks, Malik...
04:34 PM, Jun 27, 2012
Islamabad: A court on Monday suspended the Senate membership of Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik over holding dual nationality, a media report said. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, heard the case of Malik holding dual nationality of Britain and Pakistan, reported Geo News. Malik said that he had forfeited his British citizenship but he failed to provide sufficient documents to the...
04:29 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday said he had no plans to resign after the presentation of the next budget this week in the wake of his conviction of contempt by Pakistan's Supreme Court. "After all the achievements, why should I resign after the budget?" Gilani said during an appearance on the monthly television programme "Prime Minister Online", during which he answers questions from people around the...
03:43 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: India on Thursday said a new liberalised visa regime could not be worked out with Pakistan as some internal approvals were pending there. "Some internal approvals are pending there... Pakistan wants home ministers of both the countries to sign the pact," Home Secretary RK Singh told reporters. Singh held two-day talks with his Pakistani counterpart Khwaja Siddique Akbar in Islamabad May 24-25, but a pact for relaxing the...
02:46 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday gave Interior Minister Rehman Malik a day to submit documents to back his claim that he had renounced his British nationality. A three-Judge bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry issued the order while hearing a petition challenging the dual nationality of some members of the two Houses of Parliament. The apex court earlier suspended the membership of parliament of Farahnaz Ispahani, the media...
10:47 AM, May 31, 2012
Islamabad: There is disappointment for Indians and Pakistanis who were hoping for easier cross-border travel. An agreement on the liberalised visa regime between the two countries was on Friday postponed for a later date as the Home Secretary level talks concluded. Although both sides have agreed in principle, the modalities of the visa agreement still need to be worked out. In what is being seen as a snub to India,...
07:04 PM, May 25, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Sunday briefly blocked access to Twitter on the ground that it was being used to promote a contest on Facebook for blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed before Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stepped in to end the ban. The Information Technology Ministry said Twitter was blocked for publicising "blasphemous and inflammatory content". Calls for participation in the contest for blasphemous caricatures were being made on...
11:48 PM, May 20, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities today blocked access to Twitter in several parts of the country despite Interior Minister Rehman Malik's claim that no restrictions were being imposed on the micro-blogging site. There was no official word on the development but users from different parts of Pakistan, especially Islamabad and the nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi, reported that they were unable to access the site on their computers and mobile phones. The...
04:04 PM, May 20, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani officials on Saturday promised a full investigation into the crash of a domestic flight that killed 127 people, saying they were examining all possibilities, from a technical fault to the age of the Boeing 737. Grieving relatives claiming the remains of loved ones at a hospital expressed grief and anger over the crash in a storm as the plane approached Islamabad on a flight from Karachi, Pakistan's commercial...
09:23 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday conducted an aerial survey of the area in Siachen sector where Pakistani troops are involved in a frantic search for 138 people, mostly soldiers, buried under dozens of feet of snow following an avalanche that hit an army camp 11 days ago. The visit to Gyari area by the President, who is the supreme commander of the armed forces, was aimed at...
04:34 AM, Apr 19, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on Monday said former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, a "proclaimed offender" in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, could not be given another opportunity for further hearing as he failed to appear before the court and surrender. Chaudhry made the remarks when a three-judge bench led by him resumed hearing a petitioned filed by slain former premier Bhutto's ex-protocol officer Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam, who has...
08:24 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is headed to India this weekend on a personal visit. Zardari to be accompanied by Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The US though maintains the Hafiz Saeed move should not strain ties between India and Pakistan and called Zardari's scheduled visit 'very constructive'. Zardari will be in India on...
11:59 AM, Apr 06, 2012
