Islamabad: Pakistan will "revisit its engagement" with NATO and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in view of the cross-border air strike in Mohmand tribal region, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday. Gilani made the remarks a day after the attack by NATO combat aircraft on two military border posts killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers, including two officers. Pakistan angrily responded to the attack by closing...
11:14 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Islamabad: As the 'memogate' scandal continues to raise a political storm in Pakistan, Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said the entire episode will be investigated to find out how the controversial memo was prepared and who was behind it. "The question rises how this memo was prepared, who is behind it, that is all going to be investigated," Malik said. The scandal exploded into the political space here recently...
06:48 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Addu (Maldives): India on Thursday rebuffed Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik's claim that there was no proof against Jamaat-ul-Dawa chief Hafeez Saeed to prosecute him in the 26/11 attacks case, saying it has provided dossiers which contains 'enough evidence' to take the case forward. "We have provided dossiers that have great deal of information and enough evidence that Pakistan can take forward. As far as we are concerned there is...
11:03 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Both Manmohan Singh and Gilani vowed to open 'a new chapter' in bilateral ties by putting accusations and counter-accusations to an end. ...
10:45 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday said that credible evidence would help his Government in prosecuting the accused in his country. ...
09:44 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Addu (Maldives): Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that 26/11 attacker Ajmal Amir Kasab is a terrorist and should be hanged. Malik addressed the media at Addu in Maldives on the sidelines of the SAARC Summit and claimed that Kasab was a non-state actor and had no support from the Pakistani establishment. "Kasab is a terrorist, a non-state actor who should go to gallows and his accomplices too. So...
11:23 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed his helplessness to 'impart any wisdom' to his Interior Minister, saying 'Rehman Baba' is beyond his control. Gilani made the remarks while interacting with a group of reporters on Friday night when he was asked about the wisdom behind Rehman Malik's statement that Pakistan would send an investigation team to Britain to probe the spot-fixing affair in which three Pakistani cricketers have...
12:22 PM, Nov 05, 2011
Pakistan's Interior Minister said that as long as any such pact doesn't hinder Pakistan's sovereignty, we will welcome it. ...
09:54 AM, Nov 02, 2011
Islamabad: Armed men have attacked PML-N offices across Sindh province and burnt alive a party leader two days after the main opposition party staged a major rally against the Pakistan People's Party-led government. PML-N offices were ransacked and set on fire in different cities and towns of southern Sindh province, a stronghold of the PPP, late Saturday night, police said. The armed attackers fired gun sorts in the air, witnesses...
01:00 PM, Oct 30, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan will only hold peace talks with Taliban insurgents if they lay down their arms first, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Tuesday, after both sides signalled willingness to consider negotiations. "The minimum agenda is that they give up arms and come forward and then there will be talks. But if they think they will keep Kalashnikovs in their hands and also hold talks, that will not happen," he...
04:36 PM, Oct 18, 2011
Islamabad: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that 'hostile overseas elements' were bent on crippling life in Karachi that has seen over 200 people killed in violence in the past few weeks. "Karachi is our life-line and we cannot tolerate conspiracy against our economic hub city," he said while addressing members of a trade body in Karachi on Saturday. "Funds amounting to Rs 5 billion for law and order" have...
12:05 PM, Oct 09, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has contended that the US should share the blame for the rise of the Haqqani network as the CIA created the Taliban faction during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and trained its members. "The Haqqani network was trained and produced by the CIA," he said. The group did not originate in Pakistan and the US should not now speak about "things which happened 20...
03:28 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Thimphu: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday had a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik, as he said terrorism posed the most significant "existential challenge" to peace and security in South Asia. Chidambaram and Malik had their deliberations on the fringes of the SAARC Interior/Home Ministers meeting, their second one-to-one interaction since their last encounter in Islamabad in 2010 on the sidelines of a regional meeting. Malik said the...
01:09 PM, Jul 24, 2011
Thimphu: India has pressed Pakistan for the voice samples of the seven accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and sought speedy trial of the case in that country to bring to justice the perpetrators of the strikes. Home Minister P Chidambaram made the request to his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik when they met in Thimphuon Saturday night on the sidelines of the SAARC Interior Ministers meeting. "The Indian Home...
12:00 PM, Jul 24, 2011
Thimphu: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday had a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik, as he said terrorism posed the most significant "existential challenge" to peace and security in South Asia. Chidambaram and Malik had their deliberations on the fringes of the SAARC Interior/Home Ministers meeting--their second one-to-one interaction since their last encounter in Islamabad last year on the sidelines of a regional meeting. Malik said the meeting...
11:59 PM, Jul 23, 2011
Thimphu: Home Minister P Chidambaram and his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik on Friday travelled on the same flight to attend a SAARC ministerial meeting in Bhutan, but it is not yet clear whether they had a chance encounter. Both ministers took the same Druk Air commercial flight from Delhi to Paro, 56 km from the capital of this Himalayan nation, to attend the 4th meeting of the SAARC Interior/Home Ministers...
04:29 PM, Jul 22, 2011
Thimphu: Home Minister P Chidambaram may hold a bilateral meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik on the sidelines of a SAARC conference here if Islamabad makes such a request. Both Chidambaram and Malik are scheduled to arrive here for the fourth conference of the SAARC Interior/Home Ministers that began on Thursday. "If they (Pakistan) request, we may meet," Home Secretary R K Singh told PTI. If the two leaders...
04:06 PM, Jul 21, 2011
Islamabad: Slain al Qaeda-linked militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri 'may also have been part' of the Mumbai attacks but India's claim that he may have been supported by Pakistan is misplaced, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said. Malik claimed he had confirmation that Kashmiri had been killed in a US drone attack on June 3. Malik said the Mumbai attacks were carried out by non-state actors and 'used against Pakistan'. Specially...
07:02 PM, Jun 28, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan will take action against JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, a prime accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, if India provides 'actionable and 'substantive' evidence on the Lashkar-e-Taeba founder, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said. "We had detained him (Saeed). The law does not go by statements but evidence. If we are provided actionable evidence, we will act against him," Malik said. He made it clear that Pakistan...
05:42 PM, Jun 28, 2011
New Delhi: Five paramilitary troopers have been arrested for shooting a teenager to death, at point blank range in Pakistan. His pleas for mercy met by a ranger's bullet. Nineteen-year-old Sarfraz Shah was then left to die - agonizingly bleed to death at a park in Karachi. The rangers allege sarfraz was carrying a weapon and had come with the intention to rob. The incident has fueled anger against the...
09:07 AM, Jun 10, 2011
