Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday said that it has put the trial of seven Mumbai attacks suspects on the fast track and any delay in proceedings is due to India's failure to decide on a request to allow a judicial commission to interview key officials there. In a response to Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram's remarks on Wednesday that confidence between the two countries cannot be restored till Pakistan takes action...
11:41 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Karachi: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday rejected India's claims that Pakistan was not doing enough to punish those responsible for the Mumbai terror attacks and said Islamabad is willing to cooperate and listen to New Delhi's grievances. "We want friendly relations with India and we are willing to cooperate and listen to all their grievances. At the same time we are doing our best to ensure the perpetrators of...
02:54 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan Government has announced that a Supreme Court judge will probe the killing of journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, who was abducted and killed shortly after he wrote an article about the alleged infiltration of the Pakistan Navy by al Qaeda. "The government will announce a commission within two days to probe the assassination of Saleem Shahzad as a (proposal) in this regard has been moved," Interior Minister Rehman Malik...
05:17 PM, Jun 04, 2011
Karachi: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik called the terror strike on the naval base, PNS Mehran, in Karachi an attack on the country. Addressing the media after the over 15-hour long siege ended on Monday afternoon, Malik said that all major Pakistani cities have been put on high alert against terror attacks. Calling Taliban and al Qaeda as Pakistan's enemies, Malik said that some powers are trying to destabilise Pakistan...
04:57 PM, May 23, 2011
Karachi: After a 17-hour long brazen siege, Pakistan retook control of its key naval base on Monday. 12 commandos were killed, many others were injured before the elite commandos backed by hundreds of paramilitary retook control of the Mehran naval base. According to reports, four militants were killed in the fierce gunbattle. Before they were silenced, the handful of Taliban militants destroyed two planes. The Tehreek-e-Taliban and Baloch separatists have...
11:23 AM, May 23, 2011
Karachi: A fierce gun battle was on at a military base PNS Mehran in Karachi after terrorists attacked the base on Sunday night. A 'Geo News' report said that fake ID Cards with monogram of security forces were recovered from the four arrested terrorists while four terrorists killed themselves in a blast. Reports also said that the terrorists were in grey and black clothes and not in military uniform. More...
07:26 AM, May 23, 2011
London: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik believes the US had a mole right inside Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout and this was how the al Qaeda chief was tracked down to the compound, a media report said on Sunday. Top US officials said after the raid that they were only partially certain of Osama's presence inside the $ 1 million mansion, but Malik says only definitive information could have led...
05:42 PM, May 22, 2011
Islamabad: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said errors in a list of 50 fugitives sought by India from Pakistan should not be made a "big issue" and the two countries should move forward to enhance their friendship. "The wrong listing of Indian wanted persons, and their subsequent recovery within Indian jails, let us not make it a big issue," Malik said on micro-blogging site Twitter. "This is how some...
10:08 PM, May 21, 2011
New Delhi: India on Tuesday demanded that Pakistan disclose the whereabouts of Dawood Ibrahim, dismissing its Interior Minister Rehman Malik's contention that he was not in his country. Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai said the Pakistan Interior Minister should disclose where Dawood was living if he was not in Pakistan. "If the Minister is so sure that Dawood is not in Pakistan, he should tell us where is he.... According...
06:33 PM, May 10, 2011
Ahead of the Indo-Pakistan Foreign Secretary level talks that begin next week. Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that there is enough evidence to nail the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack accused. In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN Deputy Foreign Affairs Editor Suhasini Haidar he spoke about the Foreign Secretary level talks. Suhasini Haidar: One of the big issues that was discussed between the home secretaries was the progress ...
11:03 AM, Apr 23, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistan's Twitter-savvy Interior Minister Rehman Malik has thanked Home Minister "brother" P Chidambaram for the successful Home Secretary level talks between the two countries which concluded on Tuesday. "The meeting between the home secretaries of Pak and India has gone very well. Congratulation to both the teams... It is their first meeting after my meeting with H.E Mr. Chidambaram. Congratulation to brother Chidambaram," Malik posted a message on...
07:43 PM, Mar 29, 2011
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11:59 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Kolkata: Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan on Monday lashed out at Interior Minister Rehman Malik for his warning to Pakistan cricket team against indulging in match-fixing during their crucial World Cup semi-final against India in Mohali. The cricketer-turned-politican hit out at the minister's statement and said he should better keep a watch on himself as he was absconding few days back. Imran, who heads Tehreek-e-Insaaf party, also made fun saying...
06:45 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Davos: Home Minister P Chidambaram has said 'some evidence' has emerged in the 2007 Samjhauta blast case and India will share information with Pakistan once the probe is over. "We have not said that we will not provide evidence. These are early phases of investigation, once the investigation is complete we will share the evidence with Pakistani authorities," he said. Chidambaram said that he had conveyed India's position to his...
12:59 PM, Jan 30, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan has again decided to ask India for access to the witnesses of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack to record their statements. A formal request is going to be filed soon, officials said. This would be the second time that Pakistan would be making such a request, interior ministry officials told The Express Tribune on Friday. Over four months back, Interior Minister Rehman Malik had requested Indian Home Minister...
12:04 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Islamabad: Admitting that the trial of LeT's Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks is "stuck", Pakistan on Saturday said the formation of a commission to record the testimony of two key Indian witnesses is necessary to take things forward. Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik -- who had a meeting with Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal in Islamabad on Saturday morning -- contended that...
01:41 PM, Sep 04, 2010
Islamabad: Pakistan has sought some additional information from India on 49-year-old David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-American Lashker-e-Taiba operative who has confessed to his involvement in the Mumbai attacks. Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik told Interior Minister Rehman Malik about the efforts to seek more information about Headley, who is being held in a US federal lock-up in Chicago, during a meeting in Islamabad on Friday. Headley, whose father...
02:33 PM, Aug 28, 2010
Confronted with evidence obtained from Headley, Pak Interior Minister does a U-turn in an exclusive interview. ...
07:57 PM, Jun 28, 2010
Chidambaram made his mission clear that Pakistan must acknowledge that 26/11 could not be forgotten. ...
10:23 PM, Jun 26, 2010
During Home Minister P Chidambaram's meeting with his Pakistani counterpart, Indian flag was seen to be placed upside down. ...
12:56 PM, Jun 26, 2010
