(Reuters) – Pakistan will give its full support to any clear effort by the Afghan government to achieve a political settlement with the Taliban but does not want to lead a peace process that would impose a solution, its foreign [...]
PARIS: An international money-laundering watchdog added Pakistan, Indonesia, Ghana, Tanzania and Thailand on Thursday to its blacklist of nations that fail to meet international standards. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has found that those five countries were flaunting recommendations [...]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly has unanimously passed the bill for 20th amendment to the Constitution, Geo News reported Tuesday. The Prime Minister in his address after passage of the 20th amendment bill by the house, congratulated the nation and all [...]
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said that corruption is Pakistan’s biggest problem and urged the nation to stand united on the issue, Geo News reported Saturday. While talking to the media at Karachi Airport, Khan said billions were [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry while hearing the intra court petition against the Prime Minister’s contempt of court on Thursday said the contempt case will stand closed if the government writes the letter to Swiss [...]
A factory has collapsed in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least nine people, including women and children, officials say. Officials said the blast at the three-storey premises was probably caused by a gas leak. The building was [...]
WASHINGTON: The US on Thursday issued a travel advisory, warning its citizens about the risks while traveling to Pakistan in view of recent developments and tension in US-Pak ties in the aftermath of NATO raid that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. [...]
PESHAWAR: Seven security personnel were killed while five others were kidnapped by the militants from Lower Kurram area Friday, Geo News reported. According to sources, militants attacked a check post in Shidano Dand area near Pak-Afghan border and killed seven [...]
Pakistan’s foreign minister says her country has no hidden agenda in Afghanistan, in response to a leaked secret Nato report on Islamabad’s links to the Afghan Taliban. Speaking to reporters in Kabul with her Afghan counterpart, Hina Rabbani Khar said [...]
US Defence Secretary alleges Pakistan knew about Osama bin Laden’s hideout. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta still believes someone in authority in Pakistan knew where Osama bin Laden was hiding before US forces went in to find him, he said [...]
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday extended his personal guarantee to provide an impregnable security cover to US businessman Mansoor Ijaz and asked him to arrive in the Punjab to record his statement in the memo scandal. It [...]
Gilani said his statement regarding rejoinders of COAS and DG ISI was relevant in certain situation. Talking to the media at Islamabad airport before leaving for Davos to attend World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said he [...]
PML-N is ready to contest elections in the presence of President Asif Ali Zardari. While talking to Dunya News, Ch Nisar Ali Khan said that if the Election Commission plays its due role, the PML-N has no objection in contesting [...]
Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif has confirmed that nearly 100 people have died after using PIC medicines. Talking to the media, the chief minister said that samples of the medicines in question have been sent to European laboratories — in France [...]
Govt faces criticism from Upper House on power sector loans mark-up; 3G technology. ISLAMABAD: The government faced a variety of criticisms during the Senate session on Tuesday, with senators across party lines urging the government first and foremost to implement [...]
Difa-e-Pakistan Council leadership warned the government that if Nato supply line restored, they would stage a sit-in from Peshawar to Chaman, demaning closure of the supplies to Nato on permanent basis. Jamaat-i-Islami Ameer Syed Munawar Hassan, Jamat-ut-Dawa Ameer Hafiz Saeed, [...]
BHALWAL: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan Sunday addressing another mega rally, this time in Bhalwal, predicted “that change was not far”, Geo News reported. Imran once again lamented the sorry plight of Pakistan, where the poor were cursed to [...]
American businessman Mansoor Ijaz. — File photo ISLAMABAD: Saturday saw a tense build-up to Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz’s arrival in the country for appearing before the commission investigating the memo case. The day began with a meeting called by Attorney [...]
ISLAMABAD: Police Saturday captured three alleged terrorists, during an operation in the Shakar Parian forest near Islamabad, Geo News reported. According to sources, police had launched a search operation after a tip-off from the intelligence agencies, which proved a bull’s [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday said the time from February to April would be politically very explosive and claimed no one could now stop his party from succeeding. It was only possible if he made the [...]
