In Pakistan, nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, has said his country may have supplied nuclear centrifuges to North Korea under the supervision of the...

Islamabad, July 5 (Xinhua) Taliban insurgents Saturday freed two journalists from their captivity in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, News Network International news agency...

India are aiming to dethrone defending champions Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup final here Sunday but captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni agreed that this would be a tough...

A tribal council mediating between Pakistani authorities and Islamic rebels Saturday said a powerful militant commander has agreed to hold negotiations to end the military action in the Khyber tribal district in the...

Elements opposed to Asif Ali Zardari, co-chair of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that leads the country's ruling coalition, have begun to pool their energies to 'return the party to the Bhutto family' that has been at the centre of the country's politics since the late...

Washington, July 5 : A Pakistani human rights activist Munawar Laghari has said that Pakistan being an Islamic country cannot be...

Islamabad, July 5 : Latest figures issued by Pakistan's Federal Bureau of Statistics indicate that inflation has jumped over 31 per cent during the last one week....

London, July 5 : The Governor of Afghanistan's Musa Qala district, which lies to the north of the country's Helmand province, Mullah Abdul Salaam, has blamed the Pakistanis and the Iranians for attacks on British...

Lahore, July 5 : During his first visit to Pakistan, English Sikh rock star Narinder Singh Rithor alias Peter Singh said he was fascinated by the beauty of Lahore, saying the people here make you feel at...

Lahore, July 5 : A large number of writers and literary personalities from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh attended a book launch ceremony in Lahore last evening. Titled 'Founder of Secular Democratic India', the book is written on the life of Indian Constitution's architect Dr Bhimrao...

Lahore, July 5 : A senior US security official has reportedly said that Al Qaeda was regrouping itself in tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan...

London, July 5 : West Indian great Michael Holding has resigned from the ICC Cricket Committee after they changed the result of the 2006 Oval Test between England and Pakistan to a draw....

Islamabad, July 5 : If the official data collected and published by a Pakistani daily is to be believed, around 4300 people, including 740 security personnel and former premier Benazir Bhutto, have been killed in different suicide attacks throughout the country since the Lal Masjid debacle last...

Karachi, July 5 : PML-N president and Punjab Chief Minister, Shahbaz Sharif has reportedly denied rumors of a breakup with the PPP over the restoration of the non-PCO...

Karachi, July 5 : Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that even seven months after resigning as the Army Chief, the country's powerful army was still behind him and will never leave him in the...

New York, July 5 : US Congressman Gary Ackerman who returned home after a two-day visit to Pakistan and talked with the region's residents, tribal leaders and troops as well as Pakistani government officials, including Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, has said that he deliberately did not meet President Pervez Musharraf because "he was a terrible...

Karachi, July 5 : Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that he was not afraid of any move to arrest him, and that he was keeping quiet in the prevailing political circumstances in the country, because as a militaryman he was trained in both offensive and defensive...

Peshawar, July 5 : In a bid to allow the Afridi tribesmen to meet Lashkar-e-Islam chief Mangal Bagh for holding peace talks, the Pakistan government has suspended its security operation against suspected militants and criminals in the Khyber Agency for 36 hours till Saturday...

Washington, July 5 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is learnt to have made up his mind to tell US President George Bush, when he meets him on July 28, that Islamabad will allow a US incursion into FATA only if it was directed specifically against Al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden or his deputy Ayman Al...

Karachi, July 5 : Without naming PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, the paternal uncle of former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto, has said that people who had made a profession out of crime were today ruling the country and that "decision regarding the country were in their...

BARA, Pakistan (AP) - Officials of Pakistan's new government say security forces have halted an operation against militants in the country's volatile northwest to try negotiating peace through tribal...

Summit Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani will visit Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from July 7th to 9th for attending the D-8 Conference, it was officially announced on Saturday. The...

(AP Photo/File)The founder of Pakistan's nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, is seen in this undated file photo in Islamabad, Pakistan. Disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan said Friday, July...

ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf has said he will not quit his post or leave the country because he still has a role to play along with political parties in steering Pakistan out of the...

Press Trust of India ISLAMABAD, July 5: In a fresh salvo against his detractors, President Pervez Musharraf has said he will not quit his post or leave the country because he still has a role to...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's foreign ministry insisted on Saturday that its nuclear proliferation case was closed, a day after the disgraced architect of its atomic program claimed the army under...

TEHRAN: Iran is ready to negotiate with world powers on its nuclear programme but without suspending its controversial uranium enrichment work, the government spokesman said on...

KARACHI: President Pervez Musharraf insisted on Friday that Pakistan's powerful army still supports him, but he said he would step down if he thought it would solve all of the country's problems. ...

Islamabad: The sharply falling volume in stocks traded on Pakistan's main market says a lot about the future of Pakistan's investment climate just when the country must reconcile itself with mounting...

Hong Kong and Singapore - occupy the top two positions in the Enabling Trade Index ranking, followed by Sweden and Norway, according to The Global Enabling Trade Report 2008, released by the World...

Soldiers Killed At least five Indian soldiers were killed on Friday in the ongoing fierce gunbattle that is raging in the north Kashmir forests along the dividing Line of Control since Sunday last....

KARACHI: Pakistan made short work of Bangladesh in their final Asia Cup Super Four game, thrashing the visitors by 10 wickets at the National Stadium here on...

Nuclear Scientist Pakistan's nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has disclosed that the government had installed bugging devices at his whole house, his lawyer said Friday. Qadeer Khan was put...

KARACHI: Pakistan crushed a hapless Bangladesh by ten wickets in the inconsequential last Super League match in the Asia Cup after paceman Abdur Rauf took a career-best 3-24 at National Stadium here...

Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday. ...

The UK announced on Thursday that it would be doubling financial assistance to Pakistan to £480m ($952m) by 2011, a move that makes Islamabad the second largest recipient of British aid.Britain said...

Karachi - Pakistan openers Salman Butt and Nasir Jamshed produced an unbroken century partnership to set up a comprehensive 10-wicket win over Bangladesh in the final Asia Cup super league match on...

07/05/2008 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's...

MINGORA: Unidentified miscreants set ablaze a private hospital and the office of a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in Mamdheri area of Kabal Tehsil in Swat Valley late Thursday night. The...

Pakistan’s army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan’s atomic weapons program said...

ISLAMABAD: The war on terror has cost over 3,000 Pakistani nationals since 9/11 and the ISPR has confirmed that 1,080 Pakistani soldiers have been martyred to get their country free of...

JAMMU: A self-styled self section commander of Lashker-e-Toiba outfit was gunned down by security personnel in an encounter in Doda district on Saturday. A group of militants opened fire on...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons...

Headlines The following headlines appeared in major Pakistani newspapers on Saturday: **DAILY TIMES - Govt suspends Bara operation - Centrifuges sent to North Korea with Musharraf's consent - Taliban...

Jumeirah Group has inked an agreement with Pakistan's Zahdan Retail Private Ltd to set up restaurants in Pakistan. Jumeirah's The Taste Department is planning 12 Noodle House outlets in Pakistan over...

In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Khan said a shipment of used P-1 centrifuges — which enrich uranium for nuclear warheads — was sent from Pakistan in a North Korean...

Budget not gender sensitive, say speakers Saturday, July 05, 2008 By our correspondent KarachiGiven the way food prices have sky rocketed in recent months, participants at a seminar...

Saturday, July 05, 2008 RawalpindiJudge of Accountability Court no. 2, Chaudhry Muhammad Younas here Friday ordered the authorities concerned to hand over the BMW car to a American citizen of...

Saturday, July 05, 2008 By our correspondents Karachi In view of the looming monsoon rains in the city, Malir Town has announced rain emergency in the town jurisdiction in order to cope with...

Saturday, July 05, 2008 Muhammad Qasim IslamabadAn inter-provincial and inter-ministerial meeting on monsoon tree plantation campaign 2008, decided Friday that 47.27 million saplings would be...