ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ‚ A huge truck bomb exploded at the entrance to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday evening, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 150, the police said. The blast, one of the worst acts of terrorism in Pakistan's history, went off just a few hundred yards from the prime […]
Just when Pakistanis thought they had a new democracy, ushering in a new civilian government, a new president and the end of eight years of military rule, they are faced with the bleakest moment in the country's history. Proverbially listed as a failing state, this precariously poised country could now be in a downward spiral […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The United States will give $8.4 million to Pakistan through the World Food Programme to provide approximately 11,000 metric tons of wheat for over 1,600,000 people, including students of 3,200 schools. The WFP will begin distributing food aid in 12 districts in the NWFP and Balochistan this month. An agreement to this […]
LONDON, Sept 18: All sides need to help bolster security along the Pakistan-Afghan border, where recent US incursions have strained US-Pakistan ties, Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday. Speaking as Nato defence ministers gathered for informal talks, he underlined the need for closer contacts between Nato and the Pakistani government, which […]
WASHINGTON, Sept 18: Unilateral actions cannot defeat militancy in Fata, said US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte who also indicated on Thursday that the United States and Pakistan were working on a more collaborative approach to deal with this problem. Diplomatic sources in Washington say that the two countries whose relations have been strained […]
As Wall Street collapsed with a bang, almost no one noticed that we’re on the brink of war with Pakistan. And, unfortunately, that's not too much of an exaggeration. On Tuesday, the Pakistan's military ordered its forces along the Afghan border to repulse all future American military incursions into Pakistan. The story has been subsequently […]
VIENNA (Reuters) , Pakistan is close to completing a second plutonium-producing reactor, is well into building a third and these could increase its ability to make atomic bombs, a U.S. think-tank said on Thursday. “The wider implication … (is that) there is a real risk this will exacerbate an India-Pakistan nuclear arms race and increase […]
WASHINGTON: Militants hiding in the tribal areas are not a threat to Pakistan alone but also to the entire world and Pakistan needs to deal with them, a State Department official said on Wednesday. "We do make clear that there is an important security interest, not only for the United States and the region but […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Pakistan's prime minister said Thursday that strikes by foreign forces were “counterproductive,” as officials said there was no warning about the latest U.S. missile strike in the Pakistani northwest. Meanwhile, militants briefly seized 300 boys at a school in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, police said. The incident ended with the deaths of […]
WANA / ISLAMABAD, Sept 17: Hours after the American military commander had assured Pakistan's political and military leadership that the United States would respect the country's sovereignty, missiles were fired from US drones on a house in South Waziristan, killing six people and injuring three others. The unmanned aircraft which entered the tribal area from […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Pakistan said Thursday it was not warned about a suspected U.S. missile strike in its northwest that came the same day a top American official assured Pakistani leaders of U.S. respect for the Muslim nation's sovereignty. The reported attack will likely fuel anger in Pakistan over a surge in cross-border operations by […]
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON: The visiting United States Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen on Wednesday reiterated US commitment to respect Pakistan's sovereignty, while Pakistan made it clear that unilateral airstrikes in its territory are not acceptable. Sources said the top US commander was informed that Islamabad would not compromise on national sovereignty and only Pakistan […]
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