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Oct 11 2008, Muhammad

A joint session of parliament in Islamabad has heard, in camera, the newly-appointed ISI Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha — who was Director General Military Operations (DGMO) before he got the job — on the terrorist threat facing Pakistan...

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Oct 9 2008 by AP0 Comments

Bombings killed 10 people and wounded at least four in Pakistan on Thursday, including an attack in a police complex in the capital the same day lawmakers huddled for a private briefing on the militant threat facing the country.

 
 
Oct 9 2008 by AP0 Comments

An explosives-laden vehicle blew up an anti-terrorist squad building and wounded at least four people Thursday in a heavily guarded police complex in Pakistan’s capital, officials and a witness said.

 
 
Oct 9 2008 by AP0 Comments

An explosives-laden vehicle blew up an anti-terrorist squad building and wounded at least nine people Thursday in a heavily guarded police complex in Pakistan’s capital, officials and a witness said.

 
 
Oct 9 2008 by AP0 Comments

An explosives-laden vehicle rammed an anti-terrorist squad building Thursday in a part of Islamabad that houses several police facilities, wounding at least nine people, officials said.

 
 
Oct 8 2008 by AP0 Comments

Pakistan’s new spy chief briefed lawmakers Wednesday in an unusual private session focused on the fledgling government’s fight against Taliban and al-Qaida militants entrenched in the tribal belt along the Afghan border.

 
 
Oct 7 2008 by AP0 Comments

Afghan refugees ordered out of a Pakistani war zone begged Tuesday for bus fares and flowed over the border into their homeland, worsening a humanitarian crisis resulting from an army offensive against Taliban militants, officials said.

 
 
Oct 7 2008 by AP0 Comments

Afghan refugees were flowing over the border from a Pakistani battle zone Tuesday after officials accused them of links with Taliban militants and ordered them out, police said.

 
 
Oct 6 2008 by AP0 Comments

A suicide bomber attacked a lawmaker’s house in eastern Pakistan Monday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 50, officials and a witness said.

 
 
Oct 6 2008 by AP0 Comments

Pakistan insisted Monday it had no deal allowing the U.S. to fire missiles at militant hideouts after an American newspaper quoted the new president as suggesting otherwise.

 
 
Oct 5 2008 by AP0 Comments

A Pakistani wish list for the next U.S. president might read something like this: an end to cross-border strikes on militants, more aid for the country’s battered economy and greater support for its elected government.

 
 
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Sep 17 2008 by Sreelata Yellamrazu6 Comments

While people are still questioning Surrey’s decision to sign on Shoaib Akhtar, the Pakistan Cricket Board is once again in tussle with the troubled fast bowler, his career with Pakistan now hinging on seven million rupees.
Shoaib...

 
 
Oct 1 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

We know Iraq and Afghanistan for the suicide bombings, but now another country is woefully added to the list. Are you thinking about Pakistan? Yes, you are right. Musharraf’s Presidential agenda adds another chapter in the dark pages of his rule that...

 
 
Sep 14 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

There is a shift of terrorists to Pakistan since the coalition forces denied the safe haven to them after the 9/11 terror hunt in Afghanistan. And Musharraf’s duel policy made their shift easy and this is what you can term as ‘asking for trouble’....

 
 
Sep 11 2007 by Santosh0 Comments

Defying a Supreme Court order, President General Pervez Musharraf sent commandos to Islamabad airport yesterday and tossed out his archrival Nawaz Sharif hours after he returned from a seven-year exile in hopes of a political comeback.
Analysts say...

 
 
Jul 4 2007 by Pankaj0 Comments

Today’s Pakistan has a serious quandary. A decision is awaited between two Islamic state models, one that is modern and democratic and one that is backward and bigoted. While the later chooses an Islamic state the grip of a struggle between a secular...

 
 
Feb 7 2007 by Naresh Chauhan0 Comments

‘Global war on terror’ is becoming more horrible and complex to get beyond not only for the, so-called, big guns but mid-eastern and south Asian nations. In fact, Asia is the most militancy vulnerable regions that is suffering the dreadful wound...

 
 
Jan 27 2007 by Pratyush0 Comments

10 people killed and more than 35 became injured in a powerful bomb explosion near a Shia mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. According to report, most of the victims were police and municipal officials.

Peshawar’s deputy police chief also died in the...

 
 
Jan 20 2007 by Pratyush0 Comments

The government of India is trying hard to develop good bilateral relations with Pakistan. On the other hand, the Pakistani government is remained under pressure from the Islamic extremists in Pakistan to suspend the peace talks with India.

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Dec 26 2006 by Pooja0 Comments

Minister for Women Development and Youth Affairs Sumaira Malik said on Sunday that the government is looking forward to meet out the issues of women belonging to minority groups.

She passed on good wishes to the Christians community on Christmas and...

 
 
Dec 3 2006 by Pooja0 Comments

Mohammad Ali Durrani, Information Minister of Pakistan said that they are planning to go ahead with the idea of empowering women by introducing various kinds of bills related to the women folk.

He said President General Pervez Musharraf too has given...

 
 
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Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, left, heads a meeting with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, right, at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Iran says it is willing to build a...