A key plank of President Obama’s strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan was in danger of giving way last night after a refusal by Pakistan to take on a top Taleban...

David Headley case is getting murkier day by day, confirming the worst fears. Perhaps like Pakistan, USA is also paying for its sins which go back to cold war era. As...

Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) has blocked Voice of America’s (VOA) 4-hour Pashto language programme on the latter’s alleged deviation from agreement.

A car bombing outside a politician’s home in central Pakistan has killed 22 people and wounded 70 others. Tuesday’s attack in Dera Ghazi Khan town in...

Anas bin Saleem, a 12-year-old American, spends seven hours a day sitting cross-legged on the floor memorizing the Quran. He is one of thousands of foreigners who have...

One is often asked whether or not Pakistan will survive the current crisis. You tell them that, yes, Pakistan will survive. After all, territories don’t grow feet to...

Provincial capital Peshawar will finally have its first zoo in near future as the Wildlife Department has been ordered to carry out a feasibility study for the project....

They are a little like the deprogrammers who try to coax young — and not so young — impressionable people out of cults. But if anything, their work is more...

Let us have an overview on Pakistan’s present situation. The Supreme Court of Pakistan is engaged in deliberating petitions against the National Reconciliation...

In what is being regarded as a historic instance of national consensus in the country over the Seventh National Financial Commission (NFC) Award, the federal divisible...

Packaged milk is widely used throughout the country, including a large number of children, each day. Selling contaminated milk has apparently been going on for a long...

The officials told NBC News that the attack using Hellfire missiles had taken place in the last few days. They said the target was not the network’s Saudi leader...

The alleged criminal of the biggest scam in Pakistan’s banking history, Hamesh Khan, has reportedly been arrested by the US authorities. Hamesh, who was the president...

Packaged milk in the markets is adulterated with different health-threatening substances, melamine and detergents. This was learnt from Standards and Quality Control...

As the United Nations’ Climate Summit starts in Copenhagen, Denmark, today, the Asian Development Bank is considering channeling $700 million to help developing...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan, which is hearing the controversial NRO ordinance case on a daily basis, has asked the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to submit a...

Five young Muslim American men from the Washington suburbs who disappeared late last month were detained in Pakistan on Wednesday in a police raid on a house linked to...

The war on terror continues to slither across the country and the most recent surge in armed conflict between security forces and militants has been in the Orakzai...

Climate change in South Asia has impacted on Pakistan a loss of around $3.57 billion over the past 18 years, according to a World Bank report. The report alarms...

As cold weather has precipitated across the country, the demand for dry fruit has gone up and so have the prices of dry fruit. A recent survey shows that prices of dry...