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Suspected Islamic militants have killed a Pakistani soldier in revenge for an alleged U.S. missile strike near the Afghan border, an official said Friday.

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Rice futures sank to a six-week low Friday, falling for a fifth day on hopes that exports from Pakistan and Japan will ease fears of a shortage of the staple consumed by half the world’s population.

 
 
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Pakistan’s army lodged a formal protest Friday to “allied forces” in neighboring Afghanistan over a suspected U.S. missile strike this week that killed 14 people in a Pakistani border village.

 
 
May 14 2008 by AP0 Comments

Residents say a missile strike on a house in a Pakistan border village has killed about a dozen people.At least two explosions went off in Damadola, in the Bajur region near Afghanistan late Wednesday. Residents said they had seen drones flying in the...

 
 
May 14 2008 by AP0 Comments

Pakistani authorities and Taliban militants exchanged dozens of prisoners Wednesday, officials said in the latest breakthrough in a peace process that is stirring growing alarm in the West.

 
 
May 14 2008 by AP0 Comments

Pakistani troops fired at an Indian army post Wednesday across the heavily guarded frontier dividing Kashmir between the two South Asian rivals in a rare violation of the cease-fire, the Indian military said.

 
 
May 13 2008 by AP0 Comments

Pakistan’s government agreed to let judges consider advice from Islamic scholars in court cases in parts of the volatile tribal regions of the northwest, officials said Tuesday.

 
 
May 13 2008 by AP0 Comments

Ministers from the party of ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif submitted their resignations from Pakistan’s Cabinet on Tuesday, shaking the fragile coalition government that took power just six weeks ago.

 
 
May 13 2008 by AP0 Comments

A lawyer says a Pakistani court has cleared the widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of charges of smuggling artifacts.

 
 
May 12 2008 by AP0 Comments

Ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced that his party is withdrawing from Pakistan’s federal Cabinet but will not join the parliamentary opposition.

 
 
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May 13 2008 by Bijoy0 Comments

The political scenario in Pakistan showed its ugly side yet again, with the former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif publicly acknowledging that his Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) is pulling out from the newly formed coalition government as no consensus...

 
 
Mar 28 2008 by Balbhadra Rana0 Comments

What Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte will tell President Bush is going to make him go red in the face. Bush is not used to changing his mind on any issue. On Iraq, he makes daily proclamations that things are improving and that the US will...

 
 
Mar 27 2008 by Arpita Mukherjee0 Comments

The new Pakistani government under the leadership of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will review Pakistan’s role in the US-led war against terror. Deputy US Secretary of State John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher have...

 
 
Mar 17 2008 by Mayuri Majumdar6 Comments

Why do we always assume Pakistan to be our immediate enemy? Why do we always think that the nation which is embittered by our own nation is Pakistan? Is it because we still cannot accept the loss of property and lives due to Jinnah’s decision of...

 
 
Mar 12 2008 by Balbhadra Rana2 Comments

What we had been fearing all along is happening. Benazir Bhutto’s husband seems most likely to become the country’s next prime minister. After Benazir died the question that had arisen was ” after Benazir, who?” It was not an easy question to...

 
 
Mar 7 2008 by attitude0 Comments

These Japanese can play around with almost anything, can’t they? When it comes to technology and even martial arts, they can create magic. Do not let their humble manners and wonderfully polite culture fool you. On the interior, they are all Samurais...

 
 
Feb 21 2008 by Balbhadra Rana0 Comments

Anti-Musharraf forces have won the elections in Pakistan. Both Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif have been at the receiving end of Musharraf’s political games. One was thrown into prison, the other was exiled. One can hardly blame them if they now...

 
 
Feb 20 2008 by Balbhadra Rana0 Comments

It is pretty much clear as to who is going to come to power in Pakistan. It is going to be the PPP-PML(Nawaz) combine. The deputy chief of PPP, Makhdoom Amin Fahim will be probably the new Premier as he is experienced. But the real power will lie in...

 
 
Feb 19 2008 by Mandira0 Comments

The result of much awaited elections in Pakistan are about to be revealed and the supporters of Pakistan Peoples Party whose leader, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated on Dec. 27, and the Pakistan Muslim League-N, the faction led by Nawaz Sharif have...

 
 
Feb 15 2008 by Sunit1 Comments

Pakistani President Parvez Musharraf faces an unprecedented opposition in his country ahead of the National Assembly elections on Monday. Although this is not a Presidential election, President Musharraf’s fate probably rests on the results of the...

 
 
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Pakistani protesters burn a mock coffin wrapped with Israeli and U.S. flags at a rally to condemn Israeli aggression against Palestinians in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, May 16, 2008. The protesters also chanted slogans against the United States...