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Pakistan is an agriculture based country with most of its population living in rural areas practicing agriculture, yet it is one of the many developing nations facing a serious food crisis that is speculated to cause wide scale food riots if the problems...
Disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan says North Korea received centrifuges from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army during the rule of President Pervez Musharraf.
Fierce fighting raged in India’s portion of Kashmir Friday, killing five army soldiers and a suspected Muslim rebel near the de facto border with Pakistan.
A senior Pakistani official said Friday the government is serious about fighting Islamic militants, after authorities said they had rounded up 220 suspects as a military operation proceeded in a volatile tribal region.
A bomb exploded on a busy street in the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta on Friday, killing a 4-year old girl and wounding 11 other people.
Pakistani police say a bomb has killed a young girl and wounded six other people in the southwestern city of Quetta.
The wife of disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan said Thursday she is challenging his detention in court, a move that could lend new momentum to efforts to free him.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday rebuffed a senior U.S. official for saying that Pakistan should focus on food prices and militancy rather than the fate of President Pervez Musharraf.
Ex-premier Nawaz Sharif has rebuffed a senior U.S. official for saying that Pakistan should focus on food prices and militancy rather than the fate of President Pervez Musharraf.
Pakistan should focus more on critical issues, such as security problems, rising food costs and power shortages, and less on the future of embattled President Pervez Musharraf, a top U.S. diplomat said Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _ A year after the deadly military siege of the Red Mosque, the radical spirit of the pro-Taliban stronghold lives on.
As President Bush nears the end of his term, it seems the vow he had made in 2001 to finish off Osama bin Laden will remain unfulfilled. The reason is the Al Qaeda has found a safe haven in Pakistan’s tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Security...
As far the tribal areas problem in Pakistan is concerned, the arrival of a democratic government at Islamabad seems to have made no difference. The fact is the politicians are so busy arguing over the removal of Musharraf and the re-instatement of...
A vulnerable peace deal is in place in the Swat region of Pakistan’s northwest frontier province. For months Pakistani security forces have been fighting Islamic radical groups resulting in hundreds of deaths in the region. As the peace deal is in place...
In a chilling message to the people of Pakistan and to the rest of the world, former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif has hinted that President Musharraf could be hanged in the near future. Addressing a mass rally at the stroke of dawn on saturday...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 4, 2008, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that...
