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A professor from a university in Peshawar under captivity of the Pakistani Taliban has appealed again to the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to accept the militants’ demands for his release. In a new video received Thursday, Professor Ajmal Khan, vice-chancellor of the Islamia...

Pakistan has reached a critical balance of payments situation and will need another package from the International Monetary Fund before the end of the year to avert a crisis, one of the biggest lenders to the country claimed on Wednesday. Asian Development Bank’s country director Werner...

A former US National Security Adviser offered Pakistan an ‘off script’ civilian nuclear deal in exchange for its counter-terrorism cooperation, a former member of Richard Holbrooke’s team wrote on Wednesday. In an article he wrote for the Foreign Policy magazine, Vali Nasr said his time in...

Islamabad has held New Delhi responsible for the delay in the process of granting Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India. Pakistan's Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim said India is reluctant to remove non-tariff bearers (NTBs), and as a consequence, the non-availability of a level...

The leader of Russia’s Communist Party has said that the death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez may be part of a broader US plan to kill off its left-leaning Latin American opponents. “How did it happen that six leaders of Latin American countries which had criticized US policies and tried to...

China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations has reiterated Beijing’s opposition to the US-led unilateral sanctions against Iran over its nuclear energy program. “China is always firmly against use or threat of use of force. We are not in favor of putting excessive pressure...

The National Assembly (NA) Wednesday adopted a resolution against TV anchorpersons criticising parliamentarians ‘without ascertaining facts’ and demanded the owners of media houses expel them. The house in a short time also introduced two bills: 'Pakistan Institute of Fashion Design...

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said on Wednesday that the army is ready to provide any kind of assistance to the civil administration for maintaining law and order situation. According to sources, the army chief during a briefing at the Corps Headquarters in Karachi about...

The Election Commission of Pakistan has categorically stated that none of those MPs whose degrees had been found fake by the Higher Education Commission and even endorsed by the commission as such, would be barred from contesting the next election unless convicted by a court of law...

The Lahore Transport Company is plying 37 new Ankai buses on three city routes. The buses will run from RA Bazaar to Secretariat), Railway Station to Sharqpur and Railway Station to Liaqatabad. In this connection, the LTC signed the agreement with Turkish Company Platform on Tuesday. Veysel...

A telephone call originating from Pakistan to a senior officer of India’s elite National Security Guards (NSG) seeking information about Hyderabad blasts has led security agencies to make a fresh push for blocking of Internet telephony, reported Indian media on Tuesday. The call to a...

Four accused of Karachi blast nabbed, says Malik Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Tuesday claimed on Tuesday four terrorists had been arrested form Karachi in connection with Abbas Town incident and he would reveal more facts about Quetta blasts in National Assembly’s Wednesday sitting...

:laugh: Cheap *** people.

Security forces defuse 50 kg bomb in Quetta Security forces on Tuesday foiled a major bid of terrorism by defusing a 50 kilogram heavy bomb in Sariab road area of Quetta, said officials. Security forces, on a tip off, spotted a rickshaw with 50 kilogram of explosives installed in it in Sariab...

Karzi is on the barking rampage. He has been barking the U.S. too. :lol:

I was preparing to leave for the Teen Talwar Collection drive when I learnt that well known architects, Mr. Sikandar Hayat Khan and Mr. Iqbal Rizvi were looking for a photographer or two to accompany them and document the carnage at Abbas Town so that they could mobilise the architecture...

US Ambassador Richard Olson reiterated on Tuesday the commitment of the United States to extend full help and cooperation in resolving the energy crisis faced by Pakistan. Addressing a function here at Tarbela Dam project, along with Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) Chairman...

All the corrupts are joining the PML-N. What is the use of voting for PML-N? Just rename PML-N to PPP.

Pakistan’s military on Tuesday rejected a report published in a US newspaper on recent drone strikes in northwestern Pakistan, calling it a “distortion of facts” and an attempt at weakening the country’s stand against drone strikes. Commenting on the report published in the New York Times on...

US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson has said that America wants to help Pakistan to overcome its energy crisis. He said that they had clear a policy regarding Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project. Pakistan and Iran have recently signed an agreement in Islamabad to complete the project...