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Handing Quetta to the army would ultimately pave the way for the arrival of international forces in the province, the former president of the Pakistan Peoples Party in Balochistan Nawabzada Lashkari Raisani has argued. The demand to hand control to the army came from the frustrated Hazara...

Rich get richer, and poor get more poor. Sad for Pakistan.

What action did Malik take against terrorists in Balochistan? LAHORE: Responding to the allegations levelled by Interior Minister Rehman Malik about the safe heavens of terrorists in the Punjab, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday asked what action Rehman Malik had taken against the...

As long as we are sleeping, we will be keep getting pounded with bombs.

The Rabita (coordination) Committee of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has said that resignations of its ministers and advisors should be accepted immediately. In a statement issued here on Saturday, the party also called for the issuance of notification of the MQM’s leader of the opposition...

Pentagon researchers have found that pilots of drone aircraft experience mental health problems like depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress at the same rate as pilots of manned aircraft who are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. “Though it might be thousands of miles from the...

PESHAWAR - Banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has nominated its spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan for negotiating peace with PML-N President Nawaz Sharif, JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman and Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Syed Munawar Hasan. Speaking to media outlets from an undisclosed location, TTP spokesman...

ISLAMABAD - The federal government has decided to reshuffle nearly 300 officials of intelligence agencies working in different areas of the country. This decision came in the wake of the poor performance and the failure to gather intelligence ahead of recent terrorist attacks, BBC reported on...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the federal government will take action by its own if Punjab government failed to hunt down terrorists in the province. Malik said the top leadership of Lashkar-e-Jhanjvi (LeJ), the anti-Shia militant group that claimed the last Saturday’s deadly...

I don't see any party coming out and supporting the overseas Pakistanis except PTI. I fully support PTI in this.

Nawaz Sharif has urged the Obama administration to shift the focus of its relationship with Pakistan away from aid to one based on trade, investment and people-to-people contact. The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) president expressed these views during a meeting with leaders from the...

ISLAMABAD: Two nuclear power plants, 340MW each, are under construction at Chashma and are expected to be commissioned by 2016, with Chinese assistance. Construction of these power plants became possible after a long-standing agreement, while three other nuclear power plants already...

ABU DHABI: Ambassador to UAE, Jamil Ahmad Khan, said on Friday that Pakistan was making good breakthrough in introducing its defence products and paving the way for huge orders from interested parties from the Middle East and North Africa. During his visit to the Pakistan Pavilion at the...

In logon ne PhD to badnaam kerdiya. :laugh:

Enabling overseas Pakistanis to vote would mean more involvement and funds from them to invest in Pakistan. Good step.

LeJ leader Malik Ishaq detained in Rahim Yar Khan jail MULTAN / BAHALWALPUR: Top leader of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Malik Ishaq was detained for one month on Friday, Express News reported. Ishaq was earlier detained in his house, however since the Quetta bombing that killed 89 people on February...

We need to keep hunting. No sleep!

Before the assemblies are dissolved on March 16, Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf will have another feather in his cap – an honorary doctorate in “recognition of his services to the country”, as termed by the Sindh University (SU) vice-chancellor, Dr Nazir Ahmed Mughal. Allegedly, the...

China is the future superpower and the Geo-strategic position for Gawadar area certainly interests China. China therefore has invested more than its share.

A Narrative. 1989 – 2012 Then and Now. “What is the transgression?” I hear a voice ask. I falter, panic growing inside me. How can I speak now? What about my father sitting next to me? What about my mother within earshot? “What is the crime?” the voice persists. I whisper, “rape.” Then...