Pakistan News

Sri Lanka appealed for public help as more than 1,000 police hunted the suspected Tamil Tiger rebels who gunned down the foreign minister, an attack that has strained an already shaky ceasefire.

Devotion to an ancient, rule-bound art form doesn't mean a musician can't create a vibrant 21st-century sound -- not if the vocalist is Kiran Ahluwalia, at least.

New Delhi, July 22: A day after voicing apprehensions over the Indo-US agreement on nuclear energy, Left parties on Friday described as 'very unfortunate' Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's reported remarks that ...

Islamist militants opened fire on a Hindu family in Indian Kashmir, killing five people and wounding nine others, police said on Saturday.

Washington: The United States has refused to comment on whether China provided missile technology to Pakistan, thus helping Islamabad develop a cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads that could ...

Sri Lanka appealed for public help as more than 1,000 police hunted the suspected Tamil Tiger rebels who gunned down the foreign minister, an attack that has strained an already shaky ceasefire.2.9

President General Pervez Musharraf Saturday called upon the nation to join hands in defeating obscurantism and strive for making Pakistan a progressive and democratic Islamic welfare state.2.7

The nation will celebrate 59th Independence Day today with a renewed pledge to make Pakistan a developed and real Islamic welfare state.1.7

KARACHI: Pakistani stocks are likely to remain volatile next week because teething problems in the implementation of new financing rules continue to plague the market, dealers said yesterday.2.7

ISLAMABAD, August 14 : First Round of Negotiations on bilateral Free Trade Agreement between Pakistan and China would begin from August 15.4

Staff Report KARACHI: Pacers Yasir Ali and Najaf Shah guided Pakistan to a comfortable nine-wicket win over the touring South Africa Academy in the first unofficial Test match at the National Stadium here on ...4

ON BOARD PM PlANE, August 14 : Prime Minister, Mr. Shaukat Aziz has expressed deep satisfaction with his highly successful current far-eastern tours of Japan and Hong Kong.4.2

Pakistan on Saturday put off a meeting of SAARC foreign secretaries next week in view of the assassination of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar.

Long before Clare of Montefalco was proclaimed a saint on December 8, 1881, by Pope Leo VIII, the parish of Santa Clara was created with Father Senon Barroso, an Augustinian friar, as its first parish priest ...

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Pakistan i police have taken into custody a Taliban official and a spokesman of the group Thursday, a Kabul-based Afghan newspaper reported Saturday.3.2

FOR England, the Glorious Twelfth lived up to its name. For Australia it smacked of a watershed moment.3.1

An Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Friday to dispatch a sophisticated NASA science probe on a journey to look for water on Mars.1.3

A son-in-law of the disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan - who sold nuclear secrets to Iran and North Korea - has been arrested in Islamabad for allegedly attacking two British diplomats, it emerged ...4.1

Beaconhouse School System denounces allegations * Christians demand 'church' Staff Report LAHORE: A protest demonstration by several hundred members of the Christian community in Lahore at the Press Club on ...4

QUETTA: Opposition's Leader in National Assembly, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman addresses at the Nifaz-e-Shariat & Tahafuz Dini Madaris Conference, at Sadique Shaheed Ground, organized by Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam ...4

They did not make bold headlines, yet the slew of seemingly less-important agreements reached recently by Pakistani and Indian officials would actually contribute as much to the peace process as the highly ...2

At least six people, including three women, were killed and 36 others injured in separate road accidents in Manikganj, Chittagong and Sirajganj yesterday.

ISLAMABAD: Motorola Ltd is to help upgrade and expand Pakistan's mobile phone network under a $50 million contract which has been partly underwritten by the Export Credits Guarantee Department , the UK's ...4

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz chaired the cabinet's weekly session at Al-Yamamah palace in Riyadh.2.9

A Taleban commander and an American soldier are among several people who have been killed in violence in Afghanistan, officials said on Friday.2.7

The Engineering Development Board has embarked upon a plan to enhance engineering goods exports, which globally have a share of over 63 per cent of the world trade.2.7

The so-called free web domains for posting purposes in the name of free-speech or thinking have already chewed tons of memories by keeping a solid angle toward Indian hegemony staying in the Western Hemisphere.2.7

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians on Thursday alleged that Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim and his associates have planned to rig local polls in the districts of Mirpurkhas, ...2.4

ISLAMABAD: The Privatization Commission has received seventeen Expression of Interest from parties interested in the purchase of the Blocks 'A' &'B' land owned by Pakistan Engineering Company Limited , , ...5

After a seven-year suspension, the Japanese government on August 10 resumed yen loans under 'Overseas Development Assistance' by extending two loans and three grants of US$167 million for water and power and ...2.7

By Shahnawaz Khan LAHORE: Police investigators have obtained clues which will help solve the murder case of former federal minister Derick Cyprian in the next 48 hours, Qayum Rasheed, superintendent of police , ...2.7

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS Several withdrawals were made in Lahore, Pakistan, using debit card information stolen from a University Heights woman.

In Siberia an area of permafrost the size of western Europe has started to melt and scientists fear it may rapidly accelerate global warming.2.9

Staff Report MULTAN: Two bomb blast suspects were arrested after a shootout in Jampur in Rajanpur district on Thursday, but five of their accomplices fled, police said.4