ANKARA: President Abdullah Gul of Turkey has assured the Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Dr. Fehmida Mirza of his country’s continued unflinching support to Pakistan

SIALKOT: Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) has again opened unprovoked firing in Pakistani areas at Shakar Garh Sector on Pak-India border

WASHINGTON: Pakistani officials announced last month they had detained the Afghan Taliban’s second-in-command, their action raised a crucial question: is Islamabad now ready to take on the Taliban and al-Qaeda, as the US has long demanded?

LONDON: The Taliban has claimed it is ready to unleash 3,000 suicide bombers in Pakistan in protest at military operations and American drone attacks in its tribal areas

Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday called for greater interaction between the think tanks and academia of Pakistan and China to further enhance the bilateral relations between the two countries

Islamabad: A Pakistani student Hassan Siddiq, from Karachi, Pakistan, who is Management accountant trainee, has come first in the world in one of the prestigious Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) November 2009 accountancy exams

RAWALPINDI: Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has appointed senior lawyer Raja Muhammad Afzal as Additional Deputy Prosecutor General (ADPG) following the dismissal of former ADPG, Abdul Waheed Qureshi in three references against Mian Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif

RAWALPINDI: The meeting of the Army Promotion Board was held here on Wednesday with Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani in the chair promoted of 29 Brigadiers to the rank of Major General

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: 670 Pakistanis that went missing after 9/11 have been languishing in various jails of Afghanistan, sources disclosed on Wednesday

Islamabad: The Cabinet Wednesday approved the restructuring of major Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) with a view to bringing about financial discipline, revival and good governance

Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan look forward for the continued support of the British Government in the EU for access to Pakistani products into the EU markets and initiation of the process towards Free Trade Agreement

ISLAMABAD: Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Naveed Ahsan has gone on a long leave and Deputy chairman Irfan Nadeem has assumed responsibilities of Acting Chairman NAB

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court would take up the Police torture case today (Thursday)

Rome (Italy): General Tariq Majid, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) who is on an official visit to Italy for Bilateral Defence Talks on the invitation of his counterpart, spent a busy day at Rome and held extensive talks with top brass of Italian Armed Forces to include Chief of the

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met President Asif Ali Zardari here at the President House and briefed him on important affairs of Pakistan’s Foreign Policy

ISLAMABAD: Former president of Supreme Court Bar Association Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has said that the complete restoration of 1973 Constitution is impossible, adding, political affiliation could not be disqualification for a judge and parliament would have to play its role in all fields besides appoi

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on Wednesday held wide-ranging talks focussing on jointly fighting terrorism, strengthening bilateralties and ways to address regional issues related to peace andsecurity

ISLAMABAD: Differences have been surfaced between members of Constitutional Reforms Committee over the issue of handing contorl over the natural resources to provincial governments

ISLAMABAD: The French ambassador to Pakistan Daniel Jouanneau has said that the issue of Burqa (Islamic veil) was ‘ more of a cultural issue’ rather than religious

ISLAMABAD: 13 Major. Generals of Pakistan Army have been promoted as Lt. Generals and notification to this would soon be issued

MIRANSHAH: An unending wave of drone attacks on a village in Miranshah has killed 12 militants, while wounding many others