Lahore, Nov.21 (ANI): Former Pakistan Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi passed away in London on Friday night after a prolonged illness. Born on August 14, 1931, Jatoi served as the caretaker Prime Minister ...

Islamabad, Nov.17 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has ruled out talks with extremists, saying the South Waziristan operation would be taken to its conclusive end. Speaking in the National Assembly, ...

Islamabad, Nov 16 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is committed to shed some constitutional powers well before March 30, the deadline he had set for materialising his plan, well-placed official ...

Lahore, Nov.14 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) while expressing satisfaction over the peaceful Gilgit-Baltistan elections has pointed out several fallacies during the polls. HRCP's special observation team reported that ...

Islamabad, Nov.14 (ANI): The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has blamed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Awami National Party, the Pakistan People's Party and private US security firm Blackwater for the recent spate ...

Islamabad, Nov.13 (ANI): Rejecting allegations of massive fraud in the Gilgit-Baltistan elections, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has termed the polls as 'free' and 'fair'. Responding to the allegations of poll ...

Islamabad, Nov.13 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has asked Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to take the issue of India's alleged involvement in fanning insurgency in Balochistan the ...

Lahore, Nov.12 (ANI): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is under fire for appointing Mohammad Yousuf as the captain of the Test team. Former players and officials have criticized the PCB for the sudden ...

Islamabad, Nov.11 (ANI): The Pakistan Government would execute any court warrant against former President General Pervez Musharraf, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan has said. "If a Pakistani court issues any proclamation, warrant ...

Islamabad, Nov.8 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has admitted that military operations in insurgency hit regions such as Swat, Malakand and South Waziristan would not help resolve the real ...

Islamabad, Nov.6 (ANI): Things can be really tough when you are a woman member of Pakistan's National Assembly, as you could land in an embarrassing situation when other members of the ...

Islamabad, Nov.6 (ANI): In an apparent bid to ensure his party's victory in the forthcoming Gilgit-Baltistan elections, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif has deviously played the 'Kashmir' card. Addressing an election ...

Peshawar, Nov.4 (ANI): A former Pakistan Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Javed Ibrahim Paracha, who is known for having a good contact with the Taliban leadership, has said that the ...

Islamabad, Nov 4 (IANS) Financing terrorism would become a criminal offence in Pakistan as the Anti-Money Laundering Bill has been approved, a media report said. The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance Tuesday ...

Islamabad, Nov.4 (ANI): Terming the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) as a 'non-issue', Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has urged the members of the National Assembly (MNA) to let the judiciary ...

Islamabad, Nov 3 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Tuesday defended the government's decision not to table the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) in parliament for ratification. Speaking on ...

Islamabad, Nov.3 (ANI): The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) led government has decided against tabling the controversial National Reconciliation Ordianace (NRO), which offers complete immunity to the President and other top leaders ...

Lahore, Nov. 2 (ANI): Pakistan's religious parties have warned the government that they will not accept any amendment in the country's existing blasphemy law. Pakistan's blasphemy law forbids-damaging a place of worship or ...

Islamabad, Oct.31 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is on a three-day visit to Pakistan, has said that Washington had committed a mistake by supporting successive military regimes in the ...

Islamabad, Oct.31 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has rebuked North West Frontier Province's (NWFP) Inspector General of Police (IG) Malik Naveed's claims regarding the involvement of foreign hands in the ...

Islamabad, Oct 30(ANI): Pakistan's Foreign Ministry has informed the National Assembly's Sub-Committee on Human Rights that the United States has requested to raise the strength of its diplomats in Pakistan to 749, ...

Islamabad, Oct.28 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has decided to surrender his presidential powers related to the dissolution of assemblies and the appointment of services chiefs to Prime Minister Yousuf ...

Islamabad, Oct 28 (IANS) The Pakistani government is considering to deploy armed security guards inside parliament for the first time in the wake of emerging threat of terrorism, an official said. The parliament ...

Islamabad, Oct 27(ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) members have indicated that a trusted aide of party chief Nawaz Sharif, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, was left out of the talks with President ...

Islamabad, Oct. 24 (ANI): If Pakistan fails to upgrade its existing anti-money laundering laws before February 2010, it will have to face severe financial penalties from international organisations that includes being declared ...

Islamabad, Oct 21 (IANS) All government and private schools, colleges and universities throughout Pakistan have been closed after fears of terror attacks sparked by the twin suicide bombings at a university ...

Islamabad, Oct 21 (IANS) All government and private schools, colleges and universities throughout Pakistan have been closed after fears of militant attacks in the wake of twin suicide bombings at a ...

Islamabad, Oct 20 (ANI): Chairman of Pakistan's National Assembly standing committee for sports, Jamshed Dasti, today said that this impression is quite wrong that he did not know cricket as he ...

Lahore, Oct 19 (ANI): Pakistan's former captain Ramiz Raja has asked chairman of the National Assembly's standing committee on sports, Jamshed Dasti, to apologise to the nation for accusing the team of ...

Karachi, Oct.16 (ANI): Enraged Pakistan cricket captain Younis Khan, who resigned from the post earlier this week, has said that he would take back his resignation only after the Pakistan Cricket Board ...