Islamabad, Nov.21 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that it is important to follow the military action in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with an 'aggressive' development programme ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Pakistan was using "terror as an instrument of state policy" and the US must use "all its influence" to get it to desist from that path, ...

Islamabad, Nov 20 (DPA) A roadside bomb killed three police officers and wounded six early Friday in Pakistan's troubled north-western city of Peshawar, police said. The casualties occurred when a police vehicle ...

Islamabad, Nov 18 (IANS) The Pakistan government Wednesday announced a 15-day special package ahead of Eid under which a total subsidy of Rs.300-400 million would be given on more than 400 ...

Islamabad, Nov.18 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that President Asif Ali Zardari is ready to surrender the powers to appoint services chiefs and dissolve parliament. Talking to media ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 17 (IANS) Hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists remain in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, continuing to receive explosives and weapons training in camps ...

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, ...

Tehran, Nov. 17 (ANI): British forces stationed in Afghanistan have been issued new guidelines, asking them to buy off potential Taliban recruits with "bags of gold." According to a new army field ...

Islamabad, Nov 16 (ANI): Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Secretary General Liaquat Baloch has said that America is undermining the roots of Pakistan through political, strategic and economic intervention, and its presence in Afghanistan would ...

Lahore, Nov 16 (ANI): Former Pakistan Army Chief General (retired) Mirza Aslam Beg has alleged that the US has shifted the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud and the other Taliban ...

Multan, Nov.15 (ANI): Pakistan has once again raked up the issue of India's alleged involvement in fanning insurgency in Balochistan, with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani saying that Islamabad would provide ...

By Madhusree Chatterjee Ranchi, Nov 11 (IANS) More than 10,000 students in districts ravaged by Maoist insurgency in Jharkhand can now go back to their class rooms with security forces vacating 28 of ...

Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) Asserting that they were ready for a ceasefire, the Maoists Tuesday night said the central government should come out with a written proposal for dialogue, and rebutted ...

Islamabad, Nov.7 (ANI): Pakistan would soon discuss the issue of India's involvement in terror activities inside its geographical boundaries with New Delhi, Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Abdul Basit has said. Reiterating that ...

Islamabad, Nov.5 (ANI): Worried by recent developments that have shaken the country's power set-up, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led government is reportedly toying with the idea of taking opposition parties ...

New Delhi, Nov 4 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said that the empowerment of tribals is essential for equitable growth of the country. Inaugurating a the two-day conference ...

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 ...

Washington, Oct 30 (IANS) Pakistan has found the passport of a member of the Hamburg cell of Al Qaeda, suspected to have planned the Sep 11 terrorist attack, during the assault ...

Karachi, Oct 30 (IANS) Security has been beefed up in this southern port city ahead of the Friday prayers with additional contingents of police and paramilitary Pakistan Rangers deployed at different ...

Islamabad, Oct.29 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is currently on a three-day tour to Pakistan, has offered to provide a total of 243.5 million dollars as aid to ...

Lahore, Oct 28 (IANS) Qari Ishtiaq, the mastermind of the attack on Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi, was arrested here Tuesday, the police said. Ishtiaq guided his associates on phone during the ...

Islamabad, Oct 24 (IANS) At least 27 people, including militants, were killed Saturday in a US drone attack in northwest Pakistan, media reports said. The drone fired two missiles at a militant ...

Washington, Oct 23 (IANS) With its epicentre in the tribal areas of Pakistan, the Al Qaeda terrorist group has now teamed up with the Pakistani Taliban in recent attacks in Pakistan ...

Jhargram (West Bengal), Oct 22 (IANS) Describing union Home Minister P. Chidambaram and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee as "tyrants", top leader of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) Koteshwar ...

Islamabad, Oct 22 (IANS) The suicide bombing at a university here was as much a watershed as was the siege earlier this month of the Pakistani military headquarters, an editorial in ...

New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) The government should initiate "an unconditional dialogue" with leftist rebels and put an end to all anti-Maoist hostilities to secure peaceful solution to the problems of the ...

Islamabad, Oct. 20 (ANI): Following the launch of the Pakistani Army's offensive against militants in South Waziristan, people living in the tribal region of Southern Punjab are panic-stricken over the prospects ...

Islamabad, Oct. 20 (ANI): Following the launch of the Pakistani Army's offensive against militants in South Waziristan, people living in the tribal region of Southern Punjab are panic-stricken over the prospects ...

Kohat (Pakistan), Oct. 19 (ANI): The Pakistan Taliban has launched a fund-raising campaign in many parts of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in order to fuel their fight against the Pakistani ...

Islamabad, Oct.15 (ANI): The United States has reiterated that the Taliban's top leadership is currently hiding in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, and that it was very important to dismantle it ...