Afghan President Hamid Karzai told Pakistan on Thursday that his country did not want to become a battle ground for proxy wars between India, Pakistan, Iran and the United States.
India and Pakistan, implacable South Asian rivals, have struggled for influence in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led invasion brought down…
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The US has condemned the terrorist attack at the office of an American non-governmental organization in Mansehra that killed six aid workers.
“We join in condemning the terrorist attack targeting the World Vision Office in the North-West Frontier Province District of Mansehra,” Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs…
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The Afghan Taliban’s leadership has dispersed to cities across Pakistan to avoid arrest after the recent detention of senior militants, officials and militants say. Western officials say the growing pressure on militant leaders, if maintained, represents one of the best hopes for undermining the twin insurgencies threatening Afghanistan and Pakistan.<br…
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Pakistan’s relationship with Afghanistan is close to the core of Islamabad’s national security interests and Pakistan has to be a partner in finding solutions in its western conflict-hit neighbor, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband emphasized Wednesday while also urging Afghans to pursue a political settlement in their country.
Delivering a…
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The UK-based child Sahil, kidnapped from Jehlum, has been rescued from Sialkot, meanwhile, police have also arrested two persons including a woman over kidnapping charges, a private TV quoted Punjab Law Minister as saying.
According to media reports, the arrested person, allegedly involved in abduction of child, had been issuing…
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Two US missile strikes deep in Pakistan’s northwest tribal belt killed up to 16 militants, with more bodies recovered from the wreckage on Thursday, security officials said.
Two successive bombing raids by unmanned spy planes hit a building and vehicles late Wednesday in North Waziristan, a bastion of Taliban and…
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Police has booked PML-Q Information Secretary Marvi Memon for leading a protest demonstration against provincial government’s obstinacy regarding contractual employees of the National Programme for Implementation of Watercourses (NPIW) in Karachi today.
The NPIW contractual employees have been staging a sit-in outside Karachi Press Club by the of for the…
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that the dialogue with the Taliban is underway, and added that reconciliatory process would be continued to maintain peace in the region.
Talking to media in Islamabad, Karzai said that Taliban were being provoked to fight against their own country, adding that talks would…
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In yet another incident of target killing the son of Ahl-e-sunnat Chief Maulana Ghafoor has been shot dead in Nazimabad while Maulana Ghafoor himself is in critical condition.
According to reports, Maulana Ghafoor was on his way to the court on Thursday morning when two pillion riders approached his car…
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LAHORE – PPP Central Secretary Information Fauzia Wahab said on Wednesday that no proposal for granting extension in service to present army chief was under consideration at the moment.
At a press conference held at Lahore Press Club here, she was asked about reasons behind grant of extension in service…
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ISLAMABAD – Senate Standing Committee on Interior, Wednesday, expressed its reservations regarding the procedure of procurement of X-ray scanners from China and its harmful effects on human health with a direction to the Interior Ministry to submit a complete report on the issue within a week.
The committee while expressing…
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ISLAMABAD – Aggrieved families of missing persons on Wednesday launched a long march from Faisalabad Bar Association for the safe recovery of their dear ones with solemn pledge to enter Islamabad with five million registered followers for staging a sit-in.
A signatory campaign along with the long march was also…
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QUETTA-Two people including a woman were shot dead in District Jaffarabad reportedly in the name of honour on Wednesday.
According to reports reaching here, accused Abdul Majeed resident of Usta Muhammad allegedly killed his mother and her alleged paramour Ghowaram Khan and escaped from the scene after killing them. <br…
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GUJRAT – The by-election for PP-111 Gujrat took a dramatic turn on Wednesday after Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar announced to support the PML-N candidate against his rival belonging to the PML-Q.
At a joint news conference with the PML-N Gujrat chapter leadership, the federal minister along with his supporters…
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QUETTA – A child was injured when unidentified people attacked a vehicle of Frontier Corps (FC) with hand grenade at Sariab Road here on Wednesday, police said.
Unidentified armed men hurled a hand grenade on a patrolling vehicle of FC at Sariab Road and escaped from the scene after committing…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A weekend tiff involving lawmakers from Pakistan’s tribal areas and airport security personnel in the United States underscores how tough it is to reverse years of US-Pakistani mistrust.
The six lawmakers were en route from Washington to New Orleans on Saturday when two were tagged for further…
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ISLAMABAD – Two former presidents of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) confirmed on Wednesday that lawyers’ community was divided over the issue of recommendations of Constitutional Reforms Committee of the Parliament (CRCP) regarding judges’ appointment in superior judiciary.
However, they themselves backed up the recommendations of the Committee, headed by…
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