Rejecting the report of the Interior Ministry on fake weapon license, Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) has ordered Interior Secretary and DG FIA to investigate and submit their reports within five days to the court about irregularities in issuance of arms licences.
A three-member bench of Supreme Court with CJ…
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An eminent civil liberties union has filed a lawsuit seeking information about the highly secretive US drone attacks, especially in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“The public has a right to know whether the targeted killings being carried out in its name are consistent with international law and with the country’s interests…
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A bomb attack in a restive Pakistani tribal area on Wednesday destroyed a tanker carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan, officials said.
The bomb planted under the oil tanker exploded near Parangsum village in the lawless Khyber tribal district, turning the vehicle into a huge ball of flame, administration…
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Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Wednesday said Pakistan “was not taking serious steps” to destroy 42 terror camps on its soil. Stating that India was “exploring all possibilities”, Mr. Antony also said he did not expect any “miracles” from the dialogue with Pakistan.
“All the terror camps in Pakistan…
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Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has briefed top US officials about her talks with her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir in New Delhi last month.
According to media reports, among others Rao met Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns and National Security Advisor…
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The $7.5 billion the US government has pledged to spend on civilian assistance in Pakistan over the next five years is slowly making its way to the troubled country, after months of debate over how the money should be spent and how to ensure that it is properly used.
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Suspected US drones fired missiles at vehicles and hit a militant hide-out in North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, killing at least nine insurgents, two officials said.
In the first attack, the drones fired four missiles at a vehicle and flattened a nearby house near Miramshah, the main town in…
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Five security men were killed and two others injured in militants attack at a security check post in Kakakhel area of tehsil Bara in Khyber Agency, a private TV reported.
According to sources, militant fighters attacked the post with heavy weapons killing five security men on the spot including three…
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The Taliban’s chief military commander was in secret talks with Hamid Karzai’s family just weeks before his arrest by Pakistan intelligence officers, it has been claimed.
The Afghan president was furious about the seizure of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Karachi last month as the men had been negotiating, according…
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A senior American defence official is under investigation after boasting to colleagues that he had operated a maverick network of private security contractors to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
Michael Furlong allegedly told colleagues that his group of contractors in Pakistan and Afghanistan, many of them special forces…
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Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has admitted that delay in judges’ restoration was his biggest mistake. During an interview with a UK daily Financial Times, Gilani admitted that “I should have restored the judiciary in the beginning. That is my biggest mistake. Then we would have not wasted our…
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The US has delivered a squadron of 14 AH-1 Cobra advanced helicopter gunships to Pakistan, reported a private TV channel on Tuesday.
The US has also given $750,000 to update Pakistan Army Aviation’s fleet of Cobra variants like AH-1S, AH-1F. The AH-1 has been supplied by the US from its…
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QUETTA – More than Rs 130 million were spent on the treatment of 410 political personalities and government officials from the exchequer of Balochistan government during the financial year 2008-09, sources in Health Department told The Nation on Tuesday.
According to sources, the provincial government had sent 10 persons abroad,…
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ISLAMABAD – President Asif Zardari Bhutto on Tuesday appointed three judges of the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) for a period of three years with effect from the date they take the oath of their offices.
The newly appointed FSC Judges include Muhammad Ismail Bhutto, Habibullah Shakir and Malik Mumtaz Hussain Mehfooz.<br…
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PESHAWAR – A personnel of Frontier Constabulary (FC) was killed and another got injured while a militant was shot dead during an exchange of fire between security forces and militants at Azakhel area of district Peshawar here on Tuesday. Two of the militants escaped during the encounter.
According to police…
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WASHINGTON (APP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reaffirmed the Obama administration’s policy to assist Pakistan in ensuring stability and constitutional civilian rule and expressed the confidence that its multi-layered approach to curb al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorist threat in the region will help bring peace and security to…
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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Muslim League (Q) Secretary General, Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Tuesday said that Pakistan should not repeat its mistakes and must not have any favourite in Afghanistan.
The US needs Pakistan more than Pakistan needs the US; therefore, Pakistan should play its cards intelligently, Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed…
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