London, Feb. 5 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said that judges who are at the mercy of President Asif Ali Zardari are trying to disqualify him and his brother Shahbaz Sharif from contesting the elections.
London, Feb.4: British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to be questioned over allegations that British security services colluded in the torture of terrorism suspects and operated under a ‘James Bond-style get-out clause’.
The allegations, first reported in the Guardian last year, relate to a number of suspects arrested in Pakistan at the request of British authorities between 2003 and 2007. The men say agents of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) repeatedly tortured them before being questioned by MI5.
Islamabad, Feb 3 (DPA) Pakistani investigators were examining evidence Tuesday connected to the kidnapping of a UN official in the southwestern province of Balochistan the previous day.
Gaza, Feb 2 (Xinhua) Israel launched a series of airstrikes Sunday night on several targets in the Gaza Strip, including a police station and the border area between Gaza and Egypt, witnesses said.
Islamabad, Jan 31 (IANS) Pakistan could lose $15 billion in US economic aid over the next 10 years with the Barack Obama administration seemingly in no hurry to revive a bill that has lapsed in Congress, even as it has turned the screws on Islamabad for not doing enough in the war against terror.
Islamabad, Jan.29 (ANI): Five persons, who were killed in the January 23 US drone attacks in South Waziristan of Pakistan, were innocent civilians, The News reports.
Islamabad, Jan 28 (Xinhua) Pakistan has no agreement with the US that allowed drone attacks inside its territory, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Wednesday.
Islamabad, Jan. 27 (ANI): Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said today that Pakistan Muslim League (N) PML (N) will fully support the long march of lawyers on March 9 and that the deposed judges should be restored without any further delay.
Washington, Jan.26 (ANI): United States Vice President Joe Biden has made it clear that the US would not hesitate to launch a military offensive in Pakistan if there was an ‘actionable target’ in sight.
Biden said that the missile hits in the tribal areas of Pakistan would also continue.
Washington/Islamabad, Jan 21 (IANS) Pakistan said Wednesday it would review its options if the Barack Obama administration didn’t adopt a positive policy toward the country, even as the new US president said aid to Pakistan would be linked to the war against terror.