Islamabad, July 25 : Pakistan could lose its restive North West Frontier Province (NWFP) to the Taliban because of Islamabads blind following of the US-led global war on terror, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has been warned by his coalition partners.
The US wants to shift about $226 million in aid for Pakistani counterterrorism effort to upgrade the country’s fleet of F-16s.
The money was originally allocated for counterterrorism activities in the lawless tribal regions of the country near the Afghan border, where the Taliban and Al Qaeda have sought refuge. But Pakistan has undergone economic turmoil and rising fuel prices and requested assistance for its US-built F-16s, State Department acting deputy spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said Thursday.
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram, on Wednesday described as an “exaggeration” a media report claiming that U.N. investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto would cost over $100 million.
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Cabinet expansion is likely to take place on Thursday, July 24, with around a dozen ministers to take oath; highly placed sources confided to APP here Tuesday. Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) would take any decision at the coalition partners meeting scheduled to be held on Thursday, July 24, to be hosted by Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, the sources said, adding that the crucial meeting would also decide the fate of the deposed judges and rejoining the cabinet by PML-N ministers.
QUETTA: At least 41 people including 33 militants, nine Frontier Corps men and a Pakistan Petroleum Limited-PPL engineer were killed and many injured, some of them seriously, during armed clash between security forces and militants in Dera Bugti on Sunday, FC sources told this news agency.
ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz was summoned on Saturday by the sub-committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare to appear on August 23 to explain embezzlement of funds allocated for Tawana Pakistan programme.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani will address the nation on Saturday’s evening through radio and television. This would be Prime Minister’s maiden address to the nation in which he will talk about the success and failure of his 100-day progarmme and will also unveil his future plan.
Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani Thursday said that Pakistan was a sovereign country and it was not fighting a proxy war. “ Pakistan is not fighting the war of any other country as the war on terror is in our own interests,” he said while talking to newsmen after the Graduation Ceremony of the 88th National Management Course and the 3rd Senior Management Course here at Administrative Staff College.
KARACHI: Wiped out by the stock market crash, angry protestors break windows and damage banks and brokerage houses as stock prices hit ever new lows and the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) -100 loses 435.29 points and trading at 10056. 59 today.
ISLAMABAD: The US needs to focus on Afghanistan instead of any other country in the region to curb a spurt in attacks by the Taliban as Pakistan has done enough to counter terrorism and extremism by breaking militant networks operating on its soil, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said.