QUETTA : Iran Border Security Guards have arrested 36 Pakistanis on Pak-Iran border and handed them over to Taftan police on Friday, police sources at the border told APP.
They said that these people were crossing the border without any legal documents on various vehicles and wanted to go to some European countries via Iran-and-Turkey for […]
PESHAWAR : The law enforcing agencies arrested 10 miscreants during search and cordon operation in restive Swat district.
Official sources said on Friday that the security forces after receiving information about presence of some suspected militants in Kabal area, raided at their hideouts and arrested 10 suspected miscreants and recovered arms and ammunition from their possession. […]
LONDON : Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif hold inconclusive meeting in Britain on Friday.
Talking to media persons after meeting Nawaz said Zardari wants more time to think, “We are bound till May 12″, said Nawaz.
He said “We are ready to accept […]
ISLAMABAD : Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Health, Sherry Rehman on Friday directed the Ministry of Health to review the National Program for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis by shifting the paradigm and focusing more on the expansion of treatment facilities to the deserving patients.
She said this while addressing the follow- up briefing here […]
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan will dispatch two C-130 loads of relief goods including tents, plastic sheets, adequate medicines and water purification tablets etc. as well as a thirty-bedded Army Field Hospital to Myanmar for the cyclone affectees.
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday directed the despatch of relief goods and a Field Hospital for the cyclone […]
PESHAWAR : The NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti Friday said that his government was not pursuing policies of others and was against crushing militancy through the involvement of forces.
“We need no dictation or policies from outside as we are independent in our decisions,” Hoti told various delegations of public representatives from different parts […]
Islamabad, May 9 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday announced the formation of two task forces to determine the future direction of Pakistan foreign policy and to tackle the economic needs at diplomatic front.
UNITED NATIONS : Pakistans bid for re-election to the U.N. Human Rights Council got a boost when the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) unanimously decided on Thursday to back its candidature.
The decision was taken at an ambassadorial level meeting of the 57-member Islamic Group held in New York ahead of the May 21 session […]
ISLAMABAD : The Senate on Friday resumed discussion on foreign policy and the members stressed to make it in accordance with the wishes of the people and needs of the country.
Taking part in the debate, Senator Azam Swati opined that an independent foreign policy can guarantee sovereignty and solidarity of the country.
He criticized the previous […]
WASHINGTON : The US military has dropped plans to assign the former commander of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Pakistan, after sharp criticism of his Guantanamo command in Pakistani media, the New York Times reported in its Friday editions.
Army Maj. Gen. Jay Hood would have become the top US officer in Pakistan, […]