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  • England Lions thrashed by Pakistan A in Dubai
  • Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
  • England Lions collapsed to 96 all out as they were hammered by 83 runs by Pakistan A in the first one-day match in Dubai on Monday. The Lions, who lost opener Craig Kieswetter to the senior side, were indebted to Ian Bell for sparing them from total humil...
  • Pakistan confirms Taliban 'number two' arrested
  • Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010
  • Pakistan's military has confirmed a Taliban suspect captured earlier this month is one of the organisation's top leaders, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. "Detailed identification procedures" had been completed, Pakistani army spokesman Maj Gen Athar...
  • Australia complete series whitewash over Pakistan
  • Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
  • Australia completed a 3-0 series whitewash against Pakistan following an emphatic 231-run victory in Hobart. It was a fifth win from six Tests in their summer, and a fourth successive 3-0 series victory over Pakistan. "We improved a lot through the ...
  • Five US terror accused in Pakistan allege torture
  • Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
  • Five US citizens being held in Pakistan on suspicion of plotting attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan say they have been tortured in custody. They made the allegations in comments shouted to reporters as they were being driven from court in eastern Pakista...
  • 'Afghanistan CIA bomber' shown vowing revenge
  • Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010
  • Video purportedly of a Jordanian who blew up CIA agents in Afghanistan has shown him vowing revenge for Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud's death. In a clip broadcast on al-Jazeera TV, a man said to be bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi says M...
  • Pakistan's Mohammad Asif skittles Australia in Sydney
  • Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010
  • Mohammad Asif claimed a career-best 6-41 as Pakistan skittled Australia for their lowest Sydney total in 15 years on day one of the second Test. Ricky Ponting opted to bat but fell first ball as Mohammad Sami reduced Australia to 10-3 before they were eve...
  • Bomb kills ex-Pakistan minister
  • Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010
  • A former provincial minister and two other people have been killed in a bomb attack near the north-western Pakistani town of Hangu, police have said. Ghani-ur Rehman, a former North-West Frontier Province education minister, died when a roadside bomb expl...
  • Australia captain Ricky Ponting sets Test win record
  • Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
  • Ricky Ponting became the most successful captain in Test history as Australia's victory over Pakistan gave him a record 42nd win as skipper. Australia thrashed Pakistan by 170 runs in the first Test in Melbourne to take Ponting past predecessor Steve Waug...
  • Visa rules 'blocked our reunion'
  • Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009
  • Accessibility linksPakistanis top a table of nationals turned down for visas to visit the UK. Forty one per cent of applicants for family visitor visas from Pakistan were rejected in the last year, according to Home Office figures seen by the BBC. Concer...
  • Shane Bond leads New Zealand to thrilling win
  • Date: Monday, November 30, 2009
  • Returning fast bowler Shane Bond inspired New Zealand to a thrilling 32-run victory in the first Test against Pakistan in Dunedin. Bond, playing his first Test since 2007, followed his 5-107 in the first innings with 3-46 as Pakistan, set 251 to win, were...
  • Pakistan must help break al-Qaeda, says Brown
  • Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009
  • Gordon Brown has told the BBC that Pakistan must do more to "break" al-Qaeda and find Osama Bin Laden. Questions must be asked about why nobody had been able "to spot or detain or get close to" the al-Qaeda leader, the prime minister s...
  • Policemen die in blast in Pakistani city of Peshawar
  • Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009
  • At least three policemen have been killed and four others injured in an explosion in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say. The blast occurred when the vehicle carrying them hit a roadside bomb. It came hours after a bomb attack outsid...
  • Cynicism among Pakistani refugees
  • Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
  • The tent cities are growing in the district of Swabi, in north-west Pakistan: swelled with the thousands fleeing the fighting in nearby Buner district. Last month, Taleban from the troubled district of Swat moved south into Buner and overran it, occupyin...
  • US officials stress need to work with Pakistan
  • Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
  • The situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan is urgent and is of “very immediate concern” to the United States, says US Vice President-elect Joseph Biden. Mr Biden’s description of the situation in a television interview on Sunday is bac...
  • Pakistan militants 'world threat'
  • Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
  • Militant groups in Pakistan are "the greatest danger to peace and security in the entire world", India's foreign minister has said. Pranab Mukherjee accused Islamabad of "denial" and "shifting the blame" for last month's d...
  • Pakistan, India deny troops build-up
  • Date: Monday, December 1, 2008
  • Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director-General and Pakistan Army spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas said on Sunday that the Army had not found any solid evidence of unusual military movement by India on the international border. Talking to newsmen,...
  • CJ daughter’s case
  • Date: Friday, November 28, 2008
  • The PPP government on Thursday aggressively blocked the parliamentary probe into the chief justice’s daughter case amid an uproar in the National Assembly committee meeting that witnessed a walkout by the government members, including the minister o...
  • UK backs Pakistan’s anti-terror strategy, says Miliband
  • Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008
  • British Foreign Secretary David Miliband while supporting Pakistan’s latest strategy to fight terrorism has said that world attention is increasingly focused on the country which has also emerged as an important player in the fields of economy and s...
  • Pakistan, UAE to boost ties
  • Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
  • President Asif Ali Zardari and UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan on Monday expressed their resolve to upgrade and further strengthen their existing bilateral ties, particularly in the trade and economic fields. Zardari arrived here on a ...
  • Pakistan Scraps Spy Arm Accused of Political Meddling
  • Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
  • Pakistan’s government abolished a department of the military intelligence agency that politicians say was responsible for destabilizing civilian governments. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced the decision at a news conference in the...
  • UN Security Council Facus on Afghanistan Metter
  • Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
  • The UN Security Council on Saturday will go on a fact-finding mission in Afghanistan to evaluate the ongoing situation in a country wracked by 30 years of war and violence and considered a major global security threat. Headed by Italy’s UN Ambass...
  • Again Us Drone Attack in Pakistan
  • Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
  • In what is being described as the first drone attack outside the tribal areas, six persons, including a major Arab Al Qaeda operative, in an overnight missile strike by a suspected US drone in Bannu district of NWFP. A senior security official reported...
  • NA passes Industrial Relations Bill 2008
  • Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
  • National Assembly has approved the Industrial Relations Bill 2008, while PML-N staged a walkout against the bill here on Tuesday. Congratulating the house on passing of the bill, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said that removal of anti-laborer ...
  • Pak army aided Isaf in operation against militants
  • Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  • The Pakistan military helped the western forces based in Afghanistan attack a position in Pakistan used by militants after an Isaf post was hit by two rockets fired allegedly by militants from inside Pakistan. According to a spokesman for the Internati...
  • GEO’s channels blocked in Sindh
  • Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
  • Geo Network’s transmission has been stopped on cable in a number of cities across Sindh including Karachi. Cable operators blocked the transmission of Geo Network in a number of areas across the city Monday morning, without assigning any reason f...
  • Senators warn against IMF loan
  • Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
  • Not only the opposition but also some sympathisers of the PPP-led government in the Senate on Thursday opposed loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). They said that if at all such a step was unavoidable, the matter should be debated threadbar...
  • Country needs $5 bn immediately: Tareen
  • Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
  • Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance Shaukat Tareen informed the Senate during a briefing on Wednesday on the economic situation that the country immediately needs $5 billion to sustain at its present position. “We need this amount within next 15...
  • Pakistan goes extra mile for $ 300m WB loan
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • Pakistan has initiated gigantic efforts to restore the $ 300 million loan from the World Bank (WB) that has been reportedly stalled on the intervention of the International Monitory Fund (IMF). (Online, quoting the BBC, said Adviser on Finance Shaukat ...
  • Floor to remain on KSE
  • Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
  • The KSE board of directors on Sunday decided against removing the ‘floor’ on Monday and said the bourse would continue to function under the existing parameters till the market support fund and put-option were made functional. KSE Managing-...
  • Bitter fruits of IMF bailout
  • Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
  • Pakistan will have to cut its defence budget by 30 per cent in the next four years if it agrees to the IMF conditions for a bailout package now being discussed in Dubai between the two sides, a document containing the IMF conditions seen by this correspon...
  • Bomb rocks Islamabad hotel, at least 60 dead
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • At least 60 people were killed and 200 wounded in the bombing of a five-star hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday, a security official said. "The death toll is 60 and it may go up," the official said. He said many people died ...
  • Pakistani air strike inflicts heavy casualties on militants: Official
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • Pakistani fighter jets and helicopter gunships on Thursday destroyed a militant facility in the restive northwest, inflicting heavy casualties, security officials said. The air strike targeted a militant stronghold in Piochar, a village in the Swat val...
  • Car bomber blows up Pak anti-terror squad building, 7 hurt
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • A suicide car bomber blew up an anti-terrorist squad building at Islamabad's police headquarters on Thursday, partly demolishing the structure and wounding at least seven people, officials said. The blast was so powerful that it ripped off the facade o...
  • Four killed in suicide blast in northwest Pakistan: Police
  • Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
  • At least four people were killed on Thursday in a suicide blast in the town of Charsadda in northwest Pakistan, a police official said. "Many wounded are lying on the ground. We have two policemen and two civilians killed," said a police offi...
  • In a major shuffle, new chief for ISI
  • Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
  • The new chief of Pakistan’s main intelligence service will surely be scrutinized by American officials who have questioned the powerful spy agency’s loyalties in the war on terror. The appointment of Lt Gen Ahmed Shujaa Pasha as head of Int...
  • Suspected US missile strike kills 8 militants in Pak tribal region
  • Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
  • A missile fired by a suspected US drone hit a house in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, killing at least eight Islamist militants, mainly Arabs, officials said on Wednesday. The overnight attack was the latest in a string of incidents on ...
  • Pakistan troop fire turns back US helicopters
  • Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
  • Firing by Pakistani troops forced US military helicopters to turn back to Afghanistan after they crossed into Pakistani territory in the early hours of Monday, Pakistani security officials said. The incident took place near Angor Adda, a village in the...
  • The Face: Azhar Abidi
  • Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
  • By Annabel McGilvray MIDDLE Eastern medieval fables are awash with dashing adventure heroes. It's an Arabian Nights cast of philosopher kings and princes travelling the world, outsmarting genies for the sake of love, family and the occasional treasu...
  • Cornellians Discuss New Pakistani President
  • Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
  • By Therese Lahlouh Last Tuesday, Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as president of Pakistan, just nine months following his wife's assassination. Amidst a growing economic crisis and the ris...
  • Pakistani fury as suspected US drone attack kills 12
  • Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
  • By Aislinn Simpson A missile from a suspected US drone has killed 12 people in the lawless Pakistani tribal area linked to al-Qaeda, fuelling angry protests and threats of a withdraw from George W Bush's 'war on terror'. The missile hit a house on ...