Heavy rains slows search for dead in Pakistan plane crash

Relatives continue to grieve and search for the corpses of their loved ones at the air crash site in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday. Most of them, desperate to find the bodies, joined emergency teams who battled the thick mud, rain and slippery hillsides on Thursday at the scene of Pakistan’s worst-ever plane crash. Airblue’s Airbus [...]

Grief grows as recovery of remains of victims in Pakistan’s worst plane crash ever continues

The Pakistani nation is stricken by the devastating airplane crash that killed 152 people on Wednesday. Rescuers continue to search the path of devastation strewn with body parts and twisted metal wreckage atop the Margalla Hills surrounding the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad. As the night grows, the increase in the death toll continues. The rescue workers [...]

Pakistani plane carrying 152 people crashed

A passenger jet is said to crashed into the hills that surrounds Pakistan’s capital. The plane that crashed Wednesday was carrying 152 people according to officials and there were at least twenty five people that were confirmed dead and another five injured people had survived that plane crash. There were still many more people that [...]

Pakistani plane carrying 152 passengers crashes

A passenger plane carrying 152 people crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, amid rain and caught fire on Wednesday, officials said. Nearly 25 people were killed and five survived with injuries, but many more are feared dead. The reason for the Airblue jet crash is still unclear. The plane had left the southern city of [...]

Pakistan extends term for army chief for 3 more years

On Thursday, the Pakistani Prime Minister extended the term of army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani for three more years, while he ensured  continuity at a crucial point in the country’s terror fight as well as the US-led campaign across the border in Afghanistan. Kayani’s current three-year term was due to expire in November. The Prime [...]

Pakistani officials: Taliban leader and assistant ‘die making bomb’

Pakistani officials said on Thursday that a Taliban commander and his helper died while they were assembling a bomb as the bomb blew up during the process. The militant leader, Irshad Khan, is suspected to have conducted several attacks on Pakistani soldiers in the region. The officials say that several members from Khan’s family were [...]

Hillary Clinton Lands in Pakistan on Key Mission

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in Pakistan today to being a tour of South Asia aimed at refining the goals of the nearly 9-year-old war in Afghanistan. Her mission is to push neighboring countries of Afghanistan to cooperate in the fight against al-Qaida and Taliban extremists. Clinton landed in Islamabad, the [...]

16 Shiite Muslims killed by gunmen in Pakistan

An apparent sectarian ambush in a remote tribal town in northwest Pakistan led to the deaths of 16 Shiite Muslims and 4 other wounded on Saturday, a paramilitary spokesman and local officials of the country said. The incident took place in the Sunni dominated Charkhel area on Tal-Parachinar road, which lies in the violence-hit Kurram [...]

Pakistan suicide bombing death toll raises

Two suicide bombers killed about 102 people in a village in Pakistan. This also wounded 168 people in the village of Yakaghund in Pakistani tribal area of Mohmand. A suicide bomber struck outside a government office in a tribal region where the army of Pakistan has fought over Taliban forces who had been a cause [...]

Suicide bombing in Pakistan kills 105

The death toll from a suicide bombing and car bomb explosion at a busy market town in Pakistan’s northwest tribal belt has risen to 105, officials said on Sunday. The explosions took place on Friday, and destroyed government buildings and shops and left victims buried under the rubble. Two victims died at night in the [...]

Pakistan moves forward as transgender attains social acceptability!

In a conservative country like Pakistan, there are still many issues that remain taboo despite progression in the civil and social rights.  The transgender community has always been ridiculed and targeted by people of all classes, no matter how literate or civilized they might be. The unfortunate result of this isolating behavior is that the [...]

CIA and Pakistan locked in spy battles

Pakistan’s Spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, is spying the CIA and trying to run a double agent against them. This was discovered and concluded when a Pakistani man approached CIA officers in Islamabad last year and offered to give up secrets of his country’s closely guarded nuclear program. He also claimed to possess spent nuclear [...]

Pakistan’s inflation makes it the most expensive country in South East Asia!

It has come as shock to many to discover that Pakistan has topped the list of most expensive countries in the South East Asian region. Last week, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) held its cabinet meeting and after taking into view the latest hike in prices, decided that Pakistan has become the most expensive place [...]

US delivered new F-16s to Pakistan!

First batch of eighteen new F-16s has been delivered by America to Pakistan which shows the deepening relations of two countries. Only three of eighteen F-16s reached Pakistan today and according to officials, the rest of 15 will reach later in 2010 and in 2011. Todd. Robbins, the senior official of US Department of Defense [...]

Google and Yahoo under Pakistan check for Blasphemy

According to officials, Pakistan will be monitoring seven major web sites including Yahoo, Google and Hotmail for stuff believed offensive by Muslims. 17 different you tube links will be blocked soon in Pakistan for showing blasphemous material. Although, site is not fully banned in the country. Pakistan’s ministry of information technology seems really serious about [...]

Five US men sentenced to Jail in Pakistan

According to prosecutors, five US Muslim men sentenced to prison by a Pakistani court for 10 years after they found guilty of terrorism charges. All of them were between 19 and 25—were arrested last year in December in Sargodha, Pakistan. They were on trial since March 2010 in closed room anti-terrorism court. All five people [...]

Osama bin Laden’s hunter, dying from disease

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s would-be hunter is dying from kidney disease. Bin Laden’s hunter which is an American construction worker was detained in northern Pakistan on an armed solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden. He has been examined by a doctor after his relatives warned that he had kidney problems, needed dialysis and [...]

NATO convoy attacked by militants, 7 killed

Dozens of trucks ferrying vehicles for Western troops in Afghanistan was attacked by militants early Wednesday. This happened near the Pakistani capital. The attack was a bold assault which cost seven people’s lives and has illustrated the vulnerability of a crucial U.S. supply line. Shells of trucks were charred Wednesday and were jumbled together at [...]

Attack on convoy in Pakistan kills 5

Cargo trucks holding oil and other supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan went on fire due to a gunmen attack on Tuesday near Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. Five people were killed and five others were wounded, the police said. At least 12 gunmen on motorcycles and in pickup trucks attacked the trucks at [...]

Storms hit the coastal areas of Pakistan

Cyclone Phet, as the name given to the storm, flooded the coast of Oman and has rapidly turned towards the coastal areas of Pakistan. This weather effect prior to the storm brought heavy rains in the Gawadar district. Pasni and Jati areas and life surrounding these regions have been disturbed by flooding due to these [...]

Access to Facebook allowed in Pakistan

The ban on Facebook in Pakistan was uplifted on Monday after officials from the social networking site apologized to Muslims for an offensive page on it. The contents of the site were removed. The ban stayed up to two weeks in Pakistan after angry protest were made about the site having a page which encouraged [...]

80 dead in strike of mosques in Pakistan

Two mosques was attacked on Friday which is packed with worshippers from a minority sect in Pakistan. This has been the deadliest against the Ahmadi community. This is said to be a threat to minority religious groups by the same militants who have repeatedly attacked Pakistan’s U.S. -allied government and threatened to destabilize nuclear-armed nation. [...]

Afghanistan War: US death toll reaches 1,000

Death toll of U.S. military has reached 1,000 in the 10 months of Afghan war. Casualties are expected to rise since the war focus its greatest challenge and kicks to win over a population in the Taliban’s southern heartland. This conflict has become “Obama’s war” which still continues for nearly nine years now and has [...]

Gunmen attack in Quetta, Pakistan kills four policemen

After an attack by gunmen on a motorcycle in the south-western city of Pakistan, Quetta, four policemen were killed, officials said on Friday. The attack was held in the Satellite Town area of Quetta. Officials said that the head of the station, Abdul Khaliq, along with his driver and constables, were killed in the attack. [...]

Pakistani government blocks 800 web pages over ‘blasphemy’

At least 800 web pages and URLs have been blocked in Pakistan by the government so as to limit access to "blasphemous" material, an official said on Saturday. Facebook and YouTube were blocked less than a week ago. Facebook, YouTube and other links, which included restricted access to Wikipedia, were banned by the Pakistan Telecommunications [...]

NY Times Square bomb case makes feds warn Pakistanis leaders to “check your families for terrorism ties”

The Faisal Shehzad case has led feds to issue a chilling warning to Pakistani leaders: check your family and staff for terrorist ties, according to reports. According to a reports released by Philip Shenon, the U.S. has warned civilian and military leaders in Pakistan that they need to worry about a newly uncovered breeding ground [...]

Rock and Roll Jihad

 Pakistani Rock singer, Salman Ahmad has come out with his debut book known as ‘Rock and Roll Jihad’. In Islam, the word jihad means to struggle and this book is entirely based on his own personal jihad to strike a balance between his passion for music and the opposition against it. This is because many [...]

US cartoonist condemns ‘Draw Mohammed’ Facebook page & apologizes to Muslims

The U.S. cartoonist, who was the key in initiating the controversial “Everybody Draw Mohammed Page” on Facebook, has disavowed the effort and issued an apology to all Muslims. The cartoonist, Molly Norris, from Seattle, drew a cartoon in April as a protest to the decision made by U.S. television channel Comedy Central of cancelling an episode [...]

Pakistan blocks another internet site

Just a day after Facebook was blocked across the country, Pakistan set a block on another website: YouTube. The Pakistani government announced on Thursday that it has blocked access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube, YouTube because of growing “sacrilegious” content on the video-sharing website. On Wednesday, just a day before the present announcement was made, [...]

Facebook blocked by Pakistani courts due to blasphemous cartoons

On Wednesday morning, the Pakistani court ordered authorities to temporarily block social networking website Facebook following a controversy over a competition on blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad on the site which was to be held on May 20. Justice Ijaz Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court issued the order in response to a petition filed by [...]

11 people killed by suicide bombing in NW Pakistan

11 people were killed on Tuesday after a suicide bomber on a bicycle attacked a police patrol in an area of northwestern Pakistan, police said. 15 people were left wounded. The attack killed three police officers and eight civilians. Gul Afzal Khan, the police chief in the area, said that the attack occurred as the [...]

Almost 60 Kidnapped by Militants in Pakistan Tribal Area

60 people in northwest Pakistan have been kidnapped by militants, after ambushing their vehicles in a troubled tribal region, police say. The people taken hostage Saturday in Kurram included women and children, though it was not clear how many, area police chief Chaman Mir said. Robberies and kidnapping for ransom are common in the militant [...]

3 Pakistani men arrested in Times Square

Three Pakistani men were arrested by authorities Thursday in a series of raids across the Northeast. The three Pakistani men are said to supply funds to Times Square car-bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad.They are caught as the FBI followed the money trail in the failed attack and investigators said that it was not yet clear to [...]

Brief scare over suspicious vehicle in NY

A brief scare due to a suspicious vehicle in Lower Manhattan was notified immediately to the police on Friday, who sounded an all-clear after the short panic. An employee for the Con Edison utility company called 911 at 10:15 p.m. on Thursday to report a four-door 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera with two gas cans in the [...]

Pakistani held in Chile as bomb suspect

A Pakistani was detained in Chile on Monday when detectors at the U.S. Embassy found traces of an explosives material on him. Mohammed Saif-ur-Rehman Khan is being held under Chile’s anti-terrorism laws while being investigated for alleged explosives violations. The 28-year-old was summoned to the embassy because his U.S. visa had been revoked and security [...]

Grenade attacks kill 2 girls in Pakistan

Two young girls were killed by a grenade explosion in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Two others are reported injured. The attack was held in the Ram Krishan area where the children were playing. Rais Khan, the girls’ father, said that the attackers threw a grenade at his house because he had refused to pay them [...]

14 militants killed from suspected U.S. drones

14 militants were killed and several others injured when 5 suspected U.S. drones fired missiles in Pakistan’s tribal region on Tuesday, officials said. 18 missiles were fired by the suspected drones at two vehicles and many compounds which are believed to be used by militants in the Data Khel area in North Waziristan, the officials [...]

Pakistan test-fires ballistic missiles

The Pakistani military said on Saturday that Pakistan had successfully test-fired two ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The first missile, Shaheen-1, carries a range of about 400 miles (650 kilometers), while the second missile, Ghaznavi, could hit targets at a distance of 180 miles (290 kilometers), an army statement said. Both missiles can carry [...]

Gunbattle in Indian Kashmir leaves 5 insurgents & 2 soldiers dead

After a fierce gunbattle between Islamic rebels and Indian security forces in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, five insurgents and two soldiers were killed on Thursday, an army spokesman said. The fighting erupted in Rafiabad on Thursday night, after army troops and police received information about the presence of militants in the area, Col. Vineet Sood [...]

4 policemen killed after gunmen attack checkpoint in Pakistan

A police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan was attacked by gunmen at dawn on Friday, who killed four policemen before speeding away in a getaway vehicle, police said. “Four policemen were killed on the spot. They were taking shelter inside the checkpost when rain started. One injured is still unconscious,” Zulfiqar Jadoon, a police official from the scene in Mansehra [...]

Suspect for Times Square bomb plot arrested from flight

A Pakistani-American citizen was arrested seconds before her was set to fly back to his homeland. Faisal Shehzad, 30, was arrested on Monday at New York’s J. F. Kennedy International Airport at exactly 11:45 p.m., Attorney General Eric Holder said. Shehzad is to appear before the federal court after 2 p.m. on Tuesday, the U.S. [...]

Surviving Mumbai gunman convicted over attacks

A Pakistani national has been convicted over his role in the deadly 2008 Mumbai (Bombay) attacks by an Indian court. Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, 22, the sole surviving gunman, was found guilty on charges including murder, waging war on India and possessing explosives. The attacks left 174 people – including nine gunmen – dead, and [...]

Pakistan VS Bangladesh: Pakistan won the toss and chooses to Bat

Today in the T20 world cup, a great match is going on between Pakistan and Bangladesh. Pakistan was the champion of last year T20 cup but Bangladesh team is also tough si there are chances that match will not be so easy for any side to win. The toss was won by Pakistan and Boom [...]

2 Killed in Pakistan’s Swat Valley by suicide bomber

A suicide bomber detonated himself in a busy market area on Saturday in the main city of Swat Valley in Pakistan, leading to the deaths of two civilians, police said. Swat was undertaken wrested from the Taliban by the Pakistani Army a year ago. Qazi Ghulam Farooq, a senior police official, said that along with [...]

Pakistani officials say Taliban leader Mehsud is still alive

The Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was reported to have been seen in Pakistan’s tribal region, officials said on Thursday, making the allegations about his death in a drone attack in January false. The Taliban leader was seen in North Waziristan, one of seven districts in Pakistan’s tribal region along the Afghan border, a senior [...]

Suicide car bomber kills four policemen in Peshawar

Four policemen have died after a suicide car bomber targeted a checkpoint in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. Civilians are reported to be among at least 10 people injured in the bombing. Senior police official Liaquat Ali said the attacker had rammed his car into a police vehicle. The blast highlights the ongoing threat [...]

India arrests diplomat for ‘spying for Pakistan’

India has arrested a woman working as a diplomat in its Islamabad embassy on charges of spying for Pakistan. Madhuri Gupta, 53, is a second secretary in the embassy and works in the press and information section. She was arrested on a work trip to Delhi. Officials say she is suspected of handing over classified [...]

High spirits-Pakistan looking toward World T20 Cup

Pakistan may have lost Umar Gul — their pace lead in the Twenty20 format — but skipper Shahid Afridi said that a deepness in his bowling weapon store means that the defending champions will be full with confidence when they feature in the ICC World Twenty20 championship getting underway in the Caribbean from April 30. [...]

Suicide Attack in Pakistan Wounds 10 Policemen

A suicide attack on a prison van left at least 10 policemen wounded in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, authorities said. Senior police official Shakeel Khan said that a car bomber targeted a van which was arriving at a jail in Timergarah, which had to pick up prisoners to carry to the nearby Swat Valley. The [...]

Marriage brought us much closer: Sania

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza said that her relationship with her new husband Shoaib Malik has emerged stronger from controversy over claims he was already married. Mirza and Malik got married on Monday after the settlement was reached with the family of Ayesha Siddique, an Indian woman who said she wed the former Pakistan cricket [...]

Ten killed in Quetta hospital bomb blast

A suicide bomber killed 10 people, including a TV journalist and senior police officials, in a so-called sectarian attack inside a hospital in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta on Friday. A member of assembly from the ruling Pakistan People’s Party was among the scores wounded in the attack outside the emergency ward of the hospital [...]

Pakistan admits Deaths

According to a source, civilians were killed on Saturday on the village of the Khyber tribal due to an air strike. Before, this issue is denied by the army. Also according to the source, he was not sure about how many were dead on the air strike, but he estimated it of somewhat close to [...]

Checkpoint attack in Pakistan

Forty-one (41) militants dead and two soldiers died in a checkpoint attack in Pakistan. Hundreds of armed militants attacked two checkpoints on Monday at northwestern Pakistan. The militants were armed with rockets and automatic weapons. Samiullah Khan, a local administrator in Pakistan said that more than one hundred militants attacked the security checkpoint in Shireen [...]

Pakistan- A place to live

Most of you, especially those from Europe and USA must be thinking many times that Is Pakistan is a place to live? If you are one of the readers from Europe or US, you must some time think or have some suspicious questions about Pakistan. Like Is Pakistan a terrorist country? Are all the people [...]

Marriage between the Two stars (S & S)

Shoaib Malik, a great and brilliant youngster from Pakistan team has been in top news on many entertainment channels because of his recent affair and rumors of getting married with Sania Mirza( the beautiful, bold and among the first fifty women tennis stars of the world). This news is still on top and people are [...]

US anger at Peshawar consulate attack

The US has expressed “great concern” over a deadly assault by militants on the American consulate in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. The bomber targeted a crowded rally held by a Pashtun nationalist party in Timergara, Lower Dir. Investigators suspect it was co-ordinated with the Peshawar raid, in which attackers tossed grenades into the [...]

Gunbattle in Pakistan leaves 30 militants, 6 soldiers dead

A gunbattle in Pakistan’s tribal region killed thirty militants and six Pakistani soldiers on Sarurday, Pakistani military officials said. The battle took place in Orakzai Agency, which is a tribal region bordering Afghanistan. 10 soldiers and several militants were also injured in the fighting, military officials said. After a tough resistance from the militants in [...]

Attack on US consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan

At least seven people have died after suspected militants attacked the US consulate in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. There were several explosions in the area near the consulate and buildings collapsed. A gun battle between police and the attackers followed. Pakistan’s main Taliban faction said it had carried out the attack, and that [...]

Indian tennis’s Mirza to wed Pakistani cricketer Malik

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza is to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, the family of India’s most successful woman tennis player confirmed. Mirza’s father said Malik, the former cricket captain of Pakistan, and his daughter would move to Dubai after the marriage, expected next month. He added that she planned to continue playing tennis once [...]

Test of Two Nuclear Capable missiles by India.

In recent news, India has tested two short range missiles which have capability to take nuclear bomb along with them. Nuclear weapons were tested by India in 1998 and now she has made a range of nuclear and conventional missile systems as a part of program begun in 1983. Saturday’s first test was the launch [...]

Clash in Pakistan’s Orakzai kills militants and troops

Five Pakistani soldiers and at least 21 suspected militants have been killed in clashes near the Afghan border, Pakistan’s military has said. The fighting occurred in the tribal district of Orakzai. It came a day after military aircraft bombed areas in the district killing at least 11 people. Militants led by Pakistani Taliban commander Hakimullah [...]

US and Pakistan promise to improve ties

The US and Pakistan have promised to start a new partnership in an effort to overcome “years of misunderstandings”, the US secretary of state has said. “It’s a new day,” Hillary Clinton said after talks in Washington with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Mr Qureshi meanwhile said he expected the US to pay by [...]

Taliban plot thwarted on hotel attacks & diplomats kidnapping: Pakistan police

Two highly experienced Taliban militants have been arrested while planning to attack top hotels and kidnap diplomats in Pakistan, Pakistani police said. One of the men arrested has claimed to have helped plan previous attacks as well. The two men were arrested in a hotel in Rawalpindi, a city adjacent to the Pakistani capital Islamabad, said Islamabad Police Chief [...]

Pakistan Army Talked with US Leaders

Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, Pakistani’s army chief, has met the defense leaders in Washington for one week strategic talk. Robert Gates, defense secretary, and Admiral Mike Mullen, joint chief of staff, were those to hold the talks. On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary, is going to meet Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani Foreign Minister. In their [...]

Arrest Of Taliban Leaders By Pakistan

Pakistan is a major partner of Us in waragainst terror. US is very cautious about the performance of Pakistani government and army in war against terror. Recently Pakistan army has captured many of the main leaders of Taliban. US special envoy Richard Halbrook said that United states is extremely gratified over Pakistan’s performance. In his [...]

11 dead as blast hits police building in Pakistan

A suicide car bomber hit a building in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Monday, where police interrogate high-value suspects, killing at least 11 people and wounding 61 others, including women taking children to school, officials said. The attack broke what had been a relative lull in major violence in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country reviled by [...]

Top Pakistani Taliban deputy believed dead

A leading Pakistani Taliban commander close to al-Qaida is believed to have been killed in an army airstrike, officials said Saturday, in the latest blow on insurgents attacking Pakistan and threatening U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan. Maulvi Faqir Mohammed was believed to be among a number of insurgents killed Friday at a sprawling compound in the northwest Mohmand tribal region, Interior Minister [...]

Indian Fans supporting Pakistan

From a long time, there is a political tension between Pakistan and India on certain issues which is still going on. India and Pakistan have fought four battles yet and the issues between Pakistan and India are still unresolved and pending. As a consequence any kind of matches whether cricket or hockey or any else [...]

Battle arises in Pakistan, killing 30 militants and 1 soldier

A large group of militants armed with assault rifles attacked a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, causing a gun battle that left 30 insurgents and one soldier dead, officials said on Thursday. The battle took place overnight in the Chamarkand area of the Mohmand tribal region near the Afghan border, said government and military officials. [...]

13 detained in Indonesia for connections with militant training

Thirteen suspects believed to have been from a group taking part in an Islamic militant training camp in a remote part of Aceh Province in Indonesia on Wednesday, a national police spokesman said. Police from the anti-terrorism unit were still searching for dozens more suspects who had fled during a raid on the camp last [...]

Pakistan Army kills 38 militants in operation

On Wednesday, Pakistan’s paramilitary forces said that their troops had killed 38 militants during a week-long operation against the Taliban, under the codename “Spring Cleaning”. The head of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary, Sifwat Ghayoor, told reporters that troops seized control of the Taliban stronghold Pastawana near the garrison city of Kohat. The operation was launched [...]

Standard Chartered earns profits

Standard Chartered earned a record income and profits last year as it battled through the economic downturn, and 2010 is off to a good start, the Asia-focused bank has said. London-based Standard Chartered, which also trades across Africa and the Middle East, said net profits rose 4.7 percent to 3.279 billion dollars (2.407 billion euros) last year compared with [...]

Charges submitted against Americans by Pakistani police

Pakistani police submitted the charges of plotting terrorism against five young Americans detained last year on Tuesday, a lawyer said. The young students are from the U.S. state of Virginia. They were detained in December in the town of Sargodha, 190 km (120 miles) southeast of Islamabad, and accused of contacting militants over the Internet [...]

US thinking to provide more Aid to Pakistan

The administration of Obama is thinking to make a plan for giving more financial aid to Pakistan of approx $1.45 billion for funding water, energy and other projects as well as to support media campaigns to counter terrorist views. The 2010 spending plan obtained by Reuters was sent to lawmakers late on Thursday as a [...]

Pakistan, India hold first official talks since 2008 Mumbai attacks

Pakistan and India held their first official talks after 15 months on Thursday. The last talks held between the two rival countries were before the 2008 Mumbai siege. Both sides said they wanted to rebuild the trust shattered in that attack, making the meeting a first step towards a renewed peace process. The nuclear-armed rivals [...]

U.S. drone attacks kill 8 militants in Pakistan

A U.S. drone aircraft, firing three missiles into Pakistan’s North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, killed eight militants on Wednesday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike targeted a stronghold of the Haqqani network, a major Taliban faction attacking Western forces across the border in Afghanistan. Fire broke out after the missiles exploded in Dargi [...]

Taliban in Northwest Pakistan Kill 2 Alleged U.S. Spies

Two bodies of alleged U.S. spies, wounded with bullets, were found on Wednesday in a Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan, the latest victims of an intelligence war that a top American general indicated is tilting in Washington and Islamabad’s favor. The men’s bodies were found together in Mir Ali town in North Waziristan tribal region. Each had a note attached accusing [...]

2 Sikhs beheaded in Pakistan by Taliban

Two men belonging from the minority Sikh community in Pakistan’s tribal northwest were kidnapped and beheaded on Sunday, authorities said. Two others are still in custody. The men were kidnapped by the Taliban from the Khyber Agency almost two weeks ago for ransom, said Shafirullah Wazir, the administrative chief of the area. However, the men [...]

Suicide car bomb kills 9 in Swat, Pakistan

A suicide car bomber hit a military convoy killing nine people, including children, in Pakistan’s Swat district on Monday, just months after the army claimed to have quelled a Taliban uprising. The bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives as security forces drove through the centre of Mingora, the main town of Swat where the military [...]

Suicide attackers strike Pakistani police stations

In an apparently coordinated attack, suicide bombers struck two police stations Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing a police chief, and wounding four officers, authorities said. The chaos comes after Pakistan and the U.S. appeared to have made gains in the battle against al-Qaida and the Taliban. Officials confirmed earlier in the week that the No. [...]

Pakistan captures 2 senior Afghan Taliban

Pakistan has captured two seniors of Afghanistan’s Taliban movement, an Afghan official said on Thursday. The timing of the reported arrests coincides with the capture of Taliban’s second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Karachi by Pakistani and U.S. agents this month. Mullah Abdul Salam and Mullah Mir Mohammad, respectively the shadow governors and seniors of the northern Afghan [...]

Bomb blast kills 29 in North-West Pakistan

A bomb blast in the north-west Pakistan’s tribal belt killed 29 people on Thursday, according to a government official. Jawad Khan said the attack took place at a mosque in the Aka Khel area of Khyber tribal region. Over 50 people have been wounded by the attack. Earlier reports said the Thursday explosion occurred in [...]

India restaurant bomb blast kills nine in Pune

At least nine people have been killed and 57 others injured in a bomb attack at a restaurant in India’s western city of Pune, officials say. The explosion tore through the German Bakery, which is popular with tourists, in Koregaon Park. The bombing is the first major strike of its kind in India since the [...]

US to spread training to Pakistan

Now days US is  extending its efforts to complete and wipe away the war against terror as soon as possible and in this regard they have decided to set up new training centers within Pakistan where US special operation trainers will help Pakistani military near the Afghan border, a senior defense official said. These special [...]

Suicide Attack Kills 17, Including Police, in Pakistan

At least 17 people, including 13 police officials, were killed Wednesday when a suicide bomber attacked a convoy in the northwestern tribal area of Khyber, Pakistan, local news outlets reported. Located within the North-West Frontier Province, and Peshawar being its capital, Khyber serves as one of the main supply routes for the American forces inside [...]

Pakistan democracy- an emerging concern for US

Democratic government in Pakistan is now an emerging concern for US government and officials. In a latest interview, he was of the view that neither Afghanistan nor Iraq but Pakistan is a major emerging concern for him. In an interview with CNN, US vice president said that “Pakistan is a big country, it has nuclear [...]

Shah Rukh Khan cricket row: More than 1,100 arrested

Police in India have arrested more than 1,100 people following protests against a Bollywood film. They were prompted by comments from its star, Shah Rukh Khan, regretting that no Pakistan cricketers were picked for next month’s IPL cricket tournament. Hindu hardline party Shiv Sena reacted angrily, vowing to disrupt screenings of My Name is Khan, [...]

UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie to visit Haiti

The U.N. refugee agency has said that actress and UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie will be visiting Haiti with the UN refugee body to meet the earthquake victims. The Hollywood actress spoke with hospitalized Haitian survivors in the neighboring Dominican Republic on Monday. UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic said Jolie would travel to Haiti later on Tuesday. He provided no details [...]

Bombings hit Iraq Shia pilgrims in Karbala

Two suicide bombers have killed at least 40 people and injured more than 140 on the outskirts of the Iraqi city of Karbala, police reports say. About a million Shia Muslim pilgrims are in the city to visit the Imam Hussein shrine. About 60 pilgrims were killed in two other attacks this week. Friday is [...]

Second bomb explosion hits Pakistan city

Police say a bomb has exploded outside a hospital in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi, wounding around 50 people. Police say at least five people have been killed by the bomb that went off outside a hospital in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi. The hospital was treating many of the victims of a bombing targeting the city’s [...]

Suicide bombing targeting bus kills 12 in Pakistan

A suspected suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed 12 Shiite Muslims on a crowded bus in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi, hospital and police officials said. “We have 12 dead and up to 40 wounded. Some of the wounded are in critical condition,” said Kaleem Sheikh, senior doctor at Karachi’s main hospital. Senior police officer Ghulam [...]

Indo-Pak relation- An emerging concern for US

The relationship between India and Pakistan Governments has never been peaceful after the separation of sub-continent. A good and peaceful relation is really important for maintaining peace in this region. The world has become more concerned about the relation between PAKISTAN and INDIA after the development of atomic bombs by both countries because if there [...]

Golden Test ERA for AUSSIES

Australia cricket team was going through many difficult times and facing many problems in some past years but the recent victory of Australia over Pakistan in test series showed that AUSTRALIA is back again with a great bang. In the recent test series between Pakistan and Australia which was played in Homeland of Australia, series [...]

Pakistan blast kills US soldiers

Three US soldiers were among 10 people killed when a bomb blast hit a convoy near a school in north-west Pakistan. Three schoolgirls were among the dead while 70 people, including another 63 schoolgirls and two US soldiers, were injured in the explosion in Lower Dir. The US embassy said the military personnel had been [...]

7 dead, including 3 U.S. soldiers, in Pakistan blast

Seven people, including 3 U.S. soldiers, were killed in a roadside bomb attack on Wednesday in northwest Pakistan, Pakistani security officials said. The three U.S. soldiers were travelling with Pakistan security force members. The three soldiers were in the region as part of a small, little-publicized U.S. mission to train members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps to better [...]

Pakistan looks into reports of death of Taliban leader

The Pakistani military on Sunday was looking into a local report that the region’s Taliban leader had died, officials said. The army and government officials said Sunday it was investigating a media report that Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a U.S. missile strike in mid-January close to the Afghan border, but said they could [...]

China backs trilateral cooperation between Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan

China on Tuesday said that it supports the trilateral cooperation among Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan in their efforts to address the issue of Afghanistan. Yang Jiechi, the special representative of the Chinese President Hu Jintao made the statement at the regional summit on Afghanistan held in Istanbul, Turkey. Yang said that Afghanistan has gradually recovered [...]

India issues terror alert over hijack plot

After the Indian government received warnings about a possible attack on one of its Airlines on Thursday, India issued a terror alert at all its airports. Airline passengers across the country went through extra security screenings Friday and sky marshals were placed on flights as the government put its airports on high alert amid reports that al-Qaida-linked militants [...]

Taliban leader escapes drone strike

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud escaped a US drone strike on a militant camp Friday that killed 10 people, the militia said after reports he may have been among the dead. Hakimullah Mehsud, who has led the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) since August, had been in the lawless tribal area bordering Afghanistan where [...]

Alleged U.S. missiles kill 12 in Pakistan

Suspected U.S. missiles killed at least 12 alleged militants on Thursday in a compound formerly used as a religious school in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region, officials said, and the eighth such attack in two weeks. The strike is yet another attack , despite the Pakistani protests, that have surged in number in recent days. [...]

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