Islamabad, March 16 (IANS) President Pervez Musharraf has assured US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher that fresh parliamentary elections will be held in Pakistan this year.x
Friday, March 16, 2007 11:51:12 AM
Karachi, March 16 (IANS) Pakistan has banned the private Geo TV channel from airing a programme that dealt with the suspension of Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, and the resulting protests.
Friday, March 16, 2007 10:30:17 AM
Washington, March 16 (IANS) Suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to the beheading of Slain Wall Street American Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and a central role in 30 other terrorist attacks and plots around the world.
Friday, March 16, 2007 12:26:14 AM
Islamabad, March 15 (DPA) US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher met Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri in Islamabad Thursday for talks on the Taliban insurgency and the security situation in Afghanistan.
Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:31:33 PM
Islamabad, March 15 (IANS) Pakistan may want to de-link violence in Jammu and Kashmir from the joint anti-terror mechanism with India, but New Delhi is determined to keep raising 'Kashmir-related terror' in official meetings.
Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:45:30 PM
Islamabad, March 15 (IANS) Opposition lawmakers in Pakistan's Sindh province have decried the rising number of kidnappings of members of the minority Hindu community and have asked the government to take specific measures to curb this trend.
Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:20:16 PM
Islamabad, March 15 (IANS) Police and intelligence agencies in Pakistan arrested several opposition politicians and lawyers in raids carried out at their residences in Lahore and other cities past midnight on Thursday as protests continued against the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:19:34 PM
Islamabad, March 15 (IANS) Even as Pakistan has agreed to consider a long-standing Indian proposal for group tourism visas and the two countries hope to conclude a relatively liberal visa regime soon, a huge gulf remains in the number of visas issued by the two countries and their approach to this issue.
Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:58:33 AM
Islamabad, March 15 (IANS) Feudal laws, honour killings and domestic violence... these sum up the pathetic state of women in Pakistan. But there is the other picture too - of women diplomats in key posts fine tuning foreign policy decisions and effectively articulating their country's viewpoints to audiences across the world.
Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:32:22 AM
Islamabad, March 14 (IANS) India and Pakistan appeared to be narrowing their differences over their decades-old Kashmir dispute as they decided Wednesday to launch new cross-border truck and bus links and sought to accelerate people-to-people contacts through a liberal visa regime.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:15:55 PM
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