Islamabad Sealed

Karachi Police have resorted to temporarily shutting some businesses run and frequented by Chinese nationals in the city as they scramble to prevent terrorist attacks that could compromise Islamabad's strategic relationship with Beijing.

Authorities have sealed two cafeterias situated in Pakistan's Parliament House after lawmakers complained that cockroaches were found in the food served to them, a media report has said.

India's move to completely seal its border with Pakistan was a "very irrational decision" and would further complicate India-China relations considering Beijing's "all-weather" strategic ties with Islamabad, China's state media report today quoted leading experts as saying.

Pakistan has time till the end of May to avail the American offer to procure eight F-16 fighter jets at an estimated cost of USD 700 million after the Obama administration told Islamabad that it should put forward national funds to buy these fighter jets.

Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan's detention for years and was killed after the country struck a deal with the US, a top American journalist has claimed citing new evidence and disputed Islamabad's assertion that it was not aware of the raid that killed the al Qaeda terrorist.

Indian national Fahim Ansari, earlier accused of being a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) member and co-conspirator in the 2008 Mumbai attack case, used fake Pakistani official seals to attest his false identity under which he travelled to Pakistan, a government witness told the anti-terrorism court.

Pakistan is set to execute a disabled man as activists said it was nearing its 300th hanging in under a year, with Amnesty slamming Islamabad today for "shamefully sealing its place among the world's worst executioners".

The Pakistani capital braced for political unrest Thursday as two opposition leaders vowed to defy a court order and march on the city for a major protest aimed at bringing down the government.

Cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan and members of his political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf or PTI will march from Lahore to Islamabad at around 6.30 pm today, in what is expected to be the largest protests organised by the opposition since Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif came to power last year.

The United States has quietly restarted security assistance to Pakistan, US officials said on Sunday, after freezing much of that aid during a period of strained relations beginning with the 2011 Navy SEAL raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

Pakistani officials say they'll seal their border with Afghanistan and restrict the movement of Afghan refugees on May 11 during parliamentary elections.

A majority of urban Pakistanis believe that the person killed by US special forces during a raid in the garrison city of Abbottabad on Monday was not Osama bin Laden, according to a survey. The online survey, conducted by global opinion pollster YouGov and Polis at Cambridge University, revealed that a staggering 66 per cent of Pakistanis think the...

Karachi Police have resorted to temporarily shutting some businesses run and frequented by Chinese nationals in the city as they scramble to prevent terrorist attacks that could compromise Islamabad's strategic relationship with Beijing.

Authorities have sealed two cafeterias situated in Pakistan's Parliament House after lawmakers complained that cockroaches were found in the food served to them, a media report has said.

India's move to completely seal its border with Pakistan was a "very irrational decision" and would further complicate India-China relations considering Beijing's "all-weather" strategic ties with Islamabad, China's state media report today quoted leading experts as saying.

Pakistan has time till the end of May to avail the American offer to procure eight F-16 fighter jets at an estimated cost of USD 700 million after the Obama administration told Islamabad that it should put forward national funds to buy these fighter jets.

Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan's detention for years and was killed after the country struck a deal with the US, a top American journalist has claimed citing new evidence and disputed Islamabad's assertion that it was not aware of the raid that killed the al Qaeda terrorist.

Indian national Fahim Ansari, earlier accused of being a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) member and co-conspirator in the 2008 Mumbai attack case, used fake Pakistani official seals to attest his false identity under which he travelled to Pakistan, a government witness told the anti-terrorism court.

Pakistan is set to execute a disabled man as activists said it was nearing its 300th hanging in under a year, with Amnesty slamming Islamabad today for "shamefully sealing its place among the world's worst executioners".

The Pakistani capital braced for political unrest Thursday as two opposition leaders vowed to defy a court order and march on the city for a major protest aimed at bringing down the government.

Cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan and members of his political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf or PTI will march from Lahore to Islamabad at around 6.30 pm today, in what is expected to be the largest protests organised by the opposition since Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif came to power last year.

The United States has quietly restarted security assistance to Pakistan, US officials said on Sunday, after freezing much of that aid during a period of strained relations beginning with the 2011 Navy SEAL raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

Pakistani officials say they'll seal their border with Afghanistan and restrict the movement of Afghan refugees on May 11 during parliamentary elections.

A majority of urban Pakistanis believe that the person killed by US special forces during a raid in the garrison city of Abbottabad on Monday was not Osama bin Laden, according to a survey. The online survey, conducted by global opinion pollster YouGov and Polis at Cambridge University, revealed that a staggering 66 per cent of Pakistanis think the...