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New Delhi, Mar 20 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and all concerned agencies to quickly prepare necessary documents to question Lashkar operative David Coleman Headley aka Daood Gilani.
In a statement issued here, Chidambaram said: “I have today directed NIA and the other Agencies concerned in the [...]

Islamabad, Mar.19 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the forthcoming strategic dialogue between Pakistan and the United States should cover the full spectrum of bilateral relations between the two countries.
Speaking during a meeting, which was called to chart out a comprehensive, coherent and well-coordinated strategy for the March 24 talks, Gilani [...]

Islamabad, Mar. 15 (ANI): America’s National Intelligence Director Dennis C Blair is set to arrive in Islamabad to kickstart discussions on a Pak-US strategic dialogue.

Dennis will hold meetings with top Pakistani officials, including Inter-Services Intelligence Director General Shuja Pasha.
The Daily Times quoted diplomatic sources as saying that several top US officials are expected to visit [...]

Washington, Mar. 8 (ANI): The uncle of terrorism-accused Pakistani national, Dr Aafia Siddiqi, has told a New York jury that the neuroscientist visited him in Islamabad in January 2008, asking him to help her to reach the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The News quoted the New York Times as saying that S H Farooqi gave a signed [...]

WASHINGTON: An India-Pakistan shadow dancing will be a sideshow at the Nuclear Security Summit to be hosted by President Obama in Washington DC on April 12 and 13.
With Pakistan announcing that its Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will attend the summit (India has already confirmed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be there), the stage is [...]

Islamabad, Mar.5 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is unlikely to meet his Indian counterpart Dr. Manmohan Singh in Washington, where they are scheduled to attend the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on April 12 and 13.

Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Abdul Basit said he is unaware of any such meeting between the two [...]

Islamabad, Sep.20 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yosuf Raza Gilani is back to singing his ‘K-tune’ by describing Kashmir as Pakistan’s jugular vein.

Interacting with a group of political leaders during an Iftaar party at the PM House here, Gilani said Islamabad’s policy on Kashmir was based on Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s stance that “Kashmir was the jugular [...]

Islamabad, Sep.19 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has denied inking any ’safe exit’ deal to facilitate former President General Pervez Musharraf’s safe passage from the country after he stepped down from the Presidency.

In an interview to a private television channel, Gilani said: “If there had been such a deal, it would have surfaced [...]

Islamabad, Sep.17 (ANI): Pakistani authorities have issued 86 licenses for prohibited weapons to a security company which has been hired by the US embassy in Islamabad.

Interior Ministry sources revealed that the licenses were issued to Inter Risk following Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s [...]

Islamabad, Sep.12 (ANI): Pakistan is looking to rake up the Kashmir issue at the United Nations General Assembly which is scheduled to be held later this month.

According to sources, in two separate meetings held at the Foreign Office, concerned officials briefed Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi regarding both the Kashmir and Afghanistan issues.

Sources said that [...]

Islamabad, Sep.12 (ANI): In yet another evidence of Pakistan’s flip-flops, Islamabad, for the first time has admitted that it has not handed any dossier regarding Baloch insurgency to India.

In an interview with Outlook magazine, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, in an apparent volte-face, said Pakistan actually never handed any dossier to India during Prime Minister [...]

Islamabad, Sep.8 (ANI): The Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) has condemned Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for refusing to take notice of involvement of his cabinet ministers in large scale corruption.

Senior PML-Q leader Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat said Gilani’s reluctance to take action on such charges against his ministers indicates that he too is a [...]

London, Sep.8 (ANI): Lending its full support to former President General Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) PML-Q has decided to oppose any action against the former general under Article-Six of the Constitution.

According to The Dawn, the Chaudhry brothers have sent a message to Musharraf through their messenger that they will stand by him [...]

Islamabad, Sep. 7 (ANI): Even as Pakistan continues to claim that India has not provided enough evidence in the Mumbai terror attack case, Interpol has suggested otherwise by issuing an arrest warrant against Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed.

The world agrees with India that Pakistan is not showing seriousness in the matter of punishing the perpetrators of [...]

Islamabad, Sep 7 (ANI): Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the US should channelise its financial assistance to Pakistan through the government’s existing mechanism, since third-party disbursement through non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or other agencies involves disproportionate administrative expenses.

Talking [...]

Karachi, Sep 7 (ANI): Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has has said that even after 62 years of Independence, the concept of one nation was not flourishing in Pakistan.

Reading out Article 6 from the Constitution and certain clauses relating to the appointment of judges of the superior courts from the Charter of Democracy, Altaf [...]

Karachi, Sep.6 (ANI): Stressing the need for resumption of bilateral talks with India, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said Islamabad wants relations with New Delhi on an equal footing.

“We want relations with India on an equal basis and it is our resolve that we will not allow our soil to be used for [...]

Karachi, Sep. 5 (ANI): The corruption cases filed against Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s wife have been withdrawn.

Fouzia Yousuf Gilani and five others were accused of obtaining two loans from the Agricultural Development Bank for their companies in the late 1980s and not returning the money, The Dawn reports.

But the National Accountability Bureau which [...]

Islamabad, Sep. 5 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has revamped the top bureaucratic posts, replacing over a dozen federal secretaries in several ministries with over 50 civil servants, a move being called by many civil servants as reeking of nepotism and favouritism.

In what is being touted as the single largest grade-22 promotion in [...]

Karachi, Sep.5 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has once again said that Islamabad would continue its support to the Kashmiri people and the government’s decision to give autonomy to Gilgit Baltistan does not mean that it has shelved the Kashmir issue.

“We gave internal autonomy, sovereignty to Gilgit Baltistan which was a long standing [...]