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New Delhi, Mar.12 (ANI): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is here on a two-day visit, has expressed his concern over terrorism emanating from the AFPAK region and the danger it poses to India’’s security interests, but at the same time, has also hailed Pakistan’’s counter-terrorism efforts.
During a video interaction at the offices of the [...]

Islamabad, Mar.13 (ANI): Following the recent surge in bloodshed in Pakistan, Britain has issued a travel advisory to its citizens warning them against travelling to the troubled country.
According to a statement issued by the British Embassy here, there is potential threat of terrorism and sectarian riots in Pakistan, and British nationals have been advised to [...]

Islamabad, Mar.13 (ANI): The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has warned of intensifying attacks on security forces in Bajaur region of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) if does not stop the offensive against extremists in the region.
Speaking over telephone from an undisclosed location, TTP leader Maulvi Faqir Mohammed said the government was continuing with its ‘repressive’ [...]

Oghi (Manshera, Pakistan), Mar.10 (ANI): At least five people were killed here after suspected Islamist militants attacked the office of a U.S.-based Christian aid agency on Wednesday.
Media reports said the gunmen burst into the office of the World Vision agency in Mansehra district, 65 km north of Islamabad, at about 9 a.m. local time.
The town [...]

Islamabad, Mar 8(ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik insists that police are close to recovering abducted five-year-old UK-born Sahil Saeed.
“I am hopeful that we will be able to recover the boy within the next few days. I appeal to those who did it that they release the child within 48 hours,” The Daily Times quoted [...]

Islamabad, Mar 8 (ANI): Pakistani all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez will be seen in action during Bangladesh’s T20 championship, the Port City League (PCL), scheduled to held in Sharjah later this year.
Hafeez will be playing for the Tigers, and will join fellow national team-mates Rana Naved, Imran Nazir, Shahid Afridi and Abdul Razzaq amongst many others, who [...]

Islamabad, Mar 8(ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the abduction of five-year-old UK-born Sahil Saeed has tarnished the image of the country and joint investigations were underway for the immediate recovery of the boy.
Some unknown persons had kidnapped Sahil on last Wednesday after terrorising his family at a time when his father Raja [...]

Lahore, Mar. 8 (ANI): Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has said India has imposed war on Pakistan by constructing illegal dams and diverting water of Pakistani rivers, and Islamabad should be ready to counter this hostility.
Addressing JuD’s protest rally against theft of Pakistani waters by India, the mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks said that [...]

ISLAMABAD: Ambreen made Pakistani history by becoming one of the country’s first female fighter pilots, but on Sunday she was due to swap her flight schedule in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for an arranged marriage with a stranger.
“It’s all set and planned, but I haven’t talked to him,” she admits, her [...]

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, mastermind of the Mumbai attacks, today alleged that India has “imposed war on Pakistan” by constructing “illegal dams” and diverting water of Pakistani rivers and said the government must prepare the nation to counter this aggression.
Saeed made the remarks while launching a “nation-wide protest” against what he described as [...]

ISLAMABAD: India has not demanded the arrest of Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and the issue did not even figure in the Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan last month, foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said today.
“You will be surprised that they made no demand (for the arrest of Saeed). They did not even mention Hafiz [...]

WASHINGTON: Though Pakistan fears that a repeat of the Mumbai attacks could be “very dangerous” to it, there is relatively little shift in its attitude towards India which it views as a “threat”, a noted US scholar has said.
Dan Markey of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Washington-based think-tank, was recently in Pakistan, where he [...]

Islamabad, Mar.6 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir has once again raked up the Kashmir issue, and said peace and stability in South Asia is not possible unless the long pending disputes between India and Pakistan are resolved.
During a meeting with foreign diplomats here, Bashir said India should also come forward to resolve water issues [...]

Islamabad, Mar.6 (ANI): The eighth Indian dossier containing more details on the Mumbai terror attacks has reached Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

According to a statement issued by the Interior Ministry here, the dossier was handed over to Malik by Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, who was accompanied by Pakistani High Commissioner to India, Shahid Malik.
India had [...]

Islamabad, Mar.6 (ANI): At least 30 extremists, including top Taliban commanders Maulana Faqir Mohammad, Qari Ziarur Rehman and Fateh Mohammad were reportedly killed as helicopter gunships pounded a suspected militant hideout in Mohmand Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
“The Taliban surround attacked sites when they lose important leaders or commanders and that is [...]

New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday slammed ruling Congress party for continuing talks with Pakistan, despite Islamabad’’s failure to act on New Delhi’’s insistence to hand over the culprits of the Mumbai terror attacks.
India handed over three new dossiers of evidence to Pakistan on February 25, including one on Hafiz [...]

Washington, Mar.5 (ANI): The Pakistan Army’s ‘successful’ offensive in restive tribal regions of the country and the recent arrests of top militant commanders in Karachi and from other parts of the country, might be seen as a shift in Islamabad’s policies, but concerns are that it may be playing a “double game”.
According to Daniel Markey, [...]

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 [...]

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By Zeeshan Haider and Michael Georgy
ISLAMABAD, March 1 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s detention of Afghan Taliban no. 2 Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and other prominent militant figures has raised questions about the U.S. ally’s regional intentions.
Here are some questions and answers on who has been captured [...]

Islamabad, Sep.20 (ANI): The United States, for the first time, has disclosed that it wanted a ’safe exit’ for the former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf after he stepped down from the Presidency.

In an interview with an American news paper, US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson said Washington wanted a ‘dignified’ retirement for Musharraf.

She [...]