Courting the Taliban: Karzai enlists Pakistan’s help
KABUL/ISLAMABAD:? While offering an olive branch to the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday telephoned Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and sought his support to reach out to the militia. “Karzai underscored Pakistan’s importance in the peace process, and reiterated his request for its assistance in the reconciliation process,” More...
Jamia Haqqania: Seminary chief denies ex students’ involvement
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR:? Rejecting Rehman Malik’s charges of his students’ involvement in Benazir’s assassination, chief cleric of the Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak, Maulana Samiul Haq, asked the More...
High-profile case: ‘No evidence against Bhatti murder suspect’
RAWALPINDI:? The Islamabad police informed a trial court on Tuesday that they could not obtain any evidence against a suspect arrested in connection with the murder of former federal minister for minorities More...
AirBlue crash case: Defence ministry to carry out fresh probe
PESHAWAR:? The defence ministry, while informing the Peshawar High Court about the progress of the AirBlue crash case, on Tuesday, said that it has directed the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to carry out More...
‘Ploy against PTI’: Imran Khan terms 20th Amendment a ‘fraud’
ISLAMABAD:? Railing against the ruling coalition and main opposition party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Tuesday that the 20th Amendment was stacked up against his party which More...
‘Missing’ prisoners case: Contempt petition filed against military spokesperson
ISLAMABAD:? A contempt of court petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday against the director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) for ‘alleged interference’ in the Adiala ‘missing’ More...
Sit-in camp: New entrants swell missing persons’ camp
ISLAMABAD:? Scores of men and women of the same ethnicity, group together at the missing persons’ sit-in camp while Amna Janjua reminds them time and again that they will not leave the camp until their More...
Indian parliament’s speaker arrives on five-day visit
ISLAMABAD:?The speaker of India’s Lok Sabha, Meira Kumar, has arrived on a five-day state visit to Pakistan along with a parliamentary delegation comprising members of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha (the upper More...
PML-N rolls out conditions for attending Balochistan APC
LAHORE:?As government steps up efforts to bring on board as many leaders as it can for an all-parties conference on Balochistan, key opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has set two conditions for More...
Memogate: Mansoor Ijaz arrives at Pakistan High Commission
ISLAMABAD:?Mansoor Ijaz has arrived at the Pakistan High Commission in London to record his statement for the Memogate case, Express News reported Wednesday. During the video link, Bukhari raised objections More...
