Behind the scenes of Pakistan Raymond Davis 'spy' saga

The shooting of two Pakistani men by a US official has ignited a bitter diplomatic row. Amid rumours of blood money and CIA spies, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan went to Lahore to find the victims' case has been adopted by hardline religious and political ... Read More

Libya Blames Islamic Militants and the West for Unrest

TRIPOLI, Libya — The Libyan authorities blamed Islamic radicals and the West on Monday for a conspiracy to cause chaos and take over the country, even as rebels challenging Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi demonstrated their increasing military coordination and firepower. ... Read More

Open door: Dangerous decisions

Until the Guardian named Raymond Davis as a CIA employee last Monday, 21 February, newspapers and news agencies in the US were reluctant to do so.
They say that they knew that Davis, now in a Lahore prison after he allegedly shot and killed two Pakistanis in Lahore, worked for the CIA but had been asked by the agency and government to keep it under wraps because his life might be at risk if his job was divulged. ... Read More

Pakistan Demands Data on C.I.A. Contractors

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s chief spy agency has demanded an accounting by the Central Intelligence Agency of all its contractors working in Pakistan, a fallout from the arrest last month of an American involved in surveillance of militant groups, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said Friday. ... Read More

Two cops killed as political groups clash

Two policemen, including a record keeper of the Mobina Town police station, were killed when a police team attempted to silence the guns of two clashing political groups in Quaid-i-Azam Colony here on Saturday.  ... Read More

UNDP received $90m for flood recovery plan

 ISLAMABAD: The United Nation Development Programme’s early recovery plan has so far mobilised $90 million of its $120 million target to support the flood-hit Pakistanis, said in-charge of the plan. ... Read More

Police constable shot dead

A police constable and an unidentified man were killed in separate incidents in the city on Sunday.

Constable Muzaffar Ahmed, 42, was shot dead on Sunday midnight just a short distance from Gulistan-i-Jauhar police station where he had been posted, police said. ... Read More

Sheikhupura road mishap death toll reaches seven

SHEIKHUPURA: The death toll in a tragic road accident near Sheihkupura has climbed to seven, Geo News reported on Monday. ... Read More

Five killed in road mishap near Sheikhupura

SHEIKHUPURA: At least five people were killed and 16 others injured in head-on collision between passenger van and oil tanker in Jhamky near ... Read More

Suspected US operatives leave Pakistan

In the wake of Davis' arrest in Lahore on January 27 for gunning down two men, Pakistan's intelligence agencies began scrutinising records of Americans living in the country and discovered "several discrepancies".  Read More

Pak struggles to evacuate citizens from Libya

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesperson has stated that the Foreign Ministry is in close contact with its missions in neighbouring countries for evacuation of Pakistanis living in Libya, Geo News reported on Monday. Read More

Stage set for political war in Punjab

 The wishes of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers seem to be finally fulfilled as they got the chance to resume their political activities. They are happy and very much ready for active politics in Punjab. PPP workers and leaders have the experience of playing politics of opposition and they have the expertise to play the opposition role. Read More

Captors kill ex-JI leader in Bara

BARA: Militants on Sunday killed Maulana Abdul Wadood, chairman of the local Zakat committee and former Jamaat-e-Islami head in Khyber Agency. His body was found in the Lashkar-e-Islam-controlled Nari Baba area of Tirah Valley, local sources ... Read More

Pakistan ranks 10th in human development improvement: UN

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been ranked 10th among the countries in terms of human development improvement by the United Nations Development Programme’s 20th Human Development Report 2010.
Those among the 135 countries that improved most in the ...Read More

PTI to take to streets if Davis freed, prices increased

LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran Khan has vowed that his party will take to the roads if the rulers tried to free Raymond Davis or increase the prices of petroleum products and other commodities.
He was addressing a public ... Read More

Militants attack post with rockets in Darra

KOHAT: Militants fired two rockets at a security forces’ post in the mountains of Bostikhel in Darra Adamkhel on Sunday. Sources said that the rockets were fired from an unknown direction but no human or material losses were caused.
In ... Read More

Doors for reconciliation with PML-N still open: Firdous

GUJRANWALA: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Sunday said that the option of reconciliation with the PML-N was still open and the PPP would play the role of opposition in the Punjab.
Talking to media ... Read More

79,000 Railways employees could lose jobs in coming weeks Bilour demands funds for supply of 400 locomotives

ISLAMABAD: Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour desperately pleads for funds to save the dying Pakistan Railways. However, the government appears unmoved to help the organisation, which directly feeds about 79,000 employees and well over 90 ... Read More

Khosa says he is studying summary sent by Shahbaz

KASUR: Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa said on Sunday that he was studying Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s summary on dissolution of the provincial cabinet. Addressing at the inaugural ceremony of gas supply in Khaddian area here, the governor ...Read More

Man arrested, illegal weapons recovered in Quetta

QUETTA: The security forces arrested a suspect on Brewery Road and recovered illegal weapons from his possession on Sunday. “The security forces during search into a car on Brewery Road of the city, found illegal weapons in the vehicle,” police ... Read More

JSQM rally demands end to inflation, unemployment

LARKANA: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), Aressar Group, took out a protest rally here on Sunday against the inflation, unemployment and arrest of innocent party activists. A number of rallies starting from various towns, cities and villages of ... Read More

‘2008 polls started PML-Q’s disintegration’

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Senator Pervaiz Rashid has said that the results of 2008 election had set in motion the disintegration process of the Kingís Party, which was a legacy of Musharraf regime.
He said the Kingís Party was ... Read More

Hina wants to be shifted to finance ministry

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar has initiated efforts for change of portfolio, as she wants to be appointed minister for finance or economic affairs, said diplomatic and Foreign Office source here ... Read More

Pakistan needs leader like Benazir: Qureshi

SUKKUR: Pakistan needs a leadership and mind like Shaheed Benazir Bhutto to pull Pakistan out of the crisis, protect it and solve the issues it is facing. Former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said this while addressing at reception in ... Read More

Petition filed in EC to stop formation of govt in Punjab

ISLAMABAD: Shah Jehan advocate has filed a petition in the Election Commission of Pakistan praying to stop formation of any illegal government in the province of Punjab with the support of members who had defected their party till the decision of ... Read More

PML-N trying to block PPP victory in Senate: Awan

LAHORE: Law Minister Babar Awan has said the PPP would play the role of opposition in the Punjab to strengthen democratic values.
Flanked by the PPP leader Raja Riaz, he was addressing the media at Lahore Press Club. Awan charged the PML-N ... Read More

Blasts kill 10 Afghans in Kandahar

The double bombing in Arghandab district targeted villagers and a ... ARGHANDAB: Two bomb explosions tore through a crowd of villagers watching a dogfight in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Sunday, killing 10 people, officials said.... Read More

Half of judges posts vacant

ISLAMABAD: More than half of the sanctioned strength of judges of the five high courts is vacant that creates a lot of work for the Judicial Commission (JC) to fill these slots so as to lessen the workload on the incumbent justices.
Available ... Read More

PML-N to woo Q MPs to become largest party

ISLAMABAD: Recognising the Unification Bloc in the Punjab Assembly as the real parliamentary party of the PML-Q, the PML-N is now all set to accept Q MNAs and senators in the parliament to become the single largest party which could have immediate ... Read More

PPP to be powerful opposition in Punjab: Babar

LAHORE: Law Minister Babar Awan has said the PPP would play the role of opposition in Punjab to strengthen democratic values.
Flanked by the PPP leader Raja Riaz, he was addressing the media at Lahore Press Club. He charged the PML-N leadership ... Read More

Two judges kidnapped in Balochistan

QUETTA: Two serving judges disappeared mysteriously from Naseerabad the other day. According to a local TV channel, District and Sessions Judge of Sibi Jan Muhammad Gohar and Civil Judge Muhammad Ali left Sibi for Ousta Muhammad, breaking their ... Read More

10-year ban has ended, Nawaz conveys to Saudi king

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has informed Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz in writing about joining practical politics because the covenant on not taking active part in politics for 10 years has .. Read More

Govt taking steps to evacuate Pakistanis from Libya

ISLAMABAD: As the situation in Libya worsens, Pakistan has initiated work on an emergency basis to evacuate over 18,000 Pakistanis from Benghazi and Tripoli to Turkey, it was learnt here on Sunday.
A large number of Pakistanis stranded in Libya ... Read More

Gilani denies discrimination against Punjab over gas

LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed the resolve to continue the reconciliation policy for Pakistan’s security and sovereignty.
Talking to a journalists’ delegation from the electronic media at his residence on Sunday, he ... Read More

Stop gas shortage drama, Shahbaz tells president

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif claimed on Sunday that the supply of the natural gas was suspended intentionally to malign the Punjab government due to which industries were closed and the poor were deprived of their means of ... Read More

Changa Manga politics against CoD: Zardari

KARACHI: Ruling out any move to dislodge the Punjab’s PML-N government, President Asif Ali Zardari has declared that the PPP would not use any undemocratic move and the party would play the role of the opposition.
President Zardari also declared ... Read More