Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief Nawaz Sharif will enter the record books when he takes the oath as the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan for a record third time in a few days after his party won

Appearing before the Supreme Court in a contempt case, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani defended his stand in not reopening old corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari and writing to a Swiss court in this regard, saying the President enjoyed complete immunity not just within the country but all over the world.

Pakistan said Tuesday it would boycott a key international conference on Afghanistan in Bonn, Ger-many, next month, ramping up its protest over the Nato airstrikes that have plunged Pakistan-US ties into deep crisis.

At least 53 people were killed and 123 others injured when a suicide bomber apparently blew himself up during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan’s restive tribal Khyber Agency, officials said. This was the deadliest terrorist attack in Pakistan in three months and the first during the Ramzan fasting month.
The blast took place at the Jamia Masjid at Ghondi in the Jamrud area of

India and Pakistan on Thursday started two-day talks to resolve the issues between them with analysts expecting little except goodwill.

Just three weeks after American special forces entered Pakistan undetected to kill Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad cantonment, the Taliban exposed the Pakistan military’s inability to safeguard one of its heavily-protected facilities when a small group of terrorists stormed into Karachi’s Mehran naval base late Sunday night

At least two Pakistani soldiers were injured in an exchange of fire with Nato helicopters in the Dattakhel area of Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region early on Tuesday morning, officials said.

Pakistan on Tuesday prepared for a backlash over Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s killing in Abbotabad on Monday as the Army, Inter-Services Intelligence and other security agencies and the police were put on high alert, with the Taliban threatening revenge attacks.

Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed in a US special forces and CIA helicopter-borne raid on a mansion in Abbottabad, Pakistan, at about 1 am Pakistan time on Monday. The mansion where the firefight took place is less than two km from the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul, frequented by top Pakistani generals, including Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani who visited it only days ago to address cadets.

The Pakistani authorities have banned the screening of the Bollywood movie Tere Bin Laden, a spoof centred around the Al Qaeda chief, fearing attacks by militants.
The movie has Pakistani model and singer Ali Zafar. The full Pakistani film censor board took this decision on the eve of the film’s global release on Friday.