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Chinese must in Pakistan schools
Mandarin Chinese will be taught as a compulsory subject in Pakistani schools in Karachi city and other areas of Sindh province, officials said.
LeT dangerously active in Pak: US
The Unites States believes that jihadi outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyaba is dangerously active in Pakistan despite the ban imposed on it by the authorities here, official sources said. “The US has conveyed this concern to Pakistan. They think the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s activities are unchecked and they are very much active inside Pakistan,” a senior government official told this newspaper.
Asif Ali Zardari sought US deal: WikiLeaks
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari had sought a deal with the United States in 2010 to strengthen his political position, a secret cable released by WikiLeaks said.
Zardari, the cable said, had tol
Pak looks for 250 missing Hindu pilgrims
The Pakistani authorities are looking for over 250 pilgrims of the Hindu community who were trapped five days ago in the flooding of the Hingol river in Lasbela district, some 650 km southwest of Quetta city in troubled Balochistan province.
40 Chitral Scouts slain in Pakistan
At least 40 men of Pakistan’s paramilitary Chitral Scouts were killed and over 60 wounded when Taliban militants attacked the border checkposts from Afghanistan.
Slain Pak gov’s son abducted
Months after his father was assassinated, Shahbaz Taseer, the son of slain Punjab governor Salman Taseer and half-brother of the writer Aatish Taseer, was kidnapped from Lahore on Friday, the police said.
Slain Pak gov’s son abducted
Months after his father was assassinated, Shahbaz Taseer, the son of slain Punjab governor Salman Taseer and half-brother of the writer Aatish Taseer, was kidnapped from Lahore on Friday, the police said.
Id shoppers flock to markets
Id is just a few days away. But the threat of terrorism hasn’t deterred the spirit of shoppers.
Downed Indian’s kin says Pak pilot’s email heals
Farida Singh, the daughter of Indian civilian aircraft pilot Jahangir Engineer, has gracefully and generously accepted the apology of a former Pakistan Air Force pilot, Qais Hussain, who shot down her
From fog of ’65 War, Pak pilot emails kin of downed Indian
A former Pakistan Air Force pilot has expressed his condolences to the daughter of an Indian civil aircraft pilot almost half-a-century after he shot down the plane during the 1965 Indo-Pak war, a media report here said.
“Qais Hussain, a rookie Flying Officer during the 1965 war, made this moving and humane gesture via an email expressing his condolences and providing
