Almost a month after the US raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad, a US drone attack eliminated his potential successor, Ilyas Kashmiri, in the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan, officials said on Saturday.

The Pakistan government on Wednesday allowed journalists to carry small arms on their person due to the threat to their lives in a country declared the most dangerous for mediapersons. “Orders have been passed to allow journalists to carry small arms with them for self-protection. We understand the journalists are under great threat,”

As former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf prepares to return from exile, his wife, Sehba Musharraf, has landed in Islamabad with an “important message” for the Pakistan Army Chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, sources said.

A Saudi diplomat was shot dead by gunmen on motorcycles in Karachi on Monday, the police said. This comes days after unidentified attackers threw two hand grenades at the Saudi consulate in Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial capital.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has threatened to pull out of the US-led war on terror unless the US takes “drastic steps” to restore the trust of 180 million Pakistanis.

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the United States have jointly launched a manhunt for Taliban supremo Mullah Omar in Quetta, media reports here said. “Both US and Pakistani special forces are hunting for Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Omar’s hideout after new tip-offs,” a private Pakistani TV channel reported. “Intelligence suggests the one-eyed warlord is being sheltered in... Quetta,” another channel reported.

Slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had moved to Haripur, near Abbottabad, two years before he settled in the compound where he was eventually killed by US forces, officials said.

In a clear reference to India, Pakistan’s foreign secretary Salman Bashir said Thursday that “no country” should even think of “surgical strikes” inside Pakistan on the lines of the US commando raid o

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has directed authorities to issue Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) to eunuchs and register them as “she-males”.
“The court has directed the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) to expedite the issuance of CNICs to eunuchs,” said a court official.

The Pakistan Army Chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, has appointed newly promoted generals to key military positions in a major reshuffle of brass.
The most significant of these appointments is Maj. Gen. Ashfaq Nadeem Ahmed being named Director-General of Military Operations (DGMO). Maj. Gen. Nadeem Ahmed cut a tall figure in his last posting as GOC, Swat, where he oversaw a critical phase of the Swat reclamation initiative.