A Swiss couple was abducted by unidentified armed men in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Friday, a senior police official said.

"Unidentified gunmen intercepted the foreign

Former cricketer Imran Khan’s political career and his complex relationship with his ex-wife Jemima are the focus of “Kaptaan”, an independent Pakistani film that is expected to be released later in 2011.

Pakistan's nuclear capability was purely for peaceful purposes, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said while declaring that the country would build more power plants to meet its growing energy nee

Pakistan sincerely desires peace in Afghanistan and supports an Afghan-led reconciliation, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said.

Pakistan’s nuclear capability was purely for peaceful purposes, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said while declaring that the country would build more power plants to meet its growing energy needs.

Disgraced nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan has said he did Pakistan a favour by making the atomic bomb but was 'stabbed in the back by the very people who benefited most' from his work - the army.

Khan,

Pakistan cannot afford to match the induction of modern weaponry by India, which possibly has a greater capacity to sustain a war, Pakistani defence minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has said.

An earthquake authority in Pakistan has received a staggering Rs.2 billion bill for design and consultancy services while it has only Rs.1 billion budgeted this year for its various projects.

The bil

The Pakistani Army on Monday rejected Afghanistan's contention that it had fired hundreds of rockets into the Afghan territory killing many people, while launching a counter-attack blaming Kabul for f

Pakistan plans to have a consolidated data bank on terrorists.

This was discussed at a meeting of civilian and military law enforcement agencies. It was decided that the National Database and Registr