As Pakistan’s PPP-led government struggles to remain in power after the departure of Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazal), speculation is growing that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani might h

A pair of pro-Taliban militants stormed a sufi shrine near the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least three persons.

The first petition filed in the reinstated Islamabad high court on Monday called for action against former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf for violating the Constitution and promulgating a graft a

Pakistan on Thursday came up with a strange demand — it wants to know the “outcome” of the visit to India by Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi expected early next year even before he unde

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Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Tuesday survived an attempt on his life as terrorists fired four rockets on his convoy in tribal South Waziristan, officials said. “The Army Chief is safe. He had left when the terrorists fired the rockets,” a security official told this newspaper from the site.

The Pakistan Army has carried out test firing of a new indigenous anti-tank missile from a site near Jehlum, about 100 kilometres east of the capital.

Taliban militants plan to target Chinese nationals working on development projects in northwest Pakistan, according to an alert issued by a federal government organisation.

The report by WikiLeaks that Pakistan Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was not totally averse to imposing military rule or at least showing the door to President Asif Ali Zardari has created a stir in leadership circles here, official sources said Wednesday.

Once-secret US diplomatic cables have revealed concerns by Western governments that Islamist militants might get access to Pakistani nuclear material and American skepticism that Islamabad will sever