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'Deadly' Punjabi Taliban being formed in Afghan province

Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) has split to form a new and more sophisticated Punjabi Taliban in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, Nato and ISAF command in Afghanistan have confirmed.

US missile strike kills five in Pak

A suspected US missile strike on Monday killed five people in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said.

At Wagah, smiles, not stomps

There will be no more stares and glares at the Wagah border between Pakistan and India at the daily flag-hoisting and lowering ceremonies, the chief border security officials of the two countries said Saturday.

32 Indian fishermen arrested by Pak authorities

Pakistani authorities have arrested 32 Indian fishermen and seized six fishing boats for allegedly entering the country's Exclusive Economic Zone illegally, officials said on Saturday.

Taliban had hand in Benazir Bhutto's assassination: Probe

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was responsible for the assassination of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, concluded a probe carried out by the country's Federal Investigation Agency.

Pak did not oppose Indo-US nuclear deal: Gilani

Pakistan did not oppose the previous Bush administration's move to ink a civil nuclear agreement with India because it expected it would receive a similar deal from the US, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza

Musharraf approved surveillance flights by US drones: Gilani

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has for the first time said that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf approved the controversial surveillance flights by US drones which later started targ

Pakistan to repatriate 142 Indian fishermen

As many as 142 Indians, who were detained for fishing in Pakistani waters, will be repatriated following an order by a court in Pakistan's port city of Karachi.

Officer among 6 Pakistani soldiers killed in bomb blast

Six Pakistani soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, were killed and two more injured when the vehicle they were travelling in was targeted with a roadside bomb in the Orakzai tribal region on Frid

Ex-Pakistan president Farooq Leghari dead

Former Pakistan President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari, who dismissed Benazir Bhutto's government in 1996, is dead. He was 70. Leghari died in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city early Wednesday, Dawn reported.

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