As he struggles to save his government, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will address the nation on Sunday to “clarify” his position.

As he struggles to save his government, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will address the nation on Sunday to “clarify” his position.
“The address is a way to win the confidence of the nation and tell them that the government is here to stay,” said a source close to the Prime Minister.

Pakistan is in for another battle between the executive and the judiciary as the government mulls sacking the judges it had reinstated in 2009.
Over 60 judges of the high courts and the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, were sacked by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf after an unprecedented row between the judiciary and the executive in 2007. The judges were reinstated by the PPP-led government in 2008.

The police on Thursday claimed to have foiled a plot to kill Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and to have arrested seven suspects.

Some 67 MPs and provincial assemblies in Pakistan hold fake educational degrees, a media report said on Thursday.

Nato helicopters have again violated Pakistan's airspace, an official said on Wednesday.

Two Indians were killed in a missile attack launched by the Taliban on an Indian NGO’s office near a US airbase in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, a Pakistani newspaper reported Monday.

Unidentified militants bombed a girls school on Tuesday morning in Pakistan's Mohmand tribal region bordering Afghanistan, a media report said.

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday rejected the government's plea to defer the hearing of a petition seeking review of the verdict annulling a graft amnesty that benefited President Asif Ali Zardari,

A probe has been initiated into the disappearance of 500 Nato oil tankers and vehicles carrying supplies in Pakistan, an official said.