Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will visit Tashkent to participate in the 10th Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), on June 10-11, foreign office said on Wednesday.

Two Pakistan Army commandos, who had refused to become part of the Lal Masjid operation against the militants in 2007, will not have the right to appeal against their court martial.

US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, has called off a visit to Islamabad after he was informed that no important officials would be available to meet him because of prior

Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Tuesday said that former military ruler Zia-ul Haq “forged” the Constitution.

Taliban militants on Tuesday executed a man publicly at gunpoint in a militant stronghold in the Miran Shah town of the tribal North Waziristan Agency.

At least 16 people died and over 50 villages were inundated as cyclone Phet hit the Pakistani coastal areas on Sunday night. “We are still ascertaining damages.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said that Pakistan is heading for friendly relations with India. “Our foreign policy is based on promoting healthy relations with all.

The cyclone on Sunday entered Pakistan’s sea as rain continued to play havoc with the life and property. “So far, we have no reports of any death but several people have been hurt. The rain is expected to continue for the next 36 hours or so,” director general meteorological department Qamar Zaman Chaudhry said.

Prime Minister Yousaf Gilani has got more budget for his office than Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in the newly presented Budget for the fiscal year 2010-11.
The Budget for the Prime Minister’s secretariat and the Presidency has been jacked up by Rs 56.65 million and Rs 36.38 million respectively in the new budgetary proposals.

Elders in a village in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province arranged the weddings of men and women of marriageable age to check a growing trend of elopement.
One elder proposed to the panchayat of the village in Sanghar district that all men and women who had reached marriageable age should be married off after obtaining t