Al-Qaida claimed responsibility on Thursday for the kidnapping of a 70-year-old American aid worker in Pakistan in August, and issued a series of demands for his release.

In a video message posted on

Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has given his troops "full liberty" to respond to any further cross-border attacks by NATO forces in Afghanistan in the wake of an air strike that killed 2

Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has ordered his troops to respond with "full force" to any further "act of aggression" by Nato forces in Afghanistan in the wake of a deadly air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, official sources have said.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has endorsed ruling PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as a future prime ministerial candidate.

US officials gave Pakistan soldiers the wrong location when asking for clearance to attack militants along the border last weekend, Pakistani military officials said on Friday.

The strike resulted i

Pakistan has set a December 11 deadline for the US to vacate the Shamsi airbase, used to launch drone attacks, following a Nato airstrike that left 24 Pakistani soldiers dead.

Pakistan, enraged by a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 soldiers, could withdraw its support for the U.S.-led war on militancy if its sovereignty is violated again, the foreign minister sug

Pakistan said Tuesday it would boycott a key international conference on Afghanistan in Bonn, Ger-many, next month, ramping up its protest over the Nato airstrikes that have plunged Pakistan-US ties into deep crisis.

A senior Pakistani Army official has said a Nato cross-border air attack that killed 24 soldiers was a deliberate, blatant act of aggression, hardening Pakistan's stance on an incident which could hurt efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.

Pakistan has sent a notice to the US to vacate the Shamsi airbase that is used to launch drone attacks, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said, adding that time had come to review its relations with