ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ‚ Pakistan continued Sunday to reel from the deadly truck bomb blast at the Marriott Hotel here on Saturday, as the government described the bombing as an attack on democracy. "Our enemies don't want to see democracy flourishing in the country," Rehman Malik, a senior Interior Ministry official, said at a news conference […]
Pakistan's top leaders were to dine at the Marriott hotel that was devastated by a truck bombing over the weekend, but changed the venue at the last minute, a senior government official said Monday. The blast in the capital Islamabad killed at least 53 people and underscored the extremist challenge facing nuclear-armed Pakistan. Two intelligence […]
Pakistani troops and tribesmen opened fire on two U.S. helicopters that crossed into the country from neighboring Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Monday. The helicopters did not return fire and re-entered Afghan airspace without landing, the officials said. Pakistan's army and the U.S. military in Afghanistan said they had no information on the reported incursion late […]
Twelve hours after the blasting of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, the flames had still not been doused. The medium-sized Shehzore truck, packed with 600 kg of RDX explosives, drove up to the hotel barrier and exploded, setting the hotel on fire. It is more than likely that, just as he was "pleasantly" surprised by […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The deadly suicide truck bomb attack on Marriott Hotel in the heart of the capital highlights security inadequacies and the urgent need to rethink strategy to combat surging militant violence, analysts said on Sunday. Four foreigners were among those killed, including the Czech ambassador, with more than 270 people wounded in the worst […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has conveyed its concerns on airstrikes and violation of the country's territorial integrity to the US, Adviser on National Security Mahmud Ali Durrani said on Sunday. Durrani told a private TV channel that Pakistan had made it clear to the US that violation of its territorial integrity would not be tolerated. "The bottom […]
PESHAWAR,PAKISTAN: The NWFP government is unlikely to enforce the Nizam-e-Adl Regulations 2008 on the 27th of Ramazan owing to delays in the consultation process and a lack of response from the Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM). Officials said the draft was forwarded to the TNSM a few days back, but the Dir-based group had not responded as yet. […]
WASHINGTON: While Pakistan was credited with have taken "some steps' to improve the treatment of religious minorities, the International Religious Freedom Report, released at the weekend, described the general situation on this front in pretty negative terms. The report, covering 2007, said, "The government took some steps to improve its treatment of religious minorities during […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ‚ A huge truck bomb exploded at the entrance to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday evening, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 150, the police said. The blast, one of the worst acts of terrorism in Pakistan's history, went off just a few hundred yards from the prime […]
Just when Pakistanis thought they had a new democracy, ushering in a new civilian government, a new president and the end of eight years of military rule, they are faced with the bleakest moment in the country's history. Proverbially listed as a failing state, this precariously poised country could now be in a downward spiral […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The United States will give $8.4 million to Pakistan through the World Food Programme to provide approximately 11,000 metric tons of wheat for over 1,600,000 people, including students of 3,200 schools. The WFP will begin distributing food aid in 12 districts in the NWFP and Balochistan this month. An agreement to this […]
LONDON, Sept 18: All sides need to help bolster security along the Pakistan-Afghan border, where recent US incursions have strained US-Pakistan ties, Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday. Speaking as Nato defence ministers gathered for informal talks, he underlined the need for closer contacts between Nato and the Pakistani government, which […]
WASHINGTON, Sept 18: Unilateral actions cannot defeat militancy in Fata, said US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte who also indicated on Thursday that the United States and Pakistan were working on a more collaborative approach to deal with this problem. Diplomatic sources in Washington say that the two countries whose relations have been strained […]
As Wall Street collapsed with a bang, almost no one noticed that we’re on the brink of war with Pakistan. And, unfortunately, that's not too much of an exaggeration. On Tuesday, the Pakistan's military ordered its forces along the Afghan border to repulse all future American military incursions into Pakistan. The story has been subsequently […]
VIENNA (Reuters) , Pakistan is close to completing a second plutonium-producing reactor, is well into building a third and these could increase its ability to make atomic bombs, a U.S. think-tank said on Thursday. “The wider implication … (is that) there is a real risk this will exacerbate an India-Pakistan nuclear arms race and increase […]
