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At least 18 pro-Taliban militants were killed when security forces targeted rebel positions in the restive Mohmand tribal region of northwest Pakistan today, security sources said. Eighteen pro-Taliban militants were killed and 22 injured and 10 rebel hideouts destroyed during the operations, the sources said. The...
Dozens of supporters cheered the assassin of governor Salman Taseer as he was produced in an anti-terrorism court in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi for a preliminary trial hearing. Mumtaz Qadri, the 26-year-old police guard who gunned down Taseer in Islamabad on January 4 for...
Dubbing Pakistan as the "epicentre of terrorism," India today slammed it for its inaction against the Mumbai attacks perpetrators, saying it has not been able to punish any of those accused of masterminding the terror strikes. "Pakistan should be sensitive to few of our concerns. One...
In the wake of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer's assassination by his police guard, the Pakistan government is considering a proposal to bring in special security guards from the US for President Asif Ali Zardari, according to a media report today. While Zardari's security has always been...
An anti-terrorism court has refused to issue arrest warrants for two clerics whose fiery speeches reportedly incited the police guard who gunned down Punjab governor Salman Taseer for criticising Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law. Investigators probing the governor's assassination had submitted an application to Rawalpindi-based anti-terrorism court...
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today said his government will not amend the blasphemy law, which has been at the centre of a raging controversy since the assassination of governor Salmaan Taseer over his opposition to the statute. "Neither have we thought of it nor...
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead at least 17 people in a new wave of violence in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi, police said on Saturday. "At least 17 people have died in the past three days by firing by unknown gunmen in several parts of Karachi," city...
India has expressed its disappointment over Pakistan's delay in bringing the perpetrators of Mumbai terror attack to justice, saying "real investigation" has not taken place in that country. Home secretary Gopal K Pillai said the prosecution attempt in Pakistan to bring the 26/11 guilty to justice...
US vice president Joseph Biden raised with the Pakistani leadership the issue of militants' sanctuaries inside the country and sought to undo the misconception that America was violating its sovereignty during his recent visit to Islamabad. A senior official accompanying Biden on his way back from...
US Vice President Joe Biden today dismissed criticism that his country favours India and wants to 'weaken or dismantle' Pakistan, saying the strategic partnership between Washington and Islamabad, including in the fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban, is vital for both sides. Biden, who arrived in Islamabad...
