Category archives for: Pakistan

Pakistan signs regional power supply bond

The Inter-Governmental Council meeting for CASA-1000 attended by the power  ministers of the four countries agreed to take concrete measures for the implementation of the project, according to a statement issued here at the end of the two-day talks in Dubai. Federal Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar signed the protocol on behalf [...]

Two Pak trainer aircraft collides, 4 pilots killed

Islamabad: 4 pilots were killed on Thursday when 2 Pakistan Air Force (PAF) trainer planes collided in the country’s northwest, police said. The accident took position at about 10.20 am when two trainer planes slammed into one another while on a routine training flight over the Rashakai area of Nowshera, a district some 100 km [...]

US-Pakistan near deal on again opening of supply lines

Reopening the supply route would be a major breakthrough in ties between Washington and Islamabad. Strained relations have fuelled speculation Pakistan might be excluded from NATO talks on Afghanistan’s future.       Pakistan closed down the supply lines for the Afghan war effort following the NATO air strike in November that killed 24 Pakistani [...]

Pakistan bomb blast: Two killed and 21 injured

Pakistan (AFP) – Bomb and mortar attacks killed at least two people and wounded 21 others in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, a gateway to the tribal badlands, police said on Saturday. “A remote-controlled bomb exploded as a police van carrying four prisoners passed by an abandoned tin of vegetable oil in Peshawar city on [...]

Pakistan not invited to Chicago summit: Nato chief

The May 20-21 two-day summit, with over 60 heads of state and governments expected to be in attendance, will be the biggest Nato summit in history. The Nato chief said Pakistan’s name was not in the list of countries invited to the conference. Moreover, countries including Russia, China and India had also not been invited [...]

Pakistan PM Yousuf Raza Gilani may face disqualified: Supreme Court

Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani faces the prospect of being disqualified as an MP for five years after Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that he “wilfully, deliberately and persistently” defied the highest court and brought the judiciary into “ridicule”. A seven-judge bench headed by Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk issued a 77-page detailed order regarding the [...]

‘Pak govt, military had a hand in catching Osama’: Mukhtar

Islamabad: A season after Pakistan was departed humiliated by the unilateral US raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said Pakistani govt and military “had a hand” in catching him.He said the al-Qaeda chief was tracked through a cellphone SIM that was found by Pakistani intelligence. The SIM that was used [...]

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz announces protest schedule

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has announced the schedule for its protest rallies across the country to step up pressure on the Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition government to comply with the orders of the Supreme Court in the contempt case, but stayed away from announcing any date for the long march which still seems to [...]

Gilani ineligibility plea premature: IHC

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has disposed of a petition seeking to declare Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani ineligible terming it premature, Geo News reported. Petitioner G A Chaudhry Advocate pleaded before the court that the prime minister stands disqualified after the conviction in a contempt of court case by the Supreme Court and [...]

COAS for continuity of democratic process

 The Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Monday reiterated a belief in stability and continuity of democratic system in Pakistan, adding ‘security of the country and defence of its sovereignty should be our top most priority’. Addressing a gathering during a program to mark ‘Yaum-e-Shahada’ here at General Headquarters (GHQ), the Army [...]

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