PESHAWAR: Despite a degree of optimism and feel-good impression generated by the militant-handpicked committee, insiders believe the first direct face-to-face interaction with militants has hit a stalemate and unless some quick decisions are taken, it will be difficult to prolong the ceasefire...
The day after the terrible terrorist attack at Islamabads Islamic University that took the lives of eight innocent students, certain TV news channels ran a footage of a dozen or so angered students of the university pelting stones. The first question that popped up in my mind after watching the...
NEW YORK: Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf is very bitter about President Asif Zardari and in an interview with known journalist Seymour Hersh called him a criminal, a fraud and a third rater.
Hersh, in a detailed report on Pakistan, wrote: Musharraf did not spare his...
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He talked about the Afghan election, same old 'diversion of US aid,' and US micromanagement of Pakistan.
DUBAI: A prominent Al-Qaida militant on Wednesday threatened to attack Chinese targets in "reprisal" for the July 5 riots in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
He urged Uygurs in Xinjiang to "make serious preparations" for a "holy war" against the Chinese government and...
SHARM EL SHEIKH: In a major retreat from its hard-line position on resumption of peace talks, India on Thursday agreed to de-link Composite Dialogue from action against terrorism and hold talks with Pakistan on all outstanding issues.
The breakthrough at this Egyptian resort was...
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Interior Affairs Rehman Malik Monday said security forces have put a cordon around chief of Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat Fazlullah about whom, he said, reports are being received of his being injured.
It may be mentioned here that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani...