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Intel Pakistan has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF - Federal Ministry of Science and Technology) to support Intel Pakistan in holding science fairs all over the country. The MoU will bring Intel Pakistan and PSF together to work towards...

Shahrukh Jatoi escaped with assistance from CIA officers: DG FIA The main accused Shahrukh Jatoi in Shahzeb Khan’s murder case, escaped with the help of officers from the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) who had earlier been managing protocol for Bilawal House guests, revealed Director FIA...

Pakistan and China are committed to take volume of bilateral trade to $15 billion by 2015.China is Pakistan’s largest trading partner and Pakistan is China’s second largest trading partner in South Asia. Tariq Sayeed Patron in-chief Pak-China Business Council talking to Wang Xiaoguang Deputy...

The release of Taliban prisoners by Pakistan, once seen as a critical move to bolster peace process, has come across a temporary halt due to renewed distrust between Islamabad and Kabul. Officials familiar with developments said differences over the efficacy of the release of Taliban...

Govt not seeking any package from IMF: Mandviwala Federal Finance Minister Senator Saleem H Mandviwala on Thursday said that there is neither any programme to seek new loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) nor are there any proposals under consideration for this purpose. Talking to...

Sri Lanka on Thursday refused to send its 16-member squad to Pakistan to participate in a throwball tournament due to the deteriorating security situation in Karachi, Express News reported on Thursday. The team was due to arrive in Karachi on March 26 to feature in a three-match series against...

Discussions about Justice Markandey Katju are slowly spilling over to Pakistan. Known for remarks that include calculations about the intellectual level of Indians and the non-seriousness of the Indian media, Katju has now been writing a monthly column in The Express Tribune, apart from...

The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. In medieval Europe, heretics were burnt alive, rebels were quartered and their body parts were sent to the remote corners of the country, those who believed that the earth revolved around the sun were admonished and threatened. The...

Banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan's operational commander and an unidentified foreigner have been arrested by intelligence operatives in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. They were arrested when security forces and police jointly raided a house in Kheshgi. The two men were taken to an unknown...

A professor from a university in Peshawar under captivity of the Pakistani Taliban has appealed again to the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to accept the militants’ demands for his release. In a new video received Thursday, Professor Ajmal Khan, vice-chancellor of the Islamia...

Pakistan has reached a critical balance of payments situation and will need another package from the International Monetary Fund before the end of the year to avert a crisis, one of the biggest lenders to the country claimed on Wednesday. Asian Development Bank’s country director Werner...

A former US National Security Adviser offered Pakistan an ‘off script’ civilian nuclear deal in exchange for its counter-terrorism cooperation, a former member of Richard Holbrooke’s team wrote on Wednesday. In an article he wrote for the Foreign Policy magazine, Vali Nasr said his time in...

Islamabad has held New Delhi responsible for the delay in the process of granting Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India. Pakistan's Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim said India is reluctant to remove non-tariff bearers (NTBs), and as a consequence, the non-availability of a level...

The leader of Russia’s Communist Party has said that the death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez may be part of a broader US plan to kill off its left-leaning Latin American opponents. “How did it happen that six leaders of Latin American countries which had criticized US policies and tried to...

China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations has reiterated Beijing’s opposition to the US-led unilateral sanctions against Iran over its nuclear energy program. “China is always firmly against use or threat of use of force. We are not in favor of putting excessive pressure...

The National Assembly (NA) Wednesday adopted a resolution against TV anchorpersons criticising parliamentarians ‘without ascertaining facts’ and demanded the owners of media houses expel them. The house in a short time also introduced two bills: 'Pakistan Institute of Fashion Design...

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said on Wednesday that the army is ready to provide any kind of assistance to the civil administration for maintaining law and order situation. According to sources, the army chief during a briefing at the Corps Headquarters in Karachi about...

The Election Commission of Pakistan has categorically stated that none of those MPs whose degrees had been found fake by the Higher Education Commission and even endorsed by the commission as such, would be barred from contesting the next election unless convicted by a court of law...

The Lahore Transport Company is plying 37 new Ankai buses on three city routes. The buses will run from RA Bazaar to Secretariat), Railway Station to Sharqpur and Railway Station to Liaqatabad. In this connection, the LTC signed the agreement with Turkish Company Platform on Tuesday. Veysel...

A telephone call originating from Pakistan to a senior officer of India’s elite National Security Guards (NSG) seeking information about Hyderabad blasts has led security agencies to make a fresh push for blocking of Internet telephony, reported Indian media on Tuesday. The call to a...