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US spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of September 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government’s top-secret budget, despite spending $2.6 billion in...

Pakistan Navy launches probe Pakistan Navy has launched an internal probe under the direct supervision of one of its top bosses into the reported involvement of Navy personnel in the kidnappings for ransom and extortion activities in Pakistan's largest cosmopolitan city Karachi. The Director...

Pakistan will have to speak up on Syria whether we like it or not. We had better make up our mind on what we are going to say. There is nothing we can say that will please everyone we want to please. So why not surprise everyone and take a stand that we ourselves can stand by. Some seem...

Talk Dirty? Pakistan To Ban Youths From Obtaining Mobile Phone Package Deals To Prevent ‘Immoral Behavior’ Pakistan’s telecommunications regulatory body is seeking to prevent the nation’s youths from acquiring mobile phone chat-text package deals in order to stop what it...

He is over staying, Taliban talks on cards? He is desperate for peace with Taliban.

Good steps being taken by the Punjab Rangers. I wonder why can't we implement things before an incident takes place.

If all parties are asked how to stop the rigging, it can surely be done.

A Pakistani film inspired by the fairytale career of cricket star Shahid Afridi goes on release next month, a heart-warming tale of raw talent that producers believe will be a smash hit. Pakistan’s film industry has been on the skids for years, unable to compete with India’s Bollywood, but...

The Pakistani air force learned about the U.S. raid to kill Osama bin Laden from a television news report about a helicopter crash in Abbottabad. Belatedly, they scrambled fighter jets. But by then, the Americans were long gone. In other words: Pakistan had virtually no chance of detecting...

It's more than 11,000 kilometers from Shakargarh, a city in northeastern Pakistan, to the venerated halls of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the top universities in the United States. Twenty-five-year-old Khalid Raza lives in Shakargarh but is taking "The Challenges of...

A multi-layered strategy has been developed as part of the country’s new security policy to root out extremism and militancy through military action and civilian stabilisation efforts, The Express Tribune has learnt. The draft policy – prepared by the National Counter-Terrorism Authority...

More than 50 mortar shells fired from Afghanistan fell into Pakistani territory on Saturday. All the shells dropped in different areas of Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal region. According to initial reports, 10 shells fell on Angoor Adda which destroyed houses and shops. However, no...

Temple and State: Dreams of repelling Islam and ensuring the dominance of Buddhism animate the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), Sri Lanka’s most powerful Buddhist organisation whose name means Buddhist Strength Army. At the group’s annual convention in February, in a suburb of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo...

China agrees to resume work on Nandipur power project Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has succeeded in persuading Dong Fong Electricity Company of China to resume work on Nandipur power project. According to an official handout issued from Lahore, Chairman Dong Fong...

A number of Uygur Muslims from China's volatile Xinjiang province are being trained in Pakistan-based militant camps and then sent to Syria to fight against President Bashar al-Assad regime, the Syrian envoy here has said. "Our informant told us around 30 young Uyghur men went to Pakistan to...

One afternoon a stranger called at Muhammad Faizanullah's stationery shop in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital, and wordlessly handed the man behind the counter two items: a piece of paper with a phone number scrawled on it, and a bullet. "The letter contained a demand for 200,000...

The United Nations refugee agency Friday voiced concern about a violent incident in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state that killed two internally displaced persons (IDPs) and wounded six others, including two minors.The incident took place on Thursday in the Kyein Ni Pyin IDP camp in Pauktaw...

The country is developing a US export plan and more plans for other countries Pakistan is developing a US country plan to boost export of products that the US market lacks, Bilal Pasha, deputy secretary of Pakistan’s ministry of commerce, told Gulf News on Wednesday. “We will allocate the...

While Turkey remains Azerbaijan’s chief strategic partner, officials in Baku are taking steps to upgrade relations with Pakistan. The diplomatic push is part of Baku’s plan to bolster its hand in its dealings over the future of Nagorno-Karabakh. The past few months have seen lots of...

A prominent faction of PTI closed down major party offices in the provincial capital as part of their move to cut down monetary support to the party after failing to make some foothold in Punjab Assembly and Parliament with defeat of their candidates in May elections. The PTI faction led by its...