- Menon makes farewell call on Pak Prime Minister
Pakistan today expressed hope that the new anti-terror mechanism agreed with India would work successfully. - Sharif denies holding meeting with Pak Govt official
Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said he had no meeting with any government official in Paris while Benazir Bhutto-led PPP dispelled the impression that the party was making any secret deal with the regime in Islamabad. - Manmohan accepts Musharraf's invitation to visit Pakistan
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today accepted in principle an invitation by President Pervez Musharraf to travel to Pakistan and said he was looking forward to a "purposeful visit". - Pak to send women protection bill to parliamentary committee
Pakistan Government has decided to ask a parliamentary committee to reconsider the controversial women protection bill, which aims to change the islamic law that makes rape victims liable to prosecution for adultery if they fail to produce four male witnesses. - CPJ demands Pakistan conduct inquiry into newsman's killing
Slamming Pakistan for "seldom investigating" the work-related killings of scribes, the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded that the country conduct a thorough inquiry into the recent shooting death of a newsman there. - Dr A.Q. Khan committed to Pakistan's cause
Nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan's sister, Begum Razia Hussain Khan, has said that her brother is committed to the cause of Pakistan. - No separatist movement in Balochistan, says tribal leader
There is no movement for the separation of Balochistan and the Baloch are a patriotic people, says a senior tribal chief and politician from the troubled Pakistan province. - Bugti's killing has put Pakistan's integrity at stake
Pakistan can steer itself out of its present political and constitutional crisis only if an independent and impartial Election Commission is appointed, the country's opposition leaders said on Tuesday. - PoK Premier seeks NAM's help to restart Indo-Pak peace process
Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with President Pervez Musharraf on the margins of NAM summit in Havana later this week, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) Premier Attique Khan has sought the grouping's help to "restart" the Indo-Pak peace process. - Pakistan to begin registration of Afghans from next month
Pakistan will start the process of registration of Afghans, who were enumerated in the 2005 census of the country, and will issue them identity cards, UN refugee agency has said. - Former Pakistan Foreign MInister Agha Shahi dead
Former Pakistan Foreign Minister Agha Shahi died at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences here on Wednesday morning after protracted illness. - Pakistan observes Defence Day
Pakistan's armed forces celebrated Defence Day on Wednesday with traditional zeal and solemnity. - Pakistan accuses India's RAW for Balochistan's troubles
India's spy network, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), has been blamed for the troubles in Balochistan province at a meeting chaired by President Pervez Musharraf. - Pakistan's first 'Miss Bikini' crowned in China
Mariyah Moten, a 22-year-old US-based Pakistani, is being billed as "Pakistan's first Miss Bikini" after she topped the 'Best in Media' category at the Miss Bikini Universe pageant in China last week. - Floodwaters inundate 200 villages in Pakistan
Nearly 200 villages in eastern Pakistan's Punjab province have been inundated as rivers flow above danger mark and heavy rains lash the area. - Pak papers turn ‘Bugti heat’ on Musharraf
The hasty manner in which Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akhar Khan Bugti was buried a week after he was killed in a Pakistani military operation in Kohlu, will make matters more complicated for the Musharraf government, according to reports in the Pakistani press. - Pakistani minister involves India in Bugti affair
In an attempt to blame India for its internal political crisis, Pakistan's Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sher Afgan Niazi charged in the National Assembly that the "huge quantity of ammunitions and currency recovered from the cave" was provided by "our neighbouring country to Akbar Bugti via Kabul". - Pakistani premier survives no-trust move
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Tuesday survived a no-confidence move in the country's federal legislature, the National Assembly. - Pakistan claims India violated ceasefire along LoC twice
Claiming that India "violated" the ceasefire along the LoC on two separate occasions recently, Pakistan today said it has lodged a protest with New Delhi but received no response. - Former Pak PM Jamali is new PHF Chief
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has been appointed as the new President of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF). - Press freedom in Pakistan, still a distant dream
Freedom for the Fourth Estate in Pakistan it seems, is still a distant dream. - Pak to contribute to international Peace Keeping force in Lebanon
Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri has said that Pakistan will contribute to the 15000 strong international peace keeping force to South Lebanon. - Pak FO denies charity link to UK foiled plot
Pakistan Foreign Office has denied as “absurd” the press reports suggesting that Islamic organisations in Pakistan had diverted the charities meant for earthquake relief to fund the London terror plot which was foiled earlier this month. - Pakistan seeks proof of terror from India
Pakistan has said it will not co-operate with India in fighting terror as long as New Delhi doesn’t provide any concrete evidence that terror acts in India had their origins in Pakistan. - Pak backtracks on troops to Lebanon issue
Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri has said that his country had not yet decided to send its troops to Lebanon. He said this while talking to reporters after a visit to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad last evening. - Pak parliamentarians make govt pay through its teeth!
Pakistani parliamentarians have demanded of the federal government that it must bear the cost of replacing their teeth, instead of just paying for getting them removed. - Pak asks Iran to keep an eye on Indian consulates
Pakistan is learnt to have asked Iran to monitor the activities of the Indian consulate in Zahidaan, which, according to Islamabad, was ‘fermenting unrest’ in Balochistan. - Pak govt reacts angrily to Sharif claim that he came to know about Kargil invasion from Vajpayee
Pakistani establishment today reacted angrily to the claim by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that he had come to know about Kargil invasion by his Army from his Indian counterpart Atal Bihari Vajpayee and accused him of distorting the facts. - Efforts on to trace kidnapped Pakistani national in Iraq
Pakistan has asked its embassies in Kuwait and Jordan to trace the kidnapped Pakistani in Iraq, foreign office spokesman Suhail Mehmod said Sunday. - US Congress urged to press for re-opening case against Khan
Despite Pakistan's assertion that the case relating to proliferation activities of A Q Khan has been closed, a top US nuclear expert has asked the Congress to press for re-opening of the case to probe his alleged supply of nuclear weapons designs to Iran. - PM's meeting with Kashmiri leaders a step forward
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said the recent meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Kashmiri leaders was a "movement forward" in resolving the Kashmir issue.
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