WASHINGTON - Several former administration officials who are now out of government are criticising President Barack Obama over the secretive nature of the US drone programme that has led to the killing of hundreds of civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.At the same time, 10 civil and human ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Monday and briefed the President about his meetings with British dignitaries and other engagements during the visit. The President congratulated the Prime Minister for his successful and fruitful visit ...

PARIS (AFP) - The wife of a former close aide of French President Nicolas Sarkozy repeated claims Saturday that her husband, charged in a damaging graft scandal, had returned from trips abroad with bags of cash. In media interviews Princess Helene of Yugoslavia, estranged wife of Thierry Gaubert, ...

ABU DHABI (AFP) - People close to Libyan leader Moamer Qaddafi have been making contacts with many different interlocutors about the "potential for a transition," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday. "There have been numerous and continuing discussions by people close to Qaddafi, ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Supporters of alleged Wikileaks leaker Bradley Manning on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of interfering the future trial, after the president said the army private broke the law. The White House however disputed the stance of the Bradley Manning Support Network, which ...

LAHORE Former president General (r) Pervez Musharrafs efforts to fulfil his political ambitions are dimming, as majority of his former colleagues do not foresee any political role of Musharraf in future, while they also oppose contacts of their partymen with him. However, some of them support ...

Mansoor Khan & Bari Baloch KARACHI/ QUETTA - A former Pakistan Army colonel who was abducted along with his two friends-cum-business partners from the Gadap Police precincts in May last was recovered after a joint operation, carried out by the Karachi and Balochistan police in Sakran area of ...

KARACHI (PPI) - Administrative Judge of Anti-Terrorism Court Karachi, Justice Salman Ansari of Sindh High Court Monday remanded six accused allegedly belonging to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan militant group to police custody till February 28, 2009 in cases pertaining to attack on SP Farooq Awan, ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrat Barack Obama kept up an onslaught on John McCain Tuesday after one of the Republican's most trusted aides said a terrorist attack on US soil would benefit his White House bid. Despite an apology from the aide, campaign strategist Charlie Black, and a disavowal from ...