BAGHDAD : Syria's foreign minister said on Sunday that his government will take part in a peace conference in Geneva, terming it a "good opportunity for a political solution" to the civil war in Syria.Walid Muallem also praised an Iraqi army operation against Sunni militants near the border with ...

MOSCOW : The Syrian regime will attend a peace conference on ending the conflict with the armed opposition, Damascus’ top ally Russia said Friday, but the rebels reacted to the pledge without enthusiasm. Diplomatic efforts to hold a conference first proposed by Russia and the United States ...

NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not attend the oath-taking ceremony of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif as prime minister in Islamabad.There is no specific proposal of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visiting Pakistan as no formal invite has been received, ...

RAWALPINDI  - The Punjab Emergency Service, Rescue 1122 will participate in two-day National Exhibition and Conference being organized by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).The exhibition and conference will be held at Islamabad Hotel on Jan 28 and 29, says a press release issued ...

Irfan Qadir, Attorney General of Pakistan, on Friday refused to attend the meeting of the Judicial Commission scheduled for SaturdayTalking to media persons here in Islamabad, Irfan Qadir said that Judicial Commission is not complete without inclusion of a member from the Bar Council.He said he has ...

Federal defence minister Ahmed Mukhtar said that the Pakistan army is taking action against every border violation. Talking with media in Islamabad, he said that there is no difference between the Army and the government regarding violation of the borders. 

The international military mission in Afghanistan has "no end point", the head of Britain's armed forces told a newspaper out Saturday. Sir Jock Stirrup's comments come a week after Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain's top military commander in the war-torn country, said the public ...

The in-camera joint session of both houses of the Parliament has gone underway. President Asif Zardari, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister summoned the in-camera session to discuss current security situation in the country and devise a comprehensive and consensus strategy in order to ...

Security forces on Monday destroyed three explosive-laden vehicles along border areas in Orakzai Agency and Khyber Agency. According to sources, gunship helicopter fired shells at suspected hideouts of local militants in Khyber Agency and Orakzai Agency. Three vehicles load with explosives were ...

Pakistan military's gunship helicopter shot dead four militants in fresh shelling as security forces continued operation against militants in Bajaur Agency on Thursday. Security forces bombed militants' hideouts in Gung area of Salarzai in Bajaur Agency in which four militants and one civilian were ...

The Met department has forecast scattered rains in some parts of the country during the next 24 hours. Rain are expected in Islamabad, Upper & Southern Punjab, Upper NWFP, southern parts of Sindh and parts of Kashmir during next 24 hours, according to the Met office.The maximum temperature in ...