LAHORE - An amount of Rs 935 million has been provided by the Punjab Government to ensure the welfare of the vulnerable groups including destitute women, senior citizens, children of deprive families and people belonging to less-privileged groups. Punjab Education Foundation Chairman Raja Anwar ...

UNITED NATIONS - An unnamed former militant commander has claimed in an interview with The New York Times that the Pakistani military hasnt given up its strategy of using members of militant groups as proxies against its neighbours and American forces in Afghanistan. The militarys strategy of ...

Cracks appeared in defunct Tehrik-e-Talban as Maulana Fazal Saeed launced a new organistan. Maulana Fazal Saeed parted ways with defunct Tehrik-e-Talban and announced the formation of Tehrik-e-Talban Islami. He said that killing of innocent people and suicide bomb blasts in mosques is against the ...

ISPR spokesman has strongly rejected the outrageous notion that any particular whatsoever group of Taliban, was being supported by Army. The official TV channel has reported quoting the spokesman ISPR, Maj. Gen Athar Abbas Khan has said that Pakistan Army leads in most effective action against ...

One person was killed and six others injured in an armed clash between two rival groups here in Tando Allayar on Sunday. According to SP Investigation Ghulam Hussain Larrak, armed men of two opponent groups after exchange of hot words traded fire at Bakera Road of Tando Allayar. In cross firing one ...

The US State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming into the country, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables, a report in the Washington Post said on Monday. The ...

KARACHI - At least 19 students were injured in two clashes among different student organisations here on Saturday. According to details, the first clash between two student organisations at Dawood Engineering College within the limits of Jamshed Quarter police Station left 13 students wounded. The ...

LAHORE - Ali Akbar Group on Wednesday held annual sales conference for target agri centers which was attended by a large number of people including national and provincial assemblies members, agri scientists and farmers. Addressing the inaugural session of the conference Maj (R) Ijaz Muhammad Khan, ...

International forces must act urgently to protect civilians from escalating conflict in Afghanistan, Australian aid agencies said on Friday. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has flied to Portugal for talks on Friday and Saturday with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders and ...

MULTAN - One of the countrys leading conglomerates and the owners and operators of Pearl Continental and Marriott hotels in Pakistan, the Hashoo Group recently held an Evening of Appreciation to present the Pearl City Multan customers with two exclusive prizes of Furnished Villa for each in 1 Kanal ...

KARACHI (PR) - The OBS and AitkenStuart Groups formally announced their agreement to collaborate in business development in the areas of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, consumer goods, personal care and business networking solutions. An agreement to this effect was signed by Tarek Khan and Dr Amir ...

Even as more American troops flow into the country, Afghanistan is more dangerous than it has ever been during this war, with security deteriorating in recent months, according to international organizations and humanitarian groups. Large parts of the country that were once completely safe, like ...

Five Pakistan-based "most dangerous bad guy groups", including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) responsible for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, pose a critical threat in war-torn Afghanistan, says a top US official. "Of course, Afghanistan and Pakistan have always been closely related," US special ...

Terrorist groups are operating more closely with one another, posing an increasing threat to the global security, top U.S. military commander said in a recent interview. "I'm increasingly concerned about the synergy among terrorist groups in that region (Southwest Asia) and their expanding desire ...

The Obama administration has significantly expanded a largely secret U.S. war against al-Qaeda and other radical groups, The Washington Post said in a dispatch published Friday. Citing senior military and administration officials, the newspaper said Special Operations forces have grown both in ...

The United States is now urging Pakistan to strike at the groups that hunt for disgruntled Pakistanis living abroad and then use them for plotting terrorist activities in Europe and North America. This is the message that two senior aides of US President Barack Obama, who arrived in Islamabad on ...

The $7.5 billion the US government has pledged to spend on civilian assistance in Pakistan over the next five years is slowly making its way to the troubled country, after months of debate over how the money should be spent and how to ensure that it is properly used. About 20 Pakistani ...

WASHINGTON: The United States wants Pakistan to tackle the situation created by militant groups "as a while, rather than piecemeal", Defence Secretasry Robert Gates said Tuesday even though he emphasized that Pakistanis were in the driver's seat in combating them. "The al-Qaeda is helping the ...

Al-Qaeda sees using the Taliban in Pakistan and groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba as ways to destabilise Pakistan and even try to provoke a conflict between India and Pakistan that would inevitably destabilise Pakistan,US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday. Testifying before the House Armed ...

As many as 70 militants were reported killed as clashes erupted between rival militant groups in northwestern Pakistan, a foreign news agency reported on Wednesday. Pakistani security officials told the news agency that the clashes broke out in Jandola between fighters loyal to Pakistan's Taliban ...

ISLAMABAD - The prevailing financial crunch has not only affected the commoners but some leading business enterprises and industrial tycoons have been forced to suspend their operations as well, on account of adverse earning conditions. The gravity of the situation could be witnessed from the fact ...

Interior Advisor, Rahman Malik has said that the approval of Swat accord was routed through the parliament for establishing its supremacy and added that since the demand for the enforcement of Shariat in Swat has been fulfilled, there was no reason left for raising arms and now the armed groups ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Even as India continues to press Pakistan to act against those behind Mumbai attacks, intelligence agencies have warned of a "heightened" threat from across the border to some top political leaders during the Lok Sabha elections. Intelligence agencies have intercepted ...

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview that arch-enemy India had never been a threat to his country and that Islamic militant groups in Indian-controlled Kashmir were "terrorists." Zardari also indicated in the interview with the Wall Street Journal that there was an ...

The Central Intelligence Agency is using strikes against enemy targets to learn how the groups respond when attacked, the agency's director said . Speaking at the Air Force Association's annual conference, Michael Hayden said the clandestine agency is trying to "tickle" enemy groups to ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that crackdown is being launched against Qabza Groups for retrieving the private and government land from illegal occupants. He said that action would be taken against such elements without any discrimination and cases would be sent to the ...

Two persons were killed and several injured in a shootout between rival groups in the city here. Sources reported that the two groups went on a clash disputing the ownership of a plot, while the police showing negligence disappeared from the scene, resulting in a shootout that killed two persons ...

THE Bush administration on Wednesday accused two blacklisted Pakistan-based groups of operating under "new aliases" to try to skirt financial sanctions, reports the Fox News. The Treasury Department identified numerous alleged aliases for Al-Rashid Trust and Al-Akhtar Trust International, two ...

Exchange of firing between the two groups is underway in Lyari area of Karachi on Wednesday. Three persons injured during the firing. Police sources said that a young man sustained injuries in Chakiwara area whereas two others injured in Khada Market area.

KARACHI - Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) have netted three splinter terrorists groups during the current year, who revealed during investigation that Al-Qaeda operatives present in tribal areas of Pakistan have established groups of militants for bombings and other activities in different cities ...