ISLAMABAD - Hearing high treason case against former president Pervez Musharraf, the Supreme Court on Monday observed the armed forced could not go beyond their constitutional mandate.Justice Ejaz Afzal, a member of three-judge bench that heard six identical petitions against Musharraf, said that ...

QUETTA - Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has assured the masses of halting military operation in Balochistan as well as other parts of the country if his party is voted to power.Addressing public meetings in Loralai and Sibi districts of Balochistan on Wednesday, Imran said ...

istanbulThe United States is set to boost its support for Syria’s rebels at a meeting of the opposition’s main foreign backers Saturday and could for the first time agree to supply non-lethal military gear.But Washington is expected to stop short of agreeing to rebel demands for arms as ...

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has said that they stick to their policy of reconciliation though efforts to reconcile with the opposition in the current situation seem to be a futile activity.President Zardari said national consensus was a must to defeat extremism and there will not be any ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Interior, Rehman Malik has said that government is making serious efforts for recovery of missing persons and one should avoid blame-game in this regard.Talking to media persons at Benazir Bhutto Airport here on Sunday, he said that all available sources were being ...

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday, while ruling out the possibility of launching of any military operation in Balochistan, said all the 14 militant organisations operating in the province had been banned, the other day by the Ministry of Interior under his directions.Addressing ...

DERA GHAZI KHAN - The Border Military Police on Saturday arrested four men, including three colleagues, for gang-raping five female tourists in Fort Munro.The accused kidnapped the victims from a checkpost and later committed the gang rape at a private house. Three of the culprits - Amjad Ali, ...

WASHINGTON - A four-legged robot known as the Cheetah lived up to its name on Monday, setting a new land speed record for legged robots by running at 18 mph (29 kph) on a treadmill at a laboratory in Massachusetts, its developer said.The Cheetah, being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from ...

NEW DELHI  - India’s 1.3 million-strong armed forces, hobbled by outdated equipment and slow decision-making, are undergoing an overhaul as defence priorities shift to China from traditional rival Pakistan.And like a refit of the imposing but dilapidated defence ministry on Delhi’s ...

WASHINGTON  - The US continues military dialogue with Pakistan despite recent serious setback, Pentagon  said.The US has conducted “a thorough investigation” into the border incident in late November, in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a Nato airstrike near the ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said on Wednesday that if the Supreme Court reopened the case of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the court would be flooded by similar petitions by the relatives of all those who had been hanged.He said instead of showing special passion for the ...

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 ...

THE US military will start carrying out more counterterrorism missions against insurgents in eastern Afghanistan and work more closely with Pakistani forces in operations against insurgents along the porous and rugged frontier, the US general commanding the region said. Maj Gen John Campbell, ...

ANKARA (AFP) - Turkish police Monday detained more than 40 people, including former air force and navy chiefs, in connection with an alleged military plot against the government, officials and media reports said. The police swoop came amid rising tensions between the ruling Justice and Development ...

WASHINGTON - US Republican lawmakers have urged the Democratic government to make public the militarys latest assessment on Afghan situation. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a press conference that lawmakers need to hear the assessment of top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Sensitive military technology used in nuclear weapons and missiles can be bought easily in the US and illegally exported abroad, a government audit has found. An undercover investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed that parts employed in atomic bombs, ...

WASHINGTON - The US Defence Department has disclosed that the Bibles sent by a US church to Afghanistan were confiscated and burnt by the military. Spokesman Lt Col Mark Wright said the Bibles printed in the two most common Afghan languages were seized on arrival at Bagram Air Base because the US ...

PESHAWAR - As many as 25 personnel of the security forces and two civilians were killed and 65 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into their convoy in front of Doaba checkpost in Hangu District on Saturday. Sources said the actual target of the suicide bomber was ...

OTTAWA (AFP) - US President Barack Obama is to outline a "comprehensive strategy" for Afghanistan he hopes Canadians can support, when he meets Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week, he told public broadcaster CBC Tuesday. "I am absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of ...

ISLAMABAD - Amid growing tension with India after Mumbai carnage, Pakistan Army had alerted even the retired military personnel to be available for backing the regular forces in case of any Indian offensive on the eastern borders, sources and retired military people told TheNation. The sources in ...

KABUL (AFP) - US human rights lawyers charged Sunday that US military prisons are "legal black holes" and the force is detaining journalists to "shut people up" about activities in Iraq and Afghanistan. A vast detention camp planned for the main US base in Afghanistan will be a "second ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's top military brass held a crisis meeting Thursday to jack up military wages and try and stem an exodus of soldiers to the country's flourishing private sector, officials said. The chiefs of the million-plus army, air force and navy held closed-door talks with Defence ...