STEPHEN P COHEN   and MOEED YUSUFIN the past few years, multiple power centres have begun to emerge slowly in Pakistan, as evidenced again this week with the historically pliant Supreme Court dismissing the Pakistani prime minister, Yousuf Reza Gilani, from office. For much of the ...

With prospects for peace talks at a new low, the Afghan government is attempting to resuscitate negotiations with a seemingly contradictory approach: publicly bashing the Pakistanis for supporting the Taliban while at the same time asking for their help, Washington Post reported on Sunday. In a ...

Engineer Gulbadin Hikmatyar, Afghanistans former prime minister and head of his own faction of the Hizb-e-Islami, an active insurgent group fighting against US-led forces, has said that the US was responsible of all the problems facing Pakistan. According to a message issued here on the occasion of ...

UNITED NATIONS - Two senior U.N. officials Friday welcomed Pakistans ratification of an international treaty that prohibits the sale of children and bans child prostitution and child pornography, saying the move reflects the country's commitment to uphold children's rights. Pakistan has become the ...

Foreign Office on Wednesday said Pakistan is a nuclear-weapon state and it does not comment on its strategic programme. Pakistan is a nuclear-weapon state. This is an established fact. We do not comment on our strategic programme said the Foreign Office spokesperson in response to a question ...

Since the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan has behaved toward the United States as both friend and adversary and gotten away with it. The latest evidence of its duplicity is the revelation that Osama bin Laden lived for years in a house near Pakistans national military academy and a local branch of its ...

Pakistans third nuclear electric power plant went operational Thursday, pumping another 330 MW into the national grid in a bid to help meet countrys growing energy demand and cut down the shortfall. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani inaugurated the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant Unit-1 ...

Foreign ministry said Sunday that government officials were still interrogating wives and children and no country had sought their extradition so far. Pakistan gained custody of bin Ladens Yemeni-born wife, Amal Ahmed Abdullfattah and others family members on Monday after a US operation killed the ...

Pakistans foreign exchange reserves rose to a record $17.38 billion in the week ending Jan. 29, up from $17.30 billion the previous week, the central bank said on Thursday. Reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) rose to $13.85 billion from $13.74 billion in the week ending Jan. 29, while ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday sought increased Omani investment for Pakistans energy, telecom and agro-based industries, besides urging support for an early finalisation of a FTA with the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The two sides discussed Pakistan-Oman bilateral ...

The newly declassified US government documents from former President Jimmy Carter era reveal how the United States made persistent and many-sided attempts to roll back Pakistan's nuclear programme and the resistance it met from the then Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was followed by ...

Former President Pervez Musharraf has underlined his ambitions to return to Pakistan to contest elections in 2013, casting himself as a tested politician who can turn around the country's dire economic problems. "There's an even chance of me succeeding," he said in an interview with The Wall Street ...

Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves fell to $16.88 billion in the week ending Oct. 22, down from a record $17.10 billion the previous week, the central bank said on Thursday. Reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) fell to $13.09 billion from $13.26 billion, while those held by ...

A dispatch in a leading American newspaper Sunday focuses on cash-starved Pakistan's "jumbo-sized" cabinet composed of 61 ministers and advisers, saying, "several among them marginally qualified or shadowed by graft allegations." Writing from Islamabad, correspondent Karin Brulliard of The ...

After this country's then-military dictator deposed the Supreme Court chief justice in 2007, a boisterous movement of protesting lawyers took to the streets and ushered in the return of democracy. Now that same court may be poised to bring about a premature end to Pakistan's elected government. ...

It was an image that conveyed the human cost of the Pakistani floods and the failure to deliver aid to those affected more powerfully than any statistic: four young children lying on a filthy patchwork quilt, one of them sucking on an empty yellow bottle, all of them covered by flies. The ...

The government announced last night that it would double aid to disaster-hit Pakistan. International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said an extra 33million was being offered on top of the 31.3million already pledged to help cope with the effects of floods, reported British Media. Speaking in ...

At least 1,176 persons have lost their lives and 4,717 have been injured so far in Pakistan's worst- ever floods in 80 years, a Federal Flood Commission official said Monday. "The figures we released were compiled after receiving proper data from the provincial governments of the affected areas," ...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has reiterated that all possible steps would be taken to ensure and strengthen Pakistan's defense and security. He expressed these views while talking to Chairman Joint Chief of Staff Gen Tariq Majid who called on him at the PM house on Wednesday. According to ...

Americans may think that the failed Times Square bomb was planted by a man named Faisal Shahzad. But the view in the Supreme Court Bar Association here in Pakistans capital is that the culprit was an American think tank. No one seems to know its name, but everyone has an opinion about it. It is ...

After showering praise on Pakistan for capturing Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's operations chief, some American analysts and newspapers have began to question Islamabad's motives in seizing him. In an editorial on Monday, The Boston Globe claimed that Pakistan was worried about the ...

Former Australian captain Greg Chappell has turned down an offer to take up the reins of Pakistan's embattled cricket team, saying that he does not intend to coach at the international level anymore. Chappell is currently the head coach at Australia's Centre of Excellence and chairman of the ...

Pakistan will face a demographic disaster if it does not address the needs of its young generation, the largest in the countrys history, whose views reflect a deep disillusionment with government and democracy, according to a report released here on Saturday. The report, commissioned by the ...

As Pakistan made fresh gains in its anti militant drive in South Waziristan, the United States said it is pleased with success of the operation, taking place along Pak Afghan border region considered critical to security efforts in both countries. State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly also ...

A committee of the UN General Assembly on Friday adopted a Pakistan-sponsored resolution reaffirming the right of peoples to self-determination, and called for cessation of foreign military intervention, occupation and repression.The resolution, which was approved by consensus, serves to focus the ...

Pakistan ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani told an influential audience of Congressmen, academics and senior officials that Americans should not ignore Pakistani concerns about their sovereignty or about threats from neighboring countries. According to The Hill, a newspaper which ...

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Pakistans principle stand on Kashmir has not been changed and entire nation is united on Kashmir issue. President Pakistan Occupied Kashmir Raja Zulqarnain and Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider met with Premier Gilani in Prime Minister House here. The meeting ...

Praising the great progress Pakistan has achieved in its recent anti-militant operations, the Pentagon on Wednesday acknowledged Pakistan militarys ability to sustain pressure against extremist groups along the Afghan border over several months. We have seen great progress by the Pakistani military ...

Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq, chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Sunday evening discussed with President Asif Ali Zardari the latest situation in Jammu and Kashmir when he called on the Pakistani leader. Officials said during the 30-minute meeting, the President assured Maulvi Farooq of ...

Invoking shared world interest in helping Pakistan through its current economic and extremism challenges, U.S. President Barack Obama has called for a sustained and expanded commitment to the well being of the Pakistani nation. All of us are here today because we share an interest in the success of ...