When the pressure was ratcheted up, MQM supremo Altaf Hussain came out in his true colours, and made the demand for separation of Karachi that he had insisted his party would not make. However, it had been predicted that the tinkering just before the election by the PPP with the idea of dividing ...

It is true that in election campaigns the parties out of power launch blistering attacks on the party in power, but it seems that this trend during the current campaign, culminating in the May 11 election has been marked by two unfortunate trends. First, it ignores the fact that the party in ...

Our Staff Reporter MULTAN -Jamaat-e-Islami Punjab Ameer Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar lashed out at PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday, saying he shattered two nation theory through his pro-India statement and badly hurt the sentiments of entire Muslim Ummah. If he is that fond of Indian culture, he ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - Launching a scathing diatribe against PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif for allegedly raising hollow slogans to AJK people during ongoing election campaign for his party candidates, AJK Prime minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan has said that those talking of the construction of motorways ...

It turns out that killing Osama bin Laden was the easy part. Dealing with the political fallout from the May 2 raid on the Al-Qaeda leaders Pakistan compound is proving trickier. And Congress isnt helping. President Obama evidently made a calculated decision not to inform Pakistani leaders in ...

NATHAN THORNBURGH Sometimes, rumours of violence beget actual violence. Saturdays mass shooting at a Safeway on North Oracle Road in Tucson, which left Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, may well be one of those occasions. Its impossible to know this early what the ...

LAHORE - Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hassan has termed President Zardaris address to the parliament as aimless rhetoric and hollow claims. In a statement issued here on Monday, he said that the President was unable to mention any major achievement of his government that could satisfy the ...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday dismissed talk of war with Pakistan but again demanded it act against militants blamed for Mumbai attacks. "The issue is not war. Nobody wants war. We would like an objective effort to dismantle terror infrastructure," Singh told reporters in New ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel and Hamas ratcheted up the rhetoric on Monday ahead of the expiry of a six-month Gaza truce which the rulers of the Palestinian enclave say they are unlikely to renew. Top Israeli officials say the govt wants to continue the Egyptian-mediated ceasefire but also warned that ...

WASHINGTON - US Democratic presidential hopeful, who has now fallen behind his Republic rival John McCain in polls, said Wednesday that the United States could not succeed in Afghanistan as long as there was a safe-haven for terrorists in Pakistan. Noting the resignation of President Pervez ...