KARACHI - MQM has acknowledged that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf is their ideological ally but there is no electoral alliance or seat adjustment with his All Pakistan Muslim League.In an exclusive interview with state-run radio, Deputy Convener of the party Dr Farooq Sattar said Musharraf ...

MAKOSHYNE, Ukraine (AFP) - A former Ukrainian interior minister and an ally of jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko walked free from a prison in northern Ukraine on Sunday after being pardoned by President Viktor Yanukovych. Yuriy Lutsenko, who like Tymoshenko was a key figure in the ...

The United States has designated Afghanistan a major non-NATO ally, giving the war-torn country special privileges as the US prepares to pull its troops out in 2014, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday.Clinton announced the designation, which provides a long-term framework for security ...

Is the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad, in the opinion of US officials, a valued ally or a murderous, tyrannical regime? It all depends on which day you ask.These days US officials call the Assad regime just about every name in the book, as the Guardian’s Mehdi Hasan recounts: ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE - The PPP will contest the next general election in alliance with the MQM, ANP and the Sunni Tehrik, President Zardaris Political Secretary Senator Faisal Raza Abidi said on Saturday. In a TV interview, he said in case President Asif Ali Zardari and Chaudhry Shujaat ...

US Senator Gary Ackerman has said Pakistans 'self-centred interest is in contradiction with the American interest, reported a private TV channel on Thursday. Pakistan military is not our ally. They are not supporting the US. Despite military aid, Pakistan did not change its policies, the US ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON Ex-US Defence Secretary Robert Gates blasted PM Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that his policies were ungrateful towards the US and were isolating Israel on a global level. In a meeting of the NSC Principals Committee held not long before Gates retirement, Gates argued ...

LAHORE As countrys top military commanders and intelligence heads briefed the joint-session of the parliament on Abbotabad debacle in a closed-door sitting on Friday, senior defense officials said Islamabad was most likely to get divorce from his rude ally (US). A senior official familiar with ...

WASHINGTON - President Pervez Musharraf appears to have an "improbable ally" in PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari as the politically-wounded former military ruler continues to influence Pakistan "even from the shadows", a leading US newspaper said Sunday. "Although ...