BANGKOK  - Climate-related disasters have displaced more than 42 million people in Asia, including more than 10 million in Pakistan, over the past two years, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday in a report calling for swift action to avert future crises.“Asia and the Pacific is the ...

WASHINGTON  - Observing that there are multiple overlapping worlds in Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said the country is vital to America’s counter-terrorism efforts, economic stability and regional cooperation goals for the region. “There are multiple ...

 Expressing commitment to resolving all outstanding issues with Pakistan through dialogue, India Monday said it looks forward to building upon progress made so far while being mindful of the need for Islamabad to take credible action against terror groups and infrastructure.Addressing the ...

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that a case has been registered against al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's family entering illegally in Pakistan. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, the minister said that the family was produced in the court and they had been on judicial remand. He said that ...

Well, Pakistan has won an Oscar. As part of the usual rite and ritual, a major hype was created by our most vibrant electronic media. There was an instant barrage of congratulatory messages by our politicians. The event was hailed as a huge achievement and something to be celebrated nationwide. ...

LAHORE – The Nation Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust Chairman Majid Nizami has asked the people of Pakistan to vote for those who can wage Jihad on India to free Kashmir, to make Pakistan as dreamt by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Speaking at various ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that Zardari, Nawaz and Fazlur Rehman troika inflicted harm on the country. Addressing a news conference, the PTI chief said the troika has dented the interests of the people and the country. He said that the country’s wealth has ...

ISLAMABAD - Karen Freeman, USAID Deputy Country Director, Tuesday said that mango industry holds great promise for Pakistan’s prosperity in general and greater revenues for the Sindh and Southern Punjab region in particular.He said this while addressing a mango conference that was attended by ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said peace in Afghanistan was critical for the peace and security in Pakistan. He said Pakistan always supported Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s peace efforts and would continue favour an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned process of reconciliation. ...

President Zardari said on Friday that the destination of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is progress of Pakistan, not getting votes. Addressing the inaugural ceremony of ‘Waseela-e-Haq Sindh Programme’ in Karachi, president said that everyday a new conspiracy is hatched against us ...

Islamabad  - Farahnaz Ispahani, President Asif Ali Zardari's media adviser and wife of former envoy to US Husain Haqqani, on Monday rejected a media report that she has fled the country. Ms Ispahani shot down the report attributed to her that said she had fled to Washington fearing abduction ...

WASHINGTON - In what appears to be a step towards easing the tensions in Islamabad-Washington relations, Pakistan may invite US military trainers back ‘as early as April or May’ but it has ruled out allowing CIA drones into the country again, a conservative American news channel ...

A Central Intelligence Agency drone strike in Pakistan's tribal area on Jan. 10 killed an operative of Al Qaeda who was believed to be planning attacks against the West, an American official confirmed on Thursday.The operative, Aslam Awan, a Pakistani citizen, was the "external operations planner" ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Asian Development Bank (ADB) has singed two loan agreements worth of $513.24 million that included $270 million for the tranche-2 of the Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Investment Programme (PIAIP) and $243.24 million for tranche-3 of the Power Transmission Enhancement ...

US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman would fly from India to Kabul on Saturday for talks with President Hamid Karzai and other top officials, the State Department announced.Grossman would be in Abu Dhabi until Thursday evening and would stay in New Delhi through ...

Hepatitis C is a global health problem. The World Health Organisation has estimated that approximately 3.3 per cent of the world’s population (200 million people) have been infected with the hepatitis C virus. Hepatitis C is one of the commonest causes of chronic liver disease in Pakistan ...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has reiterated that Australia will not agree to export uranium to Pakistan, which is imploring Canberra to make a similar policy change as done recently for India. This policy is an exception which recognises the compelling rationale and national interest for ...

Amid near-open conflict between Pakistan’s civilian and military leadership, the Pentagon has neither sought nor received assurances that the Pak army won’t stage a coup, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.“This is a matter for Pakistani officials — their government ...

Reacting over the statement of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan that he would not talk with PML-N, Senator Pervez Rashid said that a person who reposes confidence in the companions of Musharraf cannot have confidence in the PML-N.He said it makes no differences if Imran Khan does ...

The United States ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter on Thursday said that America wanted to strengthen ties with Pakistan.Addressing a seminar in Islamabad, Munter said the year of 2012 would be the year of improvement in US-Pakistan relations. Munter said the US appreciated Pakistan’s ...

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday said that only the Pakistan People's Part could save Pakistan as its founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto gave the country a constitution and a nuclear programme.Talking to media persons here in Multan he said that former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto gave the ...

WASHINGTON: The United States wants to "turn the page" of its relationship with Pakistan in the New Year, after a "difficult and complex" phase in  2011, a State Department spokesperson said Thursday."I don't think anybody on any side would question that 2011 was a difficult and complex year ...

Pakistan Government has said that memogate is a bundle of lies and is a fake document. Whereas Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and DG ISI Shuja Pasha have said to Supreme Court that the memogate scandal is authentic and it should be investigated. The only question arises ...

LONDON - Senior British officials believe that a “last push” in 2012 is likely to definitively destroy al-Qaida’s remaining senior leadership in Pakistan, opening a new phase in the battle against terrorism.According to the Guardian, so many senior members of the organisation have ...

Senior members of al-Qaida are feared to be moving to North Africa to open up a new front after being weakened in Pakistan. Senior British officials believe that a "last push" in 2012 is likely to definitively destroy al-Qaida's remaining senior leadership in Pakistan, opening a new phase in the ...

NEW YORK - American officials believe that United States' broad security partnership with Pakistan is over, and they are now seeking a "limited" counter-terrorism alliance with Islamabad that will include restricted drone strikes against militants and reduced aid, according to a media ...

Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Syed Munawar Hassan has said that US, India and Israel were involved in all terror strikes in Pakistan including attacks on Mehran Base and GHQ. Addressing a huge sit-in in Lahore on Sunday, JI chief said that memogate was a conspiracy against Pakistan and Army. He ...

LAHORE - Pakistan team manager Naveed Akram Cheema says England series is not an easy task for Pakistan and they have to work hard to win the series. Talking to media persons during the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) meeting here at a local hotel on Saturday, Naveed Akram Cheema said: ...

LAHORE (Agencies) - Pakistan's former Test captain Zaheer Abbas fears that the Indian cricket board might try to sabotage plans by Bangladesh to send its team to Pakistan next year in April.Zaheer, who married an Indian national, said the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) should never rule out the ...