WASHINGTON - Pakistanis ranks among the most racially tolerant people in the world, despite having less economic development and being located in the region housing some of the least racially ...
WASHINGTON - Pakistan took a ‘quantum leap’ into the league of established democracies at the back of last week's historic elections, the outgoing Pakistani ambassador to the US, Sherry ...
WASHINGTON The United States has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on Syria, targeting four ministers, one airline and one TV station, just as a new peace conference is being planned to end the ...
WASHINGTON : A State Department spokesperson on Thursday sidestepped a question whether the United States was playing any role in bringing India and Pakistan closer, stating it was upto the two ...
NEW YORK A new campaign by a family of information-stealing malware, which appears to originate out ofIndia, has been hittingPakistanhard over the last few months, according to American ...
NEW YORK - Bleeding and hunted by police, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the prime suspect in the Boston marathon bombings, who was found hiding in a boat days after the blasts, left a handwritten message ...
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan voted for an Arab-backed resolution on Wednesday under which the UN General Assembly called on the involved parties to work together for a political transition in Syria to ...
WASHINGTON A noted American expert on Pakistan has said that President Asif Ali Zardari has failed both as president and leader of Pakistan People’s Party, which he said had been reduced to a ...
WASHINGTON - US Attorney General Eric Holder says he is unaware of the subpoenas for phone records of Associated Press, the American news agency, but defended them as a necessary measure. ...
NEW YORK A leading American newspaper on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to invite PML-N President and Prime Minister-in-waiting Nawaz Sharif to Washington for an "early visit" in a bid to ...
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations Wednesday warned that economic losses from disasters have spun out of control and called on the world’s business community to incorporate disaster risk ...
United NationWarning that Africa risked becoming ‘the epicentre of terrorism’, Pakistan has called for stepped up measures to resolve long festering conflicts and crises across the ...
WASHINGTONAn American news agency, The Associated Press, Monday sent a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder protesting the Justice Department's examination of AP phone records.The letter, sent ...
NEW YORK - Malala Yousafzai and her father Ziauddin were on Monday honoured at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum with the 2013 Reflections of Hope Award for their resilient leadership in ...
WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State John Kerry is considering an early visit to Pakistan, after PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif has formed a government, a State Department spokesperson said Monday“We ...
new yorkFormer Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani has ruled out the possibility of working for the Prime Minister-in-waiting, Nawaz Sharif, and said that the PML-N government ...
WASHINGTON - Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has resigned from her post following the defeat of Pakistan People’s Party in general elections, an embassy spokesman ...
NEW YORKTop Hollywood star and UNHCR Special Representative Angelina Jolie has undergone a preventive double mastectomy, she revealed Tuesday in The New York Times.Jolie, whose mother died of cancer ...
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama telephoned PML-N chief and prime minister-in-waiting Nawaz Sharif and congratulated him on his party’s victory in last weekend’s historic polls, the ...
UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the people and government of Pakistan on the successful conduct of the general elections, calling it "a significant step forward for ...
WASHINGTONUS Secretary of State John Kerry has told Pakistan Muslim League-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif in a phone call that he looks forward to working with him when he forms a government, a State ...
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Sunday said his administration looks forward to working with the government emerging from the historic polls as equal partners in supporting a more stable ...
UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan has called for addressing the root causes of terrorism that continues to mutate into new and more sinister forms, and to combat the phenomenon with “quick ...
WASHINGTON The American print and electronic media is highlighting the election-related developments inPakistan, with major newspapers pointing out that the two main contenders for power ...
NEW YORK The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based watchdog body, has called onPakistan’s interim government to reverse its decision to expel New York Times ...
UNITED NATIONS The international community must act to stop the conflict in Syria and ensure those responsible for human rights violations are held accountable, the UN human rights chief said Friday, ...
WASHINGTON The United States is not seeking permanent military bases in Afghanistan, and any future American presence in the country will be possible only at the invitation of the Afghan ...
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) has paid tributes to it’s Pakistani peacekeeper, who was killed in an attack last ...
new york PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif is likely to maintain cordial relations with the US and tread ‘gingerly’ with Pakistan’s powerful military, while first bearing down ...
WASHINGTON - The United States has condemned the threats by militant groups to disrupt May 11 national election in Pakistan, while voicing hope that eligible voters would exercise their ...






