Pakistan News

President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the presentation of the Balochistan Empowerment Package was not the end but the beginning of resolution by the Parliament to the problems of other provinces as well.He said that Pakistan Peoples Party as...

Pledging U.S. support for Pakistan�s long-term economic development, the Obama Administration�s special envoy Richard Holbrooke has said America is working to help Islamabad address problems in key water and energy areas. He also told a briefing that Secretary of State...

Obama rules out US mediation between India, Pakistan Washington, Nov 23 : President Barack Obama Tuesday said there were historic conflicts between India and Pakistan, but ruled out any outside role for the US to intervene between the two South...

A study of transformation from military dictatorship to democracy around the world would reveal that there are two possible ways. Either it is achieved through a popular revolution or by negotiations between political forces and dictators. The former invariably demolishes...

In 2006, the Bush administration struck a deal with the government in Islamabad that would allow US special forces to actually enter Pakistani territory if what they were doing was hunting Osama bin Laden or his top deputies. "The agreement...

The Islamist militant group behind the deadly attack in Mumbai one year ago remains a potent force determined to strike India and the West, and a source of acrimony between South Asia's nuclear-armed rivals, say officials and members of the...

Looking the other way Editorial Allegations about Britain's role in the torture of its own citizens in Pakistan are not new. They have been made persuasively by our own investigative reporting . What is new in the report published yesterday...

Thirty-nine militants were killed by security forces in different areas of South Waziristan and Orakzai tribal regions and the adjacent Hangu district on Tuesday. Tribal and official sources said helicopter gunships pounded the hideouts and compounds of militants in Daburi,...

International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, said on Tuesday it will lend $50 million to Engro Chemicals, Pakistan�s second largest urea manufacturer, to expand its dairy business. IFC will provide Engro with a loan of...

Dubai The Gulf should consider independent monetary policy as economies recover, said Standard Chartered economist Marios Maratheftis. "We were in a position of strength in 2008 to change the currency policy...Now we have the opportunity again as economies recover," he...