White House backs Biden’s ‘Taliban-friendly’ statement
WASHINGTON: The White House on Monday defended Vice President Joe Biden for saying that the Taliban isn’t an enemy of the United States despite the years spent fighting the militant Islamic group that gave a home to Al Qaeda and its leader Usama bin Laden while he plotted the Sept. 11 terror attacks. “It’s only regrettable when taken More...
Pakistan not to participate in Bonn Conference
LAHORE: Pakistan will boycott an international conference on Afghanistan’s future in Bonn next week to protest against a Nato cross-border attack that killed two dozen soldiers. Prime Minister Syed Yousuf More...
Lahore police torture 15-yr-old
LAHORE: Lahore police tortured a 15-year-old after arresting him in connection of kidnapping children and later released him declaring innocent when he fainted. Mohammad Syed, a resident of Khaarak, blamed Friday More...
Aisam-Bopanna in Paris finals
PARIS: Pakistani tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and his Indian partner Rohan Bopanna advanced to the finals of the Paris Masters Tennis Tournament. The duo defeated M. Mirnyi of Belarus and D. Nestor of Canada More...
Butt, Asif ask to serve jail sentences in Pakistan
LONDON: Two Pakistani cricketers convicted of fixing and awarded jail terms by a UK court have asked to be returned to Pakistan, to serve the remainder of their sentence, Britain’s The Independent reported. The More...
Another Mumbai will be a setback for Indo-Pak ties: Singh
ON BOARD PM’S AIRCRAFT: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday defended his outreach to Pakistan, saying that that the army there also favoured peace process, but declared that another Mumbai-type attack More...
India test fires nuclear-capable Agni-II
NEW DELHI(PFP): India’s nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface Agni-II ballistic missile, with a strike range of 2000 kms, was on Friday test-fired as part of user trial by the army from the Wheeler Island off More...
MQM is a political reality: PM
LONDON(PFP): Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain Sunday called the Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani up and thanked him for inquiring after his health. During the telephonic conversation Altaf Hussain More...
Malik seeks judicial commission on Mirza
LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Sunday said that Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has written him to set up a judicial commission to look into former senior Sindh minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza’s More...
‘India was never serious about Headley extradition’
NEW DELHI: In December 2009, national security adviser M K Narayanan had told then US ambassador to India Timothy Roemer that New Delhi’s demand for extraditing Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley More...
