Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's public relations officer on Saturday acknowledged that David Coleman Headley, a terror suspect detained in the United States, is his half-brother, but dismissed as incorrect reports that his family is related to the premier.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday that Pakistan will produce evidence of India's alleged involvement in fomenting unrest in the tribal areas and Balochistan when there is a need to do so.
A year after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed nearly 180 people, most Pakistanis have little or nothing to say about the carnage that shook India. Leading newspapers were silent on the tragedy and so were Pakistanis who are active in the virtual world.
A Pakistani anti-terror court on Wednesday framed charges against Lashkar-e-Tayiba's operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others for involvement in the Mumbai attacks and declared 16 people, including Ajmal Amir Kasab, as proclaimed offenders.
Ground forces of paramilitary Frontier Corps spearheaded the assault to strike the militants of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam group, a Taliban ally in the restive Bara region through which passes the main highway to Afghan capital Kabul
Lawyers defending the seven suspects arrested for their alleged involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks on Monday demanded that Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone attacker nabbed in India, should be brought to Pakistan to face trial with the other accused. The lawyers made the demand when proceedings resumed in the trial of the seven accused, including Lashker-e-Tayiba operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, at the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Pakistan on Monday rolled out its first indigenously assembled version of the JF-17 combat jet developed jointly with China.The JF-17 Thunder jet was rolled out at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra, the country's main facility for building and maintaining combat aircraft. The Pakistani air force plans to make the first JF-17 squadron which will officially become operational between 2010 and 2012.
The Pakistani Taliban have threatened to contaminate water sources and reservoirs with poisonous materials to pressure the army to stop military operations against them in South Waziristan tribal region. The cantonment boards of Rawalpindi and Chaklala, located near the federal capital, received the threat from the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
In continuing wave of violence in northwest Pakistan, a suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle, packed with 50 kg of explosives, when he was flagged at a checkpoint at Pishtakhara Chowk, the main entry point to Peshawar from the troubled Khyber tribal region.
Pakistan has said it could focus on American demands to do more in the war on terror only if the US used its influence with India to lessen tensions and to press for resumption of the stalled composite dialogue process.
Suicide bombers on Friday struck Pakistan's powerful Inter Services Intelligence, hitting its operational headquarters in the north-western city of Peshawar, and a nearby police station in Bannu, killing 20 people, including seven personnel of the spy agency. The strike on the spy agency and the police station left 85 people injured and came as 30,000 troops intensified their operation against the Taliban and foreign militants in lawless Waziristan.
A Pakistani-origin Iranian Consulate official was shot dead by unidentified gunmen within the army cantonment in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, police and witnesses said. Syed Abul Hassan Jaffri, spokesman for the Iranian consulate in the capital of the North West Frontier Province, was attacked by two gunmen when he emerged from his home in Gulberg Colony on Thursday morning.
At least three people were killed and five others injured on Monday when a suicide bomber in an auto-rickshaw blew himself up near a group of policemen in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, a day after 14 people died in a similar attack in the city.The bomber, who was in his early 20s, detonated his explosives when the auto-rickshaw was stopped by policemen at the check post on the ring road at 10 am.
A Pakistani anti-terror court on Saturday adjourned the trial of the seven suspects arrested for their involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, after hearing arguments on the applications filed by the accused, for a week.Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan adjourned the case till November 14 following today's proceedings, said Shahbaz Rajput, one of the defence lawyers. "The court took up the applications filed by the accused and a decision is expected," Rajput said.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will not attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting later this month, effectively ruling out the possibility of talks with his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the summit. Pakistan will be represented by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at the meeting to be held at Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago during November 27-29, official sources told PTI.
Intense political pressure has forced the ruling Pakistan People's Party to abandon a move to get the parliament to endorse a controversial law, which scrapped graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, raising questions about his future. Following a meeting of senior PPP leaders chaired by Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, the party announced late on Monday night that it would not ask the parliament to validate the National Reconciliation Ordinance.
The blast caused considerable damage to the facade of the Shalimar Hotel on Mall Road, less than a kilometre from the Army's fortified General Headquarters that was besieged by a group of terrorists nearly a month ago. Several Army officers' messes, sensitive military installations and other hotels are located near the hotel.
During Saturday's proceedings, Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan declared 14 other suspects linked to the attacks -- including Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive by Indian authorities during the strikes -- as "absconders," sources said.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Islamabad saw India's offer of talks "positively," saying solutions to problems between the two countries cannot be found through wars.
Clinton criticised Pakistan's low rate of tax collection and called for better management of the economy during an hour-long interaction with top business executives in Lahore on Thursday.
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