Three senior Pakistani Naval officers will face court martial for their alleged negligence during a terrorist attack on Mehran airbase in Karachi that left 10 security personnel dead and two surveillance aircraft destroyed.
Terrorists torched 10 tankers carrying oil for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces in Afghanistan in southern Pakistan, injuring five persons including the vehicles' drivers, police and witnesses said on Monday.
Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will carry the "complete mandate" of Pakistan's government and opposition during her interaction with Indian officials, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Tuesday. Gilani made the remarks while taking the leadership of all political forces "into confidence on the dialogue process with India", an official statement said. Khar "would be able to put across Pakistan's perspective with confidence", he said.
The United States raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad was not known to "any tier" of the Pakistani army which was "taken by surprise" by the May 2 operation, a top military officer told an inquiry panel probing the Al Qaeda leader's presence in Pakistan.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday patted himself on his back claiming that his interactions with Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh led to 'no blame game' after the recent bombings in Mumbai unlike in 2008.
The Pakistani government has lodged a protest with the United States over the arrest of Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai and accused Washington of running a "slander campaign" against Islamabad.
The India-Pakistan dialogue process should be "uninterrupted and uninterruptible" and help in building trust between the two countries, Pakistan's minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said on Tuesday.
Hina Rabbani Khar is set to become Pakistan's first woman foreign minister, with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani recommending her elevation as a full-fledged minister, ahead of the Indo-Pak Foreign Minister-level talks in July.
Pakistan on Tuesday threatened to pull back its troops from the border with Afghanistan, as Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar said his country could not afford to keep forces deployed there following the suspension of US military assistance.
A day after the United States moved to suspend $800 million military aid to it, Pakistan Army on Monday claimed that it would continue to conduct operations without American assistance, even while saying it had no official intimation of Washington's decision.
At least three blasts ripped through a Pakistan Army arms depot on the outskirts of Islamabad on Monday, injuring two persons, said police officials. The blasts at the arms depot in Sihala area, located nearly 20 km from the garrison city of Rawalpindi, were believed to be accidental in nature. The blasts damaged a building and triggered a fire. Army troops and policemen cordoned off the area and prevented people and the media from approaching the arms depot.
A suicide bomber on Monday blew himself up near the venue of a political rally at Battagram in northwest Pakistan, killing at least six persons and injuring 19 others. The bomber struck as workers of the PML-Q party, which is part of the ruling coalition at the Centre, were preparing for a rally to be addressed by senior party leader and former federal minister Amir Muqam. Witnesses said the bomber blew himself up near a group of policemen deployed to guard the rally.
The Al Qaeda-linked terror group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami has threatened to attack Pakistan's foreign office, its high commission in India and top diplomats if Islamabad does not stop sharing information about it with New Delhi. HuJI has threatened it will attack the foreign office, the foreign secretary, Pakistan's high commission in New Delhi and High Commissioner Shahid Malik if its demand is not met.
Pakistan on Friday reacted strongly to United States military Chief Admiral Mike Mullen's comments that it had "sanctioned" the killing of journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, describing his remarks as "extremely irresponsible".
Pakistan and the United States discussed strengthening prosecution and laws to target illegal shipments of components used to make improvised explosive devices and other terrorism cases, as law enforcement and counter-terrorism officials from the two sides held talks in Islamabad.
The terrorist attack on a key Pakistani naval airbase last month during which 10 security personnel were killed and two maritime surveillance aircraft destroyed was carried out with "inside support", senior Pakistani military officials told a Parliamentary panel.
Ilyas Kashmiri, considered one of the masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, was behind the assassination of Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti earlier this year, according to a media report on Tuesday.
A Pakistani army Brigadier, detained on May 6 for his alleged links with the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir extremist group, is likely to be released soon as authorities have not found "enough evidence" to charge him.
Slain Al Qaeda-linked militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri "may also have been part" of the Mumbai attacks but India's claim that he may have been supported by Pakistan is misplaced, Pakistan Interior minister Rehman Malik has said.
Pakistan cannot afford to match the induction of modern weaponry by India, which possibly has a greater capacity to sustain a war, Pakistani Defence minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has said.
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