The Indian Army is not mobilising troops on the border with Pakistan in the wake of Mumbai terror strikes, a senior Army official said on Sunday scotching speculation in this regard.
'If I am elected president, one of my highest priorities will be to support the prime minister, the National assembly and the senate to amend the constitution to bring back into balance the powers of the presidency and thereby reduce its ability to bring down democratic governance,' Zardari said in an Op-Ed piece in The Washington Post.
"China is our enemy, not Pakistan. Pakistan can do us no damage," he said.
Pakistan intends to invite External Affairs Minister S M Krishna to Islamabad where it will make "certain proposals" to bridge the "trust deficit" between the two countries.
Pakistan's minority Hindu community has protested the prolonged delay in the approval of a law to register their marriages, saying the lack of legislation affected the inheritance rights of women.
Thousands of protesters led by Canada-returned cleric Tahir ul-Qadri, rallied in Islamabad for the third day in a row on Wednesday, giving the government time till tonight to quit and dissolve the national and provincial assemblies to pave the way for electoral reforms.
Tahira Zahoor's marriage to Maqbool, a 30-year-old journalist, had been postponed after the December 13, 2001 attack on Parliament.
A Pakistani parliamentary panel on Friday directed police and other authorities in southern Sindh province to register cases on the kidnapping of Hindu women and to create a special cell to investigate such incidents.
'He gave this 'gaali' (abuse) to me or you? Did he abuse me or Gujarat? Did he abuse the cultured society of India or me?' Modi asked the people at a rally in Banaskantha.
Pakistani singer Atif Aslam's concert in Pune on April 25 has been cancelled after strong opposition from the Shiv Sena.
The Pakistan government has no plans to roll back the country's atomic programme and is committed to maintaining a minimum nuclear deterrence, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan said Tuesday. The Pakistan People's Party-led government will not compromise on the country's defence and sovereignty, he said in the National Assembly or lower house of Parliament.
Soon after his release on Sunday night, the lawyer, who fought former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry's case in the Apex Court against presidential reference, warned the incoming Parliament to restore the judges, failing which the lawyers and masses will take to the streets.
The crucial joint session of Pakistan Parliament that will endorse new terms of engagement with the United States began in Islamabad on Tuesday, following a string of crises, including the November 26 strike by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which took relations to an all-time low. The joint session of the Senate and National Assembly, summoned by President Asif Ali Zardari, will debate the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee.
Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks, has demanded that the Pakistan government should announce a date for parting ways with the United States and abandoning its war on terrorism.
Welcoming the ban on terrorist organisations in Pakistan, Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said India expects Islamabad to fulfill its commitment to take action against perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks, including Hafeez Saeed.
The ruling party sharply countered the comment, saying the Congress had "demeaned and defamed" Hindus of India.
Fresh clashes erupted on Monday morning between police and hundreds of anti-government protesters who forcibly entered the heavily-guarded Pakistan Secretariat in Islamabad after breaking its gate, hours after the powerful military asked all parties to peacefully resolve the political crisis.
The chief cleric of the radical Lal Masjid in Islamabad has asked Pakistan's Supreme Court to invoke its suo moto powers and order parliament to enforce Shariah or Islamic law across the country.
The British PM clearly indicates that Kashmir was unlikely to be on the agenda during her bilateral meet with PM Modi when she visits India between November 6 and 8.
The announcement was greeted by thumping of desks by Pakistani lawmakers.
Pakistan's law minister Zahid Hamid on Monday quit as the government "surrendered" to hardline religious groups, who called off their violent protests in Islamabad that had left six people dead and hundreds injured.
China's closer and enhanced relationship with Pakistan is putting considerable strain in India-China relations, says former RA&W officer Jayadeva Ranade.
The Pakistan government will prosecute former military ruler Pervez Musharraf and his collaborators for "high treason" for violating the constitution by imposing emergency in 2007. The Parliament will pass a resolution to this effect soon, a minister has said.
India on Wednesday said it will seek to 'reshape' ties with Pakistan depending on its sincerity in acting against terror groups operating from its soil. "My government will seek to reshape our relationship with Pakistan depending on the sincerity of Pakistan's actions to confront groups who launch terrorist attacks against India from its territory," President Pratibha Patil said in her address to the joint sitting of Parliament.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who addressed party Members of Parliament on Thursday, backed Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on the joint statement signed between Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gilani and him in Sharm-el-Sheikh.
Pakistan has criticised India over alleged human rights violation in Kashmir and threatened to expose the country in the world over the "abysmal rights situation" in other parts if it continued to talk about Balochistan.
A Pakistani parliamentary panel on Monday urged the government to ban Indian television channels beamed by cable networks if restrictions on Pakistani channels are not eased in the neighbouring country. The panel reiterated an earlier recommendation for banning Indian channels if restrictions on Pakistani channels were not eased by the neighbouring country. Pakistani cable networks beam nearly all top Indian entertainment channels, which are very popular with viewers.
Political observers see in the continuing executive and parliament versus judiciary clash in Pakistan all the necessary conditions for a derailment of the democratic dispensation once again, reports Amir Mir from Islamabad
Warning that Pakistan, a nuclear power, was not like Afghanistan or Iraq, the country's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said United States would have to think "10 times" before launching an unilateral action in the restive North Waziristan.
A local TV channel recently revealed that Jinnah's granddaughter was living in abject poverty in Karachi.
Five cases of spying by Pakistani intelligence agencies have been registered in last three years and a total 12 people, including eight service personnel, were arrested in this regard, government told Lok Sabha on Monday.
The Congress on Thursday hit back at Narendra Modi for calling Defence Minister A K Antony an "agent of Pakistan and enemy of India", saying such language can come only from a "traitor".
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the chief of Pakistan People's Party, on Monday said that the vexed issue of Kashmir was the root cause of hostility between India and Pakistan.
Posters of General Musharraf will be put up in cities, towns and villages across the country. PML leaders will also organise seminars and public meetings to convince the public to vote for the president.
'I would evaluate her on her past policies towards American Hindus and her future approach towards the community'
Pakistan has no objection to India's relations with Afghanistan but these ties should not assume the dimension of encircling the country, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Thursday.
Some civil society groups in Pakistan have demanded that Islamabad formally seek an apology for the atrocities committed by their troops against Bangladeshis in 1971.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani faces the prospect of being disqualified as an member of Parliament for five years after Pakistan's supreme court ruled on Monday that he "wilfully, deliberately and persistently" defied the highest court and brought the judiciary into "ridicule".
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