ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan, Mohammad Umer Daudzai called on Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar here Thursday and discussed matters of mutual interest. The Foreign Minister and the Afghan Ambassador discussed bilateral matters and other issues of mutual interest, including the follow-up of the Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf’s recent visit to Kabul. They also exchanged views with regard t ...

ISLAMABAD: British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Adam Thomson on Thursday confirmed that there is no evidence found that any citizen tried to arrive in Britain through Passport Scandal while Britain does not want to malign Pakistan through visa scam. Addressing the press conference at National Press Club, the British High Commoner said that Britain can stop anyone who would try to enter while using illegal ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Taliban Thursday threatened to attack Myanmar to avenge crimes against the Muslim Rohingya, unless Pakistan halts all relations with the government and shuts its embassy in Islamabad. In a rare statement focused on the plight of Muslims abroad, the umbrella Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) group sought to present itself as a defender of Muslim men and women in Myanmar, saying “we will take r ...

PESHAWAR: At least 10 people were killed and 23 injured when a car bomb exploded in the Pashat market of Salarzai area in Bajaur Agency on Thursday. The injured were rushed to Agency Head Quarter Hosptial Khar for treatment. Hospital sources said condition of four of the injured is serious and they have been shifted to Peshawar for further treatment. The Political administration said the blast occurred in M ...

PENNSYLVANIA: A senior Indian official was arrested for alleged sexual assault against a hotel maid in Pennsylvania, US, a media report said on Thursday. Surender Mahapatra, a 1985 batch officer, was arrested in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, NDTV reported. He was part of a group of 34 officers who had gone to the US for a training workshop at Syracuse University in New York, the channel said. The course coordi ...

NEW DELHI: Calling Parnab Mukherjee a strong partner to America and the American people, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has congratulated him on becoming the 13th President of India, Indian media reported on Thursday. Mukherjee had worked throughout his career to deepen India-US cooperation on a wide range of issues, she said in a statement Wednesday after he assumed India’s highest office. She looke ...

PESHAWAR: Dr Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden, prepares Sehri and Iftari by himself in Peshawar prison. Dr Afridi has been lodged in quarter No 81, which is a safe part of the prison, alongside the prisoners who are granted B-class facility. Dr Shakil Afridi prays five times a day. Jail sources said the prison authorities had provided him essential items a ...

LONDON: Pakistan can progress and become a country having bright future if nepotism, dishonesty, corruption, loot, bribery, cheating are eliminated, Muttahida Quami Movement MQM Chief Altaf Hussain told Mustafa Azizabadi and Muhammad Ashfaq, in-charge and joint in-charge respectively of MQM International Secretariat in London. He said merit system had ceased to exist in Pakistan and appointments in governme ...

Washington plans to sell more Patriot advanced capability (PAC-3) missiles to Kuwait. A Patriot missile launcher is shown above. The United States plans to sell 60 more Patriot advanced capability (PAC-3) missiles to Kuwait, one of the major buyers of US armaments in the Persian Gulf region. The Pentagon said on Wednesday that the Patriot sales deal was worth an estimated $4.2 billion. On July 20, the Defen ...

Dr Afridi, who was convicted of treason by a tribal administration, had applied for US visa in 2008 with most of his relatives already settled there. PESHAWAR:Investigators have made a startling revelation: a tribal doctor who had helped the American CIA track down al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad compound was not kidnapped by the Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) extremist group as was claimed by him. ...