Pakistan

  • India, Pakistan flags.
    Pakistan has "solid evidence" of India's alleged involvement in fomenting unrest in Balochistan province and the government is taking up this matter diplomatically with its Indian counterpart, Interior Minister Rehman Malik claimed today.
  • United Nations Flag
    The United Nations has condemned the killing of six aid workers who were gunned down in north-west Pakistan and asked Islamabad to ensure the safety of such people in that country.
  • Officials and soldiers visit the site of bombing in Lahore. Photo Courtesy: AP
    Police say the death toll in a twin suicide bombing in Pakistan's Lahore city has risen to 39 and that nearly 100 others have been wounded.
  • Pakistan hockey team members celebrate after scoring the first goal against S Africa in a World Cup match. Photo Courtesy: AP
    Upset over Pakistan’s worst ever performance in the hockey World Cup, the national Federation on Thursday sacked its selection committee and team management while the entire 18-man squad resigned, taking up moral responsibility for the shoddy show.
  • A Pakistani police officer walks past a house of kidnapped child Sahil Saeed in Jhelum. Photo: AP
    The whereabouts of a British boy kidnapped from his family's home in Pakistan was unclear Thursday, with conflicting reports about whether he has been found and diplomats scrambling for confirmation.
  • People examine the damaged office of World Vision after the attack. Photo Courtesy: AP
    Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of a US-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan today, killing six employees and wounding several others, police and the organisation said.
  • Special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. Photo Courtesy: AP
    Terming the 26/11 terror attack as Pakistan government sponsored one, the prosecution on Tuesday opened its final arguments in the case saying the neighbouring country's Army was also involved in the dastardly attack.
  • A soldier of Pakistan paramilitary force searches vehicles as security enhanced in Karachi. AP
    An American national said to be member of al Qaida was captured in a raid in this southern port city, but Pakistani officials later changed their version that the man picked up was the terror outfit's US born spokesman.
  • Officials stand near a building destroyed by a suicide car bombing in Lahore. Photo Courtesy: AP
    A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a building where police interrogated high value terrorist suspects here, killing 13 people and injuring about 80 others.
  • Pakistani troops hold their weapons as they patrol in the troubled Bajour agency, Pakistan. Photo Courtsey: AP
    A suicide car bomber struck a building where police interrogate high-value suspects in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 61 more including women taking children to school, officials said.
  • Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. Photo Courtsey: Flickr
    Pakistan wants to establish friendly relations with all its neighbours, including India, but New Delhi needs to change its policies towards Islamabad, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Sunday.
  • Akila Naqqash holds a picture of her five year old son Sahil, at her home in Oldham, England. Photo: AP
    Police are investigating the possible involvement of the Taliban in the kidnapping of a five-year-old British boy of Pakistani origin who was kidnapped while visiting relatives in Punjab province.
  • A Pakistani soldier holds a rocket launcher while securing the area in the Bajur tribal region. Photo Courtesy: AP
    Pakistani intelligence officials and militants say gunmen have killed a Pakistani Taliban commander in the country's North Waziristan tribal area.
  • A Pakistani kid is seen outside her family's makeshift tent at a slum in Islamabad. Photo Courtesy: AP
    A top Pakistani Taliban commander close to al Qaida is believed to have been killed in an army airstrike, officials said Saturday, in the latest apparent blow to insurgents who have attacked Pakistan and threatened US forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
  • Pakistani soldiers hold rocket launchers as they secure an area in the Bajur tribal region. File photo: AP
    A suicide bomber struck a convoy of buses near a market in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least 10 people and injuring 15 others, including women and children.
  • Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Photo Courtesy: AP
    Contending that dialogue was the only way forward with Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said the decision to hold foreign-secretary level talks was a "calculated" one but there can be no meaningful discussion till terror from there is ended.
  • A member of Lashkar, a local citizens' militia who fight against Taliban, holding a machine gun in Bajaur. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested a senior Afghan Taliban commander, the latest move in a crackdown on the insurgent network in Pakistan.
  • In this photo taken on March 2, 2010, Pakistani soldiers are seen securing the area in the Bajur tribal region. Photo: AP
    At least 30 militants and a soldier were killed in a gun battle in the restive Mohmand tribal region in northwest Pakistan today, military sources said.
  • England players celebrate after scoring a goal against Pakistan. Photo Courtesy: AP
    European champions England virtually assured themselves a place in the semifinal of the hockey World Cup after thumping Pakistan 5-2 to continue their unbeaten run in the tournament here today.
  • Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai - the site of a devastating terror attack on Nov 26, 2008. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    The 20 men are wanted in connection with a case registered by the Federal Investigation Agency and have been booked under provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act, Pakistan Penal Code and a cyber crimes law.
  • Osama bin Laden is seen at an undisclosed location in this TV image broadcast in this Oct 7, 2001 file photo. Photo Courtesy: AP
    The Pakistani intelligence agency ISI knows the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden but is keeping his location a secret and wants to use the al Qaida chief as leverage over the US.
  • An Afghan solider at the Indian Embassy entrance gate in central Kabul where the blast occured. Photo Courtesy:AP
    Indian missions in Afghanistan are under fresh threat from terror outfits as intelligence inputs suggest that such groups are planning new attacks.
  • Manmohan Singh, left, and L K Advani outside the parliament. Photo Courtesy: AP
    The Lok Sabha on Wednesday witnessed an interesting passage of arms when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh intervened repeatedly and rejected BJP leader L K Advani's charge that US pressure was behind India's decision to talk to Pakistan.
  • Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Photo Courtesy: AP.
    Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has said dialogue is the only way forward for resolving all issues between India and Pakistan despite a perceived lack of progress during the recent Foreign Secretary-level talks.
  • A Pakistani soldier holds a rocket launcher while securing the area in the Bajur tribal region. Photo Courtesy: AP
    An Afghan intelligence official on Tuesday blamed the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba for last week's car bomb and suicide attacks that killed 16 people in the heart of the capital of Kabul.
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