Islamabad, Pakistan News

An American was held for questioning in Pakistan on Tuesday after security officials at the airport in northwestern Peshawar discovered bullets in his luggage, police said, the latest likely irritant in ties between the two countries.

's prime minister with contempt Monday for defying its order to reopen an old corruption case against the president, sharpening a political crisis that has shaken this already volatile country.

Our state machinery revved into quick action last week to denounce the hearings on Balochistan conducted by the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

Pakistan 's supreme court on Monday forced the authorities to present seven men who vanished four years ago, apparently into the custody of Inter-Services Intelligence , in a case that tests whether the country's military's main spy agency is above the law.

A few years ago, Raja Hassan Akhter, took the leap and converted his taxi to a cleaner-burning fuel.

Family members of missing Baluchs, mostly political activists, rally in protest on the eve of international Human Rights Day in Quetta, Balochistan, on December 10, 2011.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Monday reiterated its stance on early elections, saying that it would oppose the appointment of a new prime minister, in case Yousuf Raza Gilani is ousted from his job.

India's Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma is due to begin a three day visit to Pakistan to boost trade between the two rival neighbours.

Capital in need of efficient public transport system ISLAMABAD: Despite the new and recently widened roads, traffic chaos at major intersections of the capital's boulevards continues because of the lack of a decent public transport system that forces commuters to use their own vehicles.

The Muslim Youth Front , an unregistered outfit headed by Shahid Khan who calls himself ameer of the group, has kicked off its campaign against homosexuality in Lahore.

Foreseeing that the judgement might be against him in this particular case, he told a foreign TV channel in an interview that if convicted he would automatically lose his office, so there was no need for him to quit.

Welcome all newshounds to the circus. Since October last year, the Israeli media have been obsessed over reporting and often exaggerating seemingly every single piece of information regarding the standoff with Iran over its plans to develop nuclear weapons, possible military action, etc.

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Pakistan's leading militants have called on fighters to honor an agreement not to attack the Pakistani military in the most important sanctuary for the Taliban and al-Qaida along the Afghan border.

Pakistan's leading militants have called on fighters to honor an agreement not to attack the Pakistani military in the most important sanctuary for the Taliban and al-Qaida along the Afghan border.

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, left, is seen with his comrade Waliur Rehman during his meeting with media in Sararogha, a Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border.

Osama Bin Laden told his children to live peacefully in the West where they would get a good education, his brother-in-law has revealed.

An effort to ban hip-hop music in schools instead turned into a lesson in tolerance in a nation where religious fundamentalism has been on the rise.

Indias Commerce Minister Anand Sharma will walk into Pakistan through Wagah border tomorrow at the head of big trade delegation on a three-day visit to Pakistan for talks to normalise trade relations between the two countries.

The incident took place near Adiala Jail. According to a police spokesman, Raja Sajid group started construction of a wall on a disputed plot when Raja Abid group started firing.