Pakistan News

Pakistan's central bank left interest rates unchanged for a second meeting as the fastest inflation in Asia after Vietnam curbs scope to ease policy and bolster growth.

Two Pakistani nationals were killed by Afghan security forces when they tried to lay a landmine near the border, media reports said Saturday.

Two Western aid workers kidnapped in Pakistan in January are being held by the Pakistan Taliban near the border with Afghanistan, a senior militant commander told Reuters on Saturday.

JAKARTA, Indonesia: An Indonesian militant charged in the 2002 Bali terrorist attacks told interrogators he spent weeks holed up in a rented house, painstakingly building a half-ton bomb using household items including a rice ladle, a grocer's scale and plastic bags.

The Pakistani army has started court martial proceedings against five officers over suspected ties to a banned extremist group that has called for ousting the U.S.-backed government, security officials said Saturday.

The toll due to consumption of spurious medicines at a well known heart institute has risen to 120, with a woman losing her life Saturday.

ISLAMABAD: Tajik ambassador to Pakistan Zubaydullo Zubaydov on Thursday called on Minister for Railways Ghulam Ahmed Bilour and discussed matters pertaining to bilateral interest.

New Delhi : Anand Sharma the trade minister of India after the three decades will travel to Pakistan on the historic visit and their he will stay for the three days and he has planned to start his trip from 13th of February and this was accompanied by the delegation of huge business and to stringing with the views it has ties the economics.

The human resources manager at Nestle's Kabirwala dairy factory has been ordered to appear before the Punjab High Court on February 15 for repeatedly showing contempt for court orders to reinstate the unfairly terminated President of the Nestle Kabirwala Workers Action Committee, Ashfaq Butt.

KARACHI: On the directive of prime minister, government has submitted a formal nomination for Abdul Sattar Edhi to the 2012 Nobel committee.

Troops of Pakistan para military force guard the Supreme building during proceedings on Thursday, Feb 9, 2012.

The officials told The Associated Press that the two were detained in the Pakistani city of Quetta, the alleged base of the Taliban insurgency.

On Tuesday, Pakistani fisherman used cranes and ropes to haul a dead whale shark from the waters in Karachi harbor.

The P.I.C. scandal confirms the urgent need for investigations into quality control at drug-testing facilities, licensing protocols for the pharmaceutical industry and the training of doctors at government-run hospitals.

In a court battle testing the impunity long enjoyed by Pakistan's intelligence service, the Pakistani military said Thursday that it would not bring forward seven men who were mysteriously kidnapped from prison in 2010 - allegedly by intelligence agents - because they were in extremely poor health.

A US drone targeting a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region near the Afghanistan border Thursday killed four suspected militants including a key commander of the terrorist group al-Qaida in overnight strikes.

"I didn't think it was fair that I was preaching it to them and I didn't honor it myself," Gilbert said.

An Indonesian accused of making the explosives used in the 2002 Bali bombings is scheduled to go on trial next week on terrorism and murder charges, a court official said Thursday.

People look at a carcass of whale shark in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012.

A group of professional Pakistani voice actors are dubbing an Iranian TV series and two telefilms, which will be broadcast by the Urdu service of Sahar, an international Iranian TV network.