Peshawar: A Pakistani doctor who helped the US track down Osama bin Laden was convicted of high treason on Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington. Shakil Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where US commandos...
05:56:36 PM May 23, 2012
Lahore: A Pakistan Army helicopter with two personnel on board crashed into the Chenab River in Punjab province on Wednesday while on a routine flight, officials said. A pilot and a trainee pilot were aboard the helicopter when it came down at a spot located 100 km from Lahore. Officials said that the helicopter was on a routine flight from a base in Gujranwala when it lost contact with the...
04:29:35 PM May 23, 2012
Washington: Pakistan is half way through the construction of its fourth nuclear reactor at Khushab, which will give it capability to speed up plutonium manufacturing, latest US satellite imagery has revealed. On completion, the reactor would enable Islamabad to build large number of smaller nuclear warheads, Washington-based eminent think-tank Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said. Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme is considered to be among the fastest growing in...
11:59:29 AM May 23, 2012
Islamabad: Three senior officers of the Pakistan Navy have been penalised after a court martial found them guilty of negligence and dereliction of duty during a deadly Taliban attack on a key naval airbase in Karachi last year which also destroyed two US-made surveillance aircraft. The navy's media arm confirmed that the three officers were tried "under the naval law and were accordingly penalised." It did not identify the officers...
12:31:16 PM May 22, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities on Sunday briefly blocked access to Twitter on the ground that it was being used to promote a contest on Facebook for blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed before Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stepped in to end the ban. The Information Technology Ministry said Twitter was blocked for publicising "blasphemous and inflammatory content". Calls for participation in the contest for blasphemous caricatures were being made on...
11:48:01 PM May 20, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistan Navy on Saturday completed the establishment of a new Naval Strategic Force Command, described by the military as the custodian of the country's nuclear second strike capability. Naval Strategic Force Command headquarters was inaugurated by naval Chief Admiral Mohammad Asif Sandila. The event was attended by Strategic Plans Division Chief Lt Gen (retired) Khalid Kidwai and senior naval and military officers. Vice Admiral Tanveer Faiz, commander of...
12:50:57 AM May 20, 2012
Islamabad: A brawl occurred between Pakistan International Airlines crew members and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Musa on a flight from Lahore to Karachi, according to a media report on Friday. According to The Express Tribune, Ali Musa, a parliamentarian, insisted that his guard, who had an economy class ticket, would sit with him in the business class. The matter was resolved when the captain of the flight...
06:10:36 PM May 18, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's donation of $ 1 million to the famous sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti at Ajmer will be paid from Pakistan's public exchequer, his spokesman has said. Zardari announced the donation, which the shrine's administrators have described as one of the biggest in recent years, when he offered prayers at the Dargah on April 8. The President visited the shrine in Rajasthan after meeting...
05:37:11 PM May 18, 2012
Despite hopes to the contrary of the hullabaloo of media doomsayers the official visit to the United Kingdom by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani ...
03:38:52 PM May 18, 2012
Islamabad: Two trainer aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force collided mid-air and crashed into a thickly populated area in the country's northwest on Thursday, killing four pilots and injuring at least five persons on the ground, officials and witnesses said. Residents of Rashkai area in Nowshera district said the aircraft collided before plunging into two houses. The walls and roofs of the houses collapsed and debris from the aircraft lay...
11:51:55 AM May 17, 2012
Karachi: Pakistan's ailing virologist Khaleel Chishti on Wednesday reunited with his family after nearly two decades amidst moving and tearful scenes at the Karachi airport where hundreds of people gathered to welcome him. Chishti, who spent 20 long years away from home in Indian jail on charge of involvement in a murder, was brought out of the Jinnah international airport in a wheelchair, looking frail and weak but with his...
11:47:00 PM May 16, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistani Taliban have released a dramatic video of an attack by militants on a jail in the country's northwest that resulted in the escape of nearly 400 prisoners in April 2012. The video, parts of which were aired by TV news channels, shows Taliban fighters setting off explosives and firing within the Central Jail at Bannu city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The attack resulted in the largest jailbreak in...
02:51:56 PM May 16, 2012
Lahore: LeT founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has served legal notices on two Pakistani journalists for allegedly concocting a report about his secret meeting with US Ambassador Cameron Munter, seeking Rs 10 crore as damages. The notices were served on columnist Nazir Naji and reporter Amir Mir by Saeed's lawyer AK Dogar. The notices contended that Naji's column in the Urdu daily Jang on May 9 and Mir's report in the...
01:14:01 PM May 16, 2012
Islamabad: India is likely to thin out troops from wartime positions on the border with Pakistan, where they were deployed after the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, according to a media report on Monday. The two countries reached an understanding on withdrawing troops during President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to New Delhi on April 8, 'The Express Tribune' quoted unnamed military and diplomatic officials as saying. The withdrawal of troops to...
01:58:07 PM May 14, 2012
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said he will use all options available to him to defend the Constitution and to appeal against his conviction of contempt by Pakistan's Supreme Court. "Come what may, I will protect the Constitution of Pakistan. I will go to the last limit and exhaust all my options and exercise my right to appeal," Gilani told a gathering of leaders and workers of the...
05:07:32 AM May 14, 2012
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