ISLAMABAD - The list of political leaders and other prominent personalities who benefited from the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) has been made public.

Army to remain in Swat until complete peace is established: Kayani

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said troops will remain in the Swat Valley until all militants are flushed out.

Six soldiers, 14 Taliban killed in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - At least 14 militants and six soldiers were killed Saturday in the latest fighting in the ongoing military operation in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal region, the army said.

Rehman Malik offers to quit if Blackwater presence in Pakistan proved

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s interior minister has offered to quit if the presence of US security agency Blackwater in Pakistan is proved — but he could be treading on thin ice for more than one reason.

Police say 3 suspected militants blow themselves up in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir

Musharraf ordered 35 bulletproof Mercedes from Japan to safeguard his ministers, bureaucrats

ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf certainly put the safety of his ministers and bureaucrats on top of his priorities even if it cost the nation millions of rupees.

Four Pakistani soldiers killed in Taliban rocket attack

ISLAMABAD - Four Pakistani soldiers were killed in a Taliban rocket attack on their camp in the troubled northwestern borderlands, while the forces killed six militants in retaliatory fire, officials said Saturday.

‘Aggressive’ development must to prevent return of terror in FATA: Zardari

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that it is important to follow the military action in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with an ‘aggressive’ development programme to prevent extremism from raising its head once again and bring a visible change in the socio-economic conditions of the people of the region.

US should review its policies regarding Pak nukes: Pak Minister

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Defence Production Minister Abdul Qayyum Khan Jatoi has urged the United States to review its policies concerning Pakistan’s nuclear establishments.

ISI provides CIA with evidence of Indian hand in Balochistan, Waziristan unrest

ISLAMABAD - Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha, during his meeting with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta, has reportedly presented evidence regarding India’s hand in fanning terrorism in Balochistan and Waziristan.

CIA chief asks Pak to expand military operations to target ‘all’ terrorists

ISLAMABAD - US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta, who arrived here on Friday on an unannounced visit, has said that it is important that Pakistan expands its military operations in the Tribal areas in order to target all the terror safe havens located inside the country’s geographical boundaries.

Pakistan demands US share Afghan blueprint; suspected US missile strike kills 8 militants

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Pakistan denies presence of Mullah Omar in the country

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Foreign Office has denied reports regarding the presence of Taliban supreme leaders Mullah Omar in Pakistan.

Include Pakistan’s input in Afghan policy, US urged

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Friday urged the US to fully share the contours of its road map on Afghanistan and incorporate Islamabad’s input in it.

Pak PM says new Afghan policy should not affect regional balance

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani during his meeting with the visiting CIA chief Leon Panetta stressed that the new US strategy for Afghanistan should not affect regional balance in South Asia.

Mullah Omar not in Karachi: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON - Pakistan has rejected a US newspaper report claiming that the one-eyed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar is in Karachi, terming it false and baseless.

Islamabad police arrests UN building attack mastermind

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad police on Friday claimed to have arrested the mastermind of the suicide attack on the UN World Food Program building in which six UN officials were killed and dozen others were injured.

Eight killed in US drone attack in North Waziristan

ISLAMABAD - At least eight persons were killed in a suspected US drone attack in North Waziristan on Friday.

Roadside bomb kills three policemen in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - A roadside bomb killed three police officers and wounded six early Friday in Pakistan’s troubled north-western city of Peshawar, police said.

ANP proposes change in country’s name

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s Awami National Party (ANP) has proposed to change the country’s name from the ‘Islamic Republic of Pakistan’ to the ‘People’s Republic of Pakistan’.

Malik challenges reports that say SwatTaliban commander Fazlullah is alive

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has challenged media reports that claim that SwatTaliban commander Mullah Fazlullah is alive and has sneaked into Afghanistan.

US drone attack kills four in North Waziristan

ISLAMABAD - A US drone attack has reportedly claimed the lives of four people, believed to be extremists, in North Waziristan late on Wednesday night.

‘We have ‘voluntarily withdrawn’ to trap army,’ says Pak Taliban

ISLAMABAD - The Taliban has rejected the Pakistan Army’s claims of capturing strategic locations in South Waziristan, saying they have ‘voluntarily withdrawn’ into the mountains as part of a well planned strategy.

Pakistan facing international conspiracy: former army chief

ISLAMABAD - Pointing a finger at the intelligence agencies of India, the US, Israel and Afghanistan, a former Pakistani army chief said Wednesday that an international conspiracy was being hatched against this country but Islamabad had the wherewithal to deal with the situation.

Gilani orders enquiry into Pakistan’s poor show in international corruption Index

ISLAMABAD - Concerned over the Transparency International’s (TI) latest report in which Pakistan ranked 42nd in the global list of most corrupt countries, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has ordered an enquiry into the country’s poor show in the international corruption index.

Zardari not my rival: Sharif

ISLAMABAD - Downplaying reports of his rivalry with President Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said that he never considered Zardari as his rival, and that he is ready hold talks with leaders of all political parties for the sake of democracy.

Zardari ready to surrender important powers: Gilani

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that President Asif Ali Zardari is ready to surrender the powers to appoint services chiefs and dissolve parliament.

Zardari to visit Kabul Thursday

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will pay an official visit to Afghanistan Thursday to attend the oath taking ceremony in Kabul by President Hamid Karzai for his second term in office.

Pakistan’s Swat valley Taliban chief escapes to Afghanistan: Report

ISLAMABAD - The leader of the Taliban militants in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat district, Maulana Fazlullah, said Tuesday that he had survived the military offensive and was now in Afghanistan.

Pak NGOs reports massive irregularities in Gilgit-Baltistan elections

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan government may have denied reports of massive irregularities in Gilgit-Baltistan elections, but a report issued by a coalition of non-government organisations (NGO’s) has said the polls were marred by fallacies.

Zardari in, Gilani out of NRO beneficiaries list