LAHORE: Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh has signed a fresh appeal seeking clemency that is addressed to the people of Pakistan and President Asif Ali Zardari, his lawyer said today.
"Sarabjit has signed an appeal addressed jointly to the people of Pakistan and President Zardari and it will be sent...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China have signed an agreement to hand over control of the strategic Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea to a Chinese company, a move that has raised serious security concerns in India.
Under the agreement for transfer of concession rights, the deep sea port will remain the...
COLOMBO: A British channel has come out with a documentary featuring the pictures of the alleged cold-blooded killing of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son, which was dismissed by Sri Lanka as "lies, half truths and numerous forms of speculation".
The Channel 4 documentary titled 'No War Zone the killing...
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has denied his request for a visit though he had once played a key role in saving the former premier from being hanged during the regime of military ruler Pervez Musharraf.
Zardari, currently camping in Lahore to oversee the...
ISLAMABAD: Kicking-off the first phase of the American pull-out from Afghanistan, US has started using Pakistani land routes to withdraw its military hardware from Afghanistan, with 50 shipping containers moved over the weekend.
The first convoy of containers with military gear crossed the Torkham border check post in northwest Pakistan.
The...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan today successfully tested the nuclear-capable Hatf-IX tactical missile with a range of 60 km, designed to defeat all known anti-tactical missile defense systems.
The test consisted of "successive launches of two missiles from a state-of-the-art multi-tube launcher", the military said in a statement describing the test of the...
BEIJING: China's take over of Pakistan's strategic Gwadar port is not aimed at "encircling" India, but the move is crucial to the country's economic interests as it gives western China access to the Arabian Sea to access oil supplies from the Gulf, official Chinese media said today.
"Not surprisingly, China's...
ISLAMABAD: Claiming that his 1999 Kargil operation was a "big success militarily", former President Pervez Musharraf has said that if the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had not visited the US, the Pakistani army would have "conquered" 300 square miles of India.
He defended his action to launch the operation...
ISLAMABAD: Amid claims that a group of four Generals led by the then army chief Pervez Musharraf masterminded the Kargil operation, Pakistan's main opposition PML-N, which was the ruling party at that time, today demanded a judicial inquiry into the 1999 conflict with India.
"Following the latest revelations by a...
ISLAMABAD: Weeks before hostilities erupted between Indian and Pakistani troops in the Kargil sector in 1999, Gen Pervez Musharraf crossed the Line of Control in a helicopter and spent a night at a location 11 km inside Indian territory, a former aide to the military ruler has said.
Col (retired) Ashfaq...