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Cabinet change to be in line with 18th Amend: PM
Jan 23rd
LAHORE: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has stated that a final decision to cut the size of the federal cabinet would be made under 18th Amendment and in consultation with the coalition parties, Geo News reported on Sunday.
Talking to foreign …
Thousands protest US drone attacks in Peshawar
Jan 23rd
PESHAWAR: More than 10,000 Islamic party activists held an anti-US protest in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar Sunday calling for an immediate stop to American drone attacks in tribal areas, police said. The activists from the country’s largest fundamentalist Islamic party Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) blocked a main road and staged a six-hour sit-in in front of [...]
Body of former ISI official found in North Waziristan
Jan 23rd
Col Imam had been kidnapped from Miranshah by Asian Tigers in March, 2010.
Ex-ISI official Colonel Imam killed by Punjabi Taliban
Jan 23rd
Ex-ISI official Sultan Amir Tarrar alias Colonel Imam has been killed by militant outfit known as Punjabi Taliban.
Col Imam along with Squadron Leader (rtd) Muhammed Khalid Khwaja and a British journalist, Asad Qureshi were kidnapped in Wana while on …
Former ISI official killed in North Waziristan
Jan 23rd
MIRANSHAH: Former ISI official Colonel (R) Imam was killed in North Waziristan, according to sources. According to DawnNews sources, the group responsible for his death refuse to release his body to his family. The group has yet to identify itself to officials. Last year in March, Colonel (R) Imam and journalist Asad Qureshi were abducted and released by an [...]
Three killed in Orakzai bomb blast
Jan 22nd
PESHAWAR: Three people, including two paramilitary soldiers, were killed in a roadside bomb blast in northwest Pakistan’s Orakzai tribal region on Saturday, officials said. An improvised explosive device planted by militants went off in the town of Ibrahimzai during a routine patrol by paramilitary soldiers, a security official said. “Two soldiers and one civilian were [...]
Why did Joe Biden rush to visit Pakistan?
Jan 22nd
Biden is strongest opponent to prolonged US presence in Afghanistan, continued to oppose the ‘surge’ of US troops.
North Waziristan and Afghanistan
Jan 22nd
Pressure to carry out operation is even greater now, since deemed to have completed its commitments.
Man versus unmanned machines
Jan 21st
Pakistani tribesmen hold banners as they march during a protest rally against US drone attacks, in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan district on January 21, 2011. Hundreds of Pakistani tribesmen paraded in the streets to demand an end to US drone attacks which they said were killing innocent people in the tribal areas, [...]
Tribesmen rally against US drone attacks
Jan 21st
More than 1,000 protesters staged the demonstration in Miranshah shouting slogans against the US and CIA.
