Zardari leaves for US to attend NATO summit
ISLAMAVAD (IANS) President Asif Ali Zardari has left for Chicago to attend a NATO summit as Pakistan mulls the reopening of supplies for the coalition forces in Afghanistan, a media report said Friday. Zardari will be in Chicago for the 25th NATO Summit being held May 20-21 at the invitation of NATO Secretary General Anders [...]
Indo-Pak talks will make progress: Malik
NEW DELHI Ahead of the Indo-Pak Home Secretary talks, Pakistan High Commissioner Shahid Malik on Friday hoped that dialogue between the two countries on all issues, including Siachen and Sir Creek, will make progress. “The talks are on. And it is going to take place again. I don’t say there are problems. We are hopeful [...]
Pak set to reopen NATO routes; Zardari to attend summit
ISLAMABAD Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will attend NATO‘s upcoming Chicago summit as Islamabad looks all set to open the six-month blockade of the military alliance’s supply routes to Afghanistan. NATO extended an “unconditional” invitation for its summit next week to Zardari and supply routes for foreign troops in Afghanistan will be reopened after negotiations [...]
Not a single dry eye as Chisty meets family
ISLAMABAD (IANS) Emotions ran high as virologist Mohammed Khalil Chisty, who spent 20 years in India following a 1992 murder, was reunited with his family in Karachi. Chisty, 80, was permitted by the Indian Supreme Court May 10 to visit Pakistan during the pendency of his appeal against his conviction in a murder case and [...]
Pakistan must check drug trafficking: daily
ISLAMABAD The political dimensions of a drug scandal that might involve Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani‘s son Ali Musa are “overshadowing” the very serious issue of the increasing use of ephedrine, known as the poor man’s ‘ecstasy’, a leading daily said Thursday. Saying that those involved must be brought to book “without fear or favour”, [...]
Two Pakistani training planes crash
ISLAMABAD A pilot was killed as two training aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force crashed Thursday, a media report said. It was not immediately clear whether there was a collision. The aircraft crashed in Rashkai area of Nowshera in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Geo News reported. The planes went down in the suburban area of Rashkai town, [...]
Construction at Musharraf’s ancestral house stirs row
NEW DELHI (IANS) The demolition of a portion of former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf’s ancestral home, Neharwali Haveli in Old Delhi’s Daryaganj, has stirred a row with the legality of the construction coming under question. Archaeological experts say that while the building could be a heritage property, currently there is no protective law for such [...]
Chisty thanks Indian judiciary, people for support
ISLAMABAD Returning home after 20 years though for a brief period, Pakistani microbiologist Khalil Chisty today thanked the Indian judiciary and people for their support and said he will return to India as ordered by the Supreme Court. “I am grateful to the Indian Supreme Court for allowing me to return home for five months [...]