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Pak in talks with India to export 400 mn cubic feet of LNG

India is willing to export 400 million cubic feet of gas per day to Pakistan but the matter hinges on finalising a tariff that is on the lower side, petroleum and natural resources minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said.

Jinnah’s home destroyed by militants in Pakistan

A rocket attack by unknown people killed a policeman today and gutted an historic summer retreat used by Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the resource-rich province of Baluchistan, only days after a new government vowed to end a guerrilla war there.

Qaeda man held in Benazir prosecutor murder case

An alleged al Qaeda activist involved in the killing of Chaudhry Zulfiqar, a prosecutor in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, has been arrested in Pakistan, a media report today said.

First Hindu member in 16 years in Pakistan's Punjab assembly

For the first time in 16 years, aHindu has entered Pakistan's Punjab Assembly as a lawmaker, less than a fortnight after the first ever Sikh became a member of the House since the country's creation in 1947.

Pakistan plans to put a tax on movies from Bollywood

A new tax proposed by the Pakistan government could hit the import of films and television serials produced in India and increase the prices of tickets at cinema halls across the country.

Pakistan fighter pilot wins battle of sexes, now she's ready for war

With an olive green head scarf poking out from her helmet, Ayesha Farooq flashes a cheeky grin when asked if it is lonely being the only war-ready female fighter pilot in the Islamic republic of Pakistan.

Musharraf held; sent to judicial custody

Former President Pervez Musharraf was on Thursday formally arrested and remanded to judicial custody for a fortnight over the 2006 killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti.

Indian pilgrim dies of heart attack in Pakistan

A Sikh pilgrim from India died of aheart attack while travelling in a train in this eastern Pakistani city, officials said. Jaswinder Singh, a 69-year-old resident of Delhi,suffered a severe heart attack while travelling in the train at Chowki Shahdara Railway Station and died instantly yesterday, officials of a state-run rescue service said.

Sarabjit probe: Pak tribunal records statements of witnesses

A Pakistani inquiry tribunal probing the murder of Indian national Sarabjit Singh has recorded the statements of 10 witnesses. The one-man inquiry tribunal of justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court is holding proceedings every day and has recorded the statements of 10 witnesses, said an official statement issued on Tuesday.

Sarabjit probe: Pak tribunal records statements of witnesses

A Pakistani inquiry tribunal probingthe murder of Indian national Sarabjit Singh has recorded the statements of 10 witnesses.

Pervez Musharraf gets bail in second case

Pakistan's ex military leader Pervez Musharraf was granted bail Tuesday in a second case relating to his nine-year rule, bringing closer his possible release after nearly two months of house arrest.

Indian jets violated air space: Pak Air Force

Pakistan today accused Indian jets of briefly violating its airspace, days after India said one of its soldiers had been killed by Pakistani troops.

Pakistan's Imran Khan claims assassination plot

Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has claimed that a plot was hatched to assassinate him during an election rally in Punjab before Pakistan's general elections on May 11. "I was informed by the government before the May 11 polls that there was a plot to assassinate me at an election rally on GT Road," Khan said while talking to a group of journalists at his residence at Zaman Park here yesterday.

Indian fighter jets enter its airspace claims Pakistan

Pakistani officials today alleged that two Indian fighter jets entered seven kilometres into the country's airspace over Punjab province. They said the incident occurred over Pakpattan district, 200-km from the provincial capital of Lahore.

Imran Khan claims assassination plot during elections

Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has claimed that a plot was hatched to assassinate him during an election rally in Punjab before Pakistan's general elections on May 11.
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