In the backdrop of Nawaz Sharif's positive remarks on ties with India, powerful Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has suggested Pakistan's Prime Minister - designate to take gradual initiatives with utmost caution for improving relations with New Delhi, a media report said today.
Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties.
Last Saturday a crowd of lawyers, journalists and academics gathered in the Lahore drawing room of one of Pakistan's most famous human rights activists to pick at a buffet dinner and watch the results of the country's historic elections unfurl on two large televisions.
A Chinese man working on an energy project in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK) was being held on Saturday after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of Koran, officials said.
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, set to become Pakistan's next prime minister, has convened a meeting of the party's lawmakers in Lahore on May 20 to brainstorm a plan of action for the first 100 days of the next government to deal with pressing problems, including terrorism.
Pakistan Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Saturday met Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif and briefed him on the security situation of the country.
Blasphemy is a very sensitive issue in Pakistan, where 97% of the 180 million population are Muslims, and even unproven allegations can spark a violent public backlash.
A Pakistani judge investigating the murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the matter to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days.
A Pakistani judge investigating the murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the matter to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days.
A Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) leader has been found murdered near this eastern Pakistani city, the group said on Saturday.
Pakistan today announced it would free 51 Indian fishermen who had completed their prison terms as a gesture of goodwill.
Pakistan today announced it would free 51 Indian fishermen who had completed their prison terms as a gesture of goodwill.
Police say bombings at two mosques in northwest Pakistan have killed at least 10 people.
The Lahore high court has initiated judicial inquiry into the killing of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh by his fellow prisoners in Kot Lakhpat jail and has appointed justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi as the inquiry judge.
Pakistani police today claimed they had arrested the leader of the gang that kidnapped former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haider, even as security forces were continuing their search for him.