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4000 Baloch Youth Inducted Into Pakistan Army QUETTA: 4000 Baloch youth have been inducted into Pakistan Army after passing out parades in five towns of the province. The passing out parades were held in Quetta, Sibi, Zhob, Khuzdar and Kashmore on Friday. The newly inducted soldiers...

Pakistan Proposes Removing Heavy Guns From LOC By Tom Wright Pakistan has proposed the removal of heavy artillery from the de facto border in Kashmir, the latest in small gestures that both sides are hoping will facilitate broader moves forward in peace talks during 2012. Pakistan made...

U.S. Erred in Deadly Attack New Report on Pakistan Airstrike That Killed 24 Acknowledges U.S. Culpability By JULIAN E. BARNES And ADAM ENTOUS WASHINGTON—The U.S. is poised to concede for the first time that it bears significant responsibility for last month's American airstrike that...

It's a long but reasonably written article. I ve only posted first few paras...for rest go to the link. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/magazine/bill-keller-pakistan.html?pagewanted=1 The Pakistanis Have a Point By BILL KELLER Published: December 14, 2011 As an American visitor...

ISI chief makes it to 2011 Time 100 list ISI Chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha has made it on the ’2011 Time 100 list’. The list includes the names of 100 most influential people of 2011. The list was released Thursday on the magazine’s website. Former CIA director Michael Hayden in the list has...

The unflattering perspective - Part I: ‘The US does not care about Pakistan’ NEW YORK: Professor Noam Chomsky sits on the eighth floor of the quirky-looking Stata Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, US. Former head of the linguistics department, the...

Pakistan Taxes Afghan-Bound Goods, NATO Remains Exempt KARACHI, Feb 8, 2011 (AFP) - Pakistan introduced a tax Tuesday on all goods transiting into Afghanistan, except supplies for US-led NATO troops fighting the Taliban, a provincial government minister said. The decision in southern...

Three Pakistan cricketers and agent face corruption and cheating charges The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has authorised charges of conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments and also conspiracy to cheat against Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt and Mazhar Majeed. Simon...

Afghan War Winnable Without Pakistan Help On Border: US WASHINGTON, Feb 1, 2011 (AFP) - NATO-led forces can still win the war in Afghanistan even if Pakistan fails to move against militant havens on the border, a top US general said on Tuesday. "That's not a mission stopper in my mind,"...

China, Pakistan & Iran Blocked From India Air Show NEW DELHI, Feb 1, 2011 (AFP) - India, which hosts South Asia's biggest airshow next week, has not invited arch-rival Pakistan, China or Iran to the biennial event, organisers said on Tuesday. "Invitations to the airshow have not been...

Gates and Gulf prince pay for Afghan and Pakistan jabs Reuters - Bill Gates and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi pledged $100 million Wednesday to deliver vaccines to children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan will each...

10 Personalities Declared as Global Thematic Icons of the Decade 2001-2010 The Decade Merit Scrutinum, under the aegis of The Sovereign Military Order Of Malta, divulges 5 important objects as the significant most objects of the decade, along with 10 persona- entities as the ‘Global Thematic...

This is the guy who first claimed of Mullah Omar's arrest by the ISI and later his treatment at a Karachi Hospital... Former Spy With Agenda Operates a Private C.I.A. WASHINGTON — Duane R. Clarridge parted company with the Central Intelligence Agency more than two decades ago, but from...

Pakistan Army has decided in principle to relocate the Armoured Corps Centre and school from Nowshera to Bahawalpur. Heard this on Dawn News. There is no official version on this as of now. But i personally think it is a good move.

Pakistan's release of militant stirs questions ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — He is a self-declared warrior against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. He allegedly ran terrorist training camps there when the Taliban was in power. He was suspected of involvement in the attempted assassination of...

Imran slams hero’s welcome for Qadri ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan condemned Malik Mumtaz Qadri’s, the man who gunned down Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, reception as a hero on the premises of the Anti Terrorism Court, Rawalpindi. “Extremism and...

Cricket: First Pink Ball In Pakistan Home Final KARACHI, Jan 10, 2011 (AFP) - The final of Pakistan's premier first-class domestic cricket tournament will be played for the first time with a pink ball under floodlights later this month. The final of the Quaid-e-Azam trophy, named after...

Major General Naseerullah Khan Babar Laid To Rest PESHAWAR Jan 10 (APP): Former NWFP Governor and Ex-federal Interior Minister Major General ® Naseerullah Babar, who died here on late Sunday night, was buried in his ancestral graveyard in Pirpai Nowshera district. Large number of people...

My Father Died for Pakistan By SHEHRBANO TASEER TWENTY-SEVEN. That’s the number of bullets a police guard fired into my father before surrendering himself with a sinister smile to the policemen around him. Salmaan Taseer, governor of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, was...

Army Chief Inaugurates Sui Military College SUI: Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has inaugurated Military College Sui in Dera Bugti on Monday. Speaking at the ceremony, Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pevez Kayani said ten thousand Baloch youth will be recruited in...