Pakistan has announced that senior Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar will be released on Saturday. Baradar, number two in the Taliban hierarchy, was arrested in the Pakistani port city of Karachi in February 2010. Afghan President Hamid Karzai had demanded Baradar’s release during his visit to Pakistan late last month. “In order to […]
Pakistan plans to raise the issue of American drone attacks in the country’s tribal regions at the United Nations, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. The U.S. spy aircraft routinely fire missiles into Waziristan tribal region which Pakistan says kill innocent people and that the attacks are against sovereignty of the country. The U.S. has refused […]
In quite an odd move, the Foreign Office expressed its lack of knowledge that Pakistan has been used as safe hideaway by Al-Qaeda and its ally outfits. In reply to the allegations leveled by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said she believed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri is somewhere in Pakistan, the Foreign Office […]