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Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Asharf Thursday declared that Pakistan will continue its fight against terrorism in new year with the public support. Speaking at the federal cabinet, the Prime minister said that extremism, militancy and intolerance are the challenges which are a matter of high concern for the government since long. “As a […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday termed the menace of terrorism as the biggest challenge for the country in the year 2013. He called upon the government, political parties and all other stakeholders to sit down and chalk out a comprehensive strategy to flush out terrorists from the country. In a […]
Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira on Monday urged the media to play a positive role in the war against terrorism‚ by not showing the live footage of such personalities‚ who favour extremists. Addressing the Centenary celebrations of Pakistan Engineering Council, he said the media, while using its right to the freedom of expression, should […]
Mobile phone service was again blocked in Karachi on Friday without any prior announcement and giving no reason as to why the country’s commercial center was deprived of the facility. It is now an easy thing for the government to block mobile service on the strange plea of security concerns that the militants use cell […]
The National Assembly has passed a bill, allowing the country’s security agencies to record phones and use e-mails and text messages as proof in trials in terrorism-related cases. Rights groups are concerned at the possible misuse of the legislation, as such laws have always been misused by the state institutions especially when they deal with the […]
In yet another move to promote people-to-people, Pakistan and India have ope-rationalized a new visa regime from December 14, interior ministers of the two countries say. The new visa regime would become operational from January 15, 2013, state media has reported. Thousands of divided families in both countries say that they still face a lot of […]
Pakistani Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, raised the issue of drone attacks with the U.S. Ambassador in Islamabad, Richard G. Olson, in a meeting in the backdrop of Saturday’s attack on the country’s North Waziristan tribal region, the Prime Minister’s office said. The U.S. spy aircraft fired missiles on a house near Mir Ali, […]
President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan was fighting a war against those who had ruined the security of the country and would continue to do so until peace was restored. Addressing a youth conference, the president said if you are not controversial, then you have not done anything substantial. The President […]
Rejecting the impression that acquittals in terrorism cases are because of weakness of courts, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has said such acquittals were a direct consequence of faulty investigation and poor prosecution. While addressing a seminar in Karachi, he said that the steps to be taken for combating terrorism are not to be restricted […]
Tehran: Pakistan has reiterated its demands to the United States saying that it should immediately stop drone strikes in the country. While expressing her views about the drone attacks, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, who is visiting Iran these days, termed them illegal. Khar, who gave her interview to an Iranian television channel prior […]
Sibi: (Wednesday, August 15, 2012) While hearing the Akbar Bugti murder case here today, an anti-terrorism court has issued arrest warrants for former President Pervez Musharraf and others accused. Sharing its remarks over the so far proceeding of the case, the court expressed anger over the failure of police and directed it to arrest the […]
A woman was arrested in London Saturday on suspicion of terrorism offences in an operation that saw six people detained earlier this week but which police say is not linked to the Olympics. Officers from Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command arrested the 22-year-old in an early morning raid at a home in Hackney, northeast London. She […]
