Hillary Clinton arrived in Islamabad today. She promises 'a new page in relations' and several civilian investment deals. According to reports in the local media, in her interview she focussed mainly on a desire to...
Over 60 Pakistanis from the Lahore pipe band and a trade group have been refused entry to the UK by the UK Border Agency. The pipe band members were due to attend the World Pipe Band Championships on...
Clashes between the Pakistan government and the Taliban have forced nearly three million people from their homes in north-west Pakistan. Recenty, 800,000 refugees have been able to return to their homes, but over a million people are still living with host communities, and...
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" Taliban hostilities in Pakistan show no sign of abating despite the deployment of 8,000 troops in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and the army’s claim of killing 1,000 Taliban. Officials say that a constant supply of fresh fighters from inside Pakistan and...
" Pakistani students interested in obtaining their higher education from various universities of the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) are not able to go abroad even after they have been granted admission, because the visa centres have been shuttered. Students...
" Pakistan immediately needs at least $10 billion to deal with the current economic crisis, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir has said. Bashir, who participated in the inaugural meeting of the Friends of Pakistan group, told a group of Pakistani journalists Friday night here...
" The inflow of remittances into Pakistan from non-resident Pakistanis in 2008-09 is set to surpass the mark of $7 billion for the first time in the country’s history. In FY [fiscal year] 2008 the inflow of remittances amounted to 6.45 billion dollars while the finance...
"The influential Public Accounts Committee of the Pakistani parliament is now officially to be controlled by the opposition and headed by Nisar Ali, a close aide of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and is likely to start with gusto by digging up the dirt on former...
" A long-delayed plan to receive dozens of United States military advisers to Pakistan to train the army in counter-insurgency can begin in a matter of weeks under a new agreement on a training base, official sources here said Saturday. The sources said that military and...
The Pakistani Cricket Board is asking the International Cricket Council to change how national cricket teams plan their international tours. The request is a result of the Australian cricket team choosing to visit India, which recently suffered through a series of bomb...
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The Punjab Mineral Department in Pakistan has ordered shut the biggest salt mine of Asia located in the centre of the Salt Range in the northeast of the country, terming it dangerous. The order was passed during a visit of the Rawalpindi Mines Inspector Dilshad Baloch to the...
"Twenty-seven Pakistani scientists and engineers participated in ‘Big Bang’ experiment proving their excellence in this complex field.Briefing mediamen on Tuesday about the role of National Center of Physics (NCP) in the ‘Big Bang’ experiments being performed at CERN...
A retired Pakistani general has made startling disclosures about Pakistan's alliance with the US in the so-called war on terror, accusing former military ruler Pervez Musharraf of keeping the army in dark about compromises with Washington. Original story published on front...
After the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States, the US made Pakistan to jump into Washington's so-called war on terror but Islamabad could neither satisfy its bullying ally despite suffering huge losses nor could maintain order on its own soil, with the situation reaching...
An unprecedented hike in prices of electricity by 40 per cent went into effect in Pakistan on Wednesday jolting a country of 160 million people already reeling under the highest inflation in the country’s history. www.maverickpakistanis.com