Sherry Rehman is the new Pakistani Ambassador to the US

After Hussain Haqqani's resignation, Shehrbano "Sherry" Rehman, the former information minister of Pakistan and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader, has been named as the new envoy to the United States. Sherry, a...

Pakistan highlights Middle East policy crisis

Fake friends Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbami Khar says the US can’t live without Pakistan. He means that in Afghanistan and the US fight against the Taliban and insurgents, Pakistan is a critical ally. ...

Meher Bukhari and Kashif Abbasi engaged?

There are reports that Meher Bukhari and Kashif Abbasi engaged last Friday May 27. There are reports that the engaging ceremony was kept extremely private and only family members were present at the ceremony. This is a good sign for our media that we are...

Mast Mornings with Maira: A great show

Dawn News morning  showMast mornings with Maira is the only morning show worth watching in Pakistan.The serious and natural style of Maira Khan is really some thing missing in Pakistani morning shows from long time.Naughty Maira Khan really entertains...

Clinton: Bin Laden's abode unknown to Pakistani authorities

The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton says the relationship between US and Pakistan has reached a turning point. Mrs. Clinton was speaking during a visit to Islamabad, her first since relationship with...

Dealing with Pakistan

Get tough. Get even. Not a single Middle Eastern nation wants an obtrusive USA on its sovereign turf. Americans understand that. In addition, Pakistan must understand that as long as it remains a safe-haven for...

Pakistan government likely complicit in concealing bin Laden

The friend of my enemy is my enemy The Pakistan government is no longer walking a line with the USA. Based on the implications of this story, Pakistan is an enemy of the USA, and not an ally. The implications will...

Sit-in by Pakistanis against drone attacks today

On call of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, Pakistan are set to start two-day protest sit-in in Peshawar, capital city of the country's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, today."PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) is staging a sit-in here today to block the Nato...

David Cameron Gives Away £650million? omg

With the constant barrage of media stories of how hard up the UK really is £876billion public sector debt (a legacy of the last Labour government we are constantly being told) a massive deficit, job cuts,...

Pak PM to witness Indo-Pak semifinal cricket clash

Pak PM to witness Indo-Pak semifinal cricket clashPakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has accepted his India's invitation to witness the World Cup semifinal match between India and Pakistan to be held at Mohalli on...

Pakistani court set to try CIA operative on double murder charge

A Pakistani trial court is going to initiate proceedings of double murder case against CIA operative, Raymond Davis, in the prison where the accused is being kept in Lahore city.Davis had allegedly killed two Pakistani men in Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, on...

Pakistan to try CIA spy in prison in view of security concerns

The CIA operative, who is currently jailed in Pakistan for killing two men in broad daylight in downtown Lahore on January 27, will be tried inside the prison because of the security concerns."LAHORE: A court in Lahore, allowing the conducting of US national Raymond Davis’s...

Pakistan caught between the devil and the deep blue sea

Pakistan has been caught between the devil and the deep blue sea as the country has been wronged by the CIA and for that matter the US despite the fact that Pakistan suffered immensely in the futile so-called war on terror and facing public fury over the US wrongdoing and...

First drone attack since American terrorism in Lahore kills six

In first such attack since an American terrorist, Raymond Davis, gunned two Pakistanis in Lahore on January 27, a US drone attack in the wee hours of Monday killed at least six persons in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district."PESHAWAR: A US drone attack late Sunday...

Court issues notice to Pakistan govt; report says Davis CIA agent

A Pakistani court has issued notice to the federal government over Diplomatic and Consular Privileges Act 1972 in a case related to the double murder case against an American national, Raymond Davis, whom Washington claims to be a diplomatic staff member whereas media reports...

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