The political administration of Bajaur Agency has expedited efforts for recovery of the eleven member peace jirga of Mandal tribe, abducted by pro taliban militants late Monday night from Ambar area of adjacent Mohamand Agency. Assistant Political Agent ...

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari met his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Tuesday, pledged cooperation in the fight against militants in both countries and called for wider regional understanding. Relations between Kabul and Islamabad, both U.S. ...

Two militants were killed and four others injured when the security forces and militants clashed in Pandyalai tehsil and Bhai Dag area of Baizai Subdivision in troubled Mohmand Agency on Tuesday. Sources said that a group of militants ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said he urged the visiting U.S Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher to repatriate five Pakistanis detained at Guantanamo prison and Dr. Afia Siddiqui held in US detention since ...

Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher Monday said that drone attacks had become a compulsion as attacks on the US and allied forces in Afghanistan were very alarming. The action ...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that Pakistan was whipping up war hysteria, and that the Mumbai attacks must have had support from some official agencies within its neighbour. "Today even as Pakistan engages in whipping ...

Pro-Taliban militants executed three people in North Waziristan after accusing them of spying for the United States, officials said Monday. The body of a 25-year-old local tribesman was found on Monday hung upside down in a tree in ...

At least seven people including five policemen were killed and 22 others were injured in a bomb blast in front of a hotel, adjacent to Polytechnic College on Multan Road of Dera Ismail Khan Sunday evening. It ...

Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher has arrived here on Monday. The visit is part of US diplomatic efforts to abate tension between Pakistan and India that emerged in the aftermath of Mumbai incident. During ...

The heads of the Pakistani and Afghan armies, and the commander of the Nato force in Afghanistan, met in Kabul on Friday to review efforts to fight insurgents straddling the border. One of the main topics of the ...