Pak Punjab Christians appeal to government to counter extremist threatsLAHORE - The Christian community in Pakistan’s Punjab Province has asked the government to provide security for an annual Christian congregation at Maryamabad, in Sheikhupura district, following threats of terror attacks from unidentified persons. Baloch insurgency could hamper Pak Govt.’s drive against Taliban: ReportLAHORE - The Baloch unrest could seriously dent the Pakistan Government’s operation against the Taliban and its economy as well, a report in the Financial Times has said. India still a threat for Pakistan: NizamiLAHORE - Threat from India still looms large over Pakistan, well known Pakistani journalist and Chairman Nazria Pakistan Trust Majid Nizami has said. “We have no love for Musharraf, neither army creating any hurdle in his trial”: GilaniLAHORE - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has rejected reports that the Army is trying to protect former President General Pervez Musharraf from high treason charges, adding that neither he, nor his party, has any love for the former general. Sharif wants Pak army to file high treason suit against MusharrafLAHORE - Attacking former President General Pervez Musharraf for violating the Constitution and impeding the judicial system of the country, Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has urged the armed forces not to obstruct the former general’s trial. Gilani’s refusal to meet British envoy casts doubt over his real agenda of visiting PakLAHORE - Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani’s refusal to meet British diplomat Mark Lyall Grant has cast doubts over his real purpose in visiting Islamabad. Under-fire Musharraf does a Schwarzeneggar, says “Ill be back”!LAHORE - Mirroring Arnie’s iconic lines ” I’ll be back” from the blockbuster flick “Terminator”, former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has said he has no plans to settle abroad and would soon return to his country. British diplomat fails to garner Sharif’s support for MusharrafLAHORE - Talks between senior British diplomat Mark Lyall Grant, who is trying to garner the support of Pakistani leaders to prevent former President General Pervez Musharraf from being tried for high treason, and Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif have failed to yield the desired results. Kashmir dispute to be resolved within next two years: POK PMLAHORE - Pakistan occupied Kashmir’s (POK) Prime Minister Sardar Yaqoob Khan has said India is not in a position to prolong the Kashmir dispute, and that the issue would be resolved within two years. Bishop of London, Egypt’s Grand Mufti condemn Gojra’s anti-Christian riotsLAHORE - The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Richard Chartres and the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Dr Ali Gomaa, have both condemned the recent anti-Christian riots in Gojra that claimed nine persons and left many injured. Swat tribesmen turning the tables on the TalibanLAHORE - Residents of Mingora, one of the main cities of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, have long been used to seeing bullet-riddled bodies dumped on the streets. Sharif says demanding a consensus on Musharraf case equal to defending himLAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has criticized the PPP-led federal government for insisting on a consensus prior to registering a high treason case against former president Pervez Musharraf. Drone strikes forcing al Qaeda leaders to move into citiesLAHORE - The US drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas are forcing al Qaeda leaders to move into urban areas, the Daily Times reports. ‘Drones may kill leaders but not eliminate the Taliban’LAHORE - The US missile strike that killed Baitullah Mehsud may not be sufficient to eliminate the Taliban from Pakistan’s tribal belt. Trying Musharraf could hurt Sharif more than Zardari: Najam SethiLAHORE - The invocation of the Pakistani constitution’s Article 6 against former President Pervez Musharraf may once again put the civilian government on collision course with the military, and eventually hurt PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif more than President Asif Ali Zardari, the Daily Times reports. ‘US finding it impossible to deal with “corrupt” Pak army infiltrated by radicals’LAHORE - Pakistan’s political and security conditions are increasingly deteriorating from the US point of view, former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has said. Anyone killed in US drone attacks is a martyr: Fazlur RehmanLAHORE - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman has said that Baitullah Mehsud had been ‘martyred’ in the US drone attack, and added that he termed anyone killed in a US attack a ‘martyr’. US will now be seeking ‘quid pro quo’ from Pak after killing MehsudLAHORE - After the killing of dreaded militant commander Baitullah Mehud, the US may now seek to get more cooperation from the Pakistan Government in hunting down Taliban leaders who are based in the country, but conduct most of their attacks in Afghanistan, according to analysts. Lahore commissioner blames RAW for Punjab unrestLAHORE - Lahore Commissioner Khusro Pervez has blamed India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for the Punjab unrest. Musharraf’s erstwhile key backers are now demanding his trialLAHORE - Those who facilitated General (r) Pervez Musharraf’s move to becoming Pakistan’s army chief in 1998, including PML-N leader Nisar Ali Khan and then Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif, are now demanding his trial for high treason, the Daily Times reports. Pak rights body wants Islamabad, New Delhi to take up plight of arrested nationalsLAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has urged India and Pakistan reconsider the plight of each other’s nationals incarcerated in prisons across the border, as both the governments exhibit a welcome resolve to resume dialogue. Pakistani Christians protest killings as judicial inquiry opens into Muslim rampageLAHORE, Pakistan — Hundreds of Pakistani Christians staged a protest Wednesday over the killing of eight of their community members by a Muslim mob, with some demonstrators smashing the windows of public buses. After Gojra, 3 ‘blasphemy’ killings in Pak Punjab for ‘desecrating Quran’LAHORE - In the wake of the anti-Christian riots in Gojra, a factory owner and two others have been killed by factory workers for allegedly desecrating the holy Quran. Gojra’s riots to “make mincemeat of the Christians” were pre-planned: HRCPLAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has said that the recent anti-Christian riots in Gojra were pre-planned, and not a spontaneous reaction of an enraged Muslim community. Pak clerics say suicide bombings against teachings of IslamLAHORE - The desecration of mosques, imambargahs and other places of worship and the killing of innocent people through suicide attacks and remote-controlled bombs is against Islam, humanity and Pakistan, clerics from all schools of thought have said. Pentagon establishes special cell to focus on Pak, Afghan conflictLAHORE -A new war room focusing entirely on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan sits deep inside a cavernous basement of Pentagon. This cell has become a visible symbol of how much the related conflicts have become US Chiefs of Joint Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen’s war, according to the Los Angeles Times. Pakistan International Airlines is technically bankruptLAHORE - Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has “technically gone bankrupt”, PIA Managing Director Captain Ijaz Haroon has said. Pak Army officers arrested for collaborating with terrorists: MalikLAHORE - Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that officers of the rank of Major, who wanted to target army generals and elements in the intelligence agencies sympathetic towards terrorists, have been arrested. Pak human rights body condemns killing of Christians in GojraLAHORE - The Human Rights Society of Pakistan (HRSP) has condemned the brutal killing of innocent Christians in Gojra. I would never become a politician: Former Pak PMLAHORE - Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that politics is not for everyone, adding that he would never become a politician. |
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