Islamabad, Dec. 22 (ANI): Reacting strongly over Saturday’s incident when Pakistani custom officials stressed on checking the diplomatic parcels at the Lahore airport, the United States has said parcels for any embassy including US can not be checked nor can any custom duty be clamped on them.

Relatives seek release of Pak prisoners languishing in Indian jails

Islamabad, Dec. 22 (ANI): Relatives of Pakistani prisoners, who have completed their terms in Indian jails, have urged Islamabad to ask New Delhi to release them.

Pak bureaucracy stalls development work in POK

ISLAMABAD - Internal strife between Pakistan’s Water and Power Ministry and the administration of occupied Kashmir is hampering development work of the region.

US denies violating Pakistan air space

ISLAMABAD - The United States has rejected media reports about its aircraft violating Pakistan airspace.

Suicide bombing at Peshawar Press Club kills four (Third Lead)

ISLAMABAD - At least four people were killed and 17 injured in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar Tuesday when a teenaged suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Press Club packed with journalists.

Three killed in blast outside Peshawar Press Club (Second Lead)

ISLAMABAD - A suicide bombing outside the Press Club in the Pakistan provincial capital of Peshawar Tuesday killed at least three people and injured many, including several reporters.

Suicide bombing outside Peshawar Press Club, one killed

ISLAMABAD - A suicide bombing outside the Press Club in Peshawar Tuesday has killed at least one person and injured many, including several reporters.

Resignation reports rumours, says Pakistan defence minister

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar Monday denied he had offered to resign and termed such reports as “baseless rumours”.

Moonshine kills 14 in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Moonshine has claimed the lives of 14 people in Multan town in Pakistan, a country that has banned its citizens from drinking.

PML-N unlikely to demand Zardari’s resignation over NRO

ISLAMABAD - While the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leadership is facing pressure from some party “hawks” to formally demand resignations of President Asif Ali Zardari and NRO-tainted ministers, it is likely to follow the advice of “doves” who want to avoid a confrontation with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).

Cases against me are politically motivated: Malik

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik has rejected corruption charges against him, saying that charges are politically motivated.

Pak NAB hasn’t contacted Swiss Govt. on Zardari’s case

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has not formally requested the Swiss government as yet to reopen the money-laundering cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.

‘Foreign agencies abducting, killing innocent Pakistanis in the name of war on terror’

ISLAMABAD - A parliamentary committee investigating US security agency Blackwater’s presence in Pakistan has raised an alarm over the recent spate of extra-judicial killings and abductions of innocent citizens by foreign agencies “under the garb of the war on terror”.

US drone attacks in Balochistan will undermine economic package

ISLAMABAD - US drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas threaten to jeopardise the federal government’s efforts to pacify estranged Balochistan tribes through the recently announced empowerment package.

‘Careless’ British High Commission tells dozens of Pakistanis it has lost their passports

Pak govt. orders closure of Islamabad mosques at night

ISLAMABAD - In the wake of a fragile security situation in the country, the Pakistan Government has ordered all mosques in Islamabad to be closed after Isha prayers to ensure that terror suspects don’t stay in them at night.

Malik claims only 10 NRO cases pending against PPP leaders

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has claimed that only 10 of the 8,442 cases withdrawn under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) are against Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders.

Pak FO calls India’s troop withdrawal decision ‘cosmetic’

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Foreign Ministry has termed India’s announcement to withdraw 30,000 troops from Jammu and Kashmir as a ‘cosmetic measure.’

US strings aid to Pak with visas for defence auditors

ISLAMABAD - The United States has stringed the reimbursement of over a billion dollars in aid in the shape of Coalition Support Fund (CSF) to Pakistan during the next six months with granting of visas to American defence auditors, who are supposed to keep track of where the aid money is being used.

Pak prevents Indian trucks from moving to Afghanistan through its territory

ISLAMABAD - : While Pakistan and Afghanistan have reached an accord to allow trucks to move freely in other’s territory, Pakistani officials have denied allowing Indian goods movement through its territory into Afghanistan.

PAF gets its first air-to-air refuelling aircraft

ISLAMABAD - In a significant move which has put the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on the list of some of the world’s most advanced air forces, the PAF had inducted the first air-to-air refuelling aircraft into its fleet.

Pak to receive $850 million of Kerry-Lugar aid by year end

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is expected to receive 850 million dollars in US aid under the Kerry-Lugar bill by the end of this year. It will include 500 million dollars as the first tranche of the KLB, and 350 million dollars from the Coalition Support Fund (CSF).

Suicide bomber kills 12 at Pakistan police offices (Second Lead)

ISLAMABAD - A suicide car bomber struck a police compound in Pakistan’s northwestern district of Lower Dir Friday, killing at least 12 people, including three policemen, officials said.

Gilani asks UN to reconsider decision to reduce 40 percent staff in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked the United Nations (UN) to reconsider its decision to trim down its staff in Pakistan.

Pak religious leaders claim ‘halwa’ as new murder weapon

ISLAMABAD - Seven religious leaders and their three attendants have fallen sick after eating ‘halwa’ in the suite of JUI-F Secretary-General Abdul Ghafoor Haidri in the Parliament Lodges, and the host believes it was an attempt on his life.

It doesn’t pay to call members ‘badshah salamat’, ‘malika mohtarma’ in Pak Parliament!

ISLAMABAD - : Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Information Secretary and National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance Chairwoman, Fauzia Wahab had to chew her words after MNA Shahid Khaqan Abbassi sought an apology from her for referring to him as “badshah salamat” (your majesty).

Pak Foreign Office yet to receive instructions on reopening Zardari’s Swiss case

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) has said that it has not received any instructions or communication from the Law Ministry regarding reopening of the SGS reference against President Asif Ali Zardari in Switzerland.

Suicide bomber strikes near mosque used by police in NW Pakistan, killing 10, wounding dozens

President Barack Obama speaks briefly on Afghanistan

Bomb explodes close to mosque used by police in northwest Pakistan, killing 10 wounding dozens

Bomb blast near mosque kills 10 in Pakistan

Seven killed in Pakistan blast

ISLAMABAD - At least seven people were killed and over 20 wounded Friday in a massive blast near the police headquarters in Lower Dir district of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, police said.

Parcels for foreign embassies is not subjected to checks : US