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Why Pakistan Celebrates Independence Day on Aug 14 15 Aug 2013 | 01:46 pm
Bangalore, Aug 14: The separate states of India and Pakistan were created at midnight on August 15, 1947. Yet while India celebrates that day as its independence day, Pakistan celebrates its independe...
Spoilers threaten Pakistan India Peace Process 15 Aug 2013 | 01:36 pm
ISLAMABAD: Deadly violence over the last week along the disputed Kashmir border between Pakistan and India threatens to sabotage recent efforts by the nuclear-armed rivals to improve ties, illustratin...
Al Qaeda shifts away from base in Pakistan 15 Aug 2013 | 01:23 pm
ISLAMABAD: As Al Qaeda marks its 25th anniversary this month, analysts say the recent security threat in Yemen shows the organisation’s centre of gravity is shifting away from its base in Pakistan. US...
Comprehensive security plan chalked out for Eid days 9 Aug 2013 | 12:38 am
Islamabad, Aug 8: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police have finalised a comprehensive security and patrolling plan on the eve of Eidul Fitr and also augmented the security at public places, wo...
Militants kill Investigators of Slain Tourists 9 Aug 2013 | 12:35 am
GILGIT, Aug 8: Security forces intensified search on Wednesday for militants of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in the remote northern town of Chilas, headquarters of the Diamer district, after the kil...
Plan to Regulate Funds for NGOs 9 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am
ISLAMABAD, Aug 7: The government is considering a plan to strengthen, monitor and coordinate inflows of foreign aids to international non-government organisations (NGOs) to carry out development work ...
US Pakistan to talk security at new level 2 Aug 2013 | 03:05 pm
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1 — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Pakistani counterpart, Sartaj Aziz, said Thursday that the two countries will resume high-level negotiations over security issues. Kerry a...
Taliban free 243 prisoners in DI Khan jailbreak 2 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
DERA ISMAIL KHAN/PESHAWAR, July 31: In one of the two biggest jailbreaks in the history of Pakistan, the militants on Tuesday helped 243 prisoners escape from the British-era Dera Ismail Khan Central ...
New Pak President Elect to Give Top Priority to Karachi 2 Aug 2013 | 02:40 pm
KARACHI, Aug 1: Mamnoon Hussain, president elect of Pakistan, told the BBC Urdu website that political parties were backing groups of criminals, land-grabbers, and extortionists and that this fact had...
CIA closing bases in Afghanistan as it shifts focus amid military drawdown 25 Jul 2013 | 01:41 pm
Washington, July 24: The CIA has begun closing clandestine bases in Afghanistan, marking the start of a drawdown from a region that transformed the agency from an intelligence service struggling to em...
