ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: Infor­ma­­tion Minister Pervaiz Rashid said on Sunday that former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf had set up the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to use it against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif. Talking to reporters, the minister also accused Benazir Bhutto of politically victimising the PML-N. “Our accountability is being done for the last 20 years. First, it was ...

WASHINGTON:  A top Republican Senator has asked his colleagues in the Senate to join him in opposing the sale of eight nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, saying it was “past time” to demand accountability from the country whose “coziness” with terrorists has harmed the US military. “Selling military hardware to Pakistan – with a generous subsidy from American taxpayers ...

Secretary of State John Kerry, Pakistan Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz, center, and others, participate in the US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue meeting at the State Department in Washington. ─ AP WASHINGTON: US and Pakistani officials are still deliberating on the contents of a joint statement that was supposed to be issued after the sixth meeting of their strategic dialogue on Monday ...

SHIKARPUR: Council of Islamic Ideology chairman Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani said on Monday that Mumtaz Qadri’s act — though driven by religious sentiments — was illegal because he had taken the law into his own hands and he faced punishment because “no one is above the law”. Speaking to journalists here, Maulana Sherani said there was no need to legislate ...

A new book authored by the wife a former operative of Pakistan’s spy agency has once again made the claim that Nawaz Sharif received money from al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. The book, Khalid Khawaja: Shaheed-i-Aman, is authored by Shamama Khalid, the wife of former ISI operative Khalid Khawaja. “Chief of PML-N Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif received funding from Osama ...

RAWALPINDI: Mumtaz Qadri, an Elite Force commando convicted of killing former Punjab governor Salman Taseer, was executed at the Adiala Jail at around 4.30am on Monday, police said. Qadri shot Taseer 28 times in broad daylight in Islamabad’s Kohsar Market on January 4, 2011. He was sentenced to death for assassinating Taseer on Oct 1 the same year.   Qadri ...

The Pakistani citizens are holding the second worst passport in the world, joining the Afghan citizens in the latest index update by a London-based consulting firm which puts Afghan passport as the least powerful. According to the index update, Pakistan has been placed in the bottom of the update, securing 103rd place which is just one point above Afghanistan. The ...

OKARA: The additional district and sessions court admitted bail plea of Indian cricketer Virat Kohli’s fan Umer Daraz who has been behind bars for over a month. Daraz was arrested on Jan 25 for hoisting an Indian flag on the rooftop of his house in 54-2L village. On Feb 18, local magistrate Aneeq Anwer had rejected his bail plea. Later, ...

“How is this going down in your home country? You keep poking your lens where it’s least welcome,” CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour asks filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy during an interview on “Amanpour”. “I think it’s very important to have these difficult conversations. We aren’t going to make the country a better place if we keep glorifying the good things ...

WASHINGTON: The ongoing military operation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) forced the Haqqani network to relocate, said US Secretary of State John Kerry while defending the Obama administration’s decision to sell eight F-16 aircraft to Pakistan. The network’s presence in Fata was used as the main argument against the proposed sale during a congressional hearing on Tuesday. “They ...