Pakistan
Background
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان), is a country located in South Asia and the Greater Middle East. It has a 1046 kilometer coastline along the Arabian Sea in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast.
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" I personally believe Indian films should not be screened in Pakistan and we are working to put a ban on Bollywood movies "
4 days ago from
Times of India
ISLAMABAD:
Sixteen Hindi films were screened in Pakistan last year after a nearly
four-decade ban on Indian movies was lifted. But strained ties between the
neighbours following the Mumbai terror attack coupled with dipping fortunes of
the Pakistani
4 days ago from
Times of India
Latest news - About Pakistan
KABUL: The presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan were set to hold fresh talks on Wednesday after pledging to work together to fight terrorism and extremism along their common border, a Pakistani diplomat said.
Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's
2 hours ago from
The News
...NEW DELHI: Indian external affairs minister, Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday said Pakistan does the opposite of what it says. Talking to an Indian TV channel, he asked: Is the village of Kasab not located on Pakistans map?. I want to ask Pakistan if it reviewed...
2 hours ago from
The News
...chief minister said there is a lot of room for two countries to enhance social and economic ties in many fields. Pakistan and Iran are cooperating each other in several sectors, he said, adding that more agreements would not only strengthen the economy but...
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The News
...ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office spokesman has said that the propaganda campaign launched by India to malign Pakistan is disappointing, adding that Indian reports on Mumbai attacks are being examined seriously. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the spokesman...
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The News
...ISLAMABAD: Initial investigations have proved that Ajmal Kasab, allegedly the top suspect in Mumbai attacks, hailed from Pakistan, official sources said Wednesday. The sources further said that Pakistan will not extend legal aid to Ajmal Kasab despite his...
2 hours ago from
The News
...after media reported he was Pakistani. "He has links to Pakistan but the investigation is ongoing," information minister Sherry Rehman said. Earlier, Dawn News television, citing unidentified officials, said a Pakistani investigation had determined the gunman,...
3 hours ago from
Times of India
...to be taken against Pakistan with immediate effect," Amar Singh told reporters after meeting External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee. The Samajwadi Party, he said, would be holding a meeting of its parliamentary members to take a decision on whether or...
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New Kerala
A day after India's minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma urged Pakistan to own up the nationality of Mohammad Ajmal Amir, the lone terrorist captured during the Mumbai carnage as the "first step" to indicate its intention to cooperate in
3 hours ago from
DNA India
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said his country's forces, together with the Afghan military, could do the fighting themselves if given the right international support.
The comments come ahead of an expected influx of 20,000 American troops into
3 hours ago from
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
...Congress today hit out at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other NDA chief ministers for their stand on the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and said it would only dilute the war on terror and help no one except Pakistan. ''.... It is time for...
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Spice - About Pakistan and Aamir Khan
" We are having the same rush... and I believe nothing has changed after the Mumbai attacks. "
4 days ago from
Times of India
" Why should we stop Indian movies when people like them the most. Local films are far behind Bollywood movies and there should be no restrictions on Indian films "
4 days ago from
Times of India
" These (Indian films) are harming our culture and the government should impose a ban on them. "
4 days ago from
Times of India
...after the 1965 war, but certain films were allowed by different governments like the classic "Mughal-E-Azam". Last year, Pervez Musharraf's government lifted the ban, but the exchange of cinema too seems to have fallen victim to the increasingly strained...
4 days ago from
Economic Times
...by the Professional Squash Association ending the 33-month reign of his illustrious compatriot Amr Shabana. Darwish, 27, from Cairo, is the 13th player in the history to top the mens world list, but only the second Egyptian. It was his victory in the last...
5 days ago from
The News
MUMBAI: Aamir Khan has reacted to the terror strikes on Mumbai and its aftermath. Aamir feels one shouldn't react in haste but should hit back in some way
A terrorist is someone with a sick mind. Who thinks he's doing it for the religion but he's not.
29 days ago from
The News
Last Week - About Pakistan
...Javed Miandad, otherwise famous for having married his son to the daughter of that celebrated non-resident Indian, Dawood Ibrahim, who the Indian State insists lives in Karachi, but who, as every reasonable man knows, is a non-resident non-Pakistani (NRNP)....
7 days ago from
Calcutta Telegraph
...was sworn in was thrown up out of the pressure-cooker Bengal had been for nearly a decade preceding, and nothing, not the 26/11 Bombay attacks, not the low-level Election War against Pakistan begun by the Congress, not the almost-implosion of Bangladesh, nothing,...
7 days ago from
Calcutta Telegraph
...and Saudi nationals living in Pakistan Wednesday protested against the Israeli attacks in Gaza. They demanded of the United Nations and OIC to immediately take action against the Israeli attacks on innocent people of Palestine. On this occasion Jamaat-e-Islami...
7 days ago from
The News
...in the past 30 years come amid a widening wealth gap that China's leaders must tackle. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Pakistan in effort to encourage cooperation with India. With winter approaching, many newly-returned Afghans are on the brink...
7 days ago from
International Herald Tribune
...evening that Pakistan wasn't aware of any such confession made by any man in Pakistani custody. According to an unnamed Pakistani official quoted in the WSJ report, Shah admitted to Pakistani interrogators that ``he spoke with the attackers during the rampage...
7 days ago from
Times of India
... Thursday, January 01, 2009 I was selected by the HEC Pakistan for PhD studies in Germany. I was supposed to leave in August this year but could not because I didnt get my visa in time. However, now I have the visa but cannot go to Germany because the HEC...
7 days ago from
The News
...Brown. It would have been normal protocol for the prime minister of Pakistan to stand beside the prime minster of the United Kingdom when there was the final press conference before the visitor departed. But no, it was the president and not the prime minister...
7 days ago from
The News
... Thursday, January 01, 2009 By our correspondent KARACHI: Former Olympian Samiullah on Wednesday fired a salvo at the top brass of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), saying that it was trying to do too much at the same time. They all seem confused...
7 days ago from
The News
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 2008 – As Pakistani troops apply renewed pressure on militants who have threatened a major supply line, military transportation officials are seeking alternate routes for supplying U.S. and NATO troops deployed in
7 days ago from
GlobalSecurity.org
Karachi, Dec. 31: The economic meltdown has hit Pakistan Cricket Board which is struggling to find title sponsors and sell advertising rights for the home series against Sri Lanka.
Sources in the board confirmed that they drew a blank when tenders were
7 days ago from
Asian Age
Last Month - About Pakistan
...has been arrested in a raid on a militant group in Pakistan. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi is said to be a senior member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group. His reported detention follows days of sharply heightened tensions between Pakistan and India. But there are...
30 days ago from
Channel 4
...— Of the many conspiracies about the bombings here doing the rounds in this part of the world, two are my favorites. The first one is popular in Pakistan and among parts of the Muslim population here in India. It maintains that the Indian security services,...
30 days ago from
The Corner
...only for a couple of hours and then go home. They now have over two-week Eid break at a critical time when Pakistan has a very serious Bombay terrorist problem at hand, the ongoing dangerous situation in NWFP to be dealt with and the countrys crucial financial...
30 days ago from
The News
...word “action” is a cheap expression in South Asia. The raid on a Jamaat-ud-Dawa camp, a front for Lashkar-e- Taiba (LeT), in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is an attempt to buy some legitimacy—cheaply, of course. Pakistan has taken such steps in...
30 days ago from
livemint.com
...aliases as the group's supreme operational commander. US officials said that he had directed the group's operations in Kashmir, Chechnya, Bosnia and Iraq. Also known as Abdullah Azam, he comes from Okara district in the central Pakistan province of Punjab,...
30 days ago from
Ya Libnan
ISLAMABAD:
Police in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Monday ordered the sealing of all
offices of banned religious groups, hours after security forces launched a
crackdown on the outlawed Lashker-e-Taiba and its front organisation
Jamaat-ud-Dawah in
30 days ago from
Times of India
...from Pakistan would remain buoyant in coming future despite the world economic downturn and global financial crisis as Middle East has still huge demand of cement. Oil producing countries of the Middle East would require massive housing and construction works...
30 days ago from
The News
...With the Indian government unlikely to clear Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his teammates for the Pakistan tour, the cricket board here is hoping that it would be able to convince BCCI to play the series in a neutral venue. As of now, BCCI is awaiting an instruction...
30 days ago from
The Hindu
...England's return was being hailed in many quarters yesterday, there was mild and understandable bewilderment in Pakistan. Rashid Latif, Pakistan's former captain, said teams were willing to tour India only because of their financial clout. It is more than...
30 days ago from
The Independent
...in Mumbai not because of good security but the money-making opportunities it offers to them, feels former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif. I think (Australian captain Ricky) Ponting should be honest enough to say that the cricket world needs to express solidarity...
30 days ago from
The News