Islamabad, Apr. 7: The US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has claimed that the Taliban’s top leadership is hiding in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
During a dinner at US Ambassador Anne Patterson’s residence in Islamabad, Admiral Mullen told reporters that the US was targeting Baitullah Mehsud now because he had established strategic links with Al Qaeda.
In affiliation with Al Qaeda, Mehsud facilitated many attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan during the past year or so, the Daily Times quoted him, as saying.
Lahore, Apr. 7 : The Pakistan Supreme Court has returned the trial petition moved against former President General (retired) Pervez Musharraf with several objections.
Supreme Court Registrar Dr Faqir Hussain returned the petition with four major objections.
Islamabad, Apr. 7 : Three female NGO workers of a USAID-funded project along with their driver were reportedly killed by some unidentified gunmen in the North West Frontier Province's Manshera District.
All three women associated with a non-government organization, Rise International, were on their way to Mansehra from a mountainous area of Kund Bangla when some unknown assailants attacked them, killing them on the spot, The News reported.
According to revelations by Sarfaraz Nawaz, an arrested Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, the Pakistan-based militant group intends targeting senior scientists and engineers of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), planning to either kidnap or assassinate them. The revelations from Nawaz came during his interrogation by the Karnataka police about the Bangalore blasts of July 25, 2008.
Islamabad - US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen arrived in Islamabad Monday for talks on counter-insurgency efforts in the north-west, an official said.
Islamabad, Apr. 6 : The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, has set a 15-day deadline for government officials to submit a detailed report on the public flogging of a 17-year-old girl in the Swat Valley.
Chief Justice Chaudhry issued the directive as eight judges opened a hearing into the Taliban whipping case.
“Government and regional officials from North West Frontier Province (NWFP) should ‘submit report on a fortnightly basis to the registrar of this court,” Chaudhry said in his order, which was written in English.
Islamabad, Apr. 7: The US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has claimed that the Taliban’s top leadership is hiding in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
Lahore, Apr. 7 : The Pakistan Supreme Court has returned the trial petition moved against former President General (retired) Pervez Musharraf with several objections.
Islamabad, Apr. 7 : Three female NGO workers of a USAID-funded project along with their driver were reportedly killed by some unidentified gunmen in the North West Frontier Province's Manshera District.
According to revelations by Sarfaraz Nawaz, an arrested Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, the Pakistan-based militant group intends targeting senior scientists and engineers of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), planning to either kidnap or assassinate them. The revelations from Nawaz came during his interrogation by the Karnataka police about the Bangalore blasts of July 25, 2008. 
Islamabad - US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen arrived in Islamabad Monday for talks on counter-insurgency efforts in the north-west, an official said.
Islamabad, Apr. 6 : The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, has set a 15-day deadline for government officials to submit a detailed report on the public flogging of a 17-year-old girl in the Swat Valley.
