Islamabad, Mar 29 : The Pakistan senate committee on national security has declared that the continuing of US drone attacks on Pakistani territory is a failure of the government’s foreign policy.
The committee made this observation while expressing its displeasure with US President Barack Obama for not announcing a halt to drone attacks when he revealed his new Afghanistan-Pakistan policy on Friday.
The National Assembly body also asked Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to appear before the committee on April 6, and brief it on the new US policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Washington, Mar 29 : The United States fully supports the elected leadership of Pakistan and will work with them closely to ensure that the enhanced American assistance is used toward socio-economic uplift of the people as part of efforts to deal with violent extremism afflicting the country.
US official Bruce Riedel, chair and lead author of the panel that crafted the policy for the Obama Administration’s way forward in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region, called for proceeding cautiously on putting any overly-legislative or other restrictions on aid for Pakistan.
Islamabad, Mar. 29 : The deliberately reserved style of Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Kiyani, experts and critics believe is compounding Islamabad's myriad problems.
General Kiyani''s determination not to have a front line role in Pakistan's politics may make it harder to unite Pakistan under its central Government, some Western officials believe.
Lahore, Mar 29 : A petition has been moved in the Lahore Registry of the Pakistan Supreme Court to put former President Pervez Musharraf's name on the Exit Control List (ECL).
Advocate Akmal Saleemi filed the application in an already pending constitutional petition, seeking action against Musharraf and others for killing of innocent students in a military operation launched against the Lal Masjid.
Islamabad, Mar 29 : Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed concern over reports of possible US drone attacks in Balochistan, and said such attacks will not be allowed.
Addressing a joint meeting of the parliamentary parties of the ruling coalition, the Prime Minister said the positive point in President Barack Obama's new strategy on Pakistan and Afghanistan was the adoption of a regional approach towards the problem.
Islamabad - Pakistani troops on Saturday destroyed several Taliban hideouts in a restive tribal region and killed at least 26 militants, a day after a suicide bombing at a mosque left 53 people dead, including 15 security personnel, intelligence official said.
More than a dozen militants were also injured when gunship helicopters and artillery targeted insurgents' positions in the Yaka Ghonda area of Mohmand tribal district.
Islamabad, Mar 29 : The Pakistan senate committee on national security has declared that the continuing of US drone attacks on Pakistani territory is a failure of the government’s foreign policy.
Washington, Mar 29 : The United States fully supports the elected leadership of Pakistan and will work with them closely to ensure that the enhanced American assistance is used toward socio-economic uplift of the people as part of efforts to deal with violent extremism afflicting the country.
Islamabad, Mar. 29 : The deliberately reserved style of Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Kiyani, experts and critics believe is compounding Islamabad's myriad problems.
Lahore, Mar 29 : A petition has been moved in the Lahore Registry of the Pakistan Supreme Court to put former President Pervez Musharraf's name on the Exit Control List (ECL).
Islamabad, Mar 29 : Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed concern over reports of possible US drone attacks in Balochistan, and said such attacks will not be allowed.
Islamabad - Pakistani troops on Saturday destroyed several Taliban hideouts in a restive tribal region and killed at least 26 militants, a day after a suicide bombing at a mosque left 53 people dead, including 15 security personnel, intelligence official said.
