Gordon Brown has told the BBC that Pakistan must do more to "break" al-Qaeda and find Osama Bin Laden. Questions must be asked about why nobody had been able "to spot or detain or get close to" the al-Qaeda leader, the prime minister said. He said he wanted to see "more progress in taking out" Bin Laden and his second-in-command Ayman Zawahiri. Meanwhile, a Senate report claims US forces had Bin ... Read More

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, Afghanistan - Veterans of Iraq recall rolling to war along asphalted highways, sweltering in flat scrublands and chatting with city-wise university graduates connected to the wider world. Now fighting in Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers invariably encounter illiterate farmers who may never have talked to an American as they slog into remote villages on dirt tracks through bitterly cold, snow-streaked mountains. "Before deploying here we were given training on language, ... Read More

Pune, Nov 29 : Chief of Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor on Sunday said that Pakistan should have total control over its nuclear weapons and is important to ensure that the weapons do not fall in wrong hands. Addressing the media on the sidelines of the 117th Passing Out parade of National Defence Academy (NDA) in Pune, General Kapoor said that the Pakistan Prime Minister Yusouf Raza Gilani, who has been ... Read More

Nov 29, A year after the Mumbai terror attacks, the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan were in this Trinidad and Tobago capital but did not meet for talks, indicating a deepening chill in their ties. With India making it clear that Pakistan needs to do more to punish the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks and dismantle the sanctuaries for terrorists, there was little hope of ... Read More

Brown said the efforts of British and coalition forces in Afghanistan to tackle the Taliban insurgency needed to be matched by more effective action by the Pakistan government and forces on their side of the border. "Brown called President (Asif Ali) Zardari yesterday, he expressed support for what Pakistani forces are doing against the Pakistani Taliban but said he wanted to see tougher action against the leadership of al Qaeda," a ... Read More

LONDON – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Pakistan on Sunday to step up its action against Al-Qaeda and hunt down leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri. "We have got to ask the Pakistani security forces, army and politicians to join us in the major effort that the world is committing resources to, not only to isolate Al-Qaeda but to break them in Pakistan," Brown told ... Read More

LAHORE, Pakistan — Visits from three senior U.S. officials in three weeks indicate troubles in the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. Washington has failed to deliver on the regional strategy it promised in the spring, and friction with Pakistan seems to be contributing to the long delay in announcement of a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. Pakistan is critical to any Afghan strategy the Obama administration undertakes. Pakistanis hope that President Obama ... Read More

Delhi: Pakistan cannot prosecute Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, as there is insufficient evidence against him, the country's foreign minister said Saturday, even as he urged New Delhi to resume the sub-continental peace process. "On Hafiz Saeed, honestly, the evidence provided is inadequate," Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told Indian TV news channel on the sidelines of the ... Read More

Graft amnesty to Pakistan President expires Updated on Saturday, November 28, 2009, 15:02 IST Tags:Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan, Graft amnesty Islamabad: A controversial law which scrapped graft cases against Asif Ali Zardari and his key allies expired on Saturday, but the President felt it will not affect him as the Constitution provides "indemnity" to the person holding the top post in the country. "According to our legal team, the ... Read More

Posted: Saturday , Nov 28, 2009 at 1607 hrs US President Barack Obama's high-profile dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was intended "precisely to dissolve" some concerns over Indo-Pak relations than it marks New Delhi's importance for the US in the 'war against terror', a Chinese official daily has said. In an opinion piece, People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of Communist Party of China, said the US mainly relies on ... Read More

NEW DELHI: Pakistan cannot prosecute Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, as there is insufficient evidence against him, the country's foreign minister said Saturday, even as he urged New Delhi to resume the sub-continental peace process. "On Hafiz Saeed, honestly, the evidence provided is inadequate," Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told Indian TV news channel CNN-IBN on the sidelines of the Commonwealth ... Read More

MULTAN: Eid-ul-Azha will be celebrated in Multan and other parts of South Punjab on November 28 (Saturday) with great religious fervour and the faithful will sacrifice hundred of thousands of animals to commemorate the Sunnah of Hazrat Abrahim (AS). People of Multan and other parts of South Punjab would celebrate Eid-ul-Azha amid tight security with traditional religious fervour. Millions of faithful will offer Eid prayers in main mosques, Eidgahs, other places ... Read More