Tuesday, 07 Sep, 2010 An internally displaced child stands as family members cook on the side of a road in Sukkur. NOWSHERA: The world must help Pakistan rebuild homes and livelihoods destroyed by devastating floods to secure hearts and minds in the militant-hit nation, the UNDP's regional head told AFP. Global cash pledges have been slow coming to bolster rescue and relief efforts ongoing in ... Read More

LAHORE: Pakistan tightened security in the eastern city of Lahore on Thursday after three bomb attacks killed 33 people and wounded 171 and pressured the US-backed government already overwhelmed by floods. The blasts which hit a Shia procession on Wednesday bore all the hallmarks of pro- Taliban insurgents, who have carried out sectarian violence designed to destabilise the government. "Security has been tightened in the city to prevent any ... Read More

TAUNTON: The three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of a betting scandal have been released from the squad for the remainder of the tour of England, team manager Yawar Saeed said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters ahead of Pakistan's one-day game against Somerset Saeed said Test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif had been dropped from the two upcoming Twenty20 games. Pakistan would also seek replacements ... Read More

Thursday, September 02, 2010 WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund and Pakistan will release a statement on Thursday on ongoing discussions of the flood-ravaged south Asian country's $11 billion IMF loan, the fund said. The statement at 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT) in Washington by IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Pakistan's Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh follows a week of talks against the backdrop of severe flooding in Pakistan ... Read More

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday released another batch of 100 Indian fishermen from a prison in Karachi, two days after it freed 100 fishermen languishing in the port city's jail, authorities said. Pakistani authorities released 100 Indian fishermen Aug 31 from a prison in Karachi. They were held for fishing illegally in Pakistani waters across the Sir Creek border, Xinhua reported. The freed fishermen will be handed over to Indian authorities ... Read More

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan should not accept the Indian aid of $5 million for flood victims, or even have any kind of ties with its neighbour unless India allows the Kashmiri people to determine their own future, an editorial in a Pakistani paper said on Tuesday. "Until India is willing to give Kashmiris the freedom of deciding their own future, we will not like any sort of ties with India and the ... Read More

Updated: August 30, 2010 For more News please visit: www.pakistannews24.com New York: While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China. The entire Pakistan-occupied western portion of Kashmir stretching from Gilgit in the north to the ... Read More

Posted: Sat Aug 28 2010 Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of seven suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks on Saturday reserved till Monday its decision on a bail petition filed by LeT operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi. Defence and prosecution lawyers had presented their arguments on the bail application during two previous hearings and Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan, who was conducting the trial ... Read More

Aug 28, 2010 ISLAMABAD: In move that blocks the information highway across Pakistan and comes as a rude shock to the people, Pakistan's supreme court on Friday directed the electronic media regulatory authority to stop all cable operators from airing TV channels without landing rights in Pakistan. The stations off air as a result are predominantly Indian news, entertainment and sports channels, as also a clutch of other foreign and ... Read More

Friday, August 27, 2010 NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday insisted that dialogue with Pakistan must continue even though elements in Pakistani establishment sanctioned attacks on Indians in Afghanistan. Manmohan made the statement while addressing heads of Indian mission at a conference in New Delhi. "Pakistan has tried to block us in Afghanistan and elements in Pakistani establishment underwrote attacks on Indians in Afghanistan including the Kabul Embassy bombing. ... Read More

Thursday, August 26, 2010 HYDERABAD: Pakistan ordered nearly half a million people to evacuate towns on Thursday as rising floods threaten further havoc in a country straining to cope after its worst humanitarian disaster. Torrential monsoon rains triggered massive floods affecting a fifth of the country -- roughly the size of England. Pakistan's worst humanitarian catastrophe has affected more than 17 million people, while officials warn that millions are at risk from ... Read More

Thursday, August 26, 2010 LONDON: The series between England and Pakistan could not have been poised at a better juncture. It’s the underdogs who look all set to make a meal of this series at the home of cricket at Lords from today. But England is hurt and both teams are set to fight it out to the best of their ability with the series tantalisingly poised at 2-1 in ... Read More