Islamabad, Nov 1 : Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said he could consider forming an alliance with the Pakistan Muslim League (N) if its leader Nawaz Sharif declares his assets.

Although he insisted that the top leadership of the party should declare their assets, Khan said that PTI could consider forming an alliance even if Sharif alone declared his actual assets, The Nation reports.

Islamabad, Oct 18 : Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that his country will recognize the new government in Libya.

The Express Tribune quoted Gilani as saying that Pakistan believes in the sovereignty and independence of all countries, and does not interfere in the internal affairs of any country.

Islamabad, Oct 10 : Afghanistan’s top diplomat in Pakistan has said members of a commission investigating last month’s assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, will visit Islamabad within a ‘few days’ to seek Pakistan’s help in the investigations.

Islamabad, Oct 9 : Unknown armed men torched two oil tankers in Bolan district of Balochistan province in Southwest Pakistan.

Police said that the Afghanistan-bound tankers were coming from Karachi when armed men riding a motorbike intercepted them and set them ablaze.

No one was hurt in the attack but no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, Xinhua reports.

Suspected militants routinely target NATO supplies trucks and oil tankers mostly in northwest Pakistan.

Islamabad, Oct 10 : US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman has urged Pakistan, Afghanistan to work together with the United States in the fight against terrorism.

Grossman said that the number of Pakistani civilians who have been killed in terrorist attacks was, as 19,000 of them have died since 2003, The Daily Times reports.

Islamabad, Oct 7 : Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the self-confessed assassin of former Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, has filed an appeal against the death penalty awarded to him by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Pakistan.

Islamabad, Oct 7 : A Pakistani doctor accused of running a phoney vaccination programme for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to help track down Osama bin Laden, should be put on trial for high treason, an inquiry commission set up by the Pakistan Government has said.

Islamabad, Oct 5 : A senior Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader has said that talks with the government in Islamabad cannot succeed until US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had said recently that his administration was ready to hold negotiations with all militant groups in the tribal belt along the Afghan border.

Islamabad, Oct 5 : Pakistan has rejected news reports that it has refused to help Afghan investigators probing the assassination of High Peace Council leader Burhanuddin Rabbani.

Former Afghan President Rabbani, who had been tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to the war in Afghanistan, was killed on September 20 by a suicide bomber who was supposedly a peace emissary sent by the Taliban leadership.

Islamabad, Oct 4 : Pakistan Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim has formally invited Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to visit Pakistan, reviving hopes that both nations would fully exploit the potential of economic and business ties.

Fahim extended the invitation during a meeting with Dr Singh in New Delhi at the end of his visit, the Dawn quoted a statement issued by the Commerce Ministry in Islamabad, as saying.

Islamabad, Oct 3 : The Haqqani network has denied its involvement in the assassination of the former Afghanistan President Burhannudin Rabbani and links with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.

Jalaluddin Haqqani’s son Sirajuddin said this in an audio message to the BBC.

The BBC had passed on questions for the militant leader through an intermediary, who returned with the audio response, the Dawn reports.

Islamabad, Oct 3 : The United States has assured Pakistan that it would not suspend civilian economic assistance, according to Pakistani officials.

The officials said that the volume of funding, however, would be affected by the debt crisis in the US and the 7.5 billion dollar Kerry-Lugar assistance, slated to be disbursed over five years, will now be stretched over six or seven years.

Islamabad, Oct 1 : Political options should be availed to resolve internal irritants and conflicts instead of engaging the Pakistan Army in military operations against its own people, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani reportedly told politicians at the All Parties Conference.

On Thursday, the Pakistan Government convened the nine-hour-long APC to demonstrate national unity in the face of what were perceived as threats by the United States.

Islamabad, Oct 1 : A Taliban plot to rescue killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden''s youngest widow from custody in Pakistan has reportedly been foiled.

According to the Sun, terror chief Mullah Omar ordered 500 men to raid a safe house in Pakistan where Amal Abdulfattah was being interrogated with two other wives of bin Laden.

Islamabad, Oct 1 - Pakistan's first bio-pharmaceutical company, BF Biosciences Limited, was Friday inaugurated near the eastern city of Lahore, a media report said.

The company, a joint venture between Ferozsons Laboratories Limited and Bago Group of Argentina, manufactures drugs to treat hepatitis, cancer and diabetes.

Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and Argentina's Ambassador to Pakistan Rodolfo Martin-Saravia inaugurated the facility in Raiwind, the Online news agency reported.

Islamabad, Sep 30 - Tennis star Sania Mirza and her cricketer husband Shoaib Malik Thursday met with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to discuss launching a fund-raising campaign for the flood victims in the country.

The couple expressed grief over the devastation caused by the floods in Pakistan, the official APP news agency reported. They met him at Aiwan-e-Sadr (his official residence here).

They told the president that they would play exhibition matches both within and outside the country to help raise funds for the affected people.

Islamabad, Sep 29 : Pakistan is part of the Afghanistan solution and any effort to address this issue minus Pakistan will not be productive, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.

Speaking in Peshawar Wednesday, the prime minister said Pakistan supported the Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process.

However, such a process should not destabilise Pakistan, Associated Press of Pakistan quoted Gilani as saying.

Islamabad, Sep 29:  Pakistan's 180 million people should stand united to face the many challenges the country was facing and to thwart all attempts to destabilise it, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.

Gilani made the remark Wednesday in Peshawar in the wake of the US accusation that the Pakistan's powerful spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, was supporting the Haqqani network that had carried out attacks against US interests in Afghanistan.

Islamabad, Sep 28 : Positive macro-economic performance coupled with expected investment inflows into Pakistan would help bolster the national economy, a senior minister has said.

Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, who led Pakistan to IMF-World Bank annual meetings in Washington and discussed bilateral cooperation with senior US officials, said that during his engagements he advocated greater trade access for Pakistani products and sought investment in energy, infrastructure and other areas, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

Islamabad, Sept 21: Islamabad has condemned the assassination of former Afghanistan President Syed Burhanuddin Rabbani, describing him as a “friend” with whom Pakistan was working closely on Afghan reconciliation efforts.

Rabbani, who had been tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to the war in Afghanistan, was killed by a suicide bomber on Tuesday evening.