Islamabad, Apr. 16 : The Sikh community of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Orakzai Agency has conceded to the demand of the Taliban to pay them 20 million rupees as Jiziya (religious tax) in return for `protection'.
According to the Daily Times, following the community's decision to accept the demands of the Taliban, the outlawed group released Sikh leader Sardar Saiwang Singh from its captivity, and also vacated several houses that they had captured.
Lahore, Apr. 16 : US Central Command (CENTCOM) chief General David Petraeus, has said that the presence of extremists outfits such as Al Qaeda on Pakistan's soil pose `an ever more serious threat to its very existence'.
In an interview to the Philadelphia Inquirer, General Petraeus said the US policy's prime focus was on Afghanistan and Pakistan, because of the presence Al-Qaeda in the tribal regions of Pakistan.
Islamabad, Apr. 16 : Both Pakistan and the United States, it seems, have grown accustomed to an unusual diplomatic dance over the deployment of drones over Pakistan's volatile tribal areas.
But according to the New York Times, for all their public protests, behind the scenes, Pakistani officials might accept the reality and necessity of drones more than Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's strong rebuke last week, saying that American drone strikes against militants in Pakistan's tribal areas were eroding trust between the allies.
Islamabad - Pakistan and Britain were embroiled in a diplomatic row on Wednesday as British officials showed reluctance to give consular access and share information about Pakistani terror suspects detained last week.
Twelve suspects, including 10 Pakistani-born students, were picked up in the north-western cities of Liverpool and Manchester, on suspicion of having links to terrorists and planning bomb attacks in England.
Islamabad - At least two policemen were killed Wednesday in a suicide bombing in Pakistan's North-West Frontier province, media reports and officials said.
The bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police checkpoint in the Tangi area of the province's Charsadda district, said Mohammad Yar, the district's police officer.
Islamabad - At least 14 people were killed and 10 injured as heavy rain lashed north-western Pakistan, media reports said Wednesday.
Five members of one family, including three children, died when the roof of their house collapsed in a downpour in the Mardan district of North-West Frontier Province, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
Nine more people - seven children and two women - died in similar incidents in other parts of the province and neighbouring tribal areas while 10 were hurt.
Islamabad, Apr. 16 : The Sikh community of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Orakzai Agency has conceded to the demand of the Taliban to pay them 20 million rupees as Jiziya (religious tax) in return for `protection'.
Lahore, Apr. 16 : US Central Command (CENTCOM) chief General David Petraeus, has said that the presence of extremists outfits such as Al Qaeda on Pakistan's soil pose `an ever more serious threat to its very existence'.
Islamabad, Apr. 16 : Both Pakistan and the United States, it seems, have grown accustomed to an unusual diplomatic dance over the deployment of drones over Pakistan's volatile tribal areas.
Islamabad - Pakistan and Britain were embroiled in a diplomatic row on Wednesday as British officials showed reluctance to give consular access and share information about Pakistani terror suspects detained last week.
Islamabad - At least two policemen were killed Wednesday in a suicide bombing in Pakistan's North-West Frontier province, media reports and officials said.
Islamabad - At least 14 people were killed and 10 injured as heavy rain lashed north-western Pakistan, media reports said Wednesday.
