Islamabad, Sept 10 : Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that a joint ‘jirga’ between Pakistan and Afghanistan will be held soon after Eid, ostensibly to resolve the issues relating to the Pak-Afghan border area.
Afghanistan has time and again accused Pakistan of fanning terrorism into Afghanistan from across the border.
“Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to initiate the Jirga process and hopefully a joint Jirga will take place in Islamabad immediately after Eid,” he said.
Peshawar, Sept 10 :Pakistan has always played a double game as far as extending cooperation with the US in catching Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden (after 9/11 attacks) is considered, said a detailed article published in the Washington Post.
It quoted Afrasiab Khattak, a Peshawar-based Pashtun politician, as saying that Pakistani forces would occasionally help the CIA capture second-string al-Qaeda figures, but to meet the objective of keeping the aid money flowing from Washington.
Lahore, Sept 10 : To overcome the country’s worst ever budget deficit, the Pakistan Government is reportedly mulling over selling some of its valuable energy assets to private players, first in the list of such assets being a major gas field.
The Qadirpur gas field having a natural gas reserve of 2.9 trillion cubic feet in the Indus river flood plain, and said to be the second largest in the country, is valued at about three billion dollars.
Islamabad - Pakistan's Army said Wednesday it killed at least 11 Islamic militants in the restive Swat district of the country's North Western Frontier Province.
"Our troops targeted insurgents' positions with artillery fire in Kuza Bandai area of the district this morning. According to initial reports, 11 miscreants were killed and numerous were injured in the action," army spokesman Major Murad Khan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Security forces cordoned off the area and were trying to clear out pockets of resistance, he added.
Lahore, Sept 10 : Taking a strong note of the recent increase in air strikes by unmanned US planes, the Human Right Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has reportedly urged the Pakistan Government’s intervention to stop such air raids.
A statement issued by the Commission said that the attacks in the Tribal Areas, killing of civilians and the violation of Pakistan’s territorial sovereignty by the US-led coalition forces had assumed “the form of a regular series”, reported the Daily Times.
Peshawar, Sept 10 : After miserably failing to catch international fugitive and Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden for nearly seven years, after 9/11 2001, both American and Pakistani officials have reportedly started reviewing their policy and are now shifting their tactics to intensify the use of the unmanned but lethal Predator drone spy planes in the mountains of western Pakistan.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that a joint ‘jirga’ between Pakistan and Afghanistan will be held soon after Eid, ostensibly to resolve the issues relating to the Pak-Afghan border area.
Pakistan has always played a double game as far as extending cooperation with the US in catching Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden (after 9/11 attacks) is considered, said a detailed article published in the Washington Post.
Lahore, Sept 10 : To overcome the country’s worst ever budget deficit, the Pakistan Government is reportedly mulling over selling some of its valuable energy assets to private players, first in the list of such assets being a major gas field.
Islamabad - Pakistan's Army said Wednesday it killed at least 11 Islamic militants in the restive Swat district of the country's North Western Frontier Province.
After miserably failing to catch international fugitive and Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden for nearly seven years, after 9/11 2001, both American and Pakistani officials have reportedly started reviewing their policy and are now shifting their tactics to intensify the use of the unmanned but lethal Predator drone spy planes in the mountains of western Pakistan.
