ISLAMABAD - In a major setback to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan Supreme Court Friday dismissed his appeal against a contempt of court charge, which means that the premier will have to...

Sex scandals have hit the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) hard in recent months, with reports saying that several faculty and staff members are eying junior students.

Many...

Seventy-seven percent of Pakistanis claim it is their family custom to marry within the extended family, a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan has claimed.

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The Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Palwasha Behram has informed the National Assembly (NA) that 4,832 Pakistanis were deported from various countries in the last two years.

Behram...

A group of 158 students from Jammu and Kashmir met the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi today.

The students visited various places in the country in smaller groups of 20 under the...

The Supreme Court has adamantly asked the counsel of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military the Intelligence (MI) chiefs that missing prisoners of Adiala Jail be brought in the court by...

The Memo Gate commission has decided that Pakistan-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz's statement will be recorded via video link from Pakistan High Commission in London.

The...

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's counsel Atizaz Ahsan has said that his client would appear before the Supreme Court on February 13 to face indictment for the government's two-year...

England wicket-keeper batsman Craig Kieswetter has expressed confidence in his side saying there was no reason why that it cannot beat Pakistan in the one day series in the UAE.

"England have a...

Pakistan has said that it has conveyed its concerns to America about a discussion on Balochistan by a US Senate Committee.

"We have conveyed our concern in Islamabad and Washington on the issue of...

The Pakistan Supreme Court (SC) has rejected the Intra Court Appeal filed by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani against the verdict of a smaller bench for framing charges of contempt of court against...

England pace bowler Chris Tremlett has undergone back surgery following an injury which cut short his participation in the recently-concluded Test whitewash by Pakistan in the United Arab...

Pakistan's military will reportedly face a rare challenge by the courts today over the case of 11 men who were allegedly abducted and tortured by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency. ...

Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wassan has said that general elections in the country would be held on October 18 this year.

Wassan said some people want early elections, but no one wants the end of...

The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) reportedly decided in its core committee meeting on Wednesday that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will never write a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen money...

Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said American drone strikes within Pakistan are illegal, and are creating more militants.

"Attacks by US drones on Pakistani territory are illegal...

Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Dr. Farooq Abdullah met a group of 160 students from militancy-hit families of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, and asked them to follow the path of truth,...

ISLAMABAD - A US drone targeting a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region near the Afghanistan border Thursday killed four suspected militants including a key commander of the terrorist group...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Pakistan has arrested two people in connection with last year's assassination of a former Afghan president who was trying to broker peace with the Taliban, two Afghan...

ISLAMABAD // Pakistan's top court rejected Friday a last-ditch appeal filed by the prime minister against a looming contempt charge, paving the way for a case that could plunge the nuclear-armed...

Pakistan's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, upholding an earlier order that he must appear before the high court next week to answer contempt-of-court...

February 10, 2012 Pakistan's top court rejected Friday a last-ditch appeal filed by the prime minister against a looming contempt charge, paving the way for a case that could plunge the...

Jammu, Feb 10 : At least 20 people were killed when a mini bus in which they were travelling fell from a hilly road into the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir Friday morning, police...

KABUL, Afghanistan -; Pakistan has arrested two people in connection with last year's assassination of a former Afghan president who was trying to broker peace with the Taliban, two Afghan...

Nawroz Mangal marked Afghanistan's biggest moment yet as a cricketing nation by winning the toss in Sharjah, and deciding to bat against a full-strength Pakistan side. Shahid Afridi returned to...

Pakistan's top court rejected Friday a last-ditch appeal filed by the prime minister against a looming contempt charge, paving the way for a case that could plunge the nuclear-armed country into...

Islamabad, Feb. 10. (BNA) -- Pakistani forces have killed this morning at least 11 militants and injured 19 in the northwest of the country, security officials revealed. According to Pakistan...

Pakistan Pakistan's top court has thrown out a last-ditch appeal from embattled prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, ordering him to appear in court on Monday to face indictment for contempt.The...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday rejected Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's appeal against contempt of court charge and ordered him to appear in court on Monday to be...

Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the prime minister in a contempt case on Friday and is set to charge him on Monday, a move likely to bring fresh political turmoil to the chronically unstable...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected the prime minister's appeal against summons in a contempt case on Friday and is set to charge him on Monday, a move likely to bring...

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is ordered to appear before the Supreme Court on Monday The court rejects his appeal of its decision to summon him to charge him with contempt It wants him to...

Pakistan's spy agency is ordered to hand over seven detainees The ISI blames Abdul Saboor's death on natural causes The Supreme Court wants the ISI to explain the deaths and alleged...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A prominent Pakistani militant commander was killed in an American drone strike at a house in Pakistan's lawless northwest tribal region of North Waziristan on Thursday, a senior...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected the prime minister's appeal against a summons in a contempt case on Friday and is set to charge him on Monday, a move likely to bring...

Since 2009, the Supreme Court has insisted that the government write a letter to the authorities in Switzerland, asking them to reopen a corruption investigation against Mr. Zardari that stretches to...

Pakistan 's supreme court has rejected the prime minister's appeal against a summons in a contempt case and is set to charge him on Monday, a move likely to bring fresh political turmoil to...

Pakistan's Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by PM Yousuf Raza Gilani against a contempt of court charge. Mr Gilani is set to be charged on 13 February with failing to reopen corruption...

At least 20 people were killed when their bus plunged into a river in Indian-administered Kashmir early on Friday, police say. The bus was rounding a curve on a road in Doda, some 300km (186 miles)...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani against contempt charges, escalating a tense standoff between the judiciary and the...

Islamabad - Cotton Commissioner (CC) Dr.Khaild Abdullah has said that Cotton stainer was a future threat to Pakistan because when a cropping system is shifted to a better one or new crop introduced...

REPORTING FROM ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- An apparent US drone strike early Thursday in northwest Pakistan killed a top Pakistani Taliban commander also serving as a key Al Qaeda operative, local...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the prime minister on Friday and is set to indict him for contempt of court on Monday, a move likely to bring fresh political...

PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani forces killed 11 militants and wounded 19 in the northwest on Friday, security officials said, in a crackdown in the Kurram tribal region near the border...