AlHijjah 29, 1432, Nov 25, 2011, SPA -- President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari met with Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Islamabad Abdul Aziz bin Ibrahim Al-Ghadeer.
A statement issued by the (...)
AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA - Pakistan has appointed a new ambassador to the United States.
Former information minister Sherry Rehman has been named as Pakistan's new envoy to the United States.
She replaces Husain Haqqani, who resigned (...)
AlHijjah 25, 1432, Nov 21, 2011, SPA - At least 10 troops were killed when gunmen ambushed their convoy in south-western Pakistan, security officials
said on Monday.
The incident took place late Sunday in Lora Lae district, in the province of (...)
AlHijjah 25, 1432, Nov 21, 2011, SPA -- Upon directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and under the direct supervision of Crown Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Premier and Minister of (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1432, Nov 20, 2011, SPA -- Pakistani police arrested today four suspects involved in the May attack on the Consulate of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Karachi.
Earlier on Sunday morning, police in Karachi conducted a raid in the Eid (...)
AlHijjah 23, 1432, Nov 19, 2011, SPA - Expressing hope for early finalization of a road map for strategic partnership between Pakistan and Germany, President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said that time has arrived to transform the existing broad-based (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA - Two US drone airstrikes killed at least 16 alleged militants in north-western Pakistan, security officials said
Wednesday.
Both strikes took place in South Waziristan, one of the seven tribal districts along (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA -- At least 22 people have been killed in two separate incidents in north-western Pakistan involving US drone strikes against militants hideouts and a bomb attack against a vehicle by the Taliban, security (...)
AlHijjah 19, 1432, Nov 15, 2011, SPA - At least five people were killed in a suspected US drone attack in north-western Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said.
The predawn attack took place in Miranshah, the main town in the key tribal district of (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA - Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov arrived in Islamabad on Monday on a one-day official visit to Pakistan.
A Pakistani Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that Berdymukhamedov will hold talks with (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA - Pakistan and China are staging joint military exercises, the Associated Press reported today.
An army statement says the exercise in Punjab province showed that the "Pakistan-China friendship is higher than (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA - A Pakistan air force fighter plane crashed Monday due to technical failure, killing the pilot -Squadron leader Muhammad Hussain, on the spot, officials said.
The crash occurred in the Hazro district of the (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA -- Two terror attacks in northwestern Pakistan killed 16 people and injured nine others Sunday, regional officials said.
Both attacks occurred in the province of Khyber, the first being a mortar shelling and the (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA -Pakistan removed restrictions on the import of 12 goods from India as part of measures to normalize trade between the two countries, Pakistani officials said on Saturday.
Pakistan last week said it would grant (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA - In implementation of the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, to provide humanitarian assistance to Pakistan due to the recent floods, and under the (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA -- Authorities in Pakistan say four intelligence officials have been killed during a raid on a militant hideout in the country's east.
An army officer says the militants were from Lashkar-e-Jangvi, AP (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA -- Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Abdulaziz bin Ibrahim Al-Ghadeer received at Karachi Airport today the first batch of Pakistani pilgrims returning to Pakistan after performing Hajj rituals of this year.
The (...)
AlHijjah 15, 1432, Nov 11, 2011, SPA - The talks between the Prime
Ministers of India and Pakistan has imparted a "seriousness of purpose" to bilateral engagement with both sides agreeing to finalise a calender of meetings to discuss all (...)
AlHijjah 11, 1432, Nov 7, 2011, SPA -- A powerful earthquake Monday jolted Pakistan. Neither deaths nor property damage resulted, dpa quoted local media as saying.
The tremor measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale emanated from the Hindu Kush mountains (...)
AlHijjah 11, 1432, Nov 7, 2011, SPA -- The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Campaign for the Relief of Pakistani People started distributing sacrificial meat to 2000 flood-affected families in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and Sindh Province of (...)
AlHijjah 9, 1432, Nov 5, 2011, SPA -- A Pakistani court on Saturday indicted five Islamist militants and two police officers in the high-profile assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, prosecutors said according to Reuters.
Bhutto, (...)
AlHijjah 8, 1432, Nov 4, 2011, SPA -- Pakistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Hana Rabbani Kahr met at her office in Islamabad today with the Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Abdulaziz bin Ibrahim Al-Ghadeer.
During the meeting, view points on issues of (...)
AlHijjah 7, 1432, Nov 3, 2011, SPA -- Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Abdulaziz bin Ibrahim Al-Ghadeer met here today with Pakistan's Interior Minister Rahman Malik.
During the meeting, they exchanged view points on issues of mutual concern and (...)
AlHijjah 4, 1432, Oct 31, 2011, SPA - Pakistan has strongly rejected assertions made in the BBC series ‘Secret Pakistan'.
In a statement here on Sunday, the Foreign Office said "the series make baseless and fabricated allegations."
Pakistan has (...)
AlHijjah 1, 1432, Oct 28, 2011, SPA -- The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Campaign for the Relief of the Pakistani People has dispatched a convoy of relief items to the affected people in the Sindh and (...)