Cop beats up journalist in Pakistan provincial assembly complex

Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 15:01

A senior Pakistani journalist was severely injured after being beaten up by a policeman inside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly complex in Peshawar.

Pakistan Taliban claim deadly attack on TV channel

Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 14:32

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Saturday for a deadly attack on a private television channel in the southern city of Karachi and threatened further violence against media outlets.

Pakistan assures Sri Lanka support at international forums

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 20:56

Pakistan has assured Sri Lanka of support at international forums ahead of a key UN vote on the country`s human rights record. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif gave this assurance while meeting the Sri Lankan president`s special envoy Nimal Siripala de Silva in Islamabad.

US condemns bomb attack on religious centre in Peshawar

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 20:47

The US on Friday condemned the bomb blast at a proselytising centre in northwest Pakistan that killed at least 10 people and said suggestions that it had a hand in the attack were "preposterous".

Peshawar is world`s `largest reservoir` of polio: WHO

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 18:09

With over 90 per cent of Pakistan`s polio cases genetically linked to Peshawar, the World Health Organisation today described the northwestern city as the world`s "largest reservoir" of endemic poliovirus.

Train bomb kills 3 in Pakistan: Officials

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 14:00

A bomb blast in a passenger train killed at least three people and wounded 20 others on Friday in central Pakistan, officials said.

Zaka Ashraf restored as PCB chief by Islamabad HC

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 20:55

Pakistan cricket fell fall into further chaos on Wednesday with a two-member divisional bench of the Islamabad High Court restoring Zaka Ashraf as Chairman of the Board.

Islamabad most expensive city in Pakistan

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 20:03

Islamabad has emerged as Pakistan's most expensive city while Karachi is the cheapest, according to an official report.

Islamabad most expensive city in Pakistan

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 18:23

Islamabad has emerged as Pakistan`s most expensive city while Karachi is the cheapest, according to an official report.

Karachi cheap, Islamabad most expensive in Pakistan

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 12:54

Pakistan`s capital Islamabad was declared the most expensive city in the country, while Karachi was the second among the cheapest cities, a media report said on Tuesday.

`Musharraf`s appearance in court linked to health condition`

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 01:05

Embattled former dictator Pervez Musharraf`s lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri on Monday said his appearance in a special court conducting his treason trial on January 16 was conditional to an improvement in his health.