Pakistain's top court threw out a last-ditch appeal from embattled Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... on Friday, ordering him to appear

Tahir Ali in Islamabad Image: Taliban militants pose for a picture Photographs: Reuters Despite differences, almost all the militant factions agree that fighting inside Kashmir is the holiest jihad, reports Tahir Ali in Islamabad The Punjabi Taliban or T

Condemning the drone strikes, the protesters in Multan burned the American flag to show their anger toward an escalation of the deadly strikes. Fourteen people have been killed and several others injured in US drone attacks in the country's northwest sin

The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed. The findings are published just days after President Oba

Earlier this week, President Obama laid out a strong defense of using drone aircraft to target al Qaeda and Taliban militants inside Pakistan, and thus for the first time officially acknowledged the CIA’s “worst-kept secret” program that has increased si

News reports in the beginning of January rang alarm bells about a ground-breaking agreement between militant groups in northwest Pakistan initiated by Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar, brokered by the Haqqani Network, and encouraged by the Pakistani gove