Talks with Taliban prerogative of Pak govt., says envoy Olson

Islamabad: Pakistan's presumptive prime minister Nawaz Sharif called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army.Nawaz Sharif ...

Pakistani relatives mourn over the dead body of a blast victim at a hospital following a bomb explosion in Karachi. A Taliban bomb attack targeting an election candidate killed at least 11 people and wounded 36 others. (AFP Photo)more photos Toppled ...

Ali Haider Gilani attends a meeting at a house prior to his abduction by gunmen during his election campaign in Multan, Thursday. — AFP MULTAN — Gunmen kidnapped a son of a former Pakistani prime minister on Thursday, the final day of ...

Braving the threat of violence from Taliban, Pakistani voters turned out to elect their second successive civilian government in five years. In doing so, they sent out a clear signal for democratic governance and a smooth transition. The Pakistani ...

Imran Khan's followers have greeted the announcement of peace talks with Taliban with ecstatic applause. Their dream of peace, though, is unlikely to survive contact with reality.

A hardline cleric often described as the "father of the Taliban" today claimed he had received a message from Pakistan's Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif to help in efforts to begin a dialogue with militants. Maulana Samiul Haq, who heads the radical ...

ISLAMABAD: A child has contracted polio for the first time in Pakistan's tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said on Monday. The new case has been detected in North Waziristan where we had been denied access ...

Islamabad/Lahore: Defying Taliban death threats, enthusiastic Pakistanis in large numbers on Saturday voted for national and provincial assemblies in a landmark democratic transition of power marred by a string of bomb attacks killing at least 17 ...