The head of Pakistan’s Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, left a funeral procession before it was hit by a suspected US missile strike that killed 80 people mourning an earlier barrage, intelligence officials said yesterday.
They claimed that several senior Taliban militants were killed in the attack launched from a drone aircraft.
Mehsud, who is accused of plotting suicide bombings and the assassination this week of his chief Taliban rival, is the target of a looming offensive by Pakistan’s military in the South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan.
Suspected missile strikes killed several people at …

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that security forces  have killed over 3,500 militants in Swat and FATA together.
In an interview with Financial Times, he said a good number have been injured. “The setback which the militants have received, it will take a lot of time for them to recoup.
He said militants were quite confident that the government will not be able to launch such a major operation. “In Swat we found up to 70-yard long tunnels, full of arms and ammunition. Then, there were huge ammunition depots.  Then, …

TRIESTE: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Russia on Friday agreed to intensify cooperation, in line with other initiatives of the international community, on fighting terrorism, combating illegal drug production and trafficking, as well as promoting good-neighbourly relations, regional stability and sustainable development.
The agreement was reached as Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and his Afghan and Russian counterparts Rangin Dadfar Spanta, and Sergei Lavrov met here following the instructions of the presidents of Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Russian Federation after their trilateral meeting in Yekaterinburg on June 15 this year.
According to a joint …

Telegraph
Pakistan’s president Asif Zardari is locked in a power struggle with his own army chiefs over his plans to ease tensions with its traditional enemy, India.
By Isambard Wilkinson in Islamabad and Dean Nelson in New Delhi
According to sources close to Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Kiyani, senior officers are alarmed at the president’s plans to divert troops and aircraft defending Pakistan’s border with India and deploy them in a new offensive against Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
 
Their rift emerged after Mr Zadari made a number of speeches earlier this week, …

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Media Office in Pakistan
PRESS STATEMENT
No: PN09032
Date: 25th Jama’di al-Thaani 1430 AH 17th June 2009 CE
Budget 2009-10: There is no difference in the budget presented in dictatorship or democracy.  The only way forward is Islam’s economic system
Budget presented by democratic government has once again proved that whether there is one-man rule (dictatorship) or the rule of the so called elected people (democracy), Pakistan’s economy is run based on the failed capitalist principles. For the past nine years, the “intellectuals” of Pakistan were claiming that only the democratic government …