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A year after Osama bin Laden died in a US raid, al-Qaeda keeps spreading its message of terror in Pakistan, analysts say, with splinter groups threatening the country’s fragile stability.

Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has served show-cause notices to 17 TV channels for airing unedited live footages of blood, gore and mutilated bodies amid a private plane crash.

Pakistan successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Wednesday, the military said, less than a week after rival India tested a missile capable of delivering nuclear warheads as far as Beijing and Eastern Europe.

Pakistanis continue to defy economic and security odds with unprecedented democratic reforms, economic recovery and vitality of civil society and march forward in key areas of development.

Sporting relations between Pakistan and Bangladesh have taken a hit after the latter postponed a much-anticipated cricket tour and a football club from there pulled out of the Asian Confederation Cup being held in Lahore.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have reacted with dismay after Bangladesh’s proposed two-match tour was postponed. Meanwhile, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has now informed their Pakistani counterpart that they would not be able to undertake...

The American ambassador to Afghanistan on Thursday demanded that Pakistan go after the Haqqani network, saying there was “no question” that the group mounted attacks on Kabul and other areas over the weekend.

Pakistan’s army chief on Wednesday made a rare call for the demilitarisation of the world’s highest battlefield after touring the site of an avalanche that buried 129 Pakistani soldiers near the border with rival India.

Former premier Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday called on the Pakistan government to take the initiative to end the military standoff with India on Siachen so that troops of both countries could be withdrawn from the Himalayan glacier.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke to Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar about their shared responsibility to confront terrorists following Sunday’s attacks in Afghanistan, the State Department said in a statement on Monday.