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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Pakistan and Kazakhstan have enjoyed a frictionless relationship and there is tremendous scope to expanding their ties. During a...

Pakistan Junior Hockey Team hammered a dozen goals against Kazakhstan to maintain their win run in the third U-18 Junior Asia Cup held in...

Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna met President Asif Ali Zardari at a concert organised for leaders attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit...

President Asif Ali Zardari will represent Pakistan at the 10th summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on June 15 (tomorrow) and would seek Pakistan’s...

The Taliban has warned majority Muslim Kazakhstan that its decision to send troops to the NATO-led war in Afghanistan would have severe consequences and...

A suicide bomber Tuesday blew himself up outside the headquarters of the security service in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aktobe, wounding three people,...

KARACHI - Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, along with a trade delegation, is likely to visit Kazakhstan this month, while the two countries have agreed to boost bilateral trade, through various steps discussed in the seventh session of the Pak-Kazakh Joint Ministerial Commission (JMC), held on Friday in Islamabad.
This would be Gillani's second visit to Kazakhstan following his visit last month. Pakistan has already stepped up efforts to enhance trade relations with the

ALMATY - Hosts Kazakhstan secured top place in the Asian Winter Games medal table after they won five more gold medals on Saturday's penultimate day. With only 11 gold medals still at stake, Kazakhstan top the table with 28 gold medals and 62 overall, while second-placed South Korea have 12 golds and 35 overall.
Masako Hozumi of Japan increased her team's gold medal tally with a confident win in the women's 5,000m speed skating. The 24-year-old finished 6.4 seconds ahead of

ALMATY - Hosts' Kazakhstan dominated the day's action at the Asian Winter Games on Thursday adding four gold medals to their impressive collection to stay on top with 17 golds and 46 medals overall. South Korea failed to add to their gold haul, but remain in second place with 10 gold and 24 medals overall.
Meanwhile, Japan stayed in the race for the lead in the medal table with their skiers winning two gold medals to lift their country into third position with eight golds.

ALMATY - International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Jacques Rogge on Tuesday welcomed Kazakhstan's decision to enter the race for the right to host 2022 Winter Olympic Games. "It is my pleasure to say that, after discussions with the Kazakhstan government, they have expressed a strong wish to be a contender for the 2022 Olympic Games here in this beautiful city," Rogge said at an Asian Olympic Council meeting at Astana.
"This is what they are aiming for," Rogge added. "The

ASTANA - The Kazakh parliament is on Friday expected to order a referendum on extending President Nursultan Nazarbayev's rule to 2020, defying US criticism of a move that would scrap two planned presidential polls. A joint session of the upper and lower houses is set to agree the referendum after a petition for the plebiscite gathered an astonishing five million signatures -- one half of the electorate and one third of the population. Supporters of the plan say it will guarantee the