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ISLAMABAD
Pakistan and the United Kingdom on Tuesday renewed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) allowing the deportation of illegal immigrants from the two countries back to their respective homelands.
The renewed MoU will cover illegal immigrants only and it is no way an extradition treaty or understanding to exchange criminals, Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik said at a joint press conference with British Home Secretary Theresa May, who is also incharge of

ISLAMABAD
Pakistan has gone further up in the list of most corrupt nations, receiving an index score of 2.3 this year against 2.4 in 2009, a report on Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) issued by Transparency International (TI) said on Tuesday.
The report said of the total 178 countries, Pakistan's ranking had dropped seven places, from the 42nd most corrupt country in 2009 to the 34th-worst country in 2010. The report said around three quarters of the 178 countries in the

ABU DHABI
Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi hoped his beleaguered side is focused enough to counter a spirited South African team in the back-to-back Twenty20 matches starting here on Tuesday.
Pakistan's recent tour to England was rocked by spot-fixing allegations which prompted a Scotland Yard investigation and the suspension of three of their players by the International Cricket Council.
Test captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer were charged for

ISLAMABAD
At meeting of the UN Security Council in New York today (Tuesday), Pakistan will defend its position against allegations that its troops had violated the UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which calls on all parties to an armed conflict to protect women against all forms of abuses.
An official source privy to the development, told Pakistan Today that some NGOs had alleged that Pakistani troops fighting outlaws in troubled areas had violated the provisions of the

ISLAMABAD
The UK on Monday asked Pakistan to increase its counter-terrorism efforts, assuring Islamabad of all-out support for the success of its efforts in this regard.
British Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equality Theresa May, who arrived in Pakistan on Sunday on a three-day visit, met President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
She had a detailed discussion with the Pakistani leadership on various aspects of terrorism, especially

LAHORE
Pakistan is hoping to make a point by upstaging South Africa in their home series in the UAE. The team, which arrived in the UAE early on Sunday, will be without former captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, who have been provisionally suspended by the ICC.
Before departing for the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan coach Waqar Younis admitted that the England tour had taken its toll on players. But he said he was confident they would bounce back against

LAHORE
The Pak-US strategic dialogue has been upgraded and is based on equality, which allows both sides to demand "do more" to minimise the trust deficit, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Sunday.
"This time, it was a two-way communication unlike the past, which could be marked as a success and a change in the pattern of thinking of the US President Barack Obama's administration," he told a press conference at the State Guest House.
"During the talks, we

LAHORE
Pakistan cricket team reached Abu Dhabi on Saturday for the month-long tour against South Africa which includes five one-day Internationals and two Twenty20 matches.
Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ijaz Butt could not deliver a lecture to the players on the new code of conduct due to personal engagements. The series between Pakistan and South Africa will begin on October 26 with two Twenty20 Internationals due to be played in the first phase.
Earlier, the

ISLAMABAD
Exciting news for his Pakistani fans, Indian heartthrob Shahid Kapoor could be shooting in Pakistan for noted Indian film director Mira Nair's film, a local channel reported on Friday.
Nair is planning to make a movie based on Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid's second novel 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'. The yet-to-be-named film is expected to be shot in Pakistan. But it is not yet clear whether the necessary permissions have been sought for this purpose.
The

WASHINGTON
The US is trying to expand a secret CIA operation designed to eliminate militant havens in the Tribal Areas along the Afghan border, The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday.
Citing unnamed senior officials, the newspaper said the Obama administration had asked Pakistan in recent weeks to allow additional CIA officers and special operations military trainers to enter the country to intensify pressure on the Taliban.
The requests have so far been rebuffed

ISLAMABAD
The US and Pakistan have agreed on Islamabad's own plan for a targeted military offensive in North Waziristan Agency instead of a full-fledged operation demanded by the Obama administration. Until the recently concluded US-Pak Strategic Dialogue in Washington DC, the Obama administration was asking for an all out military operation in North Waziristan but had softened its stance and agreed to a give Islamabad a chance for its own surgical strikes and limited ground

ISLAMABAD
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday said Afghan President Hamid Karzai had agreed to share his peace plan with Pakistan, however, no information has been shared with Islamabad so far.
"Once the information is provided, a decision will be taken on how Pakistan can cooperate," Gilani told office-bearers of the Diplomatic Correspondent Association of Pakistan (CAP) at Prime Minister's House.
"The Afghan leadership has yet to share its new initiative of

ISLAMABAD
Pakistan has asked the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to provide $3 billion in additional financing instead of diverting the funding by reprioritising the existing projects for the country, State Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar said on Thursday.
Addressing a press conference, the minister said that project loans already approved by both institutions were in the pipeline and their reprioritisation could affect the

ISLAMABAD
Pakistan on Thursday played down the US demand for a military offensive against militants in the tribal North Waziristan Agency, saying any decision on the vital issue would be taken keeping in view the country's own interests.
Addressing a weekly press briefing, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said, "We have our own strategy to deal with militancy and terrorism and will do whatever will in our own national interest."
Asked about the US demands for a

WASHINGTON
The US on Wednesday told Islamabad that "existential threat to Pakistan is not India, the existential threat to Pakistan involves extremism within its own borders".
It also said Pakistan, India and Iran could play a "constructive role" in a regional solution to Afghanistan. "We have made no secret of the fact that we've told Pakistan clearly that we believe that the existential threat to Pakistan is not India, the existential threat to Pakistan involves extremism

LAHORE
The United States and Pakistan have informally discussed the possibilities of a civil nuclear deal, US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said on Thursday, according to TV reports.
Holbrooke said that the meeting of the Pakistani delegation, which is in
Washington for the strategic dialogue with the Obama administration, had a very productive meeting with the US president. The special envoy said the US administration had sought the

LAHORE: The world's largest conference on Islamic banking will be held in November at Expo Centre Lahore, Pakistan where speakers, from around the world, particularly from Muslim countries including Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Mauritius, USA, Indonesia, Switzerland and the UK will be in attendance on the occasion and share their valuable insight and perceptions on Islamic banking and finance.
More than 2000 participants will join in one of the most important