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The United States and Australia on Thursday declared that a cyber attack in either country would trigger a mutual response as they sought to...

Despite a delay in the implementation on the transit trade agreement between Pakistan and Afghanistan, diplomatic efforts are underway for formal joining of land-locked...

Millions of people on the US east coast prepared Friday for the arrival of Hurricane Irene, a massive storm authorities fear will cause widespread...

Syrian forces killed at least 19 people in raids near the Lebanon border and in the country's Sunni tribal heartland, activists said, pursuing a...

The United States waged a secret diplomatic campaign in the 1970s to prevent Pakistan from developing nuclear weapons by pressing countries to control exports,...

A bomb killed a military officer loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, an official said on Tuesday, as Yemen’s rich Gulf neighbours sought...

Gulf Arab states aim to bring a long awaited customs unification into effect in 2015 as they vie to remove hurdles that delayed the...

Karl Marx once said: “Philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it.” While Marx would have wanted a communist party...

Nigeria’s ruling party has won delayed governorship elections in two northern states where hundreds died in rioting after a vote two weeks ago. The...

KARACHI - A group of different US-based organisations is in Karachi to select Pakistani dance, music and theatre artistes for Center Stage - a pilot programme sponsored by the United States government to select international performing artists from Haiti, Pakistan, and Indonesia.
"Pakistan has lot of talent and majority of the Pakistani artistes are eager to perform, as out of the total 200 applications that we have received for this exchange programme, 65 were from Pakistan

SANAA - Gulf states heaped pressure on Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Thursday, announcing they expect him to quit after more than two months of bloody protests.
Members of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council "hope to reach a deal with the Yemeni president to step down," said Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani. Saleh had on Wednesday welcomed Gulf mediation, according to a statement on Saba state news agency, which said he "affirmed the

TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday said the United States and its allies have pressured Gulf Arab states to accuse Tehran of meddling in Bahrain and Kuwait. The Statement came as Arab states of the Gulf accused Iran of meddling in Bahrain and Kuwait, drawing a warning from a senior official in Tehran on Monday for pro-US monarchs to focus instead on their peoples' demands. Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in a statement issued late on Sunday

KARACHI - Though there has been a consistent decline in Pakistani exports to the United States of America (USA) in the last three years, export value during six months of current financial has appreciated by 18 percent to what the sources attribute to an increase in cotton prices.
Furthermore, according to export receipts at State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) the export value to top 10 countries in the Americas have risen to $2.40 billion during July to December 2010 against the $2.0

KARACHI - A large-scale naval exercise is being conducted in the Arabian Sea from March 8 (today) to March 12 under the arrangements of the Pakistan Navy. Naval ships from 11 countries - including USA, UK, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia - have arrived in Karachi to participate in the multinational naval exercise AMAN-11. Maritime air platforms from Japan, Australia and USA have also arrived. Major naval forces are assembling in Pakistani waters for international maritime

RAS LANUF - Britain, France and Gulf states on Monday said they were seeking UN authority for a no-fly zone over Libya, as Muammar Gaddafi's warplanes counter-attacked against rebels and aid officials said a million people were in need.
Rebels swiftly rejected an olive branch offered by an associate of Gaddafi, and fighting escalated around one of the country's key oil ports. The ageing autocrat warned that if he fell thousands of refugees would "invade Europe". With civilians

KUWAIT CITY - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday said "reform - 'not repression" was the way to guarantee stability in the Arab world, in a visit to Kuwait as part of a regional tour. The day after he became the first foreign leader to visit Cairo since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Cameron told Kuwait's national assembly that protests sweeping the region were a precious moment of opportunity.
"For decades, some have argued that stability required highly controlling

KARACHI - Though there is has been a consistent decline in trade with the United States in the last three years despite close state ties, Pakistan's exports to 11 South Eastern states of the US has shown a striking fall of over six percent during the last three months.
According to sources in the Pakistani Consulate General in Houston, Texas, regional imports from Pakistan have continuously fallen for several reasons, one of which was the decrease in the spending power and