Taliban vows more Pakistan bloodshed (Manning River Times)
THE chief of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, has claimed responsibility for a bloody attack on a Lahore police academy and has warned a campaign of terror will continue while Pakistan collaborates with the United States.
Pakistan’s Sharif says will not rejoin government (Reuters) (Yahoo!7 World News)
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif declined on Thursday an offer for his party to join the cabinet, but said he would support the government in its struggle to fight militancy and revive the economy.
INDIA: Pakistani journalists manhandled in New Delhi (AsiaMedia)
NEW DELHI — Members of Hindu rightwing group Sri Rama Sena Wednesday disrupted a seminar of Indian and Pakistani journalists in the capital, shouting slogans against Pakistan.
No official request for Kasab’s lawyer: Pakistan (rediff.com)
Pakistan on Thursday claimed that it has not received any official notification from India regarding the request for a Pakistani lawyer by Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive during the Mumbai attacks.”We will see when it comes. We would not like to jump the gun,” Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told reporters at the weekly briefing in Islamabad, replying to a question on …
Indian version of Taliban in pipeline: Pakistani author (Hindustan Times)
India needs to help the militancy-plagued Pakistan which is on the brink of collapse or else it would end up sharing its western border with the Taliban, a noted Pakistani author has warned.
U.S. warms to Pakistan’s Sharif (The Washington Times)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan | The Obama administration is paying increased attention to Nawaz Sharif, a controversial former Pakistani prime minister who has emerged as the most popular politician in the country as its president appears to flounder. U.S. and Pakistani analysts say Mr. Sharif’s rise is due in part to discontent with President Asif Ali Zardari, who was forced to back down in a clash of …
10 members of Pakistan family slain (UPI)
SIAKOT, Pakistan, April 16 (UPI) — Ten members of a Pakistani family, including eight children, were killed early Thursday in a property dispute at Sialkot, police said.
Drone attacks with assent, from base inside Pakistan: NYT (Pakistani Newspaper)
NEW YORK, Apr 16: Pakistan and US have grown accustomed to an unusual diplomatic dance around the drones issues. Most of the aircraft, about the size of a Cessna, take off with Pakistani assent from a base inside Pakistan, American and Pakistani officials acknowledge.
Pakistan-UK at odds over arrested terror suspects (The Pakistan Link)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday called British Deputy Political Counsellor Alastair King Smith to the Foreign Office and demanded sharing of information and consular access to alleged Pakistani students arrested by UK.
Pakistan, Britain in row over terror suspects (New Kerala)
Islamabad, April 15 : Pakistan and Britain were embroiled in a diplomatic row Wednesday as British officials showed reluctance to give consular access and share information about Pakistani terror suspects detained last week.
