Pakistan will overtake Indonesia as the world’s most numerous Muslim nation by 2030 while the Muslim minority in mostly Hindu India will retain its global rank as the third largest Muslim population, suggests a report.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan is committed to pursuing friendly relations with India on the basis of sovereign equality and resolving all outstanding problems, including “the core issue of Kashmir” to ensure a peaceful South Asia.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, who is always a key target for terrorists, is planning to hire security guards from the United States, a media report here claimed.
“In the backdrop of Punjab governor Salman Taseer’s murder by his police guard, a proposal is under consideration (to) bring in security guards from the United States

Pakistani legislator Sherry Rehman has gone underground amid a rising controversy over her proposed amendments to the country’s blasphemy law.
She moved a bill in the National Assembly seeking amendments to the law, and also appeared on television. Changes in the law are being vehemently opposed by religious parties and groups.

Pakistan is all set to change its man in New Delhi: it will name Salman Bashir, its current foreign secretary, as high commissioner to India, replacing Mr Shahid Malik.

Pakistan is set to seek from India the custody of Swami Aseemanand and his accomplices, who are alleged to be involved in the Samjhauta Express bombing that killed at least 68 Pakistanis, official sources said.

Pakistan’s powerful Army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, was the man who cooled down the recent political heat here that threatened to send the PPP-led government packing, official sources said.

US ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter on Saturday said the United States has a right to interfere in Pakistan’s economic and governance affairs as the former provides funds to Islamabad.

More and more Hindus are leaving Pakistan or converting to Islam to save their future, official records and media reports suggest.
“The Hindus, like other minorities, feel insecure and are leaving for other countries, mainly India. They are also becoming Muslims to make sure they are given equal rights,” a human rights activist told this newspaper citing survey reports. He said even the government has not been able to assure the minorities, at least in their statements, that their rights will be protected.

US ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter on Saturday said the United States has a right to interfere in Pakistan’s economic and governance affairs as the former provides funds to Islamabad.