Pakistan’s senators feel they need actress Veena Malik in Parliament to attract ministers who do not attend sessions.
The Opposition said deputy chairman Mir Jan Jamali has failed to ensure member attendance.

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, met former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf se-cretly in Dubai and advised him not to return from exile as the situation was not conducive for him, several Pakistani TV channels and newspapers reported.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has asked the government to submit in writing that it will not sack the Army Chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and the head of Inter-Services Intelligence, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha.

Pakistani authorities have arrested 31 Indian fishermen and seized 14 boats for allegedly violating the country's maritime boundary, an official said on Sunday.

Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has said that he would return home with the people's support and not by ‘riding on the shoulders of the Army and the ISI’.

Pakistan’s powerful Army Chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, on Friday assured President Asif Ali Zardari that democracy will not be derailed and the elected government will be allowed to make important decisions regarding foreign policy.

Appearing before the Supreme Court in a contempt case, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani defended his stand in not reopening old corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari and writing to a Swiss court in this regard, saying the President enjoyed complete immunity not just within the country but all over the world.

Like he has done several times in the past, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will retreat once more when he appears before the Supreme Court on Thursday to explain why he did not write a letter to the Swiss authorities to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, official sources said.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday decided to appoint Babar Awan law minister minutes after his licence as lawyer was suspended by the Supreme Court, a move that may further escalate tension betw-een the executive and the judiciary.

Uncertainty prevailed in Pakistan as the coalition partners discussed changing the Prime Minister hours after PM Yousaf Raza Gilani was on Monday summoned to appear in the Supreme Court on Thursday fo