Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are not safe under the present PPP dispensation, country's former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said, evoking an angry response from the government, which rejected his contention as "baseless".

Pakistan will ask the US to stop using one of its key air bases after a Nato air raid on one of the country's
border check posts left at least 25 soldiers dead, the government said.

Pakistani foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Sunday spoke to US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and conveyed the "deep sense of rage" felt across the country after the death of 24 soldiers in a Nato attack on a Pakistani check-post.

Nato helicopters attacked a military checkpoint in northwest Pakistan today, killing up to 25 troops and prompting Pakistan to shut the vital supply route for Nato troops fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said.

One of the bravest girls in Pakistan, who as a 11-year-old wrote about the Taliban banning girls' schools in the picturesque Swat Valley and missing watching her favourite Indian serial 'Raja Ki Ayegi Baraat', has been nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize.

Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif and agent Mazhar Majeed were all jailed on Thursday for their parts in fixing parts of a Test match against England.

Asserting that "friends were no longer friends of the country", Pakistan on Saturday said India had played a "major" role in supporting its successful bid to become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.

Teenager Kraigg Brathwaite closed in on a half-century as the West Indies reached 88 for no loss at lunch on the opening day of the second and final Test against Bangladesh on Saturday.

President Asif Ali Zardari used the festival of Diwali on Wednesday to promise protection to minorities in overwhelmingly Muslim Pakistan.

Lashkar-e-Tayyaba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the main accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case, has been clandestinely communicating from prison with members of his group, according to intercepts by Western intelligence agencies.