Rumours are rife here that Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, has “secretly” remarried.

Pakistan has deployed over 100 nuclear weapons, doubling its stockpile in the past several years and overtaking India, the Washington Post said in a front-page report on Monday.

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.

The Pakistani Taliban has killed a former intelligence officer who was taken hostage last year in the North Waziristan tribal region, Pakistani officials said on Sunday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that he will welcome Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Pakistan to improve ties between the two nuclear armed rivals.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will make an official visit to the US by March for talks with the top American leadership, including President Barack Obama.

An eminent Pakistani philanthropist has said that he would provide Rs 10,000 in cash to every family affected by the January 19 earthquake in Dalbandin area of Southwest Balochistan province.

Thirty-two people, including 11 children, were killed and about 20 others injured when the bus they were travelling in collided with an oil tanker in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, officials said on Sunday.

PAKISTANI actress Veena Malik, castigated for appearing to cuddle with actor Ashmit Patel on a reality show, lashed out at a Muslim cleric who had criticised her during a widely watched television excha-nge this week.