The plot behind the 2007 assassination of former Premier Benazir Bhutto was hatched at the home of a Pakistani Army brigadier, claimed a media repor.
A fresh probe had uncovered the role of nine men, including the brigadier in whose residence the plot was hatched, The Express Tribune newspaper reported on Friday

The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has been put on the razor’s edge by key ally Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), which pulled out of the Federal Cabinet and threatened to quit the alliance altogether if its demands were not met.

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has accused former Premier Nawaz Sharif of supporting Baloch nationalist leaders, charging that the PML-N chief was trying to draw "political mileage" from the Baloch unrest.

The Pakistan Navy has successfully test-fired new missiles in the Sonmiani area of interior Sindh.

The Pakistani authorities have arrested a key member of an insurgent network in the Afghan-Pakistan region. Nasiruddin Haqqani, son of Afghan insurgent leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, belongs to the notorious group called the Haqqani Network. Nasiruddin Haqqani was detained in recent days while driving from Peshawar with four militants to the tribal region of North Waziristan, sources said. The UN says he is believed to be based out of Miranshah in North Waziristan.

At least 45 people were killed and over 100 injured in a suicide attack in Pakistan’s tribal Bajaur Agency on Christmas Day, officials said on Saturday.
“We can confirm 45 deaths and the toll may increase as several people are badly wounded. The bomber was a female,” a security official at the site said, adding the suicide bomber detonated her suicide vest in front of the office of the World Food Program (WFP) in Khar, the HQ of Bajaur Agency.

Former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf has said that his own generals and soldiers, rather than politicians, betrayed him. “I will not blame the politicians. My own men (soldiers and generals) disappointed me. They betrayed me,” Mr Musharraf said. In an interview to the private Pakistani channel Geo TV, Mr Musharraf said the

Pakistan has told Bangladesh in clear terms that it will never apologise for alleged war crimes in 1971 in then East Pakistan, official sources said.
“It has been conveyed to Bangladesh very clearly that this can’t happen. We will not apologise for any crime or anything,” a highly placed government official told this newspaper, referring to a recent meeting with a Bangladeshi delegation led by their foreign secretary, Mohammed Mijarul Quayes.

A new political alliance is in the offing in Pakistan to challenge the fragile government led by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), political sources said.
“The Opposition parties are joining hands. They are planning to form a new alliance together with the angry partners of the government to challenge the PPP,” an

China and Pakistan are set to conclude another $10 billion worth of deals on Saturday, the latest signings on a trade-focused trip to South Asia by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.