Azizuddin has been released and is expected to return home soon, local news channels on Saturday quoted official sources as saying. The ambassador, his driver and a guard were kidnapped on February 11 while he was on his way to

Nine ministers from Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), or PML (N), quit the cabinet led by the party of assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday after their leaders failed to reach agreement on the restoration of judges sacked by

Acting on the advice of the Pakistan People's Party-led federal government, President Pervez Musharraf appointed industrialist and media baron Salman Taseer as the new governor of the politically crucial province of Punjab. The PML-N, which is ruling Punjab, said it

The government is committed to "maintaining a minimum credible deterrence through conventional and strategic capabilities as Pakistan has a major role to play for peace and stability in the region," Gilani said. During a meeting with the Chairman of the

We confirm that the two missiles were fired from a drone which belongs to coalition forces deployed in Afghanistan," Pakistan's chief military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told, referring to strike. "We have conveyed our protest and waiting for response