ForeignGENEVA- International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi apologized to the Syrian people for the lack of progress at peace talks in Geneva after their second round ended on Saturday with little more than an<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/16/mediator-apologizes-to-syrians-for-lack-of-peace-progress/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignSEOUL- After a year of investigation, the United Nations is set to release a detailed report on human rights violations in North Korea that could pave the way for criminal prosecution in<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/16/un-to-release-report-on-human-rights-violations-in-north-korean-prisons/" title="Read more" >...</a>
CITYMuttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain said on Sunday that the choked telephone lines at Nine Zero are a conspiracy by the ones who are conducting targeted operation against them. He<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/16/altaf-complains-against-dead-phone-lines-of-nine-zero/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignCARACAS- Students opposed to Venezuela’s government returned to the streets to protest against President Nicolas Maduro after a week of violence that saw three people killed at political rallies. The tension that<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/15/anti-maduro-protests-renew-venezuela-turmoil/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignSANA’A- Yemeni security forces were on Friday hunting down 29 inmates, including 19 suspected al-Qaeda members, who broke out of jail in a deadly assault in the capital. The official Saba news<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/14/inmates-flee-after-prison-blast-in-yemen/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TT) chief negotiator Maulana Samiul Haq appealed the TTP on Friday to end all kinds of attacks. He moreover openly condemned the recent incidents of terrorism in the port city<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/14/sami-appeals-ttp-to-end-attacks/" title="Read more" >...</a>
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BusinessSINGAPORE- Singapore Airshow organisers on Friday announced a record high of more than $32 billion in deals as Asian carriers ordered more aircraft to meet explosive demand for cheap, short-range travel. European<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/14/asian-carriers-lift-singapore-airshow-deals-to-new-high/" title="Read more" >...</a>
ForeignBEIJING- Eleven “terrorists” were killed during an attack in China’s far western region of Xinjiang on Friday, state news agency Xinhua said, in the latest violence to hit a part of the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/14/china-kills-11-terrorists-in-new-xinjiang-unrest/" title="Read more" >...</a>
KARACHICommenting on the peace talks between the government and Taliban, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has reiterated that dialogue and terrorism could not go together. Speaking to journalists in Karachi on Thursday, the minister said that the law and order situation in Karachi was heading towards chaos. He said that the ongoing operation against criminals needed to be conducted in an environment similar to that of the first three months of the operation.
ISLAMABADUzma Khan receives French Embassy Fiction Prize for her book Thinner than Skin Uzma Aslam Khan, a Pakistani citizen, received the French Embassy Fiction Prize the other day for her book “Thinner<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/02/13/a-real-prize-for-a-surreal-piece/" title="Read more" >...</a>
NATIONALTaliban threaten Kalash tribe, Ismailis in ChitralThe Pakistani Taliban have announced an “armed struggle” against an indigenous tribe and Ismaili Muslims in the picturesque northern Chitral V
