A Pakistani Foreign Ministry official says his country hopes to generate substantial amounts of electricity from nuclear energy by 2030 based on existing cooperation with China.
The Pakistani Senate has expressed concern over sectarian unrest in Karachi and ordered the Interior Ministry to find ways to improve the situation.
A Pakistani air force plane has brought some 130 Pakistani nationals back to their home country from the embattled Kyrgyz city of Osh, while some 350 Turkmen university students are waiting for assistance in leaving the city.
A militant group that once only threw hand grenades at places of worship has now acquired so much influence, manpower, resources, and technical expertise that it can launch large-scale attacks, despite the efforts of intelligence agencies, the police, and the Pakistan Army.
Pakistani police say they have arrested a U.S. citizen who claims to have been on a mission to kill Osama bin Laden.
Dozens of Pakistani students in the Kyrgyz city of Osh have been transferred to a safe location after one student was killed in ethnic riots there.
Pakistan is resisting Western pressure to go after an extremist stronghold in its North Waziristan tribal district and waiting to see how NATO fares in its much talked-about campaign in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar. But NATO generals across the border are reluctant to move into Kandahar without seeing major Pakistani efforts to end the main regional extremist sanctuary in North Waziristan.
Pakistani officials say that one of their country's citizens, a student, has reportedly been killed and 15 others taken hostage in Kyrgyzstan's volatile south.
A spokesman for the Pakistani military has described as "malicious" a report which alleges that Pakistan's ISI intelligence service is giving key support to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
Iran has finalized a $7 billion "peace pipeline" deal to export natural gas to Pakistan by 2015, Iran's state television reported.
Government officials say six missiles fired into Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border today by suspected U.S. drone aircraft killed at least 13 people.
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