The change in policy has important implications for the drone program in Pakistan, where future negotiations could center on whether Pakistan tries to gain joint control of the program or seeks to end it outright.

U.K. police said Friday they arrested two people from a Pakistan International Airlines Corp. jet, after British air force fighter jets were scrambled to escort it to Stansted airport near London following an unspecified incident.

STANSTED, England, May 24 (Reuters) - British police said on Friday they are treating an incident involving a plane carrying almost 300 passengers from Pakistan as criminal rather that a terror-related.

STANSTED, England, May 24 (Reuters) - British police said on Friday they are treating an incident involving a plane carrying almost 300 passengers from Pakistan as criminal rather that a terror-related.

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - A passenger aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane flying from Lahore to Manchester that was diverted under military jet escort to Stansted, northeast of London on Friday said someone had made threats against its cr

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Passengers were disembarking from a Pakistan International Airlines jet diverted to London's Stansted Airport on Friday and no one has been hurt, an airport spokesman said.

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Passengers were disembarking from a Pakistan International Airlines jet diverted to London's Stansted Airport on Friday and no one has been hurt, an airport spokesman said.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Two were arrested by Essex Police "on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft" and removed from a plane, media reports from Britain said Friday. British fighter jets hadescorted a Pakistan passenger plane that diverted from

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - British police arrested two men on a Pakistan International Airlines flight on Friday on suspicion of "endangerment of an aircraft" after it was escorted to a different airport by fighter jets.

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Britain launched fighter jets on Friday to escort a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane arriving from Lahore in Pakistan to an airport near London after it was diverted from Manchester, the Defence Ministry said

A British fighter jet had to be scrambled after a Pakistan International Airlines plane flying from Lahore to Manchester was diverted, according to multiple reports. The plane has since safely landed at Stanstead Airport. Dan Sabbagh of the Guardian

Sharif looks to to avert a balance of payments crisis and boost electricity supplies while Pakistan agrees a new programme with the IMF

Since they began in November 2002, in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia, the US has conducted approximately 425 non-battlefield targeted killings

ISLAMABAD, May 23 (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang praised the Sino-Pakistan relationship to the hilt on Thursday, urging the "all-weather friends" to boost cooperation in business, trade, energy and infrastructure and build a long-vaunted econ

A police officer said a car bomb in southwest Pakistan has killed 11 policemen and a civilian.

ISLAMABAD, May 22 (Reuters) - China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Islamabad seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the econom

ISLAMABAD, May 22 (Reuters) - China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Islamabad seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the econom

ISLAMABAD, May 22 (Reuters) - China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Islamabad seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the econom

ISLAMABAD, May 22 (Reuters) - China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Islamabad seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the econom

ISLAMABAD, May 22 (Reuters) - China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Islamabad seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the econom

ISLAMABAD, May 22 (Reuters) - China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Islamabad seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the econom

Chevron Corp. (CVX) is in advanced talks to sell most of its downstream assets in Egypt and Pakistan in a sale that could be valued at around $300 million, the Reuters news agency said Tuesday on its website, citing three unnamed banking sources.

DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp is in advanced talks to sell most of its downstream assets in Egypt and Pakistan, three sources said, with the planned disposals seen raising around $300 million for the U.S. oil major.

DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp is in advanced talks to sell most of its downstream assets in Egypt and Pakistan, three sources said, with the planned disposals seen raising around $300...

DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp is in advanced talks to sell its downstream assets in Egypt and Pakistan, three sources said, with the planned disposals seen raising around $300 million for the U.S. oil major.

DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp is in advanced talks to sell its downstream assets in Egypt and Pakistan, three sources said, with the planned disposals seen raising around $300 million for the U.S. oil major.

DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp is in advanced talks to sell its downstream assets in Egypt and Pakistan, three sources said, with the planned disposals seen raising around $300 million for...

Russian security forces said they killed two Islamist militants and wounded a third in a shootout outside of Moscow, after they said they learned that the men, allegedly trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan, were planning a terrorist attack in the Rus

Connected by language and history, but divided by years of war and persistent conflict, India and Pakistan share a rocky, schismatic relationship that is tenuous...

Doug BandowArriving at the airport in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, reminds one of the vast gulf between the First and Third World. Chaotic, frenetic, disorganized, dilapidated—when I visited a couple months ago I almost longed for New Y

ISLAMABAD, May 20 (Reuters) - Pakistan has told civil servants not to wear socks as the country turns off air-conditioners amid a chronic power crisis and soaring temperatures.

ISLAMABAD, May 20 (Reuters) - Two Pakistani ministers in charge of water and power explained what can be done to end power cuts of up to 20 hours a day in parts of the country enduring temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius and above - absolutely nothing

ISLAMABAD May 20 (Reuters) - Pakistan's all-powerful military overthrew Nawaz Sharif 14 years ago and hustled him off into exile in handcuffs. Now he's back as prime minister-elect, with the army watching his every move, especially steps planned to e

Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party.

A train journey across Pakistan highlights the woes of its rail system, which are a microcosm of larger troubles: corruption, economic disparity, political unrest and neglected infrastructure.    

A senior female member of Imran Khan's Pakistan's Movement for Justice party (PTI) was shot dead outside her home in Karachi on Saturday. Reports suggested that Zahra Shahid Hussain, who was senior vice-president of the PTI, was killed while resistin

Bombs exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 13 people, underlining the challenge of militant violence facing a new government.

ISLAMABAD, May 17 (Reuters) - Islamabad has authorised the export of 100,000 tonnes of wheat to Iran in trade not jeopardised by Western sanctions, to settle dues for electricity supplied to Pakistan's energy-starved border areas, the Commerce Minist

ISLAMABAD, May 17 (Reuters) - Islamabad has authorised theexport of 100,000 tonnes of wheat to Iran in trade notjeopardised by Western sanctions, to settledues forelectricity supplied to Pakistan's energy-starved border areas,the Commerce Ministry sa

This is from Sultan Mehmood. The article appears in the May edition of Defense and Peace Economics, which the author describes as "a highly specialized journal on conflict": Terrorism and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from Pakistan, by Sultan Mehmood, J

SPELLING out plans from his gilded home in Raiwind in the province of Punjab on May 13th, Nawaz Sharif allowed smugness to creep in. His main opponent in the general election that had taken place two days earlier, Imran Khan, a former cricketer, shou

Pakistani leaders are concerned that the looming end to more than a decade of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan is emboldening the Pakistani Taliban, who have been orchestrating attacks in Pakistan from havens on the other side of the border.

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (Z74.SG, SGAPY) on Wednesday said its fiscal fourth-quarter net profit declined 32.6% because it booked a loss on the sale of its equity stake in a Pakistan company.

* Mobius Asia fund invests more money in Pak than Hong Kong, Singapore

* Mobius Asia fund invests more money in Pak than Hong Kong, Singapore