Pakistan's supreme court convicted the Prime Minister of contempt today for refusing to reopen an old corruption case against the country's president.

Afghanistan’s president has appealed for Pakistan’s help in negotiating a peace deal with Taliban militants before a summit today that will also include Iran’s leader.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has charged the prime minister with contempt for defying its orders to reopen a corruption case against his political ally, president Asif Ali Zardari.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has vowed to charge the prime minister with contempt for his failure to reopen an old corruption case against the president.

PAKISTAN’S Supreme Court ramped up pressure on the nation’s government yesterday, beginning contempt proceedings against the prime minister for failing to carry out its order to reopen a corruption case against the president.

Pakistan’s top court has initiated contempt proceedings against the prime minister for failing to carry out the court’s order to open a corruption probe into the president.

Pakistan’s prime minister has appealed for support from parliament in a stand-off between his beleaguered government and the armed forces, saying MPs had to choose between “democracy and dictatorship”.

Pakistan’s prime minister telephoned the top British diplomat in the country, expressing fears that the army might be about to stage a coup, reports say.

Pakistan’s army chief has summoned his commanders amid spiking tensions between the armed forces and the civilian government.

Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf is planning to return to the country and prepare for elections, despite threats he could be arrested.

Pakistan’s president will be discharged from hospital in Dubai tomorrow after being treated for a “mini-stroke”.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari suffered a ’mini-stroke’ when he was taken ill recently, one of his aides has said.

US OFFICIALS were concerned that Pakistan could jeopardise the Osama bin Laden operation and “might alert the targets,” CIA director Leon Panetta admitted yesterday.

Pakistan’s president has denied suggestions that his country’s security forces may have sheltered Osama bin Laden before he was killed by American forces, and said their co-operation with the United States helped pinpoint the world’s most wanted ma

THE governor of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most populous province was shot dead in the capital yesterday by one of his own guards, who later told interrogators that he was angry about the politician’s stance against the country’s blasphemy law, officials said.

The governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province was shot dead by one of his guards today apparently for criticising the country’s controversial blasphemy laws.

Pakistan’s prime minister is trying to keep his government from collapsing after a key party said it was quitting the ruling coalition, leaving the government short of majority support in parliament.

Exiled Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf told a rally in Britain today of his plans to return to the country at the head of a new party in a bid to regain power.

Pakistan is bracing itself for countrywide outbreaks of disease after the weeks of flooding damaged hospitals and clinics and turned tens of thousands of medical workers into refugees.

Pakistan’s president said it will take at least three years to recover from the floods that are battering the country.

The United Nations appeared to have met its target of €358m in immediate aid for flood-stricken Pakistan today, after Ireland, the US and other nations dramatically upped their pledges.

Islamist terrorists may exploit the chaos and misery caused by the floods in Pakistan to gain new recruits, the country’s president said today.

Victims of Pakistan’s deadly floods have mobbed relief lorries carrying food, and authorities in the north west warned of famine unless the region’s farmers received immediate help to plant new crops.

THE World Bank said yesterday it will redirect $900 million (€698m) of its existing loans to Pakistan to help in flood recovery as the UN warned that many of the 20m people affected by the disaster have yet to receive any emergency aid.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world to speed up assistance to flood-ravaged Pakistan yesterday as the 20 million people made homeless grew increasingly desperate, and new torrents inundated villages.

A case of the deadly waterborne disease cholera has been confirmed in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest, and aid workers expect there to be more, the UN said today.

THE United Nations appealed yesterday for$459 million (€356m) in aid for flood-hit Pakistan, warning of a second wave of death among sick, hungry survivors unless help arrives quickly.

PRESIDENT Asif Ali Zardari returned yesterday to flood-ravaged Pakistan, where he faced a storm of criticism for visiting Europe as his country was gripped by what his government called the nation’s worst natural disaster.

POOR Pakistan: only on the cricket field does it ever seem to have any luck.

Pakistan’s president Asif Ali Zardari returned to his flood-ravaged country and a storm of criticism today for visiting Europe amid the nation’s worst natural disaster.

Flood survivors loaded down with possessions fled for their lives in Pakistan today while the government came under renewed criticism for its response to the growing catastrophe.

PAKISTAN issued fresh flood warnings, braced for further chaos and a public health disaster as disease broke out among 3.2 million people hit by the worst floods in generations.

THE spat between Pakistan and Britain deepened last night after President Asif Ali Zardari warned the war in Afghanistan was being lost.

Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari claimed today the Taliban were winning the war in Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s intelligence agency has cancelled planned talks with security experts in the UK in the wake of David Cameron’s claim that elements within the country were promoting the export of terror, it was confirmed today.

PAKISTAN’S main spy agency continues to train, fund and arm the Taliban despite US pressure to sever ties with the group that Islamabad helped rise to power in Afghanistan in the 1990s, said a research report.

Pakistan’s president faced fresh calls to step down today after being stripped of an amnesty that protected him from corruption charges.

At least four people were killed today when a bomb exploded near an intelligence office in the central Pakistani city of Multan, police said.

BARACK OBAMA has begun one of the toughest sales jobs of his presidency, launching the much-awaited roll-out of his Afghan war strategy by informing top military and civilian advisers in Washington and Kabul and telephoning key allies around the globe.

Pakistan’s president turned over command of the country’s nuclear arsenal to his political ally the prime minister and signalled he was ready to shed more power amid growing pressure to resign.

Afghanistan president Hamid Mr Karzai today promised to root out his government’s endemic corruption in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his first term.

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard today accused Britain of being linked with Sunni militants whose suicide bombing killed five senior commanders and 37 others.

India’s prime minister today insisted it is time for peace with neighbouring Pakistan, but warned that relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals were still “under considerable stress” in the wake of last year’s terror attack in Mumbai.

President Barack Obama has described talks with Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai as “extraordinarily productive”.