UTStarcom Inc. has signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar contract with Bell & Tell Pvt. Ltd. to provide bundled voice and data services in Pakistan using UTStarcom's optical network and VoIP technologies, the company said Tuesday.
A suicide bomber killed 17 people in northwest Pakistan as police tried to arrest him Tuesday, the latest attack in a wave of violence that is piling pressure on President Pervez Musharraf.
President Pervez Musharraf faced a fresh showdown with Pakistan's Supreme Court after the opposition Tuesday launched a legal challenge against the deportation of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President Pervez Musharraf's summary deportation yesterday of a returning political rival is likely to galvanize the country's prodemocracy movement, but it also sharply heightens the danger that the Pakistani leader will use unrest as a pretext for declaring emergency rule or martial law, analysts said.
Lawyers for former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have appealed his deportation to the country's Supreme Court.
Nawaz Sharif, the exiled former prime minister of Pakistan, was deported to Saudi Arabia just hours after arriving in Islamabad. Sharif had returned to Pakistan in the last week to challenge President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in elections.
Scotland's John Blain is ready for a psychological battle with Pakistan's batsmen at the ICC World Twenty20.
Supporters of former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif launched a legal challenge in the country's Supreme Court on Tuesday against his deportation to Saudi Arabia by the government, officials said.
A suicide bomber in Pakistan has killed at least 12 people and wounded more than a dozen in an attack on Tuesday near a bus stop. Local officials said some of the dead were police officers. The blast occurred in a town bordering Pakistan's troubled tribal areas.
The United States has said that fighting the al-Qaeda in Pakistan is as critically important to the America as coming to terms with the terror network in Iraq.