Police and the military were called in to restore order at the Karachi bourse where the 100-index has been on a steep decline for the past two weeks amid growing political uncertainty, dealers said. The benchmark Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE)

Shibli Faraz, the son of the poet, contradicted news reports aired this afternoon by various TV channels, including state-run PTV, about the death of his father in the US. Faraz, 76, was attending a meeting at Chicago in the US

The deployment will add to a mounting sense of foreboding in Pakistan that US ground troops could be ordered into Pakistan on covert missions or hot pursuit to eliminate militants fuelling an insurgency in Afghanistan that appears stronger than ever.

Khan, lionised by many Pakistanis as the father of the country's atomic bomb, was pardoned but placed under house arrest by President Pervez Musharraf in 2004 soon after he made a televised confession to selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North

I beg to submit that the media has misquoted me on several occasions... I am confined to my house/sub-jail and have no direct control or power to influence the media," Khan wrote in a letter to the Chief Justice Sardar

The scientist's wife earlier this month lodged a court challenge against the restrictions on her husband, who had cancer surgery in 2006, encouraged by a brief relaxation in recent months which allowed him to meet family and friends. Khan has