He was asked by the Taliban to serve as their ambassador but he refused, telling friends that he felt Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) was wrongly using them.

He speaks English, Urdu, Gujarati, French, German, and Russian and was Pakistan's top envoy to the United States and more than a dozen other countries for more than three decades and earned the distinction as the world's longest-serving ambassador.

According to the journalist Susan Taylor, he originally worked in his family's " shipping and pharmaceutical " businesses, and moved into diplomacy in 1965 when he was appointed Pakistan's ambassador to Ghana.

Raja Tridiv Roy also served as Pakistan's ambassador to Argentina.

According to Stanley Wolpert, this was the moment when Jinnah, the former ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity, totally transformed himself into Pakistan's great leader.

Her diplomatic career was ended, when General Zia ul Haq dismissed her from the Foreign Service on two charges ; for calling him a " buffoon " in her personal diary ( leaked by her former in-laws ) and for having said ( at a private dinner at the home of Pakistan's ambassador to the Philippines ) " that the judiciary in Pakistan was neither free nor fair ".

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

In November 2001, before the capture of Kunduz by United Front troops under the command of Mohammad Daud Daud, thousands of top commanders and regular fighters of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agents and military personnel, and other volunteers and sympathizers in the Kunduz airlift, dubbed the Airlift of Evil by US military forces around Kunduz and subsequently used as a term in media reports, were evacuated and airlifted out of Kunduz by Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force air bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas.

With news of Pakistan planning to launch a nuclear attack in the face of a loss in the war with India, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was summoned to the US by Bill Clinton and warned against any such mis-adventure.

Based on communication intercepts US intelligence agencies concluded Pakistan's ISI was behind the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul on July 7, 2008, a charge that the governments of India and Afghanistan had laid previously.

There was US concern that Pakistan's intelligence services would tip off the targets or even worse assume the missiles over Pakistan came from India, potentially triggering a nuclear conflict on the Indian sub-continent.

CNN / US simulcast CNNI coverage of the death of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on the night after her assassination took place.

As a result, besides expanding the Jang newspaper group, they have added to it a powerful GEO television channel which has shaped into Pakistan's most popular television channel and its programmes can also be watched in the US and the UK and many parts of the Islamic world.

N2KL is the designation used by US and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan for the rugged and very violent region along the Afghanistan – Pakistan border opposite Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

During his five year tenure as the Commerce Minister, Pakistan's average Real GDP Growth rate was 6. 8 % per year, exports increased from $ 8 Billion to $ 20 Billion, and the US Dollar exchange rate was 62 Pakistani Rupees.

Babur is believed to have been developed in response to reports that India was planning to acquire Patriot missiles from the US, in order to set up a ballistic missile defense system to counter Pakistan's arsenal of ballistic missiles.

Husain gained her first experience of journalism at the age of 18, spending three months as a city reporter in Islamabad at Pakistan's leading English-language newspaper The News.

While the city is being developed, it is the scene of occasional deadly suicide bombings and explosions carried out by the Haqqani network, Taliban's Quetta Shura, Hezb-i Islami, al-Qaeda, and other anti-government elements who are allegedly supported and guided by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) spy network.

Many people have plotted to assassinate Karzai in the last decade, especially the Taliban's Quetta Shura and the Haqqani network which allegedly receives support and guidance from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) spy network.

While the city is being developed, it is also the scene of occasional deadly suicide bombings and explosions carried out by the Haqqani network, Taliban's Quetta Shura, Hezb-i Islami, Al Qaeda, and other anti-government elements who are allegedly supported and guided by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) spy network.

On February 20, Muhammad Haqqani, son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, was one of four people killed in the drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region in North Waziristan, according to two Pakistani intelligence sources.

Ismail Jan, Deputy to the senior Haqqani commander, was killed in an airstrike in Paktia province which borders Pakistan's FATA a day after the attack.

Pakistan's leading nuclear physicist, Pervez Hoodbhoy, stated in 2011 that he believes the test " pushed further into the nuclear arena ".

Khan stated that he had personally helped transfer $ 3 million in gratuities to senior Pakistan's military officers, though he neither provided any proofs to his claims.

A June 2008 article by Vicky Nanjappa, writing for Rediff. com, stated that a report by India's Intelligence Bureau indicated that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence organization was " desperately trying to revive Sikh " militant activity in India.

The Constitution stated Pakistan's official name as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Pakistani-born Mahmood stated that he was " flabbergasted and shocked " after he learned that bin Laden was living in a city with thousands of Pakistani troops, reviving questions about alleged links between al-Qaeda and elements in Pakistan's security forces.

On 26 November 1999, while addressing a gathering of influential lobbyist of Pakistan American community, a political lobbying sub-body of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America ( APPNA ), Musharraf stated that: " Shaukat Aziz has come to Pakistan with forty other financial experts who have offered free service to revive the Pakistan's national economy ..".

In June 2001, President General Pervez Musharraf vowed that Pakistan's " mininum nuclear deterrence " would not " be compromised ," but stated that " Pakistan's nuclear capability is entirely for self-defense.

In 2012, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani stated and further clarified Pakistan's nuclear policy:

In 2010, Russian foreign ministry official Yuriy Korolev stated that there are somewhere between 120, 000 to 130, 000 people directly involved in Pakistan's nuclear and missile programs, a figure considered extremely large for a developing country.

Pakistani officials have stated that signature of the CTBT is in Pakistan's best interest, but that Pakistan will do so only after developing a domestic consensus on the issue, and have disavowed any connection with India's decision.

But Pakistan is since believed to have developed and implemented its own version of PAL and U. S. military officials have stated they believe Pakistan's nuclear weaponry to be well secured.

The Indian Air Force stated that " the Atlantique was trying to return to Pakistan's airspace after intruding more than and as such was headed towards Pakistan ....".

The Journal also stated that the organization is sometimes assisted by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.

Most of Pakistan's public and private banks are headquartered on Karachi's I. I. Chundrigar Road ; according to a 2001 report, nearly 60 % of the cashflow of the Pakistani economy takes place on I. I. Chundrigar Road.

A recent report by Credit Suisse on Pakistan's stock market is a testimonial to its strong fundamentals, estimating Pakistan ’ s relative return on equities at 26. 7 percent, compared to Asia ’ s 11 percent.

According to the report, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency rushed Omar to a hospital near Karachi where he was operated on, treated, and then released several days later.

According to a 2001 Department of Defense report, China has supplied Pakistan with nuclear materials and has provided critical technical assistance in the construction of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China is a signatory.

According to both Berntsen's account and the Senate Committee's report, " Bin Laden and bodyguards walked unmolested out of Tora Bora and disappeared into Pakistan's unregulated tribal area.

Barlow's analysis of Pakistan's nuclear programme indicated that Pakistan possessed the capability to use the fighters to drop nuclear bombs, and the report which he submitted to Dick Cheney concluded that the F-16 sale indisputably violated the law.