Dubai: Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf announces he will return to his homeland no later than March 23 next year to participate in the 2013 general elections, despite facing possible arrest in the country.
Washington: A Florida-based imam of Pakistani origin and his two sons are arrested and charged along with three other Pakistanis for providing financial and material support to the Taliban in Pakistan.
New York: IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a likely candidate for French President in 2012, is arrested and charged with attempted rape and sexual assault on a hotel maid here, after being pulled out from a Paris-bound airplane, minutes before it was to take off.
Islamabad: ISI's powerful chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha warns India that any Abbottbad-like attack by it would invite a befitting response from Pakistan as targets inside the country "had already been identified" and "rehearsal" carried out.
New York: IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is denied bail on charges of attempted rape and criminal assault of a hotel maid here in a case that has ravaged his reputation and sent tremors in French politics.
Karachi: Four motorcycle-borne Taliban militants shoot and kill a diplomat of Saudi Arabia, a staunch US ally, claiming it was to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden and continued drone attacks in Pakistan's volatile north-west.
Geneva: An abysmally low government spending on health -- at $32 per capita -- characterises the poor state of healthcare in India which is facing a "double burden" of diseases afflicting both the poor and rich classes, a new WHO report has warned.
Beijing: Facing flak from long time ally US over the Osama debacle, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani calls China his country's "best" and "most trusted" friend while Beijing threw its weight behind its ally, "unswervingly" backing its counter terrorism efforts.
Washington: Just back from a trip to Pakistan, US Senator John Kerry says the Obama administration expected more from that country to root out terrorist groups holed up there, observing a "fullness of measure of effort" is now required.
New York: Sirajuddin Haqqani, head of the Haqqani terror network is a potential target for a Abbottabad-like hit, US officials have warned, as reports indicated that the network's inner circle fled their compounds in Pakistan as the raid on Osama bin Laden became public.
Washington: Dominique Strauss-Kahn who is locked up in a New York prison on allegations of sexual assault resigns as the managing director of the IMF, triggering a succession battle between the developing world and the Europe to lead the global lender.
Beijing/Islamabad: China says the international community "must respect" Pakistan's sovereignty, tacitly confirming reports that it has asked the US not to violate Islamabad's territorial integrity, following the killing of Osama bin Laden.
New York: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is granted $1 million bail under stringent conditions, which include tagging him with an electronic device, after he was formally indicted on all seven counts of sexually assaulting a hotel maid here.
Peshawar: Pakistani Taliban targets a US consulate convoy in Peshawar with a car bomb killing one person and injuring over a dozen others, the first attack on Americans in the country since Osama bin Laden's death.
