ISLAMABAD — Pakistan saw the highest number of militant attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in a decade, a think tank reported Monday. Some militant groups previously paused hostilities for Ramadan, but the country has seen an overall increase in violence in recent years. The Pak Institute for Peace Studies reported at least […]
ISLAMABAD — Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts for human rights and democracy. Members of the Pakistan World Alliance (PWA) – an advocacy group founded last December – who also belong to the Norwegian political party Partiet Sentrum, announced the nomination of Khan, 72. […]
PESHAWAR — Pakistan said it killed 10 civilians during an anti-militant operation in the country’s northwest and promised to investigate the circumstances. Authorities made the admission Saturday evening about the deaths, which occurred in the early hours of that morning in a remote hilltop area of Katlang, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is rare for Pakistan […]
BANGKOK — The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has jumped to nearly 700, according to the government. State-run television MRTV reported that 694 people have now been found dead and another 1,670 injured, with 68 others injured, according to a statement from the military-led government. The same figures were also […]
KARACHI — At least eight people were killed, 17 injured and three abducted in two separate terror attacks by suspected insurgents in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province since Wednesday. A bomb exploded near a police vehicle in the Barech Market area of Quetta on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 17 others. Balochistan government spokesperson Shahid […]
ISLAMABAD — A high court here in Pakistan on Monday restored bi-weekly meetings of incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan with his visitors. The three-member Islamabad High Court bench, which heard at least 26 petitions related to the visitation rights and jail conditions of Khan, 72, ordered authorities to arrange Khan’s two meetings on two […]
QUETTA – Pakistan on Sunday charged a Baloch rights activist with terrorism, sedition and murder after she led a demonstration which ended in the death of three protesters, according to police documents. Mahrang Baloch, one of Pakistan’s most prominen human rights advocates, has long campaigned for the Baloch ethnic group, which claims it has been […]
QUETTA — At least 16 terrorists were killed by security forces during an attempt to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan in general area Ghulam Khan Kallay of North Waziristan district, the military’s media wing said on Thursday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces detected a group of terrorists attempting to cross the […]
KARACHI — A shutter-down and wheel jam strike was observed in many parts of Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on Saturday after violence broke out between police and the Baloch Yakjehti Committee’s (BYC) a day earlier. Many parts of the province including the capital city Quetta remained closed on the call of the BYC’s leader Mahrang […]
LAHORE — An FIR was registered against more than 50 members of the minority Ahmadi community under blasphemy laws in Punjab province of Pakistan for offering “Friday prayers” even as a radical Islamist party besieged their worship places in several cities. They were booked under the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) for “insulting a religion or […]