ISLAMABAD — Foreign delegations started arriving in Pakistan Sunday for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, amid heightened security and the deployment of the army in the national capital to maintain law and order during the event. A 76-member Russian delegation and seven representatives of the SCO reached Pakistan. Separately, a four-member official delegation of […]
ISLAMABAD — At least 11 people have been killed and eight more have sustained injuries in a clash between two tribes in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday, Al Jazeera reported. Tensions rose in the Kurram district of the province after two people were critically injured in a shooting incident between rival tribes in the […]
KARACHI — The Karachi administration has enforced Section 144 across the city for four days, starting from October 13, to ensure public safety and maintain law and order, ARY News reported. This decision comes after a recommendation from Sindh’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ghulam Nabi Memon, who cited potential threats to peace as the […]
ISLAMABAD — Zakir Naik, the fugitive Islamic preacher, on Friday apologised for his recent remarks on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) even as his controversial statements during the ongoing tour of Pakistan continue to draw severe criticism from people all over the country. Earlier this week, a video of Naik went viral on social media, in […]
QUETTA — Gunmen killed 20 miners and wounded another seven in Pakistan’s southwest, a police official said Friday. It’s the latest attack in restive Balochistan province and comes days ahead of a major security summit being hosted in the capital. Police official Hamayun Khan Nasir said the gunmen stormed the accommodations at the coal mine […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s former PM and Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaaf (PTI) Party founder Imran Khan wrote a letter to the UN against the incumbent government’s decision to execute constitutional amendments that aim to threaten judicial independence and human rights in the country, Geo Tv reported. As the ruling coalition government led by Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif strives […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) protest in the federal capital caused damages worth Rs240 million to private and public property, a report has revealed. The Islamabad Inspector General’s office has submitted the report to the Islamabad chief commissioner, following the violent protests that took place in the capital over the weekend. The main opposition party’s […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Monday ruled out talks with India on bilateral issues during the upcoming visit of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to Islamabad to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. India on Friday announced that Jaishankar would lead a delegation to Pakistan to participate in the SCO summit in Islamabad. However, Jaishankar […]
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistan anti-terrorism court on Monday remanded former prime minister Imran Khan’s sisters into police custody for further physical remand, while issuing arrest warrants against Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur in the same case. The two sisters, Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan were arrested from the D-Chowk on Friday when the Pakistan […]
ISLAMABAD — Life was returning to normal in the Pakistani capital on Monday after the violent protest by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf supporters subsided in the wake of high drama involving the mysterious disappearance of the party leader Ali Amin Gandapur. Gandapur, the chief minister of the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in the northwest, is a mercurial […]