CHANDIGARH — The Border Security Force (BSF) has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan Rangers after the neighbouring country displayed a large photograph of Kashmiri separatist leader Late Syed Ali Shah Geelani of Hurriyat Conference at the Attari -Wagah joint check post. According to sources, the photograph has been put up near the site of […]
DHAKA — Bangladesh’s interim government Wednesday revoked a ban on the rightwing Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, less than a month after it was imposed on the Islamist party by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was forced to resign following massive protests against her government. “It (lifting the ban) will come […]
DHAKA — Jamaat-e-Islami supremo Shafiqur Rahman has said that his party was not involved in attacks on the Hindu community in Bangladesh and attributed the negative portrayal of the party to a “malicious” media campaign. He also refuted allegations that the party was involved in anti-India activities in Bangladesh and asked India to provide proof […]
ISLAMABAD — Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have filed separate post-arrest bail pleas in the new Toshakhana case related to a jewellery set gifted by the Saudi crown prince, Pakistan-based Geo News reported. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife have filed the applications through Barrister Salman […]
PESHAWAR — Twenty-five militants, including a top militant commander, were neutralised while eleven others injured after Pakistan’s security forces conducted “extensive” intelligence-based operations in the restive Khyber tribal district against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and two of its affiliate groups, the army said Tuesday. The operations were based on “robust intelligence” and resulted in major […]
QUETTA, PAKISTAN — At least 73 people were killed in Pakistan’s province of Balochistan when separatist militants attacked police stations, railway lines and highways, officials said Monday, noting that security forces have launched retaliatory operations. The assaults were the most widespread in years by ethnic militants fighting a decades-long insurgency to win secession of the […]
ISLAMABAD — Separatist militants killed at least 39 people in “coordinated” attacks in southwestern Pakistan on Monday that largely targeted ethnic Punjabis, government officials said. In one of the attacks, dozens of militants stopped vehicles travelling on a highway through Balochistan province and shot 23 people dead — one of the worst shootings in the […]
ISLAMABAD — At least 37 people, including 11 pilgrims, were killed and several others injured in two separate bus accidents in Pakistan Sunday. The first accident occurred when a bus carrying 70 people, bringing Shia pilgrims back from Iran to Punjab province, veered off the Makran Coastal Highway in Balochistan province. The Makran Coastal Highway […]
ISLAMABAD — Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s cases in connection with the May 9 riots might go to military courts, the Pakistan government’s spokesperson for legal affairs, Barrister Aqeel Malik, said. Notably, countrywide protests erupted on May 9 last year after the paramilitary Rangers whisked away Imran from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s star fast bowler, Shaheen Shah Afridi, and his wife, Ansha Afridi, are celebrating the arrival of their first child. The couple is blessed with a baby boy, whom they have named Ali Yar. The Afridi family shared the joyful news on social media, where fans and well-wishers from around the globe extended […]