DUBAI — Former President and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Pakistan General (retd) Parvez Musharraf passed away on Sunday after prolonged illness. According to Pakistani Media reports, Musharraf who had been living in Dubai since 2016 was undergoing treatment at American Hospital Dubai. The 79-year-old former President and Chief of Army Staff was suffering from […]
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked Wikipedia due to the website’s refusal to remove allegedly offensive or blasphemy material. Earlier, the telecom regulator had degraded the portal’s services in the country, The News reported Saturday. When a PTA spokesperson was contacted late Friday night and inquired about the blocking of Wikipedia, the […]
ISLAMABAD — The death toll from the suicide blast that ripped through a mosque on Monday afternoon in Pakistan’s northwest provincial capital of Peshawar rose to 63, an official told Xinhua. Spokesperson of Lady Reading Hospital Muhammad Asim said on early Tuesday morning that the death toll rose after some injured succumbed to their injuries […]
UNITED NATIONS — In a major development, Pakistan-based deputy leader of militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Abdul Rehman Makki has been designated as a global terrorist by the United Nations, subjecting him to an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. The UN Security Council’s 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee added 68-year-old Makki, the brother-in-law of […]
KATHMANDU — At least 68 people were killed when a Nepalese passenger plane with 72 people onboard, including five Indians, crashed into a river gorge while landing at the newly-opened airport in central Nepal’s resort city of Pokhara on Sunday, a rescue official said. Yeti Airlines’ 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Friday said it has always welcomed the international community playing a role in promoting peace in the region, including in facilitating a dialogue with India for the resolution of the core issues, including on Kashmir. Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch made these comments during the weekly press briefing here, when […]
JAKARTA — A massive earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia’s Maluku province on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue a tsunami alert. The quake occurred at 12.47 a.m. with its epicentre located 148 km northwest of Maluku Tenggara Barat (Kepulauan Tanimbar) district and a depth of 131 km under the seabed, Xinhua news […]
KABUL — The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has announced the suspension of university education for female students all across the war-torn nation, the latest in a series of restrictions against women rights. A letter issued by the regime’s Education Ministry on Tuesday said the decision, which will further restrict women’s access to formal education, was […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Tuesday alleged that India was involved in a blast outside Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s Jauhar Town residence in Lahore in June last year. “Today, the matter that we are putting before you, we have evidence of India’s involvement in it,” Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah told reporters here, referring to the […]
ISLAMABAD — The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has said that it has been working on a plan to find a channel of discussion between Pakistan and India on the Kashmir issue. India has previously hit out at the 57-member grouping of Muslim-majority nations, saying bodies like OIC should refrain from allowing vested interests to […]