ISLAMABAD — Lt Gen Asim Munir, a former head of Pakistan’s spy agency ISI, was on Thursday named as the new Army chief to succeed incumbent General Qamar Javed Bajwa, ending the suspense over the key appointment. Bajwa, 61, is scheduled to retire on November 29 after a three-year extension. He has ruled out seeking […]
RAWALPINDI — Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday said that East Pakistan debacle was political failure not a military one, the media reported on Wednesday. Touching upon history during his address, the outgoing army chief said that he wanted to “correct” some facts regarding the events of 1971, ARY […]
CIANJUR (INDONESIA) — A powerful earthquake killed more than 160 people in Indonesia’s West Java province on Monday, with rescuers searching for survivors trapped under the rubble amid a series of aftershocks. The epicentre of the 5.6 magnitude quake was near the town of Cianjur in mountainous West Java, about 75 km (45 miles) southeast […]
LAHORE — Pakistan captain Babar Azam, former stars Wasim Akram, Shoaib Akhtar, and Mohammad Hafeez led the country’s cricket fraternity in condemning the attack on former Prime Minister and cricket legend Imran Khan during his rally in Wazirabad, eastern Pakistan, on Thursday. A gunman opened fire at a campaign truck carrying Imran Khan, wounding him […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former Pakistan Prime Minster Imran Khan survived a deadly attack on Thursday after an assailant reached close to his container and opened fire targeting Khan during the party’s long march in Gujranwala. Nabbed by the police, the attacker later said that he only wanted to kill Khan and […]
GUJRANWALA — Chaotic scenes broke out near PTI’s reception camp at Allahwala Chowk in Gujranwala after gunshots were fired at party chief Imran Khan, media reports said. According to Geo News, the former Prime Minister sustained bullet injuries on his leg, but is reported to be safe. According to the police, the suspect who opened […]
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court observed on Monday that Imran Khan was not barred from contesting elections in the future as it heard the disqualification case of the former prime minister by the country’s top election body. Khan, 70, was disqualified on Friday by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in the Toshakhana case for […]
ISLAMABAD — Global money laundering and terror financing watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), on Friday removed Pakistan from a list of countries under “increased monitoring”, also known as the “grey list”, media reports said. Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari made the announcement prior to an FATF press conference, congratulating the country on the […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan stunned everyone with his party re-claiming six out of eight seats of the National Assembly (NA) in by-elections. The competition was very much seen as a direct political battle between Khan and the coalition government. Khan lost only one contest in Karachi, […]
ISLAMABAD — After almost 52 months, Pakistan is expected to exit the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) grey list during a plenary slated to take place this week, the Paris-based global terror financing watchdog announced. In a statement, the watchdog said: “The first FATF Plenary under the two-year Singapore Presidency of T. Raja Kumar will […]