ISLAMABAD — Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that Pakistan wants to have “permanent peace” with India through dialogue as war is not an option for either of the countries to resolve the Kashmir issue, according to a media report on Saturday. Speaking to a delegation of students from Harvard University, Sharif also said that […]
KABUL — An explosion at a mosque in the north of the Afghan capital of Kabul killed 20 people and injured 40 more, media reports said. The blast reportedly took place in a mosque in the Khair Khana area during evening prayers. “As a result of an explosion in a mosque north of Kabul, 20 […]
ISLAMABAD — A top Pakistani army general and five senior military officials were killed when their helicopter crashed while on a flood relief operation in troubled Balochistan province, the army said on Tuesday. The six individuals on board included the Commander XII Corps Lt Gen Sarfraz Ali, who was supervising the flood relief operations in […]
KABUL — The Taliban on Tuesday confirmed the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman-al-Zawahiri and condemned the drone strike carried out by the United States in Kabul over the weekend. In a statement, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that a strike took place on a residence in the capital and called it a violation of “international […]
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani female mountaineer and another from Iran scripted history on Friday by becoming the first women from their countries to scale the summit of the mighty and treacherous K2, the second-highest mountain peak in the world, a mountaineering official said on Friday. At 7.42 am local time, Samina Baig, 31, completed the […]
ISLAMABAD — At least 282 people have been killed and 211 others injured in separate rain-related incidents in Pakistan since June 14 as heavy downpours continued to lash the country, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said. A total of 160 women and children are among the dead, the NDMA said in a situation report […]
LAHORE — The Pakistani High Commission, as a goodwill gesture, issued a three-month visa to a 92-year-old Indian woman, Reena Chhibar, who reached Pakistan on Saturday to see her ancestral home, media reports said. As she made her way through the Wagah-Attari border to see her ancestral home, Prem Niwas, in Rawalpindi, she urged the […]
LAHORE — Two members of Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), who were returning from a mosque after offering their Eid al-Adha prayers, were allegedly shot dead by members of a rival organisation in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The incident took place on Sunday in Jaranwala Chak 97 district in Faisalabad, which is situated 130 kms from Lahore. […]
NEW DELHI — Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died in hospital Friday after being fatally shot during an election speech in the city of Nara, in western Japan. The country’s longest-serving prime minister was 67. While addressing a crowd in a street, Abe was dramatically fired from behind with a shotgun. A bleeding Abe […]
KABUL — The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan announced on Friday that it has released 935 prisoners on the eve of Eid al-Adha. The prisoners were pardoned by a decree issued by Haibatullah Akhundzada, supreme leader of the Taliba, and according to the guidance of the country’s Supreme Court, Xinhua news agency quoted government spokesman Zabihullah […]