LAHORE — An accidental fire caused by shot-circuit triggered a series of powerful explosions at a military depot in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Sunday morning, sparking rumours that the key army installation was targeted by terrorists. The accidental fire broke out in ammunition shed near Sialkot garrison, some 100 kms from Lahore. Pakistan Army’s media […]
ISLAMABAD — Nearly two dozen disgruntled lawmakers from Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ruling party have openly threatened to vote against him on the no-confidence motion tabled in Parliament by the Opposition, in a fresh blow to the embattled premier struggling to cling to power. Around 100 lawmakers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and […]
KABUL — The Taliban has officially banned the broadcast of all foreign TV series in Afghanistan, Sputnik reported citing a person familiar with the situation. “The Taliban clearly said to stop showing any foreign TV series translated into Dari or Pashto [official languages of Afghanistan],” a participant of the meeting of Afghan broadcasters, held on […]
TOKYO — A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday night, smashing furniture, knocking out power and killing four people. A small tsunami reached shore, but the low-risk advisory was lifted by Thursday morning. The region is part of northern Japan that was devastated by a deadly […]
QUETTA — At least four Pakistan Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed and 10 other personnel were injured in a blast on an FC convoy in the Sangan area of Quetta’s Sibi district on Tuesday, officials said, Dawn reported. Sibi Assistant Commissioner Sana Mahjabeen said the blast was caused by an improvised explosive device (IED). […]
BEIJING — China on Monday said India and Pakistan should hold a dialogue as soon as possible and launch a “thorough investigation” into the recent “accidental firing” of a missile from India which landed in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, during a media briefing here, said that Pakistan and India both […]
LAHORE — Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said Pakistan could have responded to India after its missile landed in his country’s Punjab province but it observed restraint. On March 9, an unarmed Indian supersonic missile entered Pakistani territory, endangering several airliners during the course of its flight before hitting a private property (cold storage) […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has summoned India’s Charge d’Affaires here and conveyed its strong protest over the alleged unprovoked violation of its airspace by an Indian-origin “super-sonic flying object” and sought a thorough and transparent investigation of the incident. The Indian diplomat was on Thursday night told about the alleged violation of its airspace by an […]
UNITED NATIONS — The UN Security Council has condemned a suicide bombing that killed 62 people inside a Shia mosque in Peshawar for which the Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) terror group has claimed responsibility. “The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attack that took place at […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is likely to remain on the grey list of global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog FATF until June for failing to meet some of the targets under the additional criteria, according to a media report on Friday. Pakistan has been on the grey list of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force […]