ISLAMABAD — A Muslim woman was sentenced to death in Pakistan on Wednesday after being convicted of sending a blasphemous text message and caricatures of Prophet Muhammad via WhatsApp, a court said. Aneeqa Ateeq, 26, was arrested in May 2020 and charged with posting “blasphemous material” as her WhatsApp status, according to a summary issued […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has decided to compensate the 36 Chinese nationals, who died and were injured in a terrorist attack last year — aimed at removing a major irritant in bilateral relations, Express Tribune reported. A total of 10 Chinese national lost their lives and another 26 were hurt in a suicide attack on a […]
KABUL — Two earthquakes rattled Afghanistan’s western Badghis province along the border with Turkmenistan on Monday afternoon, killing at least 22 people, a local official said. There were fears the death toll could rise further as the first rescuers reached some of the remote villages struck by the temblors in what is one of Afghanistan’s […]
ISLAMABAD — Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani prisoner in the United States whose release was reportedly demanded by a Texas hostage-taker this weekend, is serving an 86-year sentence for the attempted murder of American soldiers. Four people were freed unharmed on Sunday following a more than 10-hour stand-off at a synagogue in the US state. Their […]
KARTARPUR — A long 74 years after the partition of the subcontinent — two brothers who were separated as Pakistan and India came into existence — reunited at the Kartarpur Corridor, Geo News reported. Siddique, a resident of Pakistan’s Faisalabad met his elder brother Habib on Tuesday who arrived at Kartarpur from the Phullanwal area of […]
NEW DELHI — Acting Minister of Defence of Afghanistan Mullah Muhammad Yaqoob Mujahid has asked Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to bring back Afghanistan’s planes and choppers lest they will react forcefully, Khaama Press reported. Speaking at a gathering of Afghan pilots and personnel of the Afghan Air Force, Yakoob Mujahid said that the planes and choppers […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is willing to make peace with immediate neighbours, including India, under its first-ever National Security Policy which leaves doors open for trade with New Delhi even without the settlement of the Kashmir issue provided there is headway in bilateral talks, according to a media report. The National Security Policy, separately endorsed by […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday alleged that minorities in India were being targeted by extremist groups and warned that such an agenda “is a real and present threat” to regional peace. Khan took to Twitter to make the allegations in the wake of alleged inflammatory and provocative speeches against Muslims at […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed shock over the death of 21 tourists as heavy snow trapped them in their vehicles as tens of thousands of visitors thronged Murree. “Shocked and upset at tragic deaths of tourists on road to Murree,” Prime Minister Imran Khan said in a tweet, adding, “unprecedented snowfall and […]
ISLAMABAD — At least 21 people died of cold after they were stranded in their cars during the snowstorm in Murree in Pakistan on Friday night, according to Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed, Samaa TV reported. The hill station was crowded after tourists headed there to witness snowfall. On Friday night, the government imposed a […]