KABUL — A strong earthquake struck Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, sending out tremors that could be felt from the capital Kabul across the border into neighbouring Pakistan. People ran out of their doors in panic in Swat district in northern Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, resident Daniyal Ahmad […]
KARACHI — At least five moderate-intensity earthquakes have struck Pakistan’s southeastern province of Balochistan since Friday, with the latest jolting Barkhan and adjoining areas on Saturday morning. Authorities have reported five injuries and damage to some houses in these earthquakes, which measured between magnitudes 5.2 and 4.3 on the Richter scale. Pakistan Meteorological Department’s Chief […]
QUETTA — A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sentenced prominent civil rights activist Mahrang Baloch and an associate to life in prison over the killing of a paramilitary soldier during a July 2024 protest. Baloch’s lawyer said he would appeal against the verdict. Baloch, who has been detained since March 2025, has been a vocal opponent […]
TEHRAN — Pakistan’s interior minister arrived in Iran on Saturday after planned talks between Iran and the United States in Switzerland were postponed, Iranian media reported. Tehran and Washington were due to hold talks in Switzerland on Friday, after signing a memorandum of understanding ending the war in the Middle East, but the latest negotiations […]
PESHAWAR — Twin roadside blasts killed at least seven people in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said on Saturday. “A private pickup truck carrying passengers was targeted with a remote-controlled IED,” said Yasir Afridi, a police officer in Bannu district, using a common acronym for a homemade bomb. “… the injured were being transported […]
TEHRAN — The United States and Iran agreed a peace deal and an “immediate and permanent” end to military operations on all fronts including Lebanon, mediator Pakistan said, signaling the apparent end to more than three months of war in Middle East. Pakistani Prime Minister Shebhaz Sharif posted on X that a peace deal “has […]
TEHRAN — The United States and Iran could finalise an agreement to end the Middle East war “within 24 hours”, key mediator Pakistan said Saturday, after both sides expressed optimism about the chances of concluding a deal. The foes and mediators of the conflict have claimed a long-awaited accord is in its final throes, despite […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s prime minister said Friday the United States and Iran have agreed to wording of an agreement aimed at ending their war in the Middle East and that mediators were working with both sides to finalize a deal. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the US and Iran have reached a “final, agreed upon […]
ISLAMABAD — At least 22 military personnel, including three officers, were killed when an Mi-17 helicopter of Pakistan Army aviation crashed in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, a media report said on Thursday. The helicopter crashed “during take-off due to a technical fault” near Muzaffarabad in PoK on Wednesday, killing all personnel on board, the army said in […]
KABUL — Pakistan launched deadly new airstrikes on Afghanistan early Wednesday, ending a month of calm following what Islamabad previously described as “open war” between the neighbors that has defied international efforts to bring a lasting peace. Afghanistan said the strikes hit the eastern provinces of Khost, Kunar and Paktika, and government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid […]