SRINAGAR — More than 100 prominent citizens, including former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, from India and Pakistan have urged Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shehbaz Sharif to revive bilateral dialogue and restore normal ties. An open letter, signed by Abdullah, Mufti, former RAW chief A S Dulat, Rajya Sabha […]
LAHORE — Fourteen children died after the roof of a tutoring centre collapsed in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday, rescue officials said, as authorities opened the way for a possible negligence investigation. Punjab’s emergency service said rescuers found children and a 30-year-old female teacher under rubble of the private after-school facility. The dead […]
KABUL — At least 28 civilians were killed and 49 injured in airstrikes carried out by Pakistan on its border with Afghanistan, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Monday. Pakistan’s security forces said they had killed at least 29 militants in ground and air operations along the Afghanistan border, while the […]
PESHAWAR — Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior has ordered a nationwide crackdown on illegal foreign nationals, directing authorities to arrest Afghan citizens residing in the country without valid visas from July 10. According to an official notification issued by the ministry on Sunday, chief secretaries, inspectors general of police (IGPs) of all four provinces and the […]
KARACHI — Pakistan’s media regulator has suspended the broadcast licence of television channel Geo News for 15 days over content aired during a programme marking Muharram, one of the most sensitive periods in the Islamic calendar. The regulator said Geo News aired “religious visualisations” during a June 26 programme that could offend religious sentiments, undermine […]
KARACHI — At least three of Pakistan’s Sindh Rangers personnel were killed in an attack on the paramilitary forces building in Karachi, the Dawn newspaper reported on Saturday. Witnesses said they heard a loud blast followed by gunfire along a major road in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar neighbourhood near several universities and Pakistan’s meteorological department. Three militants […]
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 […]