KARACHI: Police in Karachi arrested 45 people on Sunday during a rally celebrating Sindh Culture Day after participants allegedly pelted stones at law enforcement personnel, prompting a response that included baton charges and tear gas shelling, a senior police official said.
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US weapons left in Afghanistan now bolster Taliban and fuel militant attacks in Pakistan, watchdog finds
ISLAMABAD: Billions of dollars in American-supplied weapons and military equipment abandoned during the chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan have become the core of the Taliban’s security forces, according to a final report by a United States government watchdog, with some of those arms already appearing in the hands of militants launching attacks across the border in Pakistan.
Pakistan rebukes Jaishankar over “inflammatory” remarks on military
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Sunday sharply condemned remarks by India’s external affairs minister, S Jaishankar, accusing him of making “highly inflammatory, baseless and irresponsible” statements about the country’s armed forces and labeling them “misleading.”
PTI rebukes military over accusations against Imran Khan
ISLAMABAD: Leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the party founded by the imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan, sharply criticised remarks by a top military spokesman that labeled Khan a national security threat, warning that such accusations risked further eroding democracy and unity in a country already strained by political turmoil and recent constitutional changes.
ADB approves $381 million in aid for Punjab to bolster agriculture, education and health
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank has approved three major development projects totaling $381 million aimed at modernising agriculture, strengthening education and improving health services in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, which drives more than half of the country’s economic output.
Pakistan signals strong push on crypto regulation with Binance talks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government is ramping up efforts to regulate its burgeoning cryptocurrency market, holding high-level talks this week with executives from Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest digital-asset exchange by trading volume.
Judge’s son walks free on family pardon after fatal hit-and-run kills two women
ISLAMABAD: A judicial magistrate on Saturday ordered the release on bail of the son of an Islamabad High Court justice in a fatal hit-and-run case that killed two young women, after the victims’ families appeared in court to say they had forgiven him.
Govt defends military response to Imran Khan, accusing PTI of anti-state narrative
ce minister on Saturday sharply rebuked the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party for its objections to a military spokesman’s blistering critique of the party’s imprisoned founder, Imran Khan, escalating a bitter feud between the government, the armed forces and Khan’s supporters.
Security forces kill 14 militants in KP and Balochistan, military says
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed 14 militants in three separate operations across the restive provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, the military said on Saturday, as the government vowed to press ahead with a broad counterterrorism campaign amid a surge in attacks.