By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Taliban on Sunday seized a counter-terrorism centre in Bannu district of troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and took several people, including security officials, hostage to negotiate with government a safe passage to neighboring Afghanistan, officials said.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said his party would dissolve two provincial assemblies on December 23 to force the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s coalition government for early elections.
By Ahmer Kureishi
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been threatening to dissolve the Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial assemblies for quite a while now. In particular, living a charmed life under this dangling Damocles’ sword has been the Punjab assembly and the government of Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi, a key ally of Khan.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations said the world community has not provided enough funds after the devastating floods in Pakistan and that may lead to the suspension of its emergency food support program next month.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: At least six civilians were killed and 17 others injured on Sunday when Afghan border troops resorted to unprovoked and indiscriminate fire across the border into Balochistan’s Chaman district, officials said.
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan has cleared the way for the start of mining work at the Reko Diq project, one of the world’s top underdeveloped sites of copper and gold deposits, after it endorsed a settlement agreement between Canadian firm Barrick Gold and the Pakistani government on Friday.
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Finance minister Ishaq Dar on Friday said he will not take dictation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on managing the country’s finances and would prioritise Pakistan’s economic interests.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul came under gun attack on Friday, wounding a security guard, officials said, amid tensions over security issues between the neighboring countries.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: A suspected suicide bomber from the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) blew himself up near an escorting police truck carrying security personnel to protect polio workers in the restive Balochistan province on Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring 26 others, including 23 policemen, just two days after the militant group ended a ceasefire.
By Naveed Naqvi
RAWALPINDI: Former prime minister Imran Khan on Saturday said his party would quit the provincial and national assemblies, instead of marching on Islamabad in a new bid to force the coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to announce snap polls.
