QUETTA: The bodies of nine bus passengers kidnapped and killed in Balochistan’s Sardhaka area were recovered and transported to their hometowns in Punjab on Friday morning, officials said, marking the latest in a series of deadly attacks targeting civilians on their provincial identity in Pakistan’s restive southwest.
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Gunmen kill nine passengers in Balochistan bus attack, officials link to Indian proxies
QUETTA: Gunmen intercepted a bus traveling from Quetta to Lahore in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on Friday, abducting and shooting dead at least nine passengers in an attack provincial officials described as a terrorist act backed by Indian-sponsored groups.
Bhutto-Zardari rebukes Indian narrative on Pahalgam attack, urges dialogue in fiery interview
ISLAMABAD: In a fiery exchange with Indian journalist Karan Thapar, former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari categorically denied Pakistan’s involvement in the deadly Pahalgam attack and pressed for an international investigation, an offer New Delhi has flatly rejected.
Pakistan’s military points finger at India’s Ajit Doval of orchestrating terrorism campaign
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military has accused India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval of masterminding a sprawling terrorist network aimed at destabilising Pakistan, intensifying the long-standing rivalry between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
Islamabad court blocks 27 YouTube channels tied to opposition PTI party, journalists under cybercrime law
ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad court has ordered the blocking of 27 YouTube channels, including those linked to Pakistan’s main opposition party and prominent journalists and political commentators, for allegedly spreading anti-state propaganda and false information, heightening concerns over freedom of expression in the country.
Pakistan faces deadly monsoon rains as death toll climbs to 79
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is reeling from catastrophic floods triggered by relentless monsoon rains, with the death toll rising to 79 and authorities bracing for more rainfall that could worsen the crisis in the coming days.
Rescue effort ends after Karachi building collapse kills 27 in Lyari
KARACHI: Rescue operations ended on Sunday evening in Karachi after a five-storey residential building collapsed earlier this week in the city’s crowded Lyari neighborhood, killing 27 people and exposing the city’s persistent struggle with unsafe housing.
UPDATE: Lyari building collapse death toll hits 18, search for survivors enters second day
KARACHI: Rescue teams recovered more bodies overnight from the rubble of a collapsed five-story building in Karachi’s crowded Lyari neighborhood, raising the death toll to 18 as the search for survivors stretched into a second day on Saturday.
Lyari building collapse leaves 14 dead, lays bare Karachi’s deepening housing crisis
KARACHI: The air was thick with dust and desperation on Friday morning when a five-story residential building in Karachi’s crowded Lyari neighborhood crumbled years of unheeded warnings, killing at least 14 people and entombing dozens more in a pile of concrete and grief.
Pakistan kills 30 terrorists in border clash with Afghan infiltrators
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed 30 terrorists attempting to cross into the country from Afghanistan, the military said Friday, in a deadly clash in the volatile North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.