QUETTA: Security forces have killed 75 militants in a widening counterterrorism campaign across the restive southwestern province of Balochistan since July 5, officials said on Friday, as the government presses a large-scale crackdown following a string of separatist attacks that killed dozens of people earlier this month.
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US, Iran trade fresh strikes as Tehran buries slain leader, testing fragile truce
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran exchanged another round of strikes this week, the most serious escalation since the two countries signed an interim peace agreement last month, as Tehran buried its assassinated supreme leader and mediators in Islamabad scrambled to keep a fragile ceasefire from collapsing entirely.
Militant attacks across Balochistan kill 42, including 38 security personnel, in four days
ISLAMABAD: A wave of militant attacks across Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan has killed 42 people over the past four days, including 27 police officers, 11 soldiers, and four civilians, the military said on Wednesday, in one of the deadliest bursts of violence the region has experienced in months.
Cargo jet carrying five vanishes over Arabian Sea on approach to Karachi
KARACHI: A cargo plane carrying five crew members disappeared over the Arabian Sea late on Tuesday as it neared the end of an overnight flight from the United Arab Emirates to Pakistan, setting off a sea-and-air search by the military that stretched into Wednesday morning without any confirmed sign of the aircraft or those aboard.
Pakistan emerges as quiet broker in effort to reunify Libya
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has opened a quiet, previously unreported channel of mediation between Libya’s rival eastern and western power centers, according to two Pakistani officials familiar with the matter, a role that would mark a striking expansion of Islamabad’s diplomatic reach if it produces results, Reuters reported.
In Lahore abduction case, a minister’s family name and a scramble to contain the fallout
LAHORE: The car was supposed to be headed for the airport. That, at least, is what the man driving it had told the two women in the back seat, according to Lahore police: that a ransom had been paid, that they were free, that their ordeal was over.
Pakistan poised to host next round of US-Iran nuclear talks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is positioning itself as the venue for the next round of technical negotiations between the United States and Iran, according to diplomatic sources, with talks expected to resume July 11 even as the two governments continued to hurl insults at each other during the funeral proceedings for Iran’s assassinated supreme leader.
Sharif, Munir pay Pakistani respects to Khamenei as Iran opens week of funeral rites
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir paid their respects on Friday at the coffin of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as Tehran opened a week of funeral rites for the man who led the Islamic Republic for nearly four decades.
US, Iran report ‘positive progress’ in Doha talks, next round to follow Khamenei funeral
ISLAMABAD: Iran and the United States made ‘positive progress’ in two days of indirect talks in Doha this week aimed at shoring up a fragile ceasefire, mediators Qatar and Pakistan said on Thursday, though officials on both sides gave no indication the broader dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program had moved closer to resolution.
Owners, contractor charged as Lahore buries 14 children killed in tuition-centre roof collapse
LAHORE: Police have registered a criminal case against the four owners of a private tuition centre and the contractor who built it, alleging they were piling soil onto an already decaying roof when it collapsed on a room full of students, killing 14 children, a senior police official said Wednesday.