MIRPUR: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari opened his party’s campaign for this month’s Kashmir elections with a direct challenge to the federal government on Friday, telling a rally here that if Pakistan could broker peace between the United States and Iran, it could just as easily end the monthlong standoff that has cut off food, fuel and medicine to the region.
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Pakistan rejects UK pressure to accept convicted child rapist Shabir Ahmed’s deportation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is pushing back against efforts by the British government to deport a convicted child rapist released from prison earlier this month, deepening a diplomatic standoff over a case that has inflamed public anger across the United Kingdom.
Security forces thwart suicide attack on military post in Waziristan; four militants killed
WANA: Security forces foiled a suicide bombing attempt against a military post in Pakistan’s tribal belt late on Wednesday, killing the would-be attacker and three other militants before they could reach their target, officials said.
PTI to mark three years of Imran Khan’s imprisonment with nationwide rallies
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the party of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan, announced on Wednesday it will hold rallies in cities across the country on Aug. 5, the date that will mark three full years since Khan’s arrest set off one of the most turbulent chapters in the nation’s recent political history.
Balochistan offensive kills three more militants, pushing toll past 125
QUETTA: Security forces killed three more militants on Wednesday as a joint military and police offensive in restive Balochistan province pushed its death toll to 88, state media reported, part of a broader crackdown that has claimed 126 lives since early July.
Nine dead as security forces clash with banned Kashmiri rights group ahead of march – report
MUZAFFARABAD: At least nine people were killed on Tuesday in clashes between security forces and supporters of a banned civil rights group, officials said, a day before the group had vowed to march on the region’s capital in defiance of a monthlong government crackdown, media reports said.
Six more militants killed in Balochistan, pushing month’s death toll past 120
QUETTA: Security forces killed six more militants in Balochistan province on Tuesday, officials said, raising to 85 the number of terrorists killed since the launch of a major counterterrorism sweep earlier this month.
PTI backs Aleema Khan’s fresh long march call for Imran Khan’s release
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has publicly thrown its support behind Aleema Khan’s call for a fresh “long march,” the latest attempt by the jailed former prime minister’s family to force his release.
Two policemen killed in roadside bomb attack in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR: A roadside bomb tore through an armored police vehicle on patrol in Tank district on Monday, killing two officers and wounding two others in the latest attack targeting law enforcement in a district that has become one of the deadliest fronts in Pakistan’s fight against militancy.
Inquiry finds contractor, consultant, and Wapda all responsible for dam collapse that tripled Tarbela-5 project’s cost
ISLAMABAD: A government-appointed inquiry has concluded that a contractor, its consultant, and the state authority overseeing a major Pakistani hydropower project all bear responsibility for the collapse of a cofferdam last year, an incident that has added more than two years to the project’s timeline and driven its cost up by nearly 285 percent, according to a report published by Dawn newspaper on Monday.