ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed eight militants, including a suicide bomber, in two intelligence-driven operations in the southwestern province of Balochistan over two consecutive days this week, the military said on Saturday, as Islamabad continued to press its accusation that India is sponsoring terrorism on its soil.
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Pakistan returns 22 crew of US-seized Iranian tanker, completing repatriation of over 70 seafarers
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Twenty-two Iranian crew members whose oil tanker was seized by United States naval forces during the brief but disruptive conflict earlier this year arrived in Karachi on Friday, Pakistani and Iranian officials said, marking the fourth such repatriation mission facilitated by Islamabad since hostilities ended.
Pakistan marks Ashura with massive processions and heavy security presence nationwide
ISLAMABAD: Millions of Pakistanis took to the streets on Friday for Ashura, the most solemn day of the Islamic month of Muharram, as authorities deployed tens of thousands of security personnel across the country — a day after four people died from suffocation during a procession in the southern province of Sindh.
AJK police chief warns of AI-fuelled disinformation as territory’s protest shutdown enters new phase
MUZAFFARABAD: The police chief of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday warned residents at home and abroad to guard against AI-generated disinformation, as the government suspended more than a dozen state employees, lodged a formal complaint against a foreign media outlet and deployed law enforcement to clear roads blocked by a banned opposition group.
Coalition partners demand apology, defence minister’s resignation over Kashmir identity slur
ISLAMABAD: The governing coalition showed rare public signs of strain on Wednesday as the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party demanded to know why a senior federal minister remained in his post after asserting that residents of the protest-hit Azad Jammu and Kashmir town of Rawalakot were not Kashmiris — remarks that also drew condemnation from a major religious party and a formal apology from a former prime minister on the minister’s behalf.
Six TTP militants killed in Lower Dir as security forces step up counterterror push
PESHAWAR: Security forces killed six suspected militants in a hillside firefight in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, officials said, after intelligence tracked the same group believed responsible for a recent attack on a police checkpost that left a constable dead.
PPP, PML-N sweep GB assembly offices unopposed as coalition takes hold
GILGIT: Pakistan Peoples Party and its ruling partner PML-N completed their takeover of Gilgit-Baltistan’s new assembly on Monday, sweeping the territory’s two top parliamentary offices without contest as a three-party power-sharing arrangement moved swiftly from deal to fact.
PPP names lawyer Amjad Hussain to lead Gilgit-Baltistan
ISLAMABAD: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday named Amjad Hussain, a veteran lawyer and the Pakistan Peoples Party’s provincial president in Gilgit-Baltistan, as the region’s incoming chief minister, completing a swift consolidation of power after elections that were delayed, disputed and ultimately inconclusive in several constituencies.
Twin blasts in Bannu kill seven after militants target passengers, then their rescuers
ISLAMABAD: Seven civilians have been killed and three others wounded in twin bomb attacks on passenger vehicles in a remote mountain district of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in an assault deliberately timed to strike not only ordinary travellers but those rushing to their aid.
FM Dar heads to Cairo for fourth R-4 summit as quartet cements role in Middle East crisis diplomacy
ISLAMABAD: The deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar is to travel to Egypt on Saturday for the fourth ministerial meeting of the R-4 group — a fast-emerging diplomatic bloc comprising Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan that has positioned itself as one of the region’s most active mediating forces since the outbreak of war between the United States and Iran.