The UN Secretary-General António Guterres will arrive in Pakistan on Tuesday for a three-day visit that puts Islamabad’s role as the main broker between Washington and Tehran at the centre of his final months in office.
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Pakistan prepares to bring home survivors and the dead after tanker siege ends in bloodshed
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is working to bring home four seafarers freed from a hijacked oil tanker off Somalia, along with the bodies of three colleagues killed by their captors, as families in Karachi brace for a homecoming that will bring relief to some and a funeral to others.
Govt, PTI talks stretch into weekend with Khan’s party still set on Islamabad march
ISLAMABAD: The coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the party of jailed former premier Imran Khan ended their first day of talks on Friday without agreement, with the two sides due to meet again on Saturday afternoon ahead of the party’s planned march on Islamabad the following day.
Security forces kill seven TTP militants in North Waziristan raid
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed seven militants in a raid in North Waziristan, state media reported on Friday, the latest in a run of operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the country endures its worst spell of militant violence in more than a decade.
Six militants killed in Balochistan operation using quadcopters
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed six militants in a quadcopter-assisted operation in southwestern province of Balochistan, state media reported on Thursday, hours after Islamabad said fresh airstrikes inside Afghanistan had killed 22 terrorists.
Pakistan works to bring home bodies of sailors killed by Somali pirates
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Pakistan said on Wednesday it was working to repatriate the bodies of three sailors killed by Somali pirates, and to bring home the survivors of the hijacked oil tanker MT Honour 25, a day after Puntland forces retook the vessel following five months of captivity.
Somali pirates killed five hostages, including three Pakistanis, on Honour 25
KARACHI: Somali pirates killed five crew members, including three Pakistanis, on the hijacked tanker MT Honour 25, the authorities in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region said on Tuesday. The announcement ended months of uncertainty for families who had been trying to find out what had happened to the sailors.
Pakistan seeks to verify reports of deaths on tanker freed from Somali pirates
KARACHI: Pakistan said on Tuesday it was trying to establish what happened aboard a hijacked oil tanker off Somalia. A rights group had released recordings in which people described as crew members reported that five sailors were killed and four wounded during an operation to free the ship.
Three traffic police officers shot dead in north-west Pakistan
PESHAWAR: Three traffic police officers were shot dead in north-west Pakistan on Monday when gunmen opened fire on their van, the latest in a run of attacks on police and other security personnel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Pakistan’s new Chinese-built submarine fires first missile in test off Karachi
KARACHI: Pakistan’s navy has carried out the first live missile firing from its newly delivered Chinese-built submarine, a test the military says confirms the vessel’s combat readiness at a moment of heightened friction with India at sea.