ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met on Sunday with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf in Tehran, part of an intensifying Pakistani effort to salvage faltering negotiations between Washington and Tehran more than a month after a fragile ceasefire halted six weeks of open conflict.
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Police kill 5 militants, including commander tied to deadly Bannu checkpoint bombing, in new reprisal operation
BANNU: Police forces have killed five militants in intelligence-driven raids across Bannu district in the country’s northwest on Saturday, including a commander and an accomplice directly linked to a suicide bombing that killed 15 officers at a police checkpoint the previous week, authorities said.
Law minister Tarar says no signs yet of 28th constitutional amendment, stresses coalition consensus required
ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said on Saturday that he sees “no indications” of a proposed 28th constitutional amendment, even as his government continues quiet consultations with coalition partners on a range of contentious national issues that could eventually require broad political agreement to resolve.
Security forces repel militant assault on army camp in northwest, killing 9 attackers as 4 soldiers martyred – report
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed nine militants and turned back a coordinated nighttime attack on an army camp in the Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities said Friday, in the latest sign of intensifying militant activity across the country’s northwest.
Bhutto-Zardari says govt has made no contact on 28th amendment, asserts PPP’s decisive role in budget and legislation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Thursday that neither he nor his father, President Asif Ali Zardari, had received any approach from the federal government regarding a prospective 28th Constitutional Amendment, even as media reports swirled about the ruling coalition’s interest in pushing such a measure through parliament.
Pakistan Army conducts successful training launch of indigenous Fatah-IV cruise missile
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army on Thursday carried out a successful training launch of the indigenously developed Fatah-IV ground-launched cruise missile, the military’s media wing said, the latest in a string of tests intended to sharpen the force’s long-range precision strike capabilities.
Defence minister Asif warns of ‘open war’ with Afghanistan unless Taliban halts cross-border militant attacks
ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif delivered one of Islamabad’s most pointed public rebukes to Afghanistan in recent weeks, warning on Wednesday that the Taliban government’s refusal to stop militants from using Afghan territory to launch attacks inside Pakistan could leave “only one alternative” — open war.
Death toll rises to 9 in KP rickshaw bombing amid surge in attacks linked to Afghanistan
LAKKI MARWAT: The death toll from a powerful explosion in a crowded market square in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province rose to nine on Tuesday, including two traffic police officers, as authorities said the blast was caused by more than one maund of explosives planted in a vehicle.
Blast kills 7, including 2 police officers, in market explosion in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
LAKKI MARWAT: At least seven people, including two traffic police officers, were killed and 23 others wounded Tuesday when a powerful explosion tore through a busy market square in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities said.
Pakistan warns Afghanistan of ‘decisive’ response after suicide bombing kills 15 police officers in northwest
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Office summoned Afghanistan’s chargé d’affaires on Monday and delivered a strong diplomatic protest over a suicide bombing that killed 15 police officers in the northwestern district of Bannu, accusing Afghan-based terrorists of masterminding the assault and reserving the right to retaliate.