ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military said on Wednesday it had shot down four drones launched from Afghanistan into the southwestern province of Balochistan, hours after Afghanistan’s Taliban administration claimed its forces had carried out airstrikes on Pakistani territory, in the latest flare-up along a border that has seen months of deadly clashes.
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Behind a frozen Indus Waters Treaty, Pakistan warns the world of what comes next
ISLAMABAD: The Indus Waters Treaty has long stood as proof that two nuclear-armed rivals, locked for generations in dispute over Kashmir, could still manage to share a river. On Tuesday, in a packed hall at the Jinnah Convention Centre, a parade of Pakistan’s most senior officials argued that the 1960 agreement is now in genuine jeopardy, and asked the world to take notice before the damage spreads beyond South Asia.
Pakistan to host international seminar on Indus Waters Treaty rights amid standoff with India
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s said on Monday that the Indus Waters Treaty governing the sharing of river waters with India remains legally binding and cannot be revoked or amended by either side unilaterally, as tensions over water rights between the nuclear-armed neighbours continued to simmer more than a year after New Delhi suspended the accord.
Pakistan strikes Afghan border targets, kills 29 militants after Karachi Rangers attack
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed 29 militants in an intelligence-led ground operation and precision air strikes along the Afghan border overnight, the government said on Sunday, retaliating hours after gunmen attacked a paramilitary camp in Karachi and killed three soldiers.
Three Rangers martyred as Taliban faction bomb Karachi paramilitary compound; Afghan suspect held
KARACHI: An explosive-laden vehicle driven into the gates of a Sindh Rangers compound in Karachi killed three paramilitary troops and wounded four others on Saturday night, the military said, as a Pakistani Taliban faction claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest militant strikes on a security installation in Pakistan’s commercial capital in years.
Militants strike Karachi paramilitary Rangers compound, killing three in rare Taliban-linked assault
KARACHI: Militants rammed a vehicle into a paramilitary base in Karachi on Saturday, triggering a gun battle that killed at least three paramilitary Rangers personnel and four attackers, in the first assault on the country’s commercial capital claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban in years.
PM Sharif accuses India of using proxies to destabilise country after ‘humiliating defeat’ May conflict
KARACHI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif accused India on Saturday of resorting to covert operations and proxy forces to undermine stability in Pakistan, saying New Delhi had suffered a “humiliating defeat” in last year’s military confrontation and was now pursuing indirect means of aggression.
Seven militants killed in drone strike, four shot dead in ambulance in violence-hit Bannu
PESHAWAR: Security forces killed at least seven militants in a drone strike targeting a weapon-laden vehicle in the northwestern district of Bannu on Friday, as unidentified gunmen separately shot dead four people inside an ambulance in the same district overnight, police and security officials said.
Coalition partners clash over local polls; PPP sets 90-day challenge for PML-N
ISLAMABAD: The ruling coalition partners exchanged increasingly sharp public rebukes on Thursday over local government elections, with the Pakistan Peoples Party announcing that Sindh province would hold polls in 2027 and challenging its federal ally, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, to do the same in Punjab and Islamabad within 90 days.
Pakistan-Iran ties deepen after Pezeshkian visit, but sanctions keep flagship projects on hold
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Wednesday that progress on a major gas pipeline and other economic ventures with Iran will move no faster than the lifting of international sanctions against Tehran, tempering expectations that a landmark visit by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian this week would quickly translate into concrete commercial gains.