ISLAMABAD: Pakistan arrested or detained more than 100,000 Afghan nationals in the first 10 months of 2025, the vast majority of them holders of Afghan Citizen Cards or undocumented migrants, as the country pressed ahead with a sweeping deportation drive, according to a United Nations refugee agency report.
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Pakistan slips to ‘not free’ status on internet as govt expands platform blocks, curbs on speech
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s internet environment is among the world’s most restricted, according to a major annual assessment released this week by Freedom House, the Washington-based democracy advocacy group.
Pakistan arrests four TTP militants over Islamabad court suicide bombing
ISLAMABAD: Authorities said on Friday that security forces have arrested four members of the banned militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, including the commander of the cell responsible for this week’s suicide bombing at a judicial complex in the capital.
Chief Justice summons emergency full-court meeting as constitutional crisis deepens
ISLAMABAD: The Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi on Thursday summoned an emergency full-court meeting of all Supreme Court judges for Friday morning, bowing to a third judicial plea in as many days for the court to confront the far-reaching 27th Constitutional Amendment that President Asif Ali Zardari formally enacted into law only hours earlier.
Pakistan hails arbitration court ruling clarifying Indus treaty provisions
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday welcomed clarifications issued by an international arbitration court on key aspects of the Indus Waters Treaty, a longstanding agreement governing the sharing of river resources with India, amid heightened tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
National Assembly set to pass 27th constitutional overhaul reshaping judiciary, military
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly appeared poised on Wednesday to approve a sweeping constitutional overhaul that would reshape the country’s judiciary and military institutions, after the lower house took up the measure amid fierce opposition protests and a boycott by critics who decried it as an assault on democratic principles.
Defence minister Asif says Pakistan could hit Afghan militant sanctuaries after deadly attacks
ISLAMABAD: Defence minister warned on Tuesday that Pakistan could launch attacks on terrorist sanctuaries inside Afghanistan in response to a wave of deadly assaults that killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens more, escalating tensions along the volatile border and raising the specter of broader regional conflict.
Afghan militants confined, cadets rescued in South Waziristan school siege
ISLAMABAD: Security forces rescued all 550 students and nearly 40 teachers from a military-run cadet college in the northwestern tribal region of South Waziristan on Tuesday, where three Afghan militants remained holed up in an administrative building after a brazen suicide attack on the facility the previous day, officials said.
Pakistan warns UN of threat from abandoned weapons in Afghanistan falling into terrorists’ hands
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan warned the United Nations Security Council on Monday that terrorist groups in Afghanistan were acquiring sophisticated weapons abandoned during the American withdrawal, posing a grave threat to peace and security not only in Pakistan but across the region.
KP chief minister Afridi booked for ‘profane’ comments against security forces
ISLAMABAD: Authorities filed a criminal complaint on Sunday against Sohail Afridi, the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, accusing him of making profane and misleading remarks about state institutions that were disseminated through social media and could undermine national security.