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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Imran Khan’s sister asks Islamabad High Court to end jailed ex-PM’s solitary confinement, cites near-blindness
ISLAMABAD: The sister of jailed opposition leader Imran Khan has petitioned a court in Islamabad to end his “unlawful solitary confinement”, alleging the former prime minister has lost most of his sight and has been denied family visits for six months.
GLOF threat looms over Pakistan’s north as heatwave accelerates glacier melt, authorities order evacuations
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s disaster management authority on Saturday warned of an acute risk of glacial lake outburst floods sweeping through the country’s mountainous north into the first week of July, directing provincial administrations to ready evacuation sites, place rescue teams on standby and restrict civilian movement near glaciers as an intense heatwave shows little sign of relenting.
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.
Millions mark Ashura peacefully across Pakistan under tight security
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Millions of Shia Muslims marked Ashura across Pakistan on Friday under one of the country’s most extensive security operations in recent memory, with authorities deploying more than 200,000 military, paramilitary and police personnel as processions in major cities concluded without incident.
FIA busts human placenta smuggling network bound for Vietnam, arrests three Chinese nationals
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency said on Friday it had dismantled an alleged network smuggling processed human placenta out of the country, arresting five suspects, including three Chinese nationals, following raids on two properties in the capital.
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.
After wartime rollercoaster, Islamabad freezes pump rates as global oil rout deepens
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan held petrol and diesel prices unchanged on Friday, pausing weekly wartime fuel revisions that have swung costs at the pump by as much as 320 rupees a litre since a US-Iran conflict choked off oil supplies through the Strait of Hormuz, as global crude benchmarks sank more than 10% on the week on mounting evidence that the vital waterway is recovering.
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 restores long-idle hydro unit in militant-scarred South Waziristan after decade of delays
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s state utility has restored a hydropower station in the volatile tribal belt of South Waziristan to its full generating capacity after nearly a decade of running at half power, officials said on Thursday, in a rare infrastructure win for a region long troubled by militancy and neglect.