ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed 48 militants over the past week in a series of intelligence-guided operations in North Waziristan, the military said Saturday, as the army pressed a sweeping counterterrorism campaign in tribal districts that have long been among the country’s most volatile.
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Karachi man arrested in alleged drone supply ring for outlawed TTP
KARACHI: The counterterrorism officials announced on Saturday the arrest of a Karachi man they say was secretly procuring commercial drones, explosive material and electronic components for the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, acting on directions from his brother, a wanted militant currently sheltering in Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s hands are all over this world cup
SIALKOT: The 23rd FIFA World Cup began on Thursday, launching nearly six weeks of football across the stadiums of the United States, Canada and Mexico. The players are from 48 nations. The coaches speak dozens of languages. But the ball they will all chase — the one that will determine who lifts the trophy in New Jersey on July 19 — was made in Pakistan.
Defence minister Asif rebukes banned Kashmiri group as protesters mass near Rawalakot
ISLAMABAD: Defence minister took to the floor of the National Assembly on Thursday to rebuke a banned Kashmiri protest movement, urging it to settle its grievances at the ballot box rather than through marches and confrontation — as that very movement’s supporters massed on the outskirts of a regional capital and a fragile standoff showed no sign of resolution.
Supreme Court acquits two MQM members in 2012 Baldia factory fire, citing gaps in evidence and doubt over JIT report
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday threw out the convictions of two men sentenced to death for their alleged roles in the 2012 Baldia Town factory fire in Karachi — a blaze that killed more than 260 garment workers and stands as the deadliest industrial disaster in the country’s history — ruling that prosecutors had failed to establish their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Pakistan braces for storms and flooding even as Karachi swelters under historic heat
KARACHI: The thermometer read 37 degrees Celsius when afternoon arrived Wednesday in this coastal megacity of some 20 million people, but for anyone stepping outside, that number told only part of the story.
Ten killed, including children, after van plunges into ravine and burns on Islamabad-Murree road
ISLAMABAD: They had set out from Multan in the middle of the night, 23 members of the same family, bound for the cool air and pine-forested hills of Murree. By Wednesday morning, 10 of them were dead — among them children — killed not only by the crash that sent their van tumbling into a roadside ravine but by the fire that followed, and by a sliding door that would not open.
No survivors after army helicopter Mi-17 crashes near Muzaffarabad; inquiry ordered
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan Army Mi-17 helicopter crashed near Muzaffarabad on Wednesday, killing all personnel on board when the aircraft went down during takeoff due to what military officials described as a technical fault, marking the third deadly helicopter accident involving security or government in less than one year.
Global nuclear spending surges to record $119 bln; Pakistan sees second-steepest rise
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s spending on nuclear weapons rose 18 percent last year to an estimated $1.5 billion, outpacing the rate of increase by rival India and ranking as the second-steepest percentage jump among the world’s nine nuclear-armed states, according to a report published on Tuesday by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Pakistan hosts back-to-back military diplomacy as Gulf and Lebanese commanders converge on Rawalpindi
RAWALPINDI: The commander of Bahrain’s National Guard held separate meetings with all three of Pakistan’s service chiefs on Tuesday, as Islamabad positioned itself at the centre of a busy round of military diplomacy with the Middle East against the backdrop of a fragile ceasefire in the US-Iran conflict.