PESHAWAR: Three traffic police officers were shot dead in north-west Pakistan on Monday when gunmen opened fire on their van, the latest in a run of attacks on police and other security personnel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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Pakistan’s thawed glacial lakes more than double in five weeks, some grow larger than ever recorded
ISLAMABAD: The number of glacial lakes in Pakistan’s mountainous north that have thawed this summer has climbed from 40 to 105 in under two months, according to satellite data released by the country’s national space agency, in a finding that has sharpened warnings over the risk of sudden, catastrophic flooding in communities living beneath them.
Fifteen detained in Lahore inquiry into alleged gang-rape of Azerbaijani woman
LAHORE: Police have detained 15 people, including two women, as they pursue the men accused of drugging and gang-raping a 20-year-old Azerbaijani woman in Lahore, in a case that has drawn comparisons to the abduction and assault of two foreign tourists in the same neighbourhood barely two months earlier.
Shanghai bloc to hold first coordination talks in Islamabad Sept. 28-30 since Pakistan took chair
ISLAMABAD: Senior officials from across the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation are gathering in Islamabad next week for the first substantial coordination talks since Pakistan took over leadership of the eight-nation bloc, in a meeting Pakistani officials have billed as the opening move in a two-year diplomatic programme that will culminate in a full leaders’ summit in the capital.
Pakistan’s new Chinese-built submarine fires first missile in test off Karachi
KARACHI: Pakistan’s navy has carried out the first live missile firing from its newly delivered Chinese-built submarine, a test the military says confirms the vessel’s combat readiness at a moment of heightened friction with India at sea.
Federal government to take Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Supreme Court over new police law
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has announced it will mount a legal challenge in the Supreme Court against a new law passed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet that would hand the provincial government sweeping new powers over the police force, in an escalating confrontation between Islamabad and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf administration in Peshawar.
Police officer martyred, three hurt in Peshawar gun battle
PESHAWAR: A police officer has been killed and three of his colleagues wounded after gunmen opened fire on a counter-terrorism raid on the outskirts of Peshawar, in an operation that authorities say thwarted a major suicide bombing plot.
Rangers deployed, motorways shut, Islamabad sealed ahead of PTI march demanding Imran Khan’s release
ISLAMABAD: The government has authorised the deployment of Pakistan Rangers across Islamabad Capital Territory and several districts of Punjab, running from 20 September to 5 October, in anticipation of a nationwide protest called by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party founded by the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan. The move comes as major motorways linking the capital to the rest of the country remain closed, supporters and relatives of Khan are held in detention, and the government and opposition trade accusations over secret talks that neither side will fully confirm.
Islamabad prepares for a confrontation with Imran Khan’s party
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad is bracing for its biggest security operation in years, with tens of thousands of police officers, hundreds of shipping containers and a arsenal of riot equipment being mobilised across the federal capital and neighbouring Punjab ahead of a planned opposition march that the government has vowed, in the words of one insider, to “fix… for good”.
Pakistan names retired general to lead Makkah Defence Alliance
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has appointed a retired lieutenant general who once commanded the country’s turbulent north-west to lead a fledgling defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, as the kingdom grapples with the most serious Houthi assault on its territory in years.