By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Taliban militants have killed at least one security official after they overnight seized a counter-terrorism police station in Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, demanding a safe passage in exchange for the release of several hostages, officials said on Monday.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Taliban on Sunday seized a counter-terrorism centre in Bannu district of troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and took several people, including security officials, hostage to negotiate with government a safe passage to neighboring Afghanistan, officials said.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign office has summoned Afghanistan’s Chargé d’Affaires on Friday to issue a ‘strong condemnation’ of the recent border clashes at Chaman-Spin Boldak area that both sides blame on each other.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Canada-based mining firm Barrick Gold Corporation said on Thursday it had signed agreements with Pakistan’s provincial and federal governments to complete the reconstitution of the Reko Diq project after the Supreme Court endorsed a settlement to resume mining at the world’s largest underdeveloped sites of copper and gold deposits.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: At least one person was killed and 16 others wounded on Thursday as fresh clashes broke out between Pakistani and Afghan forces in less than a week at Chaman-Spin Boldak border crossing in Baluchistan, officials said.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations said the world community has not provided enough funds after the devastating floods in Pakistan and that may lead to the suspension of its emergency food support program next month.
Obaidullah Baheer says the de facto rulers of Afghanistan are a permanent fixture of the regional landscape, and any effort to remove them from the table could lead to a new war. By Naveed Naqvi.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday warned Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led coalition government that it will dissolve the assemblies in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces if a date for the next election is not announced by December 20.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: At least six civilians were killed and 17 others injured on Sunday when Afghan border troops resorted to unprovoked and indiscriminate fire across the border into Balochistan’s Chaman district, officials said.
By Naveed Naqvi
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday directed the government to register an FIR on the killing of journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya and also set up a panel of judges to supervise an investigation into the incident.
