KARACHI: As Pakistan’s military consolidates unprecedented control under Field Marshal Asim Munir, the general now confronts a pivotal dilemma: whether to heed pressure from Washington and commit troops to a contentious stabilisation force in Gaza, a step that could inflame domestic unrest in a nation already roiled by political and militant tensions, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
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Imran Khan’s sons plan January trip to Pakistan, voice concern over father’s prison conditions
KARACHI: The sons of Imran Khan, the imprisoned former prime minister, said they had applied for visas and were preparing to travel to Pakistan in January to visit their father, even as they voiced deepening alarm over what they described as his deteriorating conditions in a “death cell” at Adiala jail.
Indian father and son kill 15 in ISIS-inspired Bondi beach massacre; Indian media deliberately spreads disinformation targeting Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Misinformation exploded across social media and seeped into mainstream reporting in the hours after a father-and-son duo inspired by Islamic State ideology carried out Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in nearly three decades, killing 15 people and wounding dozens at a Hanukkah celebration near Sydney’s Bondi Beach, complicating investigations and stoking ethnic tensions.
Security forces kill 11 militants, lose soldier in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa operations
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed at least 11 suspected militants and lost one soldier in a series of operations across the restive northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday, as the military presses a broad counterinsurgency campaign amid a sharp rise in terrorist attacks.
Minister Chaudhry accuses PTI of using foreign firms to run social media propaganda
ISLAMABAD: A government minister accused the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party on Monday of hiring foreign companies to orchestrate paid social media campaigns, spreading what he described as selective narratives and propaganda through fake accounts operated from abroad.
Security forces kill 13 Indian-backed militants in northwest Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed 13 militants affiliated with a banned terrorist group in two separate operations in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military announced on Sunday, amid a continuing surge in attacks that has plagued the region.
PTI calls UN jail findings evidence of political vendetta against Imran Khan
ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party voiced deep alarm on Sunday over a United Nations report that accused authorities of subjecting former prime minister Imran Khan to conditions in prison that could amount to “inhuman or degrading treatment,” calling it evidence of a politically motivated vendetta and demanding immediate reforms to his detention.
Russia’s RT India retracts post on Sharif, saying it misrepresented meeting with Putin
ISLAMABAD: Russia’s state-funded media outlet RT India retracted a social media post on Saturday that suggested Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had waited impatiently to meet President Vladimir V. Putin during an international forum in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, acknowledging that the account “may have been a misrepresentation of events.”
Pakistan presses world to push Taliban on militancy, warns of rising cross-border threats
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urged the international community on Friday to press the Afghan Taliban to rein in terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil, emphasising Islamabad’s persistent security concerns amid fragile cross-border relations.
Drone strikes kill militants in Mohmand as school bombing hits North Waziristan
PESHAWAR: The security forces carried out two drone strikes in a remote border area of Mohmand district, killing at least eight suspected militants and wounding four others, while unidentified attackers blew up a primary school in North Waziristan, officials said on Friday.