ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday dismissed Indian criticism of its recent airstrikes inside Afghanistan as “absurd and unwarranted,” accusing New Delhi of longstanding involvement in sponsoring terrorist groups operating from Afghan territory and flouting international law.
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Pakistan rejects Afghan Taliban claims of capturing military outpost as propaganda
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday rejected claims by the Afghan Taliban that its forces had captured a military outpost and killed 14 soldiers, branding the assertions as fabricated propaganda designed to mislead the Afghan public.
President Zardari says Afghan Taliban forces crossed a ‘red line’ with drone attacks on civilians
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari warned on Saturday that Afghanistan’s Taliban government had crossed a dangerous threshold by launching drone attacks on Pakistani civilian areas, declaring that the strikes had brought “grave consequences upon itself” and risked a further escalation in a conflict that has already claimed dozens of lives on both sides of the porous border.
Pakistan rebukes India over closure of Srinagar Jama Masjid on last Friday of Ramadan
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Friday issued a sharp rebuke of Indian authorities for keeping the gates of Srinagar’s centuries-old Jama Masjid locked, barring thousands of Muslim worshippers from prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
Seven policemen martyred in IED blast as forces kill six militants in same district
LAKKI MARWAT: Terrorists detonated an improvised explosive device under a police patrol vehicle on Friday in the volatile Bettani subdivision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing seven officers including a station house officer in the latest blow to security forces struggling to contain a surge in militant violence along the Afghan border.
Pakistan downs Taliban-linked drones near Islamabad as debris injures civilians and tensions soar
ISLAMABAD: The security forces intercepted two rudimentary drones Friday that authorities said were launched from Afghanistan by the Taliban regime and its proxies, bringing them down with electronic countermeasures before they could strike intended targets near Rawalpindi, the garrison city adjacent to the capital.
Pakistan says it hit Taliban-linked targets deep inside Afghanistan in overnight strikes
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s armed forces carried out a fresh round of precision airstrikes inside Afghanistan overnight, destroying key Taliban-linked terrorist infrastructure, including a corps headquarters in Kabul and training camps near the border, the information minister and military sources said on Friday.
Blast kills seven officers on patrol in Pakistan’s northwest as terrorism linked to Afghan border escalates
PESHAWAR: An improvised explosive device ripped through a police patrol vehicle in a remote tribal area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, killing seven officers including a station house officer and leaving authorities scrambling to hunt down the attackers in a region increasingly gripped by militant violence.
Prime Minister Sharif, Saudi Crown Prince hold urgent talks as Iran tightens grip on vital oil route
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif landed in Saudi Arabia on Thursday for a tightly scheduled diplomatic mission, touching down amid a Middle East crisis that shows no signs of easing after weeks of Iranian retaliation against US and Israeli targets.
Pakistan and Afghanistan pause cross-border fire to recover Afghan national’s corpse, only for talks to falter
TORKHAM: Pakistani and Afghan border forces agreed Thursday to a temporary halt in their persistent cross-border skirmishes so that delegations of local elders could retrieve the body of an Afghan national that had lain unclaimed for days at the Zero Point of the Torkham crossing.