ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed 15 militants in two separate intelligence-based operations in Balochistan on Saturday, the military said, while a bomb blast in South Waziristan killed two policemen and wounded several others the same day.
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One killed and 19 injured in checkpoint blast in North Waziristan
PESHAWAR: At least one person has been killed and 19 others injured, including two security personnel, in a powerful explosion near a checkpoint in Pakistan’s North Waziristan district.
Pakistan says 527 Afghan Taliban fighters killed since start of ‘Operation Ghazab lil Haq’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported inflicting heavy losses on Afghan Taliban forces in ongoing “Operation Ghazab lil Haq”, with the information minister said on Friday that 527 fighters had been killed and more than 755 injured since the offensive began.
Pakistan signals no let-up in Afghan strikes until Taliban act on militants
PESHAWAR: Pakistan has delivered its most explicit warning yet to the Taliban regime in Kabul, saying the Afghan authorities are fully aware of Islamabad’s core security demands and must now demonstrate “verifiable steps” if they wish to halt cross-border strikes or reopen any form of dialogue.
PTI leaders again turned away from Imran Khan prison visit despite supreme court order
ISLAMABAD: The opposition party PTI was on Thursday again blocked from meeting its founder and former prime minister Imran Khan in prison, despite a list of visitors having been cleared by the supreme court the previous day.
US pulls diplomats from Karachi and Lahore missions after protests turn violent over Iran strikes
ISLAMABAD: The United States has ordered all non-emergency government personnel and their dependents to leave its consulates in Pakistan’s two largest cities, citing an acute deterioration in security linked to the conflict with Iran and a wave of deadly anti-American demonstrations across the country.
‘No peace without end to militant support’: Pakistan’s top general issues stark warning to Kabul
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top military commander said on Wednesday a lasting peace with Afghanistan is impossible unless the Taliban regime severs its support for terrorist organisations operating from its soil.
Sharif briefs parties on US-Israeli strikes that killed Khamenei and Pakistan’s war against Afghan Taliban
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened an in-camera briefing for parliamentary party leaders on Wednesday to address the rapidly deteriorating security situation across Pakistan’s western frontiers and the wider Middle East, where US and Israeli attacks have killed Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggered wider instability.
Imran Khan’s PTI boycotts security briefing on Afghan terrorism and Iran crisis unless jailed leader is brought to table
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party has flatly refused to join an emergency closed-door government briefing on Pakistan’s worsening security threats, insisting that any participation is conditional on a meeting with its imprisoned founder and former prime minister.
National Assembly posts record legislative output but faces scrutiny over rushed reforms and falling attendance
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s National Assembly recorded its highest legislative output of any recent assembly in its second year, passing 59 bills while relying less on presidential ordinances, but a detailed independent audit has exposed persistent weaknesses in attendance, agenda management and meaningful deliberation.