ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s security forces responded to an unprovoked firing by the Afghan Taliban regime along the border in the Torkham and Tirah areas, the prime minister’s spokesperson for foreign media said Tuesday, in the latest sign of rapidly deteriorating relations between the two neighbours.
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Senate condemns Netanyahu over planned alliances with India against Muslim nations
ISLAMABAD: The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday condemning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments about forging alliances with India and other countries to counter what he called radical Muslim axes.
Pakistan and Qatar call for de-escalation in Afghanistan, Iran
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha on Tuesday and the two discussed the situation in Afghanistan, calling for dialogue to promote regional stability, Sharif’s office said.
Seven dead in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police van ambush; two more slain in Punjab suicide blast
ISLAMABAD: Militants killed nine policemen in two separate attacks in Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a surge of violence that has gripped the country’s northwest and parts of Punjab.
UPDATED – Jailed ex-PM Khan receives second eye injection at PIMS, returns to Adiala as PTI alleges ‘clandestine’ night procedure
ISLAMABAD: Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan was taken under heavy security to a government hospital in the early hours of Tuesday for a second anti-VEGF intravitreal injection to treat central retinal vein occlusion in his right eye, triggering fresh accusations from his party of government secrecy and lack of transparency.
Ex-PM Imran Khan receives second eye injection at Islamabad hospital, returns to Adiala Jail
ISLAMABAD: Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan was transferred under tight security from Adiala Jail to a hospital in Islamabad on Tuesday for a scheduled follow-up visit to treat a serious condition in his right eye, where he received a second injection, hospital officials said.
Nine Indian-sponsored terrorists killed in Balochistan and northwest; three paramilitary troops martyred in ambush
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed nine suspected militants, including a suicide bomber, during separate intelligence-based operations in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the military said Monday, even as militants carried out a complex ambush in the northwest that left three paramilitary officers dead.
Govt invites PTI to political talks as party rallies over Imran Khan’s health
ISLAMABAD: The coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday invited Imran Khan’s opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party to hold talks aimed at strengthening and advancing the Charter of Democracy, the 2006 agreement signed by Nawaz Sharif and the late Benazir Bhutto that committed the country’s two largest civilian parties at the time to resisting dictatorship.
PPP warns against ‘dangerous fantasy’ of splitting Sindh, says attack on federation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a key coalition partner in Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government, voiced strong opposition in the Senate on Monday to recent calls for the creation of a separate Karachi province, insisting the city remains an inseparable part of Sindh.
Security forces kill 5 militants, including suicide bomber, in Balochistan operation
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed five militants, including a suicide bomber, during an intelligence-based operation in Balochistan’s Pishin district, the military said Monday, in the latest sign of Islamabad’s intensified counterterrorism campaign in the restive border province.