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.
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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.
PM Sharif appoints PML-N loyalist Hashmi as Sindh governor
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari approved on Thursday the appointment of Nehal Hashmi, a leader of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party, as governor of Sindh province, hours after Sharif formally recommended the politician for the post.
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.
Pakistan quietly pushes for diplomacy as Tehran rejects US cease-fire proposals
ISLAMABA: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday that reparations and firm international guarantees against future aggression were the only way to end the war ignited by Israel and the United States, issuing the demand in a late-night post on X after separate conversations with the leaders of Pakistan and Russia.
Pakistan says 641 Afghan Taliban militants killed in month-long border offensive
ISLAMABAD: The security forces have killed at least 641 Afghan Taliban operatives and wounded more than 855 others in a month-long border offensive that has become the most intense fighting between the two neighbors in decades, information minister said on Wednesday.
‘No matter what, no matter when’ Pakistan reaffirms ironclad commitment to Saudi Arabia ‘before it is needed’
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will stand with Saudi Arabia in any crisis, no matter the timing or circumstances, the government’s chief spokesman for foreign media said on Wednesday, as the conflict set off by US-Israeli strikes on Iran threatens to draw in more countries across the region.
Islamabad High Court fines anti-corruption NAB for delays in Imran Khan graft appeal
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Wednesday imposed a 100,000-rupee fine on the National Accountability Bureau, sharply rebuking the country’s premier anti-corruption agency for what the bench described as “delaying tactics” in the long-running £190 million Al-Qadir Trust corruption case against former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi.
‘Leave that to the state’: Pakistan urges caution in coverage of Gulf tensions, invoking constitutional curbs on expression
ISLAMABAD: The law minister called on the country’s media Tuesday to tread carefully in discussing the nation’s foreign policy, warning that loose talk and speculation amid the escalating conflict between Iran, the United States and Israel risk unsettling key diplomatic partners and crossing constitutional boundaries.