ISLAMABAD: Pakistani officials on Tuesday categorically rejected reports that a three-member government delegation had traveled to Kabul for negotiations with the Afghan Taliban, dismissing the claims as fabricated propaganda spread by Afghan accounts on social media.
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PM Sharif congratulates Iran’s new leader Khamenei, reaffirms ties amid regional tensions
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif congratulated Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei on Tuesday on his appointment as Iran’s new supreme leader, sending a formal letter that offered condolences for the killing of the cleric’s father and pledged continued close cooperation between the two neighbours.
Pakistan denies striking civilian areas in Afghanistan as border clashes with Taliban intensify
ISLAMABAD Pakistan said on Monday the military strikes inside Afghanistan targeting only militant infrastructure and support networks, flatly denying accusations from the Afghan Taliban government and the United Nations that civilian areas have been hit during the escalating border conflict.
Pakistan says 583 Afghan Taliban killed in cross-border operation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Sunday its military has killed 583 Afghan Taliban fighters and wounded more than 795 others since launching a cross-border operation against the group, as clashes with Afghanistan entered a second week along the two countries’ rugged frontier.
Security forces kill 13 militants in five operations across northwest province
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed 13 militants in a series of intelligence-driven raids across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province over two days, the military said on Sunday, part of an escalating counterterrorism campaign as violence in the region surges and border tensions with Afghanistan intensify.
Pakistani fisherman slain by fallout of Israeli projectile in Iranian waters; another dies in Dubai amid escalating conflict
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani fisherman was killed on Saturday when debris from an Israeli projectile, intercepted by Iranian air defences, struck his boat in Iranian waters, officials said on Sunday, the latest sign that the United States-Israel war on Iran is claiming civilian lives far beyond the battlefield.
Jailed PTI leaders warn political rifts and external shocks threaten sovereignty and economy
LAHORE: Five senior leaders of opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, currently held in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail, warned on Saturday that “internal divisions and external pressures” are threatening the country’s sovereignty, economy and democratic future, and appealed to all political actors to put aside personal ambitions and institutional rivalries for the sake of national survival.
Pakistan says precise strikes hit militant sites in Afghanistan, Taliban warns of retaliation if Kabul attacked
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Saturday its security forces were carrying out precise intelligence-driven operations against terrorist infrastructure inside Afghanistan, insisting the campaign was designed to minimise civilian harm even as cross-border clashes with the Taliban government intensified into what one Pakistani minister has described as “open war.”
Pakistan’s top general meets Saudi defence minister to counter Iranian attacks under defence pact
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s chief of defence forces and army staff chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, met on Saturday with Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman to address the kingdom’s mounting security concerns over repeated Iranian drone and missile attacks, officials from both sides said.
Anti-terrorism court sentences 47 PTI leaders, supporters to 10 years in prison for 2023 attack on military headquarters
RAWALPINDI: An anti-terrorism court in the garrison city of Rawalpindi sentenced 47 leaders and supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party to a decade in prison each on Saturday, convicting them in absentia of orchestrating and participating in violent attacks on the army’s General Headquarters and other military sites during nationwide riots in May 2023.