RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s top military commander on Thursday reiterated the nation’s determination to eliminate terrorists and their infrastructure “wherever they may be” through precise, intelligence-based operations, even as the government announced a temporary pause in its ongoing offensive against the Afghan Taliban to observe the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
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US intelligence chief places Pakistan among nations whose missiles could reach American homeland
WASHINGTON: Director of US National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told Congress on Wednesday that Pakistan is among a handful of nations whose advancing missile capabilities could one day place the US homeland in range, a stark assessment that groups Islamabad with Russia, China, North Korea and Iran in the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment.
Kabul strike hit ammunition and drone depot used by Taliban, not rehab center – military spokesman
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top military spokesman said on Wednesday that a recent airstrike in Kabul struck an ammunition and drone storage facility used by the Afghan Taliban, not the civilian drug rehabilitation center claimed by Afghan officials, as part of an escalating campaign against terrorism emanating from across the border.
President Zardari mourns Iranian Larijani death in Israeli strikes, calls for immediate ceasefire talks
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari expressed profound condolences to Iran on Wednesday following the killing of the country’s top national security official in Israeli airstrikes and offered Islamabad’s assistance in diplomatic efforts to defuse escalating tensions across the Middle East.
Pakistan pauses anti-Taliban border operation for Eidul Fitr at request of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan announced a temporary halt in its military campaign against Afghan Taliban targets on Wednesday, a move framed as a goodwill gesture ahead of Eidul Fitr and prompted in part by appeals from three major Muslim allies.
Pakistan’s top diplomat arrives in Riyadh to push for de-escalation as Iranian strikes roil the Gulf
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar landed in the Saudi capital on Wednesday to join an emergency gathering of Arab and Islamic foreign ministers, where he is expected to press for an immediate halt to the widening Middle East conflict triggered by US-Israeli strikes on Iran last month and Tehran’s retaliatory attacks on American and Gulf targets.
Suspected female suicide bomber arrested in Balochistan; officials warn of militants’ exploitation of women
By Staff Reporter QUETTA: Security forces in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province arrested a young woman they described as a would-be suicide bomber, foiling what authorities
Pakistan says diplomacy only viable path to end Middle East conflict
ISLAMABAD: The deputy prime minister and foreign minister said on Tuesday that dialogue and diplomacy are the only realistic way out of the widening Middle East conflict, a stance the government has repeated since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began more than two weeks ago.
Pakistan denies striking Kabul hospital, releases imagery to rebut Taliban claims amid escalating border operation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday forcefully dismissed allegations from the Afghan Taliban that its armed forces had struck a hospital in Kabul, asserting that the actual target was a military installation known as Camp Phoenix, located several kilometers away from any civilian medical facility.
Pakistan conducts airstrikes on Taliban positions in Kabul and Nangarhar, targets drone workshops, military sites
ISLAMABAD: Security forces carried out airstrikes on Afghan Taliban military installations in Kabul and Nangarhar provinces on Monday night, destroying technical support infrastructure, ammunition storage facilities and what security sources described as a drone assembly workshop, as Islamabad expanded its cross-border campaign against militants.