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.
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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.
Security forces kill 15 militants in Balochistan raids; Waziristan blast leaves two policemen dead
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.
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 condemns Canada-India uranium deal as fresh blow to global non-proliferation regime
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has expressed grave concern over a long-term uranium supply agreement concluded between Canada and India, describing the arrangement as yet another selective carve-out that weakens the international nuclear non-proliferation framework and threatens the strategic balance in South Asia.
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.