MURIDKE: The security forces, including elite Rangers and police contingents from five districts, converged on this industrial town near Lahore early Monday, encircling a protest camp set up by the hardline Islamist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan and blocking its supporters from advancing toward Islamabad in what officials described as preparations for a potential large-scale crackdown.
Politics
PTI pushes ahead with KP chief minister vote despite unresolved resignation issue
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was set to elect a new chief minister on Monday amid a deepening legal and political dispute over the resignation of the outgoing leader, Ali Amin Gandapur, after the provincial governor rejected his submission, citing inconsistencies in the signatures and returned the documents for clarification.
Pakistan warns Kabul of ‘befitting response’ to further provocations
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office issued a stern warning on Sunday that any further aggression from Afghanistan would prompt an “unwavering and befitting response,” escalating tensions after a night of fierce border clashes that left 23 Pakistani troops dead and, according to military accounts, resulted in the deaths of 200 Taliban fighters and affiliated militants.
Pakistan reports 23 soldiers killed in border clashes with Afghan Taliban
ISLAMABAD: The military said on Sunday 23 soldiers had been killed and 29 wounded in overnight clashes along the border with Afghanistan, where it said forces repelled an unprovoked attack by Afghan Taliban fighters and affiliated militants.
Pakistan seizes 19 Afghan border posts after overnight clashes
ISLAMABAD: The military unleashed a robust counteroffensive overnight against unprovoked attacks by Afghan troops along their shared frontier, capturing 19 border posts, obliterating several others and causing substantial casualties among Afghan soldiers and militants, state-run media reported on Sunday.
Pakistan slams Afghan Muttaqi’s India comments, accuses Kabul of deflecting on terrorism
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Office on Saturday sharply criticised Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, for comments made during a visit to India, accusing him of deflecting responsibility for terrorism and failing to uphold obligations for regional peace.
Clashes erupt along Pakistan-Afghanistan border, heightening tensions
ISLAMABAD: Intense clashes broke out along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Saturday night after Taliban forces attacked Pakistani military posts, prompting a forceful response from Pakistan’s army that included artillery, tanks and airstrikes, according to security officials from both sides.
Governor confirms Gandapur resignation, KP to choose successor on Monday
PESHAWAR: The governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province confirmed on Saturday that he had received the resignation of Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, setting in motion a leadership change in the restive northwestern region that has been a stronghold for the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.
Roads blocked, mobile networks cut as hardline TLP pro-Palestine protest heads for Islamabad
MURIDKE: Supporters of the hardline religious party Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) pushed toward the federal capital on Saturday afternoon, aiming to stage a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians, even as clashes with police in Lahore left dozens injured and authorities sealed off roads and disrupted mobile networks in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Six policemen killed in militants’ assault on training school in northwest Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least six policemen, including trainees, were killed and 13 others, including a civilian, were wounded late Friday when militants assaulted a police training school in northwestern Pakistan, in a brazen attack that security forces repelled after hours of fierce combat, military and police officials said on Saturday.