QUETTA: Security forces have killed 75 militants in a widening counterterrorism campaign across the restive southwestern province of Balochistan since July 5, officials said on Friday, as the government presses a large-scale crackdown following a string of separatist attacks that killed dozens of people earlier this month.
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More wreckage found as hunt for missing Pakistani flight crew stretches into third day
KARACHI: The search for five crew members of a cargo plane that vanished into the Arabian Sea earlier this week stretched into a third day Friday, as Pakistani authorities reported finding additional wreckage but no sign of the missing crew.
With births outpacing plans, Islamabad turns to military’s Munir for help
ISLAMABAD: Three years into a losing battle against one of the world’s fastest-growing populations, Pakistan’s government has drafted an unlikely ally into the effort: Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, the country’s top military officer.
Two dead in Poonch gunfire as banned Kashmiri alliance sets new deadline
RAWALAKOT: At least two people were killed and several others wounded before dawn Thursday when law enforcement personnel exchanged gunfire with protesters near Kotehri village, four kilometers outside Rawalakot, as security forces worked to clear a month-old road blockade for a convoy of food-laden vehicles.
‘The Islamic Republic of Japan’
There is a version of this story in which US President Donald Trump stands in Ankara, flanked by the assembled grandees of the Atlantic alliance, and says something statesmanlike about Patriot missile defence systems. There is another version — the one that actually happened — in which he does that too, but somewhere in the middle invents a country.
US, Iran trade fresh strikes as Tehran buries slain leader, testing fragile truce
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran exchanged another round of strikes this week, the most serious escalation since the two countries signed an interim peace agreement last month, as Tehran buried its assassinated supreme leader and mediators in Islamabad scrambled to keep a fragile ceasefire from collapsing entirely.
Bahria Town official, retired colonel convicted in money laundering case
ISLAMABAD: A retired army colonel who serves as vice chief executive of Bahria Town was convicted on Thursday for a second time in less than a year, this time for illegally moving money abroad to finance projects for the sprawling real estate developer, as investigators continue to unravel a financial network built around one of the country’s most powerful property empires.
Pakistan Navy rescues 20 sailors from sinking cargo ship
KARACHI: All 20 crew members aboard a cargo dhow taking on water east of Ormara were pulled to safety this week in a joint operation by the Pakistan Navy and the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency, according to the military’s media office.
Two young Christian gunned down in Balochistan, ISIS affiliate claims attack
QUETTA: Two young Christian men were shot to death on Wednesday afternoon while playing cricket on a dusty pitch outside the southwestern city of Quetta, the latest in a string of attacks that has left Pakistan’s small and increasingly wary Christian minority searching for a way to feel safe in Balochistan province.
Cabinet body denies debt-laden gas utilities relief from global accounting rules
ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on state-owned enterprises has turned down a request by two gas utilities weighed down by circular debt to be exempted from international accounting standards, a move that would have helped them avoid being declared insolvent, according to an official statement.