At least 20 people have been killed and 40 wounded after a bomb exploded at a vegetable market in northwest Pakistan. The blast happened in the city of Parachinar, a mainly Shia Muslim area on the Afghan border. The market was full of shoppers when the device exploded. Officials said ... Read More »
Pakistan will not deport Sharbat Gula, National Geographic’s iconic green-eyed ‘Afghan girl’, for using fake identity papers to stay in Peshawar, a media report quoted an official as saying on Sunday. Ms. Gula was arrested on October 26, 2016 from her home in Peshawar. A special anti-corruption and immigration court ... Read More »
Pakistan on Friday “completely rejected” India’s claim to have sent troops across its disputed border in Kashmir to kill suspected militants, as India evacuated villages near the frontier amid concerns about a military escalation. In a rare public announcement of such a raid, India on Thursday said it had carried ... Read More »
KARACHI: Pakistan has been ranked 149th among 188 countries in the first global assessment of countries’ progress towards the United Nations’ health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Titled the Global Burden of Disease Study, the analysis was launched at a special event at the UN General Assembly in New York and ... Read More »
As many as 22 mentally challenged Indians, lodged in Pakistan jails even after completing their sentences years back, are awaiting their repatriation for want of verification of their addresses and antecedents. Two of them are even nameless. Officials have recorded one them aged between 45-50 years with a mark of ... Read More »
DUBAI (Staff Report) – Pakistan has topped the ICC Test ranking for the first time after wet ground at the Queen Park Oval, Port of Spain, denied India the opportunity to defend the top spot which it had reclaimed from Australia last week. The result of the fourth and final Test means ... Read More »
Lobbing the ball for dialogue back into Pakistan’s court, India said that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar was “willing” to travel to Islamabad to discuss “cross-border terror in Kashmir”, but not to discuss Kashmir itself, as Pakistan had proposed. In a letter handed over to Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhury ... Read More »
Lobbing the ball for dialogue back into Pakistan’s court, India said that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar was “willing” to travel to Islamabad to discuss “cross-border terror in Kashmir”, but not to discuss Kashmir itself, as Pakistan had proposed. In a letter handed over to Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhury ... Read More »
The crew of a helicopter that made an emergency landing in Afghanistan was released to Pakistan on Saturday. According to Deutsche Welle, Five Pakistanis and a Russian were among the crew of six who were returned to Pakistan’s capital city after reportedly being held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan ... Read More »
Accusing Rajnath Singh of being “responsible for the killings of innocent Kashmiris”, JuD chief Hafiz Saeed has warned of a countrywide protest in Pakistan by his outfit if the Home Minister arrives in Islamabad to attend the SAARC ministerial conference. “I want to ask the Pakistani government will it add ... Read More »
Pakistan and China have together started production of the primary prototype JF-17B fight jet on theChendu Aerospace agency facility in Chendu, China. The induction for manufacturing of the 2-seat aircraft took place Wednesday at a rite attended via senior Pakistani Air force and chinese language officers, the Pakistan Air force ... Read More »
Pakistan’s Joint Investigation Team (JIT) undertook its trip to India with a “cooperative” approach, the Pakistan Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. In a press statement that seemed at variance with Pakistani media reports which claimed that the JIT had drawn a blank in India, the MFA said investigations were still ... Read More »
