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US budget includes USD 15 mn for improving security along Pakistan-Afghan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The first pledge underlines Washington's desire to help Islamabad curb terrorist attacks from Afghanistan that have become a major threat for Pakistan.
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Pakistan Election Commission likely to conduct Islamabad local govt polls
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The announcement regarding new date of the Islamabad local government elections will be made at the earliest.
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Terror group ISIS claims attack on Egypt police that killed 4
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Terror group Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack on a police checkpoint in Egypt's Suez Canal city of Ismailia that killed at least four people, including three police.
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Iranian security personnel killed during protest
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
More than 100 days after Mahsa Amini's death sparked nationwide unrest, a member of Iran's security forces on Sunday was shot dead during protests in the city of Semirom.
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Pakistan: Jamaat-e-Islami launches protests against lawlessness, surge in
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Pakistani political party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has launched a protest sit-in against a surge in lawlessness, crimes and narcotics in the Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the News International reported on Sunday.
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Pakistan's President returns Islamabad Capital Territory Local Government
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The president returned the bill days after the Senate had passed it after Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani had hurriedly summoned a session of the upper house of the parliament last Friday on the government's requisition when President Alvi had refused to do so.
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TTP forms 'new cabinet' in a challenge to Pakistan govt
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
TTP is allied with the Taliban, who seized power in neighbouring Afghanistan in August last year. The radical Islamic outfit has stepped up attacks since it announced the end of an Afghan Taliban-brokered ceasefire with the government in November.
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India, Pakistan exchange lists of prisoners, fishermen in their custody
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
"India and Pakistan today exchanged, through diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad, the lists of civilian prisoners and fishermen in their custody. Under the provisions of the 2008 Agreement on Consular Access, such lists are exchanged every year on 01 January and
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"Pakistan saw rise in 'terror attacks' in 2022 as TTP turned biggest threa
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
In its annual report, the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) said Pakistan security forces lost at least 282 personnel during 2022 in attacks that included IED ambushes, suicide attacks, and raids on security posts, mostly in the Pakistan-Afghan border regions.
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Imran Khan's PTI calls election body's failure to conduct polls contempt o
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) had on Friday ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to conduct Islamabad local government elections on Saturday.
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Pakistan-Taliban ties: From strategic depth to strategic menace
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The US exit from Afghanistan had bolstered Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) activities with its base in the war-torn country still intact, Pakistan's counter-terrorism authority in Islamabad told the country's Senate Standing Committee on Interior earlier this month. The TTP gained considerab
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Baloch National Movement condemns crackdown on Gwadar protestors
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The BNM spokesperson said that Gwadar had been declared the hub of China Pakistan Corridor (CPEC) by Pakistan but the people of Balochistan are not only unhappy with these projects but are expressing their displeasure through continuous peaceful protests against the occupation of Baloch land
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