After the Taliban closed the main trading and border crossing points, the Torkham gate, the Islamic Emirate forces and Pakistani border guards engaged in a gun battle, leaving one guard injured.
Noted poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar called out Pakistani terror at the Faiz Festival in Lahore last week, saying that the perpetrators and conspirators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks were still "roaming freely" in Pakistan.
According to a Pakistani newspaper, Punjab Intermediate Cities Improvement and Investment Project under the Asian Development Bank asked to pay a fine of Rs 1 million.
Baloch activist, Hafsa Baloch said in a tweet, "After a week Bibi Rashida and her husband Rahim Zehri are still in the custody of Pakistani forces. They were forcibly abducted by security forces and their whereabouts remain unknown."
Addressing the joint session of the Pakistan assembly Bhutani said, "CPEC will not work against the will of the Balochistan people because this project is against the people of Balochistan people"
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan has been demanding enquiry against the former Pakistan army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa, calling his conduct to be a serious violation of his oath and a violation of fundamental human rights.
"Amid Pakistan's economic crisis and the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan, the Pakistani Taliban have re-emerged as an increasingly potent threat," warned the report, released in Washington on Tuesday by the US Institute of Peace (USIP).