Islamabad [Pakistan], July 8 (ANI): Pakistani President Arif Alvi on Thursday expressed alarm and deep concern about the rising trend of harassment and torture against journalists in the country.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): One policeman was killed and four others including two other policemen were injured in a blast that occurred inside a police check post in the Mardan district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local media reported citing police officials.
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): With a spike in the number of enforced disappearances in Balochistan in the past few months, there is not even a single family in the province whose member or a relative has not been forcibly disappeared, reported a Canada-based think tank, International F
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): Pakistan's election body on Thursday suspended Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz's free electricity scheme until the by-elections on 20 seats scheduled to be held on July 17.
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): Afghanistan's Ambassador to India Farid Mamundzay expressed appreciation for members of the diplomatic corps in India for their solidarity with the people affected by the recent earthquake in the Afghanistan provinces of Paktika, Khost, and Nangarhar.
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): Monsoon rains in Pakistan have claimed 77 lives, while 39 deaths were reported from Balochistan province alone, said the country's Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman on Wednesday.
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): A prominent rights group has slammed the Pakistani government for the arrest of journalist Imran Riaz Khan and urged authorities to stop punishing dissenting voices.
Quetta [Pakistan], July 6 (ANI): The death toll from heavy rainfall in Balochistan rose to 39 including scores of people missing in different parts of the province.
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 6 (ANI): Two people were killed and 10 others injured after a military vehicle overturned in Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab on Wednesday, Xinhua reported citing a source from the province.
New Delhi [India], July 6 (ANI): India expressed its condolences to the families of people who lost their lives in the recent protest that erupted in Uzbekistan's autonomous province of Karakalpakstan.
The Hague [Netherlands], July 6 (ANI/Xinhua): Dutch police fired warning shots at a farmers' protest near Heerenveen in the northern province of Friesland on Tuesday evening.
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 6 (ANI): More than 50 children in Afghanistan's southern Zabul province have contracted an unknown disease, according to local media.