In view of the rising terror attacks in Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC), the principal decision-making forum on foreign policy and national security, reported The Dawn.
On Friday, Sindh Minister Sharjeel Memon said 129 Afghan female illegal immigrants were jailed in the province -- with 178 children -- but insisted the minors were not under arrest, the Dawn newspaper reported.
The Islamabad High Court on Friday directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold local government elections in Islamabad on December 31 and set aside its notification on the postponement of the polls, the Dawn reported.
Per the security plan, entry points of the Red Zone will be recorded via safe city cameras while metro bus passengers' video surveillance will also be conducted, the Dawn newspaper reported. Police asked the capital's citizens and foreigners to carry their identification documents with them.
Pakistan Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Ayaz Sadiq accused former prime minister Imran Khan of the resurgence of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and said that the dialogue initiated with the banned outfit by the previous Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government has "em
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan claimed that 'namaloom afraad' (unknown people) had pressured the chief secretary of Punjab province, Abdullah Khan Sumbal, to sign the governor's notification denotifying the chief minister and his cabinet, the
The Chief Commissioner's Office of Islamabad formed a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) today to investigate the Islamabad suicide bombings of December 23 in which a policeman of Pakistan police was killed, The Dawn reported.
Militants armed with rocket launchers and heavy weapons forced their way into the police station in Wana, the Dawn newspaper reported. A policeman inside at the time of the attack told Dawn that around 50 militants entered the station after blowing up the front gate.
The business community in Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ruled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have expressed concern over kidnappings and extortions. Traders from the Insaf Traders Wing (ITW) have urged the PTI chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan to hold a meeting to address the issue, The
This statement comes after armed clashes erupted between security forces from Pakistan and Afghanistan at the border in Chaman, leaving at least one dead and 15 others injured, the Dawn newspaper reported.