Pakistan
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Pakistan, India can’t afford another war: Shehbaz Sharif
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reiterated his country’s strong resolve to maintain peace in the region but added that sustainable peace in South Asia was linked to the resolution of…
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Anti-Taliban protests erupt in Pakistan border areas
Islamabad: Protests against the strengthening of the Taliban erupted in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The protesters on Friday called on the Islamabad government to take stronger action against attempts by…
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Pak: Men force girl to lick shoes, chop hair after she refuses marriage
Faisalabad: In a ghastly incident in Pakistan’s Faisalabad, a teenager was tortured, humiliated and sexually harassed for refusing to marry an older man, who is the father of her friend, media reports…
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Faisalabad men force girl to lick shoes, chop her hair over refusal to marry friend’s father
Faisalabad: In a ghastly incident in Pakistan’s Faisalabad, a teenager was tortured, humiliated and sexually harassed for refusing to marry an older man, who is the father of her friend, media reports…
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Pakistan: Two police constables killed on polio vaccination duty
Islamabad: At least two police officers were shot dead in Pakistan’s Khyber Paktunkhwa province who were deployed to guard medics administering polio vaccines. The attack took place in Tank district’s Kacha Gara area…
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Shehbaz Sharif says Pakistan can mediate to bring together US, China
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has offered Pakistan’s services as a mediator to bring together the US and China as it did decades ago, media report said. In an interview with…
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20 dead, 6 injured in Pakistan bus-oil tanker collision
Lahore: At least 20 people were killed and six others injured on Tuesday after a passenger bus collided head-on with an oil tanker in Pakistan’s Punjab province, local media reports said According…
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Pakistan PM, Saudi Crown Prince discuss bilateral ties, cooperation
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a telephonic conversation with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday and agreed to enhance cooperation in the fields of energy, investment and trade. The…
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Pakistan: 13 killed, 5 injured as truck falls over bus
Islamabad: At least 13 people were killed and five others injured after a truck fell over a passenger bus in Rahim Yar Khan city of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, local media reported. A…
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Pak to attend counter-terror drills in India for 1st time
Islamabad: Pakistan has confirmed that it will attend the international counter-terrorism exercises in India later this year despite simmering tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. The counter-terrorism exercises are scheduled to be…
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Decision to not arrest ex-BJP spokesperson shows India’s hatred towards Islam: Bilawal Bhutto
Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday condemned India’s Supreme Court’s decision to provide former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma protection from getting arrested in the Prophet Muhammad case,…
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Pakistan, Turkiye sign trade preferential agreement to further bolster bilateral ties
Islamabad: Pakistan and its close ally Turkiye on Friday inked a preferential trade agreement aimed at opening up market access worth USD 7.5 billion for Pakistani goods, a deal hailed by Islamabad…
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Pakistan: Man from minority Ahmadi community stabbed to death
Lahore: A 62-year-old man belonging to the Ahmadi community was stabbed to death by a religious fanatic for refusing to praise a controversial cleric in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Friday, the latest…
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Imran’s arrest may trigger ‘bloody politics’, says ex-minister
Islamabad: Reacting to the Pakistan governments move to file references against the PTI chairman in prohibited funding and Toshakhana cases, former Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has warned that attempts to arrest Imran…