Pakistan
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Pakistan Senate divided over condolences for Musharraf
Islamabad: The Pakistan Senate was sharply divided over the idea of offering prayers for late President Pervez Musharraf, as the treasury side strongly opposed it while PTI insisted on it and later…
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Shihab gets permission to pass through Pakistan for his walk to Haj
A 29-year-old man from Kerala, who has set out on an 8,640 km journey on foot to Makkah to perform Haj 2023, reached Lahore, Pakistan on Monday, February 6, 2023, after four…
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Special flight to repatriate Musharraf’s mortal remains from Dubai gets delayed: Reports
Abu Dhabi: The special flight from Dubai to repatriate the mortal remains of Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was delayed, media reports said on Monday. Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil…
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Thousands rally in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa demanding durable peace
Peshawar: Thousands of people poured onto the roads for the third day in different towns of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, condemning the brutal attack on a mosque in Peshawar late last month…
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3 killed, 12 injured in road accident in Pakistan
Islamabad: At least three people were killed and 12 others injured in a road accident in the Khanewal district of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province on Sunday, rescuers told media. According to the…
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US threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age after 9/11 terror attack, Musharraf in his memoir
Islamabad: The US threatened to bomb Pakistan “back to the Stone Age” after the 9/11 terror attacks if then President General Pervez Musharraf did not cooperate with America’s war on Afghanistan. In…
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5 injured in TTP-orchestrated explosion in Pak’s Quetta
Karachi: At least five people, mostly policemen, were injured in an explosion in Quetta on Sunday in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, in yet another instance of systematic attacks targeting security officials in…
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Don’t get a haircut: When Pervez Musharraf praised Dhoni’s long locks
New Delhi: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf, who passed away on Sunday, always enjoyed the India-Pakistan cricket rivalry and once suggested former Indian cricket captain M S Dhoni to not trim his…
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Timeline of Ex-President General Musharraf’s engagements with India during his reign
Dubai: Pakistan’s former military ruler General (retd.) Pervez Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War in 1999, died on Sunday in Dubai after a prolonged illness. The four-star general, who ruled Pakistan in…
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Pervez Musharraf: Kargil War’s architect, brought Pak & India to brink of war
Islamabad: Pakistan’s former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War, toppled the democratically-elected government in a bloodless military coup in 1999 and ruled the country for nine years…
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Pak traders threaten nationwide protest if more taxes are imposed
Islamabad: Traders in Pakistan have threatened to launch a nationwide protest if the government imposes a fresh wave of taxes to fulfill International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) conditions and demanded that the government…
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Musharraf remained the longest-serving president of Pakistan
Islamabad: Former Pakistan President and military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, who had been living in Dubai since 2016, breathed his last on Sunday, local media reported. The 79-year-old former chief of…