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Pakistan on Tuesday voiced its “strong indignation” of India’s plans to convene meetings linked with G20 in India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, saying such a move was “self-serving” on New Delhi’s part. The third meeting of G20 Tourism Working Group under India’s G20 Presidency will be held from May 22 to 24 in Srinagar, according to the Times of India. India assumed the year-long …

An intelligence-based operation in Quetta turned deadly in the early hours of Tuesday, with at least four police officers losing their lives in a gunbattle with terrorists, according to the police. Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) in Quetta Capt (retd) Zuhaib Moshin told that the operation was launched to neutralise terrorists who had been involved in past attacks on security …

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Pakistan shared good relations with the interim government in Afghanistan, but at the same time expressed concern that the “TTP [Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan] is using Afghan soil even today for attacks in our country, especially Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”. He passed these remarks in an interview with Voice of America a day earlier.   Pakistan has witnessed a …

  The full court bench of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court on Tuesday disqualified Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas from being a member of the legislative assembly for contempt. After today’s verdict, Ilyas has ceased to hold the office of the AJK prime minister and the legislative assembly will have to elect a new premier. He has …

Former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday demanded a “proper inquiry” into the death of Sub-Inspector Aamir Shahzad Bhadar, the complainant and a “critical witness” of the Wazirabad assassination attempt on the PTI chairman. Bhadar, who was the station house officer of Sadar police station in Wazirabad, died of cardiac arrest on Sunday. The officer was at his house in his native village Bhadar …

PESHAWAR: Political parties on both sides of the aisle have voiced their opposition to a possible military operation to root out militancy. On Friday, the top civil and military leadership reaffirmed their commitment to thwart terrorism threats and vowed to relaunch the National Action Plan (NAP) within 15 days to crush militants reportedly coming in from Afghanistan. The decisions were made at …

Casualties are feared as an explosion has reportedly taken place at Qandhari Market in Quetta, Dawn News reported. TV footage showed a damaged automobile of the police surrounded by a number of police personnel. Several ambulances were also seen leaving the site of the explosion. The nature of the blast has not been ascertained yet.

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday tabled a bill in both houses of parliament seeking the release of funds for holding elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in line with the directives issued by the Supreme Court. Last week, the apex court had fixed May 14 as the date for the polls in Punjab and directed the federal government to …

Justice Qazi Faez Isa, senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court, said on Monday that he and the country’s top court stood with the Constitution. He made the remarks while addressing a special national constitutional convention at the National Assembly hall to mark the golden jubilee of the Constitution of Pakistan, where he was the only top court judge in …

As April 9-10 marks one year since former prime minister Imran Khan was ousted through a vote of no confidence (VONC) moved by the then-opposition, PTI leaders termed the occasion a “black day”, while figures linked to the government celebrated “topping the one page regime”. On Feb 11, 2022, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) — the incumbent coalition government comprising …