Pakistan

Two terrorists were killed by security forces during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan tribal district, the military’s media affairs wing said on Saturday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), during the IBO, an intense fire exchange took place between the army troops and terrorists. “Resultantly, two terrorists got killed, including Commander Khabaib …

The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has forecast a fresh three-day monsoon spell for Sindh starting on Tuesday, predicting heavy to moderate showers in several cities of the province. In its latest forecast issued on Saturday, the Met Office said a “strong low-pressure area”, currently located over eastern India, was likely to approach Sindh on August 23 and under its impact, …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday launched Rs37.2 billion flood relief cash programme to disburse Rs50,000 cash assistance in two install­ments among 1.5 million affected families each in the country, particularly in Balochistan where hundreds died and infrastructure was damaged the most by floods amid heavy monsoon rains. Fund are being given through the Benazir Income Support Programme in …

PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday demanded that an independent panel — comprising former human rights minister Shireen Mazari, PPP’s Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar and PML-N’s Khawaja Saad Rafique — be constituted to probe the “custodial torture” of incarcerated party member Shahbaz Gill. “These people have a point of view on torture, which is independent of their parties’ narrative […] hence, …

PML-N leader Attaullah Tarar decried on Saturday the Punjab police’s move to raid the residences of his party’s lawmakers and register cases against them as an act of “revenge” for legal proceedings initiated against PTI’s Shahbaz Gill over his controversial remarks during an ARY News bulletin. Tarar, who was speaking to the media alongside other PML-N leaders in Islamabad, said the raids were carried out on …

PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Saturday said that British newspaper The Guardian had taken his comments on author Salman Rushdie’s attack “out of context”. In an interview with the UK-based publication on Friday, Imran was quoted as terming the knife attack on the Indian-born novelist “sad” and “terrible”, which could not be justified in the name of Islam. “Rushdie understood because he …

  By Raja Zahid A Khanazada Dallas: Pakistan Society of North Texas (PSNT) organized a magnificent festival named ‘the Quaid Mela,’ in Dallas in connection with Pakistan’s 75th Independence Day, which is dubbed the largest festival by Pakistanis on U.S soil. Famous singers Ali Haider, and classical and pop singer Naeem Abbas Rufi presented songs at the live show, while …

KARACHI: Police have invoked the charge of rape in a case pertaining to the alleged abduction of a teenage girl from Karachi and her illegal underage marriage in Punjab. Around 10 suspects have been charged with abducting the 15-year-old girl and shifting her to Punjab where her illegal child marriage was solemnised in April this year. On Tuesday, the investigating …

PESHAWAR: The Pakhtun Qaumi Amn Jirga, a syndicate of Pakhtun political, nationalist and religious parties, on Tuesday demanded of the government to declare enforced disappearances a crime and empower civilian institutions in tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The jirga met at the Awami National Party’s headquarters, Bacha Khan Markaz, here and discussed the emerging law and order situation in the …

ISLAMABAD: After criticising the visit of US Ambassador Donald Blome to Landikotal and Torkham border last week, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice President Dr Shireen Mazari on Tuesday said Mr Blome’s meeting with officials of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government and the chief minister was not a big deal. However, she questioned under which contract US ambassadors visit sensitive areas while no …