US President Joe Biden ordered American military commanders to develop operational plans to strike ISIS-Khorasan assets, leadership and facilities as the death toll of suicide blasts at Kabul airport rose to 85. Two blasts and gunfire rocked the area outside the airport on Thursday evening, witnesses said. Videos shot by Afghan journalists showed dozens of bodies strewn around a canal …

ISLAMABAD : Clerics belonging to all the four mainstream schools of thought on Thursday rejected the draft Anti-Forced Conversion Bill, calling it a conspiracy and suggested that the government should not fall into the trap of the West by taking the draft bill to parliament. At a meeting, chaired by Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz, they …

KASUR: The Allahabad police claimed on Thursday to have arrested two persons who allegedly raped a student, made his video and sold it to young people at Gahlan Hithar village. Police recovered the mobile phones of the two suspects and found dozens of video clips. Locals say the suspects run a sheesha cafe in the town where they make porn …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has received three million doses of coronavirus vaccine, Pfizer, donated by the United States under Covax facility, on a day when 85 more deaths and as many as 4,553 new cases of Covid-19 were reported from across the country. With national positivity rate of coronavirus being at 7.4 per cent, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Thursday …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) on Thursday announced that it would give discount to the medical students in the registration fee for the National Licensing Examination (NLE). The members of the Medical and Dental Council headed by its President Dr Arshad Taqi held a meeting with a delegation of medical students to discuss the NLE. At the request of the …

Cricketer-turned-commentator Ramiz Raja and Asad Ali Khan have been nominated as members of the Board of Governors of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), according to a notification issued by the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination. The notification, issued on Friday, stated that Prime Minister Imran Khan, in the capacity of PCB patron-in-chief, had nominated Raja and Khan as members of the …

ISLAMABAD: Over 50 parliamentarians belonging to the treasury and the opposition parties will visit the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi on Monday for a “security briefing” with respect to the situation in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, Dawn has learnt. Besides Afghanistan, the parliamentarians will also get a briefing from the military high-ups on the situation in Indian …

The Karachi administration has begun making accommodation arrangements for “Afghan nationals and foreigners” being evacuated from Afghanistan in the wake of the security situation following the Taliban takeover of the country. The arrangements for evacuees will be made in the vicinity of the Jinnah International Airport, according to the commissioner’s office. A copy of the notification issued by the Karachi commissioner’s office. …

Prime Minister Imran Khan has written a letter to opposition leader and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif for filling the vacant posts of members in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), asking him to submit a response “at the earliest”. In a tweet, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry shared a copy of the letter written by the premier, saying the latter had …

Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar on Friday emphasised that the situation on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border was “normal and under control” while Pakistan’s side was “secure”. At the outset of his press conference in Rawalpindi, he said he would talk about the evolving situation in Afghanistan and the implied national security problems that Pakistan could face, …