Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday condemned an attack on a mosque in the city of Mississauga in Ontario province, which is being probed as a hate crime and which rights advocates described as being part of a rise in Islamophobia. Police said someone threw two rocks through the window of a Mississauga mosque on Sunday, on the eve …

CHARSADDA: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Thursday expelled Senator Bahramand Khan Tangi from the party and cancelled his basic membership. PPP Charsadda district chapter president Naeem Khan Umarzai told a press conference here on Thursday along with provincial president of Ulema and Mashaikh Wing and NA-25 candidate Pir Aftab Alam and other officials. He said the senator was expelled on …

KHUZDAR: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday called on the people of Balochistan to embrace peaceful means to address the province’s challenges, emphasising that violence offered no solutions. Speaking at a public meeting in connection with the party’s election campaign in Khuzdar on Thursday, Mr Bhutto-Zardari also boasted of his Baloch lineage. “Baloch blood runs in my veins,” he said, …

ISLAMABAD: Half of the country’s youth believes that Feb 8 general elections will be transparent, however, they also think that the upcoming polls will not affect their daily lives. They have shown a lack of trust in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) but expressed faith in the armed forces as an institution. These were the findings of a Voice of …

SWAT: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Thursday criticised the four-year rule of Imran Khan, accusing him of plunging the country into multiple crises, both internally and externally, and regretted that the people of Khyber Pakhtun­khwa were trapped by unfulfilled promises regarding jobs, housing and environment. Speaking at an election rally in the Grassy Ground in the Mingora city of Swat …

ISLAMABAD: The Special Court set up under the Official Secrets Act, while handing down a 10-year sentence, ruled on Thursday that former prime minister Imran Khan’s unfurling of a cipher telegram and disclosure of its content at a public rally undermined Pakistan’s cipher system, which in turn directly or indirectly benefited the unfriendly foreign powers. There is no doubt that the …

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday adjourned hearing into a petition against the alleged illegal detention of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf general secretary in Kohat district Salman Shinwari as he contacted his family and told them he was well and they should wait for a few days for his return. Chief Justice Mohammad Ibrahim Khan of a single-member bench fixed Feb 12 for …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday reiterated its demand for Afghanistan to extradite the leaders of banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a designated terrorist group, while underscoring the need for bringing to justice those responsible for terrorism and maintaining regional security. “We urge Afghanistan to take immediate and effective action against these terrorist entities, hand over their leadership to Pakistan, and those individuals …

QUETTA: At least 10 bomb and grenade attacks rocked different areas of Balochistan on Thursday, resulting in the death of one man, a provincial government official confirmed. Several police stations and deputy commissioners’ offices were targeted in the attacks in which six people, including a police officer and a jail warden, were injured. “At least 10 bomb and grenade attacks …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja declared on Thursday that general elections scheduled for Feb 8 will proceed as planned despite security challenges, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Chairing a high-level meeting to review the worsening law and order situation in the two provinces, Mr Raja said the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was fully prepared to hold …