Tahir Khan
Joined on: Dec 04, 2012
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Articles By Tahir Khan

Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, has ordered an immediate operation against suspected terrorists three days after a huge bomb attack killed 87 people in Quetta, official said Tuesday. The Saturday’s blast in a crowded marketplace and targeting Shiite Muslims had also injured nearly 200 people that prompted countrywide protest and the relatives have refused […]

An agreement was signed in Islamabad on Monday about the Transfer of Concession Rights of Pakistan’s Gwadar Port Operations to a Chinese company. Speaking on the occasion‚ President Asif Ali Zardari expressed the confidence that the award of the contract will open new opportunities particularly for the people of Balochistan. “It will give […]

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Monday assured the Hazara community that their demands would be accepted and the Government would go to any extent to bring culprits behind heinous Quetta blast to justice. Speaking in the National Assembly‚ he said services of the country’s all security forces and agencies would be utilized to week […]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has taken notice series of attacks in Quetta and summoned the attorney general and advocate general on Tuesday. The notice was taken two days after a deadly blast killed 87 people in Quetta that was the second major attack in the city in less than two months. “The […]

Rallies across the country on Sunday strongly condemned the deadly bomb attack in the southwestern city of Quetta yesterday which killed nearly 84 people, almost all Shia Muslims. Shiite leaders warned to approach the United Nations and other international forums if what they called ‘massacre’ of the Shia Muslims were not stopped. Allama […]

President Asif Ali Zardari Sunday reiterated that Pakistan would continue to render its unwavering support to Palestinian people till the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital. The President said this in a statement, read by him, at the luncheon of the President of the State of Palestine Mr. […]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Islamabad on a 3-day State visit to Pakistan late Saturday on the invitation of President Asif Ali Zardari. This is Abbas first visit to Pakistan after the recognition of Palestine as a Non-Member Observer State by the UN. Pakistan was co-sponsor in the United Nations General Assembly […]

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Saturday announced they are quitting the federal and Sindh governments over differences with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led governments. The MQM enjoyed ministries for five years and parted ways with the government when the assemblies will complete term in few weeks. The people in the country were […]

A bomb attack killed 65 people and injured 157 others in Quetta Saturday evening, police said. Women and children were among the casualties, the city police chief, Mir Zubair told a news conference. The bomb, concealed in a water tanker in a tractor trolley, exploded in a marketplace and a two-storey building also […]

Pakistan on Friday demanded of India to investigate the killing of its soldier, who the army says had inadvertently crossed into the Indian-occupied Kashmir last night. The Pakistan Army said that sepoy Akhlaq crossed the Line of Control (LoC), which divides the two countries in the disputed Kashmir region and was killed after questioning. […]

Pakistan military Friday condemned as ‘inhuman and brutal’ the killing of its soldier who had mistakenly crossed the Line of Control late last night. An army statement said that the Indian troops killed sepoy Ikhlaq even after he had identified himself. “Yesterday a Pakistan army soldier Ikhlaq lost his way between two posts […]

Pakistan on Friday tested a missile that can carry nuclear warheads, the second missile test in a week, the military said. “Pakistan today successfully test fired the Short Range Surface to Surface Ballistic Missile Hatf II (Abdali), as part of the process of validation of land based ballistic missile systems,” an army statement said. […]