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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and two United Nations agencies have condemned the killing of at least six people working on a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan in the past 24 hours. The six – reportedly five Pakistani women and one man – were shot dead in the city of Karachi in Sindh province and in […]
The one-man Judicial Commission on Tuesday asked the general public to provide information or evidences about the 2007 military operation, which had resulted in nearly 100 deaths, mostly students of the religious school ‘Jamia Hafsa’. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ordered a judicial commission earlier this month to probe the matter, observing that police have […]
Pakistan has been listed among four countries where combat-related deaths and targeted murders are the driving forces behind a sharp rise in press fatalities in 2012, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ year-end analysis of journalists killed in the line of duty. At least 67 journalists were killed worldwide in direct relation to […]
Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf said Monday that Pakistan takes pride in the indigenous struggle waged by the people of Kashmir for their right of self determination. “We praise the political acumen and wisdom of the Hurriyat leadership in its efforts to highlight the case of the people of Kashmir”, he said while talking […]
Arch Afghan rivals are heading to France to hold a three-day discussions on the future of Afghanistan, Afghan sources said Monday. Taliban will attend the Paris process of intra-Afghan talks for the first time to explain their policies about solution to end war in Afghanistan. Besides Taliban and the second armed resastanec movement “Hizb-e-Islami” […]
Pakistani security forces Sunday killed three militants while two blew themselves up in a compound in the outskirts of Peshawar where they had taken shelter after the overnight attack on the air force base. The militants exchanged fire with the police and troops for nearly two hours at Pawaka, a small village near Peshawar. […]
Pakistani security forces cleared Peshawar Airport and adjacent air force base after three hours operation against the armed Taliban militants, who launched an overnight attack on the facilities with rockets, officials said Sunday. The Pakistan Air Force spokesman, Group Captain Tariq Mahmood said that five attackers were killed and the security forces are now […]
Suspected militants fired rockets on Peshawar’s international airport late Saturday and killed at least three people and injured over 30 others, officials and doctors said. Security officials said that three rockets landed inside the building of Bacha Khan International Airport while two others hit nearby residential areas. Doctors confirmed that three people were killed and […]
A Pakistani Anti-terrorism court Saturday summoned American journalist, Mark Siegel, to record his statement in the 2007 assassination case of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Mark Siegel, who has served as lobbyist for Benazir Bhutto in the U.S., had stated that he was with Benazir Bhutto in London when former President Pervez Musharraf called and threatened […]
Senior Kashmiri leaders from the Indian-occupied Kashmir will hold talks with Pakistani leaders in the coming days on solution to the long-standing dispute, still in a main hurdle in relationship between Pakistan and India. A seven-member delegation of the All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) is scheduled to begin a week-long visit to Pakistan on […]
In yet another move to promote people-to-people, Pakistan and India have ope-rationalized a new visa regime from December 14, interior ministers of the two countries say. The new visa regime would become operational from January 15, 2013, state media has reported. Thousands of divided families in both countries say that they still face a lot of […]
The Election Commission of Pakistan will consult political parties to examine the issue of delimitation of constituencies in Karachi Division in the light of the observations of the Apex Court, the Commission said Friday. For this purpose, letters have sent to political parties asking them to nominate not more than two representatives to attend […]
