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Pakistani Taliban Wednesday claimed responsibility for the bomb attack on Sindh High Court Justice Baqar Maqbool’s convoy in Karachi which killed eight security men and injured the judge. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said that the Taliban also carried out attacks on the local peace council chief in Bannu and a police […]
The chief of a local peace committee was killed in a bomb blast along with his son and nephew in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, police said. The vehicle carrying peace committee chief Malik Hashim Khan was targeted in the Zindi Falak Sher area of Bannu and was completely destroyed in the attack. The […]
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is due to undertake a three day visit to Sri Lanka starting from 27th of this month. This will be his second visit as he previously visited Sri Lanka in January 2011. During his stay in Sri Lanka, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani will meet the […]
A bomb attack, targeting a senior judge, killed six police guards and a paramilitary soldier in Karachi on Wednesday, a minister said. Senior Judge of Sindh High Court Justice Maqbool Baqar was also injured in the blast, a police officer said. He was shifted to a private hospital. Doctors avoided sharing information with […]
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Tuesday assured the visiting US special envoy his government’s full commitment to an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process, the PM office said. US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador James Dobbins Ambassador met the Prime Minister after he arrived on a two-day visit to Islamabad as part his […]
Investigators have formally included former President Pervez Musharraf in the list of main accused in the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, lawyers said Tuesday. The Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) submitted a charge-sheet against him in the Anti-Terrorism Court in Rawalpindi. The FIA presented a four-point charge sheet against Musharraf in the […]
The Islamabad Police has arrested two youths accused of involving in the murder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MPA, Farid Khan, a police officer said on Tuesday. Farid was killed in Hangu on June 3. He had won the PK-42 (Hangu-I) seat as an independent candidate and had then joined PTI. Police said the two persons […]
Officials Tuesday claimed “important headway” has been made in the investigation into the killings of foreign mountaineers in the northern areas of the country. Suspected militants, wearing uniform of security forces, stormed the base camp of Nanga Parbat in Diamir District of Gilgit-Baltistan late Saturday and killed the foreign tourists and their one guide. […]
US Special Representative Ambassador James Dobbins arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday for talks with Pakistan leaders on Afghan reconciliation process, officials said. A Foreign Ministry official said that the US envoy will meet senior Pakistani officials to discuss cooperation in the Qatar peace process. Mr Dobbins is scheduled to call on Prime Minister […]
A heavily armed group of Afghan Taliban launched a brazen attack on security forces near the President palace early Tuesday that lead to a several hour firefight, officials and witnesses said. Afghan officials claimed that they killed all the attackers. Reports said that President Hamid Karzai was in the presidential palace at the time of […]
Pakistan Army has set up a special surveillance cell at the base of Nanga Parbat to ensure protection of tourists and apprehend culprits involved in yesterday’s incident, officials said Monday. The Interior Secretary said that three helicopters are engaged for surveillance of the base camp in the area. He said 43 foreign and local tourists […]
The Supreme Court has directed the Attorney General Munir A. Malik to submit written reply by Thursday regarding the actions the government wants to take in the registration of the case of high treason against Pervez Musharraf. The court issued directive during the hearing of the case on Monday shortly after Prime Minister Nawaz […]
