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Pakistani Taliban, blamed for most of the attacks in the country, face rift days after the leadership dismissed Ehsanullah Ehsan as the central spokesman over his alleged threats to the Afghan Taliban. Ehsan refused to accept the central council’s decision and has approached the Taliban court against the decision announced this week. A Taliban pamphlet […]
Despite last week’s closure of the Taliban office in Doha, Pakistan has fervently called for pursuing the Afghan peace process aimed at bringing the over a decade old war to an end. “The window on the Doha track should not be shut. This initiative should be pursued,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan told a closed-door […]
Pakistan admitted on Thursday that Afghan reconciliation process face many challenges but all sides will have to show patience to achieve the goal of elusive peace. The comments came days after the Afghan Taliban temporarily closed their office in Qatar, dashing hopes for beginning of the long-awaited process. “Pakistan is of the view that reconciliation […]
A bomb blast near a mosque killed at least two people near Kohat on Thursday, police sources said. The bomb blat also injured several more people, they said. Preliminary investigation suggests that the bomb was attached to a motorbike and was parked near a mosque at Kacha Paka, a small town, some 20 kilometers from […]
Pakistan High Commissioner to Malaysia Mr. Shahid Kiani has felicitated a team of 30 Malaysian researchers who recently carried out a seminal study of the 2000-year-old Gandhara civilization in Peshawar. “Pakistan is home to some of the world’s greatest and oldest civilizations and the Gandhara civilization which flourished in north west of Pakistan some […]
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Thursday that Saudi Arabia is home to 1.5 million Pakistanis who contributed heavily for the development of the country through their about $ 3.7 billion remittances per annum. He was talking to Ambassador of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz bin Ibrahim bin Salih Al-Ghadeer, who paid a courtesy call on him […]
A fighter jet of Pakistan Air Force crashed in Mianwali district on Thursday, officials said. The pilot ejected safely and there was no loss on the ground, a PAF spokesman said. “Pakistan Air Force informs that an F-7P Fighter Aircraft, while on a routine operational training mission, crashed near Esa Khel town,” the spokesman said […]
Malala Yousafzai, who was critically injured in a Taliban attack, will speak at the U.N. General Assembly on education on Friday. Taliban defending attack on Malala over what they claimed her remarks against Islamic injunctions. In one of her blogs for the BBC Urdu she had offered some controversial remarks about beard and Islamic veil.Two other […]
Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, Wednesday told the tribal lawmakers that option of dialogue should be kept open to end terrorism. The Prime Minister had invited members of the parliament from the militants-infested tribal regions to seek their input for a proposed national security policy that will also include possibility of talks with the militants. […]
Chief security advisor to the President, Bilal Shaikh, was killed in a bomb blast in Karachi Wednesday evening, police said. Police said the bomber hit car of Bilal Shaikh which also killed his driver and owner of a road stall owner near Gurumandar area. Seven people, including security officials, were injured in […]
Dilawar Syed, the prominent CEO of the American social media company Yonja Media Group, coached aspiring young Pakistani entrepreneurs today at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. The workshop, held at the COMSATS Technology Incubation Center, taught Pakistan’s young entrepreneurs the skills they need to start a successful business, including how […]
After MQM’s refusal, the PPP Wednesday inducted its own nine new ministers in Sindh cabinet. They include Syed Owais Muzaffar‚ Rubina Saadat Qaimkhani‚ Jam Mahtab‚ Jam Khan Shoro‚ Ali Mardan Shah‚ Javed Nagori‚ Dost Ali Rahmun‚ Gyan Chand and Mukesh Kumar Chaula. Governor Sindh Dr. Ishratul Ebad administered oath to the new ministers at a […]
