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Pakistan attack: Grenade assault injures 11 in Risalpur

At least eleven persons including security officials were injured on Tuesday in a grenade blast that occurred in Risalpur.   According to media reports, unknown attackers riding a motorbike hurled hand grenade that caused the blast at main GT Road near PAF Engineering Centre gate no.3 that hurt eleven persons, including five security men and […]

Tattoos on terrorist form of identification: Mian Iftikhar

Provincial Information Minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mian Iftikhar has said that tattoos were a form of identification amongst terrorist organizations. He was referring to the Skull and Horn tattoo on the back of one of the terrorists killed during the attack.   Speaking to the media he said the terrorists were aiming to take over […]

Supreme Court takes suo motu notice of recent appointment by PM Ashraf

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has taken notice of appointment of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf’s son in law in World Bank.   A three member on Monday headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali will conduct hearing of the case on December 19.The suo motu was taken on Monday on the news that the said […]

Unknown militants kill four people in Quetta

Unidentified men on Monday gunned down four people including three policemen and a director public relation in two different incidents in the city.   Despite ban on pillion riding in Quetta city of Balochistan, the attackers managed to target another high-profile government official.   According to police and local sources, unknown assailants opened fire on […]

Prime Minister Ashraf stays committed to root out terrorism

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that Pakistan is determined in its fight against terrorism, adding that the fight against terrorism would be taken to its logical conclusion.   Addressing a gathering in Punjab, the recently-elected prime minister said that terrorists cannot break the will of the country.   PM Ashraf also announced that […]

PTI’s Imran Khan opposes reserved seats for Women

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has said that he was against reserved seats for women in assemblies, adding that legislators in assemblies were representatives of the people.   Addressing a seminar he observed, “How can some women be representative of women when they haven’t even contested elections? In some areas it is not possible for […]

Taliban encounter: Pakistani forces clear compound as 5 militants killed

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. […]

Taliban attack: Pakistani forces clear airport, airbase after 3-hour operation

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 […]

Militants attack: Three die as Peshawar airport came under attack

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 […]

Rocket attack at Peshawar airport claims five lives

At least three people were killed and more than two dozen injured after Bacha Khan International Airport came under attack here on Saturday   The airport was sealed after rockets and bullets rained on it form all sides as it was hard to nail the location of the attackers, however according to unofficial reports the […]

Court summons U.S. journalist in Benazir Bhutto murder case

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 […]

Rehman Malik denies comparing demolition of Babari mosque with terror attacks

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik has denied he had equated the demolition of the Babri Masjid with terror attacks, saying that he came in India with a message of love and peace.   While interviewing to an India TV channel, he made it clear that he had never compared terror attacks with the December 6, […]

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