Category archives for: Pakistan

Flood Toll Hits 92 As Rescuers Find 23 In Kohistan Landslide

With the landslide in the northern mountains due to heavy rain, came the death of 92 people, as rescuer, on Wednesday, discovered 23 people buried in the landslide. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa witnessed the most death and destruction from the heavy floods and landslides, with 65 people killed and 929 homes either damaged or totally destroyed, according […]

FC Spokesman: Suspected Afghan Spy arrested in Balochistan

On Wednesday morning, an agent from the Afghanistan’s leading spy organization, National Directorate of Security (NDS) was arrested fromChaman district in Balochistan. The agent was picked up during a raid conducted by the Frontier Corps in a compound in a commercial and suburban area, Boghra, an FC spokesman disclosed. He also related to us that […]

Rs8.2m Stolen As Armed Robbers Raid Bank For The Fifth Time This Year

On Tuesday, five armed men invaded a private Bank branch in Korangi and swooped over Rs8.2m. Officials say this is the fifth bank robbery this year. Reports say that five armed men pulled up in motorbikes and within seven to eight minutes, ,managed to storm into a Meezan bank branch by disarming the security guy […]

Nine AH-1Z Viper Attack Helicopters Ordered For Pakistan

The US Department of Defense in a statement, on Monday, granted $170 million for the manufacture of nine AH-1Z Viper Attack Helicopters to Bell Helicopter. The statement added that the helicopters will be manufactured and handed over to Pakistan under the Foreign Military Sales Program. The Bell AH-1Z Viper, which is an upgrade on the […]

Pakistani Chief Justice: Secret Balloting, Not Islamic

Pakistan’s top judge who argued that the concept of secret balloting during elections is unheard of in Islam. “This concept has been borrowed from the West. [In case of secret balloting] we assure every contestant that we will vote for them,” Chief Justice Anwar ZaheerJamali. Justice Jamali heard a Sindh government appeal against the Sindh […]

Six suspected militants killed in Lahore during police encounter

A deadly police encounter with suspected militants in the Sherakot area of Lahore, resulted in the death of six of them. According to the details provided so far, these militants belonged to a group which is an offshoot of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and reports of their whereabouts were received by the police. A […]

Opposition parties react to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s address

Hours after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s address to the nation, the opposition parties started reacting to what he said. The PM came in front of the nation to clear his family name from the Panama Papers’ allegations that his children have offshore holdings that the public does not know about. Politicians from the opposition parties […]

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses the nation to dispel ‘PanamaLeaks’ allegations

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addressed the nation on Tuesday evening to dispel the allegations of wrongdoings against his family, highlighted in the Panama Papers’ leak. Nawaz Sharif seemed quite displeased during the address with these allegations and even gave the go-ahead for a high-level judicial commission to probe the matter further. He said that the […]

Khorasani group likely behind Lahore blast

Investigations are going on in the case of Gulshan-i-Iqbal blast in Lahore which took place on 27th March, 2016, and the initial reports have suggested that the Khorasani group may be the force behind this blast. The first analysis report of the blast was presented by the Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA) and it suggests […]

New US legislation to acknowledge India as a “partner with equal status”

A senior Pentagon official disclosed on Monday that the Obama Administration was working with Congress to pass a law that would acknowledge India as “a major partner of equal status”. The source, head of the India Rapid Reaction Cell (IRRC) in the Pentagon, Duncan M. Lang, spoke to the Hindu newspaper in Washington, saying that […]

Petrol Sales Last Month Highest Ever Recorded In Pakistan

Petrol consumption in Pakistan hit a record high of 550,000 tonnes in the single month of March due to several factors, including low prices, continuous sale of new motorcycles and cars and steady economic growth, according to industry officials. The recent one-month record was in October last year with 511,000 tonnes recorded. Marketing companies seem […]

Muslim Family evicted from United Airlines flight

A Muslim family flying from Chicago to Washington D.C., was evicted from their United Airlines flight and now the family is seeking a formal apology from the carrier. According to the details provided, the parents and their three children were on their way for a short vacation during the spring break but they were discriminated […]

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