PESHAWAR: At least six people, including four children, were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast on Peshawar’s Warsak Road on Tuesday morning, officials said. Warsak Superintendent of Police Arshad Khan confirmed the number of injuries. He said the wounded persons had been moved to Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital. Two children are in critical condition, LRH spokesperson Mohammad Asim …
GILGIT: Six people have been arrested in connection with an attack on a passenger bus in the Chilas area of Gilgit-Baltistan’s Diamer district, according to a local police official. At least nine people, including two soldiers, lost their lives, and 21 passengers received injuries when unknown attackers opened fire at the Rawalpindi-bound bus from nearby hills, causing the vehicle to …
LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested 14 suspected militants linked with banned outfits during operations in different areas of the province. According to the spokesman, the CTD Punjab conducted intelligence-based operations in different districts and took 147 suspected persons into custody for interrogation. The CTD arrested 14 alleged militants after interrogation and recovered weapons, …
PESHAWAR: The Counter-Terrorism Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday released a list of women terrorists, who had been involved in different subversive activities in the province since 2014. According to the list issued here, 30 women were involved in incidents of terrorism, 13 in kidnapping, two in extortion and three each in target killing, terror financing. CTD Director General Imran Shahid …
RAWALPINDI: Eight terrorists were killed by security forces during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s South Waziristan district, the military’s media affairs wing said on Sunday. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the IBO was conducted in the district’s Sararogha area based on the reported presence of terrorists. “During the conduct of the operation, …
ISLAMABAD: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to visit the US later this week as the interaction between China and the US is currently showing signs of a comprehensive recovery with increasing engagement to enhance understanding and improve the atmosphere. Chinese observers believe the visit will pave the way for a possible meeting between the head of the two …
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari Saturday said that the whole Pakistani nation stands in solidarity with the affected Chinese families and vowed that those behind the Karachi University attack will not be forgiven. The foreign minister was speaking at a condolence reference held at the Foreign Office for the Chinese nationals who were killed in a suicide attack last month …
BEIJING, China (Desk) – China on Wednesday expressed firm opposition to British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s remarks on Xinjiang at the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), saying those words are obviously driven by “ulterior motives.” Raab has called for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet or another independent expert to be given “urgent and …
BEIJING, January 4 (CGTN) – Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), Monday signed a mobilisation order for the training of the armed forces, the first of its kind in 2021. The order stressed strengthening military training in real combat conditions and the …
ISLAMABAD – Chinese Military Aviation Technology is at par with contemporary requirements and has full capacity to meet the challenges of modern warfare, said Air Chief Marshal Mujhahid Anwar Khan, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force He was expressing his views after flying an air superiority sortie in a Hi-Tech Chinese fighter aircraft during ongoing exercise Shaheen IX. …