ISLAMABAD: Participants in a high-level meeting on Tuesday stressed the need for consensus and unified political commitment to combat terrorism with the “full force of the state”. The meeting was skipped by opposition alliance Tehreek Tahaffuz-i-Ayeen Pakistan (TTAP), citing the absence of incarcerated ex-premier Imran Khan. The in-camera meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security came amid recent heightened …
QUETTA: The Balochistan government will establish a counter-terrorism wing of the Balochistan Levies Force to enable the security force to face all challenges relating to acts of terrorism in different parts of the province. The Director General of Balochistan Levies Force, Abdul Ghaffar Magsi, on Monday announced the establishment of a Special Counter-Terrorism Wing within the Levies Force. “The initiative …
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Railways Muhammad Hanif Abbasi has said Jaffar Express will resume its operations from today, state-run Radio Pakistan reported on Tuesday. Last week, Pakistan Railways (PR) suspended its entire operations from Punjab and Sindh to Balochistan and vice versa, following the terrorist attack on the Jaffar Express. The Jaffer Express was attacked on Tuesday afternoon when Balochistan …
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) has merged all petitions related to the visitation rights and jail conditions of former prime minister Imran Khan, who is currently incarcerated in Adiala jail. The acting chief justice of Sardar Mohammad Sarfraz Dogar on Monday ordered the registrar office to club around 20 petitions, which will be heard by a larger bench. The order …
ISLAMABAD: The PTI on Monday decided to take part in tomorrow’s (Tuesday) in-camera meeting of a parliamentary panel on national security to discuss the issue of terror attacks in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa amid tight security arrangements. Over the last few months, both KP and Balochistan have witnessed a surge in terrorist attacks, mainly targeting the security forces, the police, …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has denounced and rubbished the “misleading and one-sided” remarks by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding regional peace, according to a statement from the Foreign Office (FO) on Monday. The FO’s response came in reaction to remarks by Modi in a podcast with American computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman released on Sunday, where he said that “every …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday said Pakistan’s IT workforce had the capability to compete in the global market as information technology companies were being provided with necessary facilities to achieve their exports target of $25 billion. His comments came during a meeting with a four-member delegation led by Jerome Kapelus, CEO of the US multinational IT company Afiniti …
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur on Sunday said his government would decide whether to follow the Centre’s directives to expel Afghans residing in the province after March 31. The federal government has asked Afghan Citizen Card holders to leave Pakistan voluntarily by March end, after which they’d be deported from the country. Mr Gandapur slammed the federal …
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday said it had sealed “numerous” commercial and residential properties of property tycoon Malik Riaz across the country over corruption cases filed against him. On Jan 21, the watchdog warned the public against investing in Bahria Town’s Dubai project and said it was seeking Riaz’s extradition. Later, NAB began extradition efforts for Riaz …
KARACHI: The Grand Democratic Alliance on Sunday asked Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to join the struggle against the construction of new canals on the Indus River from the platform of the opposition alliance if he genuinely opposed the controversial scheme. The GDA and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) announced a joint candidate for the upcoming by-election in National Assembly constituency …