ISLAMABAD: At least 12 people were killed and 36 were injured on Tuesday in a suicide blast outside the district and sessions court building in Islamabad’s G-11 area, according to officials. The incident occurred as international events were being hosted in the capital, including the Inter-Parliamentary Speakers’ Conference and the 6th Margalla Dialogue, while a cricket match between the Green …
PESHAWAR: A bomb attack in the Daraban tehsil of Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday injured at least 14 security personnel. The attack, said to be a remotely controlled improvised explosive device (IED), targeted a security forces convoy, said security sources. The explosion heavily damaged a security forces vehicle. The injured were shifted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) D.I Khan. …
ISLAMABAD: At least 350 people were evacuated on Tuesday from Cadet College Wana in South Waziristan during an ongoing clearance operation by security forces against terrorists hiding inside the educational institute, said security sources. Sources said that all cadets were safe, however, around 300 people are still present inside the compound. The clearance operation led by the inspector general of …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that Kabul must understand that lasting peace could only be achieved by reining in terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil. “Afghanistan must understand that lasting peace can only be realised by reining in Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and other terrorist groups operating from Afghan territory,” Shehbaz said while addressing the Inter-Parliamentary Speakers’ Conference in …
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court (SC) Justice Athar Minallah has written an emphatic letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi, calling for the convening of a conference to consider threats to the judiciary while also lamenting the use of the apex court as an instrument to suppress the people’s will by “unelected elite”, it emerged on Tuesday. The development comes …
ISLAMABAD: Advocate General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Shah Faisal Utmankhel on Monday filed a contempt of court petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) over the non-compliance of a judicial order that directed authorities to allow KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi to meet the incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan at Adiala jail. The petition, filed by Advocate General Shah Faisal on …
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly deliberated on the contentious 27th Constitutional Amendment bill on Tuesday — a day after the government succeeded in manoeuvring it through the Senate — with PTI’s Barrister Gohar Ali Khan accusing the government of attempting to “create another elite class”. He made these remarks particularly in reference to a proposal under the 27th Amendment to grant …
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad has warned that the acquisition of abandoned weapons by terrorist groups based in Afghanistan not only threatens peace and security in Pakistan but also in the region. Ambassador Asim Iftikhar, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations, made the remarks while addressing the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) open debate on small arms late on Monday, according to …
ISLAMABAD: The National Security Committee (NSC) did not overrule the then army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa’s response plan during the 2019 Balakot crisis, according to at least two participants of that meeting who spoke on Monday. “The then army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa’s response strategy was agreed upon and executed by the Pakistan Air Force,” said a federal minister …
ISLAMABAD: The fate of Pakistan’s top court hangs in the balance as the government pushes through the 27th Constitutional Amendment – a move that could redefine, or even rename, the Supreme Court itself. Tense deliberations are reportedly underway within the judiciary over whether to respond collectively to the existential threat to judicial independence. Under the proposed amendment, the Supreme Court …