HYDERABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Saturday evening reached Hyderabad city for a day-long trip to mobilise the public for a nationwide street movement. After arriving in the city, Afridi addressed PTI supporters and workers at Khurshid Chowk. CM Afridi arrived in Karachi yesterday on a four-day visit to garner momentum in the lead up to the planned …
LAHORE: A delegation of the Tehreek-i-Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP), led by Allama Raja Nasir Abbas and Mahmood Khan Achakzai, on Saturday evening reached Minar-i-Pakistan, where the leadership is expected to pass a formal resolution. However, local authorities closed all doors and blocked people from entering the Minar-i-Pakistan ground. The TTAP delegation is currently in Lahore to rally support for the opposition’s …
RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Navy conducted a “comprehensive exercise” in the north Arabian Sea, successfully firing a surface-to-air missile, the military’s media wing said on Saturday. In a statement, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said, “Pakistan Navy demonstrated its operational readiness and combat preparedness through a comprehensive exercise in the north Arabian Sea, showcasing both conventional and unmanned capabilities, as per dictates …
RAWALPINDI: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday that security forces killed eleven terrorists in two separate intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In a statement, the military’s media affairs wing said the operations were carried out on Jan 8 and that the terrorists belonged to Indian proxy Fitna al Khawarij. Fitna al Khawarij is a term the state uses …
ISLAMABAD: In a meeting with Pakistan‘s air chief, the commander of the Iraqi Air Force expressed a “keen interest” in JF-17 Thunder fighter jets and praised the Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) professionalism, the military’s media wing said on Saturday. According to a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), PAF Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu, who on …
RAWALPINDI: The 13th Pakistan-US bilateral joint military exercise — ‘Inspired Gambit 2026’ — has kicked off with a focus on counterterrorism, the military’s media wing said on Saturday. In a statement, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said that the two-week-long exercise — which began on Friday and is being held at the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in Pabbi — will …
LAHORE: Mahmood Khan Achakzai, head of Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Ain Pakistan (TTAP), strongly criticised state conduct, saying that while Pakistan was described as a “fortress of Islam,” Islam itself appeared to have been imprisoned within it. Addressing the Aiwan-e-Adl gathering in Lahore on Friday, he condemned violence against women and children and denounced the use of live ammunition against protesters at D-Chowk. He …
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has called for the launch of a high-level economic dialogue with the United States at the earliest and urged a shift in bilateral engagement from geopolitics to geoeconomics during a series of meetings between the country’s envoy Rizwan Saeed Sheikh and senior members of Congress. Meeting House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast and House Armed Services Committee …
ISLAMABAD: Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar on Thursday defended the 27th Constitutional Amendment as a historic step that fortifies Pakistan’s federal structure, countering criticism that it undermines judicial independence. Speaking at the book launching of Tea Talk, a compilation of columns by Advocate Talat Abbas Khan, here at the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), the law minister emphasised that the …
LAHORE: PTI leader Barrister Ali Zafar on Thursday said that no dialogue could be held with the government until it allowed meetings with incarcerated party founder Imran Khan. He made the remarks while speaking alongside a delegation of the opposition alliance Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) in Lahore, which is on a three-day visit to the city as part of the …