RAWALPINDI: A Special Guard of Honour ceremony was held at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi on Wednesday to honour Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir following his promotion to the highest military rank. The ceremony was held at Yadgar-e-Shuhada within GHQ, where Field Marshal Asim Munir laid a floral wreath and offered Fateha in tribute to the martyrs who sacrificed …
BEIJING: Pakistan, China and Afghanistan have agreed to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) into Afghan territory, marking a significant step in trilateral cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative. The agreement came during an informal trilateral meeting held in Beijing on Wednesday between Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Afghanistan’s …
ISLAMABAD: A bus carrying students was targeted in a blast in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district on Wednesday morning, leaving three children among five dead, while several others were injured, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). “In yet another cowardly and ghastly attack planned and orchestrated by terrorist state of India and executed by its proxies in Balochistan, innocent school-going children’s …
ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday cautioned that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan will have devastating consequences for the entire region and beyond. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has decided to send a high-level diplomatic delegation to important world capitals to expose Indian propaganda“ in the aftermath of the recent military escalation with India.ISLA …
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani met the president of Italian Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana, and agreed to further strengthen ties between the two countries. Both leaders reaffirmed commitment to promoting parliamentary cooperation and exchanges as means of people-to-people contacts. The two sides also discussed developments in Afghanistan. Mr Gilani observed that Afghanistan is Pakistan’s brotherly nation and …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court’s Constitutional Bench (CB), hearing a set of review petitions against the July 12, 2024 majority judgement on reserved seats, deliberated on Tuesday primarily on whether the two judges who had dismissed these petitions on the first day of the hearing should continue to sit on the bench. Senior counsel Faisal Siddiqi argued before the 11-judge bench …
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the promotion of Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir to field marshal for his leadership in Operation Bunyanum Marsoos and the period of conflict against India known as Marka-i-Haq. The rank of field marshal is the highest rank of armies built on the pattern of the British Army. It has only …
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday rejected the claim made by India that Pakistan had attempted to attack the Golden Temple in Amritsar — one of the holiest sites in Sikhism — during the recent tensions with the neighbouring country. New Delhi had accused Islamabad, without evidence, of orchestrating last month’s deadly attack in occupied Kashmir’s Pahalgam. Pakistan had …
PESHAWAR: As a sit-in against the deaths of four children in suspected quadcopter munitions drop continued for a second day in the Mir Ali tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, police said talks with local elders on the matter were underway. The suspected strike took place in Mir Ali’s Hurmuz village during the daytime, leaving four children of the …
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Syed Shibli Faraz on Monday flayed the government for excluding opposition from a delegation led by the PPP chairman supposed to visit key capitals of the world to expose Indian propaganda against Pakistan Raising the issue on a point of public importance, Mr Faraz said that after the unprovoked Indian aggression, the …