KARACHI: Famous Qawal Amjad Sabri, 45, has passed away after a target killing attack in Liaqutabad, Karachi, Waqt News reported. He was targeted in his car and was shot six times, Police Surgeon told media. He was 40 years old. According to initial reports he and his friend was the target of the gun-fire. His friend died on the spot while Amjad Sabri was rushed to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Additional police surgeon Dr Rohina Hasan…
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The writer is a freelance columnist. Social media is rife with a report that has somehow not been picked by our media. If the narrative is true then we appear to have missed not only an important news item, but a window to expose the enemies of Pakistan. According to reports, the Indian Defense Attaché in Kabul was recently recalled for raping an Afghan girl, who visited him for completing formalities connected to an education…
The writer is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Pakistan Army and is currently pursuing a PhD in civil-military relations from the University of Karachi This didn’t just happen suddenly. Improving and augmenting border-crossing arrangements, such as construction of a gate within one’s side of the border, is not something that should have provoked a violent response from the other side, but that is exactly what happened at the Torkham border recently. If Afghanistan has…
In the middle of heightened tension between Pakistan and Afghan governments because of the clashes at Torkham border, Advisor to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Sartaz Aziz, called for the repatriation of Afghan refugees. Aziz blamed the refugees for providing terrorists “safe havens” in their camps, and also stressed on the need to block the porous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. As the Pakistan government has maintained that terrorists from Afghanistan allegedly funded by India…
KANDAHAR – The Taliban have released more than two dozen hostages pulled from their vehicles on a highway in southern Afghanistan. The passengers were kidnapped in Washer district of volatile Helmand province as they were travelling on a bus and two trucks from southern Kandahar to western Herat province on Tuesday. “There were 25 people taken by Taliban, all of them are released and will be sent to their homes,” Aqa Noor Kentoz police chief…
KABUL: At least 29 anti-government armed militants were killed and 10 others were wounded in the latest counter-terrorism operations in war-torn Afghanistan. Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement said Wednesday that the operations were jointly conducted by the Afghan security forces. The statement further added that 21 suspects were arrested and a would-be suicide bomber was among those held by the Afghan forces. The majority of the militants were killed in northern Kunduz…
the writer, the Democratic senator from New Hampshire, is a member of the Armed Services Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. LIKE many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States’ withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed South Vietnamese desperately trying to scale the walls of our embassy in Saigon to board the last helicopter flights out of the country. The fear in their eyes was chilling.…
BERLIN: Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asim Bajwa in an interview with Deutsche Welle Urdu on Wednesday said the narrative that Pakistan has not done enough to fight terrorism was “unfair” as it did not recognise Pakistan’s contributions to the war against terror. “For the world to say Pakistan has not done enough in the war on terror is discrimination. It’s unfair and I take it as quite an injustice to Pakistan. Pakistan has done…
Recently, shop-owners in a small town in interior Sindh called Tando Adam were found to be selling sandals that depicted the symbol Om, considered sacred in the Hindu faith. One of the shop-owners was arrested; Section 295-A of the Pakistan Penal Code was implemented — a part of the blasphemy law of Pakistan. However, the arrested shop owner claimed that the sandals were manufactured at and supplied from Lahore. A thorough investigation must be carried…
BEIJING—When a Beijing regulator recently ruled against Apple Inc. in a patent dispute, it handed a victory to a Chinese company that barely exists. Phone calls to the company, Shenzhen Baili Marketing Services Co., ring unanswered. Its websites have been deleted. Visits to its three registered addresses found no company offices. Baili and its parent, Digione, are part of a rapid boom and bust in China’s new wave of smartphone makers. When Baili took on…
WASHINGTON: India and Iran will be included in the Afghan peace process at a later stage, a senior US official has said while recognising Pakistan’s role as well. In tweets sent after he spoke at a Washington think tank on Tuesday, Ambassador Richard Olson said: “Pakistan does remain committed to the process of reconciliation and talks in Afghanistan.” Mr Olson was the US ambassador in Islamabad before he was called back to Washington late last…