BAHAWALNAGAR – The Counter-Terrorism Department claimed to have arrested 4 terror suspects here on Wednesday. Earlier, the CTD had received a tip-off that four terrorists were planning terror attack in Bahawalnagar. The CTD raided and arrested four suspects from Arifwala Bypass. The suspects were identified as Ramzan, Bahadur, Yahoo and Khalifah. They belong to banned outfits Sipah-e-Sihabah and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. It also recovered 3-kg explosive material, hand grenade, prima cords and detonators from their possession. The…
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CHARSADDA: Five suspected persons were arrested and a huge cache of arms was recovered from their possession during a search and strike operation in Shabqadar tehsil here on Wednesday. The police, FC and army personnel conducted joint search and strike operation in Saro Kallay area. They also seized 23 SMGs, 30 rifles, 22 pistols, a Kalashnikov, 66 magazines and 2,260 cartridges from the possession of the suspects who were shifted to an undisclosed location for…
ISLAMABAD: Military Operations Directorate of Pakistan Army informed the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) that it could not make available a large number of army personnel to hold a census. PBC, during a meeting pertaining to holding a census, apprised the directorate that the total requirements come to 288,000 people, including a security and command structure for man to man deployment of armed forces personnel with the civilian enumerators. “Such a large number of Army…
ISLAMABAD: China Radio International (CRI) and Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) jointly launched transmission of its FM-98 channel to enhance its access with Pakistani listeners on Wednesday. The radio will provide news of Pakistan-China’s interest both in English and Urdu. Chinese Ambassador Sun Weidong in his message on the occasion hoped that Dosti Channel FM-98 would help further strengthening Pakistan-China all-weather brotherly relations. He lauded the contribution of CRI and Radio Pakistan in developing interaction with…
Courts in north China’s Tianjin Municipality on Wednesday sentenced 49 people to prison, including 24 company managers and staff members as well as 25 government officials found guilty of various crimes that led to the city’s warehouse blasts, which killed at least 165 people in August 2015. The suspects were tried by the Second Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin and nine other grass-roots courts from Nov. 7 to Nov. 9. As the rulings were made…
A former deputy environment minister in China has been sentenced to four years behind bars for taking 2.4 million yuan (HK$2.7 million) in bribes. Zhang Lijun, who served as deputy minister for environmental protection from 2008 to 2013, was handed his jail term at a public sentencing by the Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court on Wednesday, according to the court’s official microblog. He also received a fine of 500,000 yuan. The court said Zhang had…
From just two, now up to 15 Hong Kong lawmakers could be at risk of losing their seats after two Beijing spokesmen catalogued eight types of “insincere oath-taking” and delivered a stinging rebuke against the city’s legal officials. The warning came two days after China’s top legislative body intervened in the city’s legislative oath row in a move hailed by pro-establishment politicians but criticised by the legal profession as a challenge to the city’s judicial…
Hours before Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the US presidential election on Wednesday, Beijing announced guidelines for arguably the most important election in China in five years. Details were given of the poll among Communist Party members to act as delegates at the 19th Party Congress in Beijing in 2017. It will vote on who will serve in the party’s top leadership over the following five years. Unlike the American elections, with universal suffrage and…
The writer is a researcher. PAKISTAN’S transition from water-rich to water-stressed didn’t come without fair warning. At the turn of the ’90s, experts predicted that freshwater resources in the country would dwindle substantially and become scarce by 2005. The predicted ‘waterfall’ was confirmed by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), which further added that acute water shortage would follow by 2025 if the current situation was allowed to prevail. While our country…
Some US Congressmen of the past and present have asked their president including potential President Hillary Clinton to ditch Pakistan while suggesting to embrace India more firmly. Since strategic relations and interests of India with the US and EU countries converge because India continues to overwhelmingly share their sorts of threat perceptions specifically Pakistan’s relations with China, nuclear position and issues of terrorism, therefore, hawks in the US and its allies have logically engaged India…
The writer is a freelance columnist The growing relationship between the United States and India revolves around collective security interests, and is noticed in diplomatic circles, especially by the US Congressmen and Foreign Affairs Committee members, chaired by Republican Ed Royce of California. The US recognises its relationship with India on special terms in which New Delhi has an important role to play in Asia. The primary objective of this relationship is to build India…