Two alleged terrorists were arrested during a raid in Nazimabad on Tuesday. Police claimed that the suspects were involved in murders, recce, terror plotting and sheltering militants. District Central’s police spokesperson said Azharuddin (aliases Mama and Mazhar), son of Rahimuddin, and Gabol (aliases Jamshed and Ada), son of Allah Rakha, were arrested with two hand grenades, a Kalashnikov and a pistol. He said that during the initial interrogation, the suspects admitted their involvement in various…
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A tribal elder was killed in a remote-controlled bomb blast in the Barang tehsil of Bajaur tribal district on Monday evening. In another terrorist attack, motorcyclists hurled two hand grenades at a police checkpost in Muslim Bazaar area of Dera Ismail Khan city on Tuesday and fled. No one was injured in the attack. The Bajaur bomb blast occurred in the hilly Asil Targaoo area, around 40km southeast of Khar, the main town of the…
Security forces on Tuesday killed a key suspect over the murder of four women vocational trainers in North Waziristan tribal district with the police warning the people against unnecessary movement and participation in public meetings and programmes amid reports about the growing activities of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its allied groups in the area. In a statement issued here, the Pakistan Army’s media wing, ISPR, said Hassan alias Sajna, a commander of the…
The relatives of scores of ‘missing persons’ on Tuesday expressed concerns over the prolonged disappearance of their family members and demanded of the government to present them in courts for fair trial. Addressing a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club, a group of people, including women and children, belonging to Swat alleged that their relatives were picked from homes and workplaces during 2009-10 but they were yet to be presented before any court. Sharing…
The French foreign ministry has summoned Pakistan’s envoy to protest remarks by President Dr Arif Alvi that a French bill cracking down on radical Islam stigmatises Muslims. The ministry said late Monday it had called in Pakistan’s charge d’affaires to mark “our surprise and our disapproval [over Dr Alvi’s remarks], given that the bill contains no discriminatory element.” Pakistan with the second-largest number of Muslims in the world after Indonesia does not have an ambassador…
The contacts among the allied parties of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) expedited to finalise the strategy for the success of the PDM candidates in the upcoming Senate elections. Former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and PDM President Maulana Fazlur Rehman held the meeting and vowed to continue the joint efforts for the success of the joint candidates of the PDM in the upcoming Senate elections. Raja Pervez Ashraf, who is also a Vice President…
As a close fight is expected between Pakistan Democratic Movement’s candidate Yousuf Raza Gilani and incumbent Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh on an Islamabad Senate seat, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Sunday formally approached its coalition partner Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan to seek its seven votes in the National Assembly. Rumours are doing round that former president Asif Ali Zardari has assigned to a key aide the task of contacting the MQM-P for the party’s votes…
A three-member ministerial committee formed to investigate the 2018 Senate election video leak has so far not made any breakthrough even though the prime minister reportedly saw the clip two years ago. The committee is scheduled to hold its second meeting on Wednesday. Its first meeting took place on Feb 12. The prime minister had formed the committee comprising federal Minster for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry, federal Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari…
The Jeay Sindh Mahaz-Riaz (JSM-R) on Sunday held a demonstration outside the Sindh Assembly against alleged settlement of ‘outsiders’ in Sindh, unemployment and other issues. JSM-R chairman Riaz Ali Chandio submitted a memorandum to the staff of assembly’s secretariat. It urged the speaker and legislators to adopt a legislation that could stop any move to settle outsiders on Sindh’s islands. “There must be availability of jobs for millions of jobless Sindhi people,” it added. The…
The upcoming Senate elections have triggered political developments as political parties have accelerated efforts to reconcile with their dissident lawmakers and initiate steps to appease the long-ignored assembly members. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the looming Senate polls hastened the patch-up between Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and his former cabinet member Mohammad Atif Khan. Both had become inflexible in their attitude and intolerable to each other. The reconciliation took place when Prime Minister Imran Khan invited both…
Poets, writers, academicians, research scholars, political workers and social activists held seminars, declamation contents, rallies, walks and book fairs across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday to mark International Mother Language Day. Speakers at one of such functions said that linguistic and cultural diversity would lead to national integration and ethnic cohesion because saving a dying language was tantamount to saving a generation and its death meant extinction of a culture. They said that mother tongue was…