By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, October 21, 2023PESHAWAR: A station house officer was critically wounded when two police stations were attacked in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank districts on the night between Friday and Saturday. Reports said rockets were fired on the police station in Kulachi DIK where no casualty was reported. Later, a police station was attacked in Tank district. Reports said the SHO of the PS Asghar Khan was critically wounded…
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by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, Oct 21, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Four militants were killed and one was apprehended in an intelligence-based operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district on Friday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. It said the security forces conducted the operation in the Semu Wanda area on the reported presence of militants. During the operation, an intense exchange of fire took place between the troops and the militants, in which four militants…
report in Dawn, October 21st, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A tribal elder was killed in what the police said a targeted attack carried out by unknown masked men in Mirali area of the North Waziristan tribal district on Friday morning. The police said that Malik Daud Khan was targeted by masked men at a private clinic. They added that the assailants managed to escape after the attack. The police also said that tortured body of an unidentified…
By Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, October 19th, 2023WASHINGTON: Pakistan and the United States extended on Wednesday their agreement for cooperation in science and technology for another five years. Pakistan’s US envoy Masood Khan and US State Department’s Director Office of Science and Technology Cooperation Jason Donovan witnessed the ceremony. Mr Muhammad Saad Ahmed, on behalf of government of Pakistan, and Ms Michelle Sheckells from the US State Department, exchanged the documents. The purpose of the…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, October 19th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The top Pakistani diplomat who sent a controversial cipher to the foreign ministry believes that the disclosure of a confidential diplomatic cable “undermined the integrity of our communication system” and eroded the credibility of Pakistani diplomats. This was a contention in the testimony of Dr Asad Majeed Khan, former ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, recorded before the investigation officer of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)…
Report in Pakistan Today, Oct 19, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday conducted a successful flight test of the Ababeel weapon system, said a statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) The latest test of the ballistic missile system was aimed at “re-validating various design, technical parameters, and performance evaluation of different sub-systems”. “The missile system is aimed at strengthening deterrence and enhancing strategic stability in the region through the operationalisation of full spectrum deterrence in the…
Reuters report, Oct 18, 2023WASHINGTON: A group of former top US officials and US resettlement organizations on Tuesday urged Pakistan to exempt from deportation to Afghanistan thousands of Afghan applicants for special US visas or refugee relocation to the United States. Pakistan has set a Nov 1. deadline for all illegal immigrants, including hundreds of thousands of Afghans, to leave the country or face forcible expulsion. Some 20,000 or more Afghans who fled the 2021…
report in Pakistan Today, Oct 18, 2023LAHORE: Chaudhry Asadur Rehman, a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader, on Tuesday drawn public criticism for promising ‘heavenly ticket’ to those welcoming former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at the party’s forthcoming political rally at Minar-e-Pakistan scheduled for October 21. In a widely circulated video on social media, PML-N leader while addressing a corner meeting in Kamalia, can be heard telling his supporters that on October 21, “angels would be…
report in The Express Tribune, Oct 18, 2023RAWALPINDI: The top military brass on Tuesday expressed deep concern about the adverse developments taking place in the Gaza-Israel conflict and the enormous human cost being imposed on innocent civilians due to the disproportionate use of force by Israel. The concern was expressed during the 260th Corps Commanders’ Conference held at the General Headquarters (GHQ) Rawalpindi, where Chief of Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir extended “diplomatic, moral…
By Khalid Iqbal in The News, Oct 19, 2023ISLAMABAD: Special Court Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain Wednesday granted permission to former prime minister Imran Khan to communicate with his sons from prison. The court has directed the superintendent of Adiala Jail to facilitate a telephonic conversation through WhatsApp between Imran Khan and his sons, Qasim and Suleiman. During the hearing, the special court judge heard the petition seeking directives for the jail officials to allow the…
Report in The News, October 19, 2023BARA: The office-bearers of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) on Wednesday expressed concern over the worsening law and order in Bara and asked the police to stop harassing the people. Speaking at a press conference, PMLN provincial vice-president Zahir Shah Afridi, alleged that a police party from the Pishtakhara Police Station led by a DSP arrested Mohammad Khan along with his friends in a raid on Ring Road Peshawar…