report in Daily Times, Dec 31, 2023The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) released on Saturday a comprehensive report detailing the remarkable achievements of the country’s security forces in countering terrorism during the year 2023. The report underscored the success of 18,736 intelligence-based operations conducted across the country, resulting in the elimination of 566 terrorists and the apprehension of 5,161 others. Afghanistan’s role in terrorism nexus revealed: The fabric and evidence of recent terrorist incidents have been…
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Report in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 25, 2023Almost six months after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s visit to India, the status of progress and follow-up to the agreements reached during the four-day official trip are dismal, said lawmakers and foreign policy experts. During a roundtable discussion on Friday organised by the Centre for Social Inclusion and Federalism (CESIF), Raj Kishor Yadav, the chairman of the parliamentary International Relations and Tourism Committee, said the visit was…
By Mushtaq Ghumman in Business Recorder, Nov 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Pakistan are likely to sign a framework on investment cooperation in the energy sector, specifically in the areas of solar, wind, hydro, and power transmission, sources in the SIFC told Business Recorder. The pact will be signed during the forthcoming visit of caretaker Prime Minister Anwar ul Haq Kakar. He was due to undertake visit to UAE on November 14,…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 14, 2023Pakistan’s Interim Interior Minister, Sarfraz Bugti, has refuted claims of mistreatment of Afghan migrants by Pakistani security forces. He assured that refugees with immigration cards will not face deportation from Pakistan, addressing the issue during a session in the Pakistani Senate on November 13. Bugti revealed that around 300,000 illegal Afghan migrants have voluntarily returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan, with only 8,000 deportations carried out…
report in The Express Tribune, Oct 13th, 2023.LAHORE: PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif has claimed that during the rule of his elder brother, Nawaz Sharif, the entire world was startled by the pace of progress in the country but that during the party’s recent rule it sacrificed its politics for state. “We prioritized the state over politics. If there is no state, there will be no politics. To achieve economic development, political stability is necessary,” Shehbaz…
By Abid Mahmood in Dawn, October 12th, 2023NAROWAL: In what believed to be a targeted attack on a Daska mosque during Fajr prayers on Wednesday, a prayer leader, a religious activist belonging to an outlawed outfit and his security guard were killed. Quoting Zulfikar Ali, another security guard of Maulana Shahid Latif, police said six unknown people reached the Noori-e-Madina Masjid in Mandike Guraya Chowk on motorbikes and three of them joined the prayers. He…
by Imran Adnan in The Express Tribune, Oct 10, 2023LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has vehemently decried what it termed the “unlawful, unconstitutional, and inhumane treatment” endured by former premier and PTI Chairman Imran Khan, who is now considered a “prisoner of conscience” during his incarceration. On Monday, the PTI core committee strongly criticised the ongoing actions of what it referred to as “kangaroo courts” handling “false and fabricated cases” against Imran Khan. The committee expressed…
By Isarulhaq in The News online, Sept 29, 2023HANGU: At least five people, including a police officer, lost their lives while several others were injured after a bomb went off inside a mosque during Friday’s sermon, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu, where people were gathered for weekly prayers. The city’s district police officer (DPO) Nisar Ahmed said that the blast took place within the limits of the Doaba police station. Over 30 people have been buried…
report in The News online, Sept 30, 2023A terrorist “ring leader” was gunned down during an intelligence based operation (IBO) led by the security forces in the general area of Katalang in District Mardan, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday. The military’s wing said that two separate encounters took place in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the night between September 28 and 28. “An intelligence based operation was conducted in general area Katalang, Mardan District,…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Sept 16, 2023QUETTA: Three terrorists were killed while a subedar embraced martyrdom and another soldier sustained injuries during an exchange of fire with armed militants near Quetta, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday. Officials said over two dozen armed militants hiding in the Zarghoon mountains area had attacked the check-post in Wali Tangi, where security personnel were deployed to protect a dam. According to the military’s media affairs…