report in The News, Dec 26, 2023WANA: A tribal elder was killed in Azam Warsak area in Lower South Waziristan district here on Monday, police sources said. The sources said that the tribal elder identified as Akbar Jan was going home on a motorcycle when he was attacked with an improvised explosive device (IED) at the Azam Warsak area. He lost life on the spot. The slain Akbar Jan was the son of late Malik…
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by Kashif Abbasi in Dawn, Dec 12th, 2023ISLAMABAD: PPP leader Asif Zardari on Monday launched a scathing attack on Imran Khan, saying the former premier supports Afghans because he had allegedly got them included in the voter lists. The former president also hinted at the possibility of a “little delay” in the elections, but said his party had no problem with it. Afghan citizens were registered as voters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the past to…
By Asim Yasin in The News, December 09, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Combined Investigation Team (CIT) of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) probing Toshakhana case has summoned Bushra Bibi on Monday (December 11). The CIT NAB is investigating a case pertaining to misuse of authority and misappropriation in sale of gifted state assets etc against Imran khan and others. The NAB stated that Bushra Bibi was summoned multiple times to produce the state gifts but she failed to…
by Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Dec 5, 2023ISLAMABAD – The beleaguered Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday decided to speed up its political activities countrywide and special instructions were issued to the party’s Punjab chapter to start preparations for holding workers’ conventions across the province after such “successful” gatherings in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The PTI Core Committee in a meeting congratulated all the party’s officials including the newly elected Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan for…
Bureau Report in Dawn, November 28th, 2023PESHAWAR: The death toll from Sunday’s suicide attack on a security convoy in Bannu increased to two on Monday and the military identified the attacker as an Afghan national. Ten people were injured in the incident while the attacker was identified as an Afghan national affiliated with Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group, according to a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations. The attacker was riding a motorcycle laden with…
by Saleem Shahid | Amir Wasim in Dawn, Nov 21, 2023QUETTA/ISLAMABAD: As the Afghan transit trade through Chaman remained partially suspended by those holding a sit-in at the border crossing against new travel rules, the Senate also witnessed debate on the issue on Monday. Meanwhile, the Balochistan government issued a stern warning to those trying to create hurdles in the implementation of official policy about undocumented immigrants as well as terrorists. Caretaker Information Minister Jan…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 21, 2023LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif assigned two of his close aides on Monday to act swiftly to reconcile the differences among the party leadership in Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), before his visits to those provinces as part of his efforts to bring the ‘electables’ to the party fold. According to an Express News report, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo took notice of the differences among the…
By Mushtaq Paracha in The News, November 21, 2023NOWSHERA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Monday said the people would not accept the results if free and fair elections were not held. Addressing a convention of party workers here in the Pabbi town, he hoped the Election Commission of Pakistan and Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa would ensure free and fair elections. He said it should be ensured that the upcoming…
by Krishana Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 12, 2023China has decided to reopen the Korala border point for both trade and travel movements from Monday onwards after a hiatus of four years since it was closed. Nepal shares a 1,400-km long border with Tibet along the Himalayan range. China allows trade and transit through six border points—Tatopani-Khasa, Rasuwa-Kerung, Yari (Humla)-Purang, Olangchung Gola-Riwu, Kimathanka-Riwu and Nechung (Mustang)-Lizi—for bilateral trade with Nepal. Korala is the fourth…
report in Dawn, November 7th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The police on Monday claimed to have foiled terror bids by defusing explosives in Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts. Officials said that the Bannu police seized hand grenades, anti-tank mines and safety fuses from a mosque in Mamandkhel Wazir area. They added that unidentified miscreants had dumped the explosives with an intention to use them in subversive acts. “The bomb disposal squad experts defused the explosives, thus averting…