By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News, Oct 02, 2023ISLAMABAD: Sindh interim Home Minister Brigadier (retd) Haaris Nawaz Sunday said the Afghan Taliban and TTP were ideologically the same. Talking to a website, he said the US deliberately left its weapons and ammunition behind before quitting Afghanistan, which had been taken away by terrorist groups like the TTP, BLA, BLF and Daesh. Now these weapons were being used against Pakistan. He said terrorists from the…
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by Fazal Khaliq in Dawn, October 2nd, 2023SWAT: A group of Charbagh residents and some prayer leaders on Sunday intervened to halt a women cricket match at Charbagh Cricket Stadium. They said girls participating in cricket was immodest and considered inappropriate in the locality. Ayesha Ayaz, a 12-year-old budding athlete, had taken the initiative to arrange the match among girls hailing from Babuzai and Kabal tehsils. However, before the commencement of game, several prayer leaders…
By Ahmed Faraz in The News,October 01, 2023At least two terrorists were killed and a policeman was martyred after a group of militants attacked a patrolling post in the Kundal area of Punjab’s Mianwali district, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Usman Anwar said Sunday. The Punjab police chief said the gun battle between the law enforcers and the militants erupted after 10 to 12 terrorists attacked a police check post in the wee hours…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Sept 25th, 2023QUETTA: An official was targeted in a gun attack by armed motorcyclists while he was returning home from a Levies Force post in Qila Abdullah, a bordering district with Afghanistan, on Sunday evening. The shooters, equipped with automatic weapons, targeted Levies official Abdul Bari in Mazai Adha area of Qila Abdullah. The personnel deployed at the post immediate returned fire, forcing the motorcyclists to speed away, officials said…..…
report in Global Times, Sept 25, 2023Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda attended the Nepal-China Business Summit held on Sunday in Beijing, where he witnessed enhanced China-Nepal economic and trade relations as a number of companies from the two countries expressed confidence in bilateral cooperation. On the sidelines of the summit, business participants from the two countries told the Global Times that China and Nepal have many common interests and large scope for cooperation,…
by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Sept 25th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Interim Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar’s remarks on the possibility of fair elections without Imran Khan and his party members on Sunday once again raised the spectre of the infamous “minus-one formula” that has haunted the country’s political battleground for decades. In an interview with The Associated Press, the caretaker premier said that fair elections can take place without Imran or hundreds of members of…
report in adaderana.lk, Sept 21, 2023Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles has stated that no police personnel have been charged in connection with the Easter Sunday bombings of 2019 thus far. Speaking in Parliament today (20 Sep.), he stated that as per the reports submitted by the relevant Presidential Commission of Inquiry, no police personnel have been charged in this regard, and have only been under observation thus far. The Minister asserted this in response…
Report in Dawn, Sept 18th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A policeman embraced martyrdom when unknown assailants opened fire at him in Miramshah here on Sunday, officials said. They said constable Famran Jan was targeted when he was coming home after performing duty. They added the unknown assailants managed to flee. They also stated that he police reached the site and started investigating the incident. Meanwhile, funeral of the martyred cop was offered at the police lines. Senior…
by Kamran Yousuf in The Express Tribune, Sept 18, 2023ISLAMABAD : Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar wrote a letter to his Afghan counterpart, expressing his desire for cordial and cooperative relationship between the two neighbouring countries, Foreign Office sources on Sunday maintained. Contrary to the Afghan media reports, the FO sources told The Express Tribune that the interim premier wrote a letter in response to the felicitation message sent earlier by the Afghan prime…
by Kamran Yousuf in The Express Tribune, Sept 18, 2023ISLAMABAD : Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar wrote a letter to his Afghan counterpart, expressing his desire for cordial and cooperative relationship between the two neighbouring countries, Foreign Office sources on Sunday maintained. Contrary to the Afghan media reports, the FO sources told The Express Tribune that the interim premier wrote a letter in response to the felicitation message sent earlier by the Afghan prime…
by Mohammad Asghar in Dawn, Sept 18th, 2023RAWALPINDI: Former interior minister and Awami Muslim League (AML) chairman Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who is also an ally of PTI, was arrested from his residence in Bahria Town on Sunday and taken to an undisclosed location, his lawyer confirmed. When contacted, Sardar Abdul Razzak Khan, the lawyer for the former interior minister, told Dawn that Sheikh Rashid, his nephew Sheikh Shakir and a staff member Mohammad Imran were…