Beijing: China on Tuesday said it would stand by Pakistan during its testing times and firmly support it to uphold its sovereignty and territorial integrity and also told the international community not to target it following the Pulwama suicide bombing. At the meeting of Foreign Ministers Wang Yi and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the two long-standing […]
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that his government would not let any armed groups function in the country amid intensifying crackdown on Islamist groups and their leaders. “Under the National Action Plan (NAP), we will not permit any armed group in Pakistan. No country does this. This was decided by all […]
Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday lodged an FIR against the pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) for bombing and destroying trees in Balakot area of the country’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the media reported. India on February 26 had bombed the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed’s (JeM) biggest training camp in Balakot in retaliation to the February 14 Kashmir […]
Lahore | Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) leader Hafiz Saeed has been barred from leading prayers at Lahore’s Jamia Masjid Qadsia as part of the Pakistan government’s crackdown on terror groups, the media reported on Friday. The development on Thursday night comes as Pakistani law enforcement agencies took 121 people into preventive detention […]
Islamabad: The Pakistan military has claimed that Maulana Masood Azhar’s Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) that claimed responsibility for the Kashmir suicide bombing which killed 40 CRPF personnel “doesn’t exist in the country”. Major General Asif Ghafoor, the Director General of the Army’s media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), made the remarks while talking to CNN on Tuesday. […]
Islamabad: At least two seminaries and assets belonging to Hafiz Saeed’s proscribed Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and its charity arm Falah-e-Insaniyat (FIF) have been taken over by the Pakistan government as it intensified its crackdown on Wednesday against Islamist groups in the wake of the Kashmir suicide bombing that killed 40 CRPF troopers. The operation, launched by […]
Islamabad | Pakistan Punjab’s Information Minister Fayyaz ul Hassan Chohan of the ruling PTI was sacked on Tuesday over his derogatory remarks against the Hindu community which drew intense criticism from members of his party and social media users. While Dawn News quoted Shahbaz Gill, the spokesperson for Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, as saying […]
Lahore: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s medical condition is “life-threatening” and he had four angina attacks last week, his daughter and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz said, here on Tuesday. Sharif is serving a seven-year jail-term in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case — for owning a steel factory abroad without disclosing […]
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, addressing calls by his countrymen on social media and in his government to award him a Nobel Peace Prize for “de-escalating” tensions with India, on Monday said that he is not worthy of the honour. “I am not worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize. The person worthy of this […]
Islamabad: Islamabad should begin its own probe into the activities of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a Pakistani newspaper said on Saturday, with two editorials faulting Pakistan for boycotting the OIC meet due to India’s presence. The Dawn termed as “incongruous” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s announcement of boycotting the OIC’s Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in […]
