Category: Pakistan

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that the Indian government’s “fascist tactics” in occupied Kashmir “to smother the Kashmiri liberation struggle will fail miserably”. The premier, who has been tweeting regularly in support of Kashmiris after the Indian government stripped the people of occupied Kashmir of their autonomy, said: “The fascist, Hindu supremacist [Narendra] Modi government […]

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said that India was opposing the holding of a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Kashmir issue. Describing the UN Security Council meeting scheduled to be held on Friday (today) as a big success of Pakistan at the diplomatic front, he said the […]

KARACHI: A worker of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) was shot dead here on Thursday in a suspected targeted killing incident. The victim reportedly worked for a weekly newspaper based in the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas and a web channel. The SHO of Iqbal Market police station, Asadullah Mangi, said that when Khalil Rehman, 39, […]

The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf took out a rally in the capital on Thursday as the country observed August 15 as Black Day to protest Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir. Party leaders including Asad Umar and Senator Faisal Javed were part of the rally, where a majority of the participants wore black. “Pakistan armed forces will […]

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has prohibited the broadcast of advertisements produced in India or featuring Indian actors and characters, it emerged on Thursday. In a communiqué sent to all of its television and radio licensees, dated August 14, the authority recalled that it withdrew the permission for airing Indian channels and content […]

Three soldiers of the Pakistan Army were martyred in firing by Indian forces from across the Line of Control (LoC), Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said on Thursday. In a tweet from his official account, Ghafoor said that the Pakistan armed forces, in a counter-attack, had killed five Indian soldiers and injured several […]

RAWALPINDI: President Arif Alvi has allowed grant of military awards and commendation certificates to 578 officers and soldiers of Pakistan Army, Navy and Air Force. The PAF pilots who shot down two Indian fighter jets in the post-Pulwama aggression at the Line of Control in February were prominent among the recipients of the awards. In […]

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has condemned what it called unjust, brutal and callous decision of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to not allow Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari to meet her father Asif Ali Zardari who is in NAB custody. Speaking at a press conference, PPP secretary general Farhatullah Babar, along with Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, […]

QUETTA: Ejaz Sanjrani, the younger brother of Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani, has been appointed special assistant to the chief minister of Balochistan with immediate effect. Sadiq Sanjrani recently survived a move launched by the combined opposition to unseat him in the upper house of parliament. The appointment of Mr Ejaz was announced through an official […]

Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday expressed solidarity with people of Indian-occupied Kashmir, saying Pakistan will always stand by Kashmiris to counter India’s “hegemonic ambitions” the way it has in the past. “There can never be a compromise on Kashmir,” Gen Bajwa said in his Independence Day message to the nation, according to […]