Karachi: Governor of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province Imran Ismail, who is also a very close aide of Prime Minister Imran Khan, has tested positive for the deadly COVID-19. “I have just been tested COVID-19 positive,” Imran Ismail of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf said in a tweet late Monday night. He also said that he […]
Islamabad, Apr 11: Seven terrorists were killed in an operation carried out by the Pakistani security forces in the country’s northwest tribal district of North Waziristan, a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. The ISPR, Pakistan army’s media wing, said on late Friday night that two soldiers also lost their lives in the […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday formally launched the Rs144 billion Ehsaas Relief Programme and a sum of Rs5 0bn was given to banks for distribution of Rs12,000 four-month stipend among the families of poor and daily-wage earners who have been hit hard by the lockdown across the country due to coronavirus. On the […]
Islamabad: Pakistan has completed 90 per cent work on the Kartarpur Corridor from the zero line to Gurdwara Sahib and plans to inaugurate it on the 550 birth celebrations of Guru Nanak in November this year, according to a media report. The corridor will connect Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Kartarpur with Dera Baba Nanak shrine […]
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Friday hoped that Pakistan will help the US in Afghanistan as peace talks with the Taliban has apparently entered its last phase. Trump said he had developed a “good chemistry” with the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, whom he met at his Oval Office last week. “We’re doing very […]
Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday summoned India’s Deputy High Commissioner and condemned the alleged “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by Indian troops across the Line of Control which resulted in the death of a man. Director General (South Asia and SAARC) Mohammad Faisal, who is also the foreign ministry spokesman, summoned Gaurav Ahluwalia and “condemned the unprovoked ceasefire […]
17 people, including five crew members and 12 civilians, died after a Pakistan Army aviation aircraft on a routine training flight crashed into a residential area in Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad. “A small plane crashed into a residential area. So far we have retrieved 17 dead bodies, including 12 civilians and five crew members,” rescue […]
Karachi/Peshawar: At least 10 persons, including four children and a woman, were killed in separate incidents after incessant rain lashed parts of Pakistan, authorities said. In Sindh province, at least three persons were killed due to electrocution in different parts of Pakistan’s biggest city, Karachi, which also witnessed severe power outages, police said on Monday. […]
A 15-year-old Muslim boy was set on fire by four people in Chandauli district when the boy refused to chant “Jai Shri Ram”. The incident took place on Sunday night and the boy has been admitted in Kabir Chaura hospital in Varanasi. The condition of the boy with 60 per cent burns is said to […]
Ten personnel of the Pakistan armed forces, including an officer, were killed in two separate attacks in North Waziristan tribal district and Balochistan, the military’s media wing said on Saturday. In the first incident, six Pakistan Army soldiers were killed when terrorists from across the Afghan border opened fire on a border patrolling party near […]
