Five women have been killed in war-torn Yemen after a projectile exploded at a wedding held on New Year’s Day in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah; officials told the local news agency. The government and Houthi rebel forces blamed each other for the Friday night bombing of the hall near Hodeidah’s airport; a […]
A police constable shot dead a man while trying to flee after killing a woman; also a murder suspect, who took to the orthopedic ward of the KDA; Teaching Hospital here in police custody. SHO KDA police station Saifullah Khan told that Shamoon, a proclaimed offender wanted in a murder case; said he came from […]
An Ethiopian refugee who became a symbol of integration in Italy, her adopted home, has been killed on her farm where she raised goats for her cheese business, police said on Wednesday. According to a local news agency, that man was initially questioned by Italian carabinieri over Gudeta’s death but was found to have no […]
Police arrested 14 people in overnight raids after a Hindu shrine was set on fire and severely damaged by a mob led by supporters of a cleric in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district, officials said on Thursday. The temple’s destruction on Wednesday drew condemnation from human rights activists and the minority Hindu community. Local police said […]
Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri has said that there are no institutionalized forced conversions of minorities66 in Pakistan. He said that probes into the allegations of forced conversions revealed that most of them were “fictitious, politically motivated or based on the mala fide intention of our detractors to malign Pakistan in the international […]
Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested four members of a gang believed to involve in robbing houses in Karachi’s Clifton and Defence Housing Authority (DHA) neighborhoods. The Karachi South police said that the gang involved in robbing houses in the city over the weekend. The suspects identified as Nasir Shah alias Haji, Asif Khan, […]
The Foreign Office (FO) said the Indian government had escalated its anti-Pakistan campaign — marked by false narratives, concocted evidence, and orchestration of false flag operations — after Islamabad made public a dossier containing “irrefutable proof” of Indian sponsorship of terrorism in the country. The statement was issued in response to media queries regarding the […]
At least eight people were killed on Saturday when a barrage of rockets struck densely populated parts of Kabul, marking the latest big attack in a wave of violence sweeping the Afghan capital. The salvo slammed into various parts of central and north Kabul — including in and around the heavily fortified Green Zone that […]
The man convicted and sentenced to death for the 2017 lynching of university student Mashal Khan will not spend his life in prison, the Peshawar High Court said on Thursday. The convict had filed an appeal with the court asking it to reduce the death sentence. The court also declared the release of 25 accused […]
Former US President Barack Obama recently released his memoirs in which he said that Pakistan’s then-president Asif Ali Zardari congratulated him when he announced Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a raid in Abbottabad. According to a report, Obama’s book titled “A Promised Land,” was released on Tuesday in which he presented a detailed […]
