State-owned news agency, APP, quoting security sources, said that the drone infiltration attempt was made in the morning but was shot down by Pakistan Rangers. The Pakistan Armed Forces is effectively responding to every act of enemy aggression. The Pakistan armed forces shot down five Indian Air Force (IAF) jets, a combat drone, and destroyed […]
News of the planned Geneva meeting, first announced by Washington late Tuesday, sent U.S. equity index futures higher. Stock markets in China and Hong Kong followed suit during Asian trading on Wednesday. The talks come after weeks of escalating tensions that have seen duties on goods imports between the world’s two largest economies soar well […]
Trump said that 24 hostages were alive when he received a recent visit by former Israeli hostages, but “as of today, it’s 21, three have died.” “Twenty-one, plus a lot of dead bodies,” the president said at a White House swearing-in ceremony for his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. He did not provide any further […]
Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and has a population of around 280 million across its sprawling archipelago, with a growing demand for data centres and AI tech in the region. Gates visited President Prabowo Subianto and Indonesian philanthropists in the capital, Jakarta, where he spoke about his optimism that AI-driven innovation will help tackle […]
The two-seat F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, worth around $67 million, went overboard after an unsuccessful attempt to slow it down as it landed, CNN, the Wall Street Journal and others reported. A defense official told the US Naval Institute that the hook of the aircraft failed to catch the arresting wire on the aircraft […]
According to an official statement, the meeting is attended by federal ministers, the chiefs of Pakistan’s armed forces, and the National Security Adviser. The session focuses on formulating a strategic response to India’s attack on Pakistani territory. The committee is being briefed on the current Pak-India situation, including the Pakistan Army’s resolute counteractions and potential […]
“I am monitoring the situation between India and Pakistan closely,” Rubio wrote on his official X timeline. He echoed the sentiments of the US President Donald Trump, who earlier had expressed the hope that the situation would end quickly. “I echo the US President’s comments earlier today (Tuesday) that this hopefully ends quickly and will […]
Multiple EU diplomats and officials told AFP the signs are positive that a security agreement will be inked when British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets EU chiefs in London on May 19. The “security and defence partnership” is billed as an important first step in Starmer’s much-vaunted push to reset ties after the years of […]
Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif confirmed the martyrdom of 26 Pakistanis and injuries to 46 others in Indian strikes across six different locations in Pakistan. China, which shares land borders with both countries and is a close ally of Pakistan, said it expressed “regret over India’s military action this […]
Gaza civil defence media officer Ahmad Radwan told AFP that a total of 31 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Israeli strikes “on a school sheltering displaced persons” in the Bureij refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military, meanwhile, said in a statement that its forces had struck […]
