In a heartbreaking occurrence that occurred in Nushki area of Balochistan, 11 people were shot dead by unidentified terrorists, nine of them were travelers from Punjab. Approximately one kilometer distant from Nushki, at the steep area of Sultan Chadhai, over a dozen militants stopped the Quetta-Nushki-Taftan N-40 National Highway on Friday night, according to Nushki […]
In Ankara’s first major move against Israel after six months of conflict, Turkey on Tuesday banned shipments to Israel of a wide variety of goods unless a truce is proclaimed in Gaza. Israel declared that it will impose its own restrictions on goods from Turkiye in retaliation for the sanctions, which include bans on the […]
Nobel Peace Prize winner and education campaigner Malala Yousafzai encouraged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to raise education spending to 4% of the national GDP on Tuesday, highlighting the need of giving girls’ education special attention. Malala noted in a letter to the prime minister that Pakistan was only allocating less than 2% of its GDP […]
The opposition claims that a Bollywood movie portraying young Indian women who are recruited by the Islamic State might “sow seeds of religious animosity” and has reignited controversy before of India’s elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is predicted to win the multi-phase national elections that start […]
The Federal Investigation Agency has been instructed by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to handle a complaint filed against four people, including a former army chief and a spymaster, for allegedly breaking their code of conduct and spreading false information “in accordance with law.” On Monday, IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq heard a petition submitted […]
In a joint statement published on Monday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ office of the Spokesperson, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reaffirmed its commitment to expedite the first phase of their $5 billion investment in Pakistan. According to the statement, Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister […]
In a plea filed with the Islamabad High Court (IHC), the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) requested a delay of the Senate elections for the chairman and deputy chairman positions on Monday. Five PTI senators have filed a challenge arguing that the existing electoral college is “unconstitutional” since it is incomplete because Senate elections were not conducted […]
Pakistan vehemently denounced Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s “provocative” comments in a broadcast interview on Saturday, calling them a “admission of guilt”. In an interview with CNN News18, Singh stated that India will cross into Pakistan and execute anyone who tries to cross the border and commits terrorism there. “If they run away to Pakistan, […]
Opponents of the new incentives, which include giving top exporters blue passports, contend that the government ought to put more emphasis on infrastructure development for the growing middle class and fostering the expansion of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). They told that rather than attending to the concerns of the long-ignored “Safaid Posh Tabka,” or […]
The Indian network of extrajudicial and extraterritorial executions, according to the Foreign Office (FO) on Friday, has evolved into a “global phenomenon” necessitating a concerted international response. The statement was released in response to The Guardian’s investigation, which was released on Thursday, which claimed that the Indian government had killed people in Pakistan as part […]
