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ISLAMABAD: At an event on Saturday, PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar said a new model for democracy is forming in Pakistan, under which the steering of the vehicle – the government – will be in the hands of a political personality, while the “clutch and accelerator” will be controlled from the backseat. He said this vehicle would definitely face a devastating ...

KARACHI: The Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen and Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Friday condemned the targeted killing of two young men, including a government official, near the Nad-i-Ali Imambargah roundabout in Jaffar-i-Tayyar Society late Thursday night. “It was a targeted attack, but it is yet to be ascertained if the killings were carried out on sectarian or political grounds,” said Karachi-East DIG Dr ...

ISLAMABAD: In a bid to ensure that the holy month of Ramazan and Eidul Fitr are observed on the same day across the country, the ministry of religious affairs has sought a meeting with Mufti Shahabuddin Popalzai of Peshawar’s Masjid Qasim Ali Khan on May 31. But the ministry, or any other federal and provincial department for that matter, will ...

PESHAWAR: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested the prime suspect in the murder case of transgender female Alisha, who breathed her last in Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital on Wednesday. SSP operations Abbas Majeed Marwat told media that the the prime suspect in the case, Fazal Gujjar, was arrested from Peshawar’s Qazi village. Alisha, a transgender activist working for Trans ...

KABUL: A suicide bomber belonging to the Haqqani terrorist network was shot dead by the Afghan intelligence operatives in capital Kabul. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the would-be suicide bomber was shot dead before he manage to reach to his target. NDS said the man was wearing a suicide bombing vest but there are no reports regarding the ...

The death of Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike on May 21 in a remote part of Balochistan has dramatically underlined the terrorist challenge that Pakistan still faces, and of which Pakistan is still living in denial of, as the official response to the latest drone attack has amply demonstrated. It has been almost an open secret ...

The British defense officials are mulling to send more troops to Afghanistan amid deteriorating security situation in the country. According to reports, UK may deploy more than 100 soldiers to Afghanistan besides extending the training mission of the available forces in the country by at least a year. The decision for the extension of the mission and deployment of the ...

KABUL: A dissident Taliban group on Thursday opposed the appointment of MullahHaibatullah Akhundzada as the movement’s new leader. Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhar Mansour was killed in a drone strike raid on his car in Dalbandin area of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province five days ago. Pakistan confirmed the death of Mansour on Thursday, after five days, and the Taliban confirmed ...

One of the least examined problems of our Islamic society is sex, or the lack of it.  As Qandeel puts it: “We keep our mouths shut; we’re good at pretense, all for the sake of social propriety”. Without open discussion or education, it is expected to take care of itself; it is ‘natural’, so why the need to speak about ...

KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged the Afghan government to halt further execution of the prisoners charged with the terror offences. In an online statement issued following the death of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, Karzai has said ‘brotherhood’ and ‘unity’ are the only way to achieve peace in the country. The statement by Karzai further ...