The verdicts are the first to be issued since Bhutto, the first female prime minister of a Muslim country, was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack nearly a decade ago, sparking street violence and plunging Pakistan into months of political turmoil. ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court Thursday branded former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir ...

A resolution was signed and jointly issued by the Pakistani parliament, government, and military in response to the new US strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia. The resolution was passed amid growing frustrations among the Pakistani politicians following the hard stance adopted by President Donald Trump, mainly regarding the persistent support the terror groups receive in the country. The resolution ...

KABUL: Officials in Islamabad are concerned regarding the possible blocking of the transit route to Central Asia and Europe by the Afghan government, it has been reported. The concerns have been shared by the authorities in Islamabad amid deteriorating diplomatic ties between the two neighbors. Sources within the Pakistani government have said the step could be taken due to the ...

ISLAMABAD: Chief Census Commissioner Asif Bajwa on Tuesday turned down the objections raised by political parties over the recent census results, claiming that the verification of “every individual” was ensured. Briefing the Senate Committee on Privatisation and Statistics about the recent population census, Bajwa said that the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) had verified the national identity cards of 20 per cent ...

KABUL: Pakistan’s army chief of staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said Pakistan cannot bring the Afghan war into Pakistan, apparently gesturing towards Kabul and Washington’s demands to eliminate the safe havens of Taliban and Haqqani network based in the country. Gen. Bajwa made the remarks during a meeting with the Afghan army chief of staff General Sharif Yaftali. “COAS ...

KABUL: In an apparent gesture of frustration with the US strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia, the foreign minister of Pakistan has claimed that the Afghan security forces are selling the US supplied weapons. Khawajah Asif made the remarks during an interview with a private Television Channel in Pakistan. Asif further added that more than 90 percent of the attacks ...

A retired Pakistani senator and leader of Awami National Party (ANP), Afrasiab Khattak has called the existing policy of Pakistan regarding Afghanistan as ‘potentially suicidal policy’ as he insists that the new strategy of the United States for Afghanistan and Pakistan is a chance for Islamabad to get rid of the flawed policy. In his write up published in The ...

The announcement of the new US strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia sparked an online verbal clash between the foreign minister of Pakistan and the ex-Pakistani ambassador to the United States. The verbal clash between Khawajah Asif and Hussain Haqqani erupted after the former Pakistani president Asif Zardari was criticized regarding his remarks about the government in the aftermath of ...

The foreign minister of Pakistan Khawajah Asif is expected to visit China, Russia, and Turkey after the United States adopted a tough stance against Islamabad in its latest strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia. A spokesman for the Foreign Office of Pakistan Nafees Zakaria has said the decision regarding the visit has been taken during the meeting of the national ...

KABUL: A probe conducted by the authorities in Pakistan has confirmed the issuance of Pakistani passport and national identity card to the ex-Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, it has been reported. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal quoted by the local newspaper, The News, said “Nadra has conducted a departmental inquiry to unearth its officials’ involvement in issuance of a fake ...