Islamabad has shown no sign if it is genuinely willing to end support for proxies like the Haqqani network. With the Trump administration considering how to break the stalemate between Taliban-allied groups and the government of Afghanistan, terrorists detonated a car bomb in Kabul on May 31, killing more than 150. Afghan intelligence blamed the violence on Haqqani, a terror ...

ISLAMABAD: Iranian border guards fired three mortar shells into Pakistani territory near the Panjgur border in Balochistan, a member of the local administration told local media. Levies sources said there has been no loss of life as a result of the attack, which was said to be unprovoked. The shells landed almost 1.5 kilometres inside Pakistani territory, Levies officials said. ...

ISLAMABAD: A senior Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) official has been arrested on the charge of sexually harassing an Afghan woman at the Islamabad airport. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, irked by the FIA assistant director’s misbehavior with the Afghan lady, immediately suspended him and ordered an an inquiry into the incident. A spokesperson of the Interior Ministry quoted Nisar ...

KABUL: A visiting US senate delegation on Tuesday said Pakistan had agreed to participating in joint military operations against militant groups on both sides of the Durand Line under the US watch. The delegation, members of the influential Senate Committee on Armed Services, arrived in Kabul on Tuesday from Pakistan where they held talks with senior civil and military officials. In Pakistan, the delegation ...

ISLAMABAD: Peace will elude Afghanistan and the region at large without the involvement of Pakistan, a leading American lawmaker has acknowledged. McCain, a former US presidential runner and head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said during a visit to Islamabad on Sunday. “We will not have peace in the region without Pakistan.” After meetings with Pakistan’s foreign policy advisor Sartaj Aziz, and ...

KABUL: Pakistan’s army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday said a greater Pak-Afghan border coordination and security cooperation was required to contain the brewing threat of Daesh or Islamic State. In the rare development, the army chief extended hand towards neighboring Afghanistan for “security cooperation” against Daesh while addressing tribesmen in Parachinar, the headquarters of Kurram tribal region. A media report quoted ...

QUETTA : Pakistan — The Committee to Protect Journalists has decried the arrest of a Pakistani reporter who apparently used social media to criticize security agencies for alleged reluctance to arrest a lawmaker whose vehicle struck and killed a police officer. The brother of the detained journalist, Zafar Achakzai, says he was picked up on Sunday evening by a group ...

PAKISTAN: Apart from the more than 150 killed immediately in the inferno, more than 100 people had suffered burn injuries in the incident. They had been shifted to the THQ Hospital in Ahmedpur Sharqia, Nishat Hospital in Multan, Victoria Hospital in Bahawalpur and Jinnah Hospital in Lahore. The latest deaths were reported by Jinnah Hospital Lahore, where four succumbed to ...

Raymond Davis — United States citizen and ex-Central Intelligence Agency employee who sparked a diplomatic storm in Pakistan in 2011 after shooting dead two young men in Lahore — has written a book about his experience. In his memoir, titled The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani Prison and Ignited a Diplomatic Crisis, Davis talks in detail about his experience in ...

PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday announced Rs1 million as compensation for each family of the victims of the recent Parachinar bombing attack, which claimed at least 72 lives. The prime minister also announced Rs0.5 million for each person injured in the blasts, according to a statement issued from the Prime Minister House. The premier has already issued directions to Governor ...