ISLAMABAD: The director general of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, on Monday announced that Ehsanullah Ehsan, former spokesperson of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and a senior leader of the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, had turned himself in to Pakistan’s security agencies. “The people, the state and the institutions of Pakistan have made considerable progress in the betterment of the country’s ...

KABUL: The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said Pakistan had demanded recognition of Durand Line as the formal international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan during his presidency. Speaking during in a Kabul, Karzai said Pakistan had also demanded a reduction in bilateral ties between Kabul and New Delhi. He said the demands were made by the then Pakistani President ...

 PESHAWAR: A First Information Report (FIR) was registered by police on Friday against members of a lynch mob that brutally assaulted two university students ─ killing one and injuring another ─ over alleged blasphemy in Mardan a day earlier. The FIR has been lodged in Sheikh Maltoon police station against 20 suspects, of whom eight have been arrested, Mardan District ...

A truck enters Indian territory at the Wagha border crossing in this file photo.—White Star KARACHI: Despite mounting tension along the border, the trade between Pakistan and India has remained intact since the beginning of the current fiscal year. A recent report by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) revealed that Pakistan grew its exports to India during the first ...

MARDAN: A student of Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan was killed and another injured by a vigilante mob for allegedly publishing blasphemous content online, local police said Thursday. At least 15 people were arrested in connection with the incident, which occurred within the university premises. The campus was shut down until further notice. The hostels were vacated and a ...

ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians of Awami National Party have launched a hunger strike outside the parliament house on Wednesday against alleged cornering of Pakhtoons. ANP has objected to government’s step to block Computerised National Identity Cards of Pakhtoons by branding it a move to corner the persons. Protesting representatives of the ANP have said that they are all for blocking fake ID ...

The Ulema Council of Afghanistan angrily reacted at the remarks of a prominent Pakistani religious cleric and politician Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman who had claimed that the peace in Afghanistan would not be achievable as long as the foreign forces have presence in the country. However, spokesman for the Afghanistan Ulema Council, Mohammad Qasim Halimi, told RFE/RL that the remarks of Maulana ...

According to reports, Khyber  Pukhtunkhuwa (KP) provincial government will export donkeys to China. Reports say that the KP government will export 0.2 million donkeys to China annually. A deal will be signed in this regard next week under program titled ‘Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa-China Sustainable Donkey Development Programme’. The step is being taken to attract Chinese investment in agricultural sector of KP under ...

ISLAMABAD: At least 15 kilogrammes of heroin were recovered from a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight on Tuesday at the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, the national flag carrier reported on Tuesday. “PIA’s security department, with the assistance of Anti-Narcotics Force, has recovered approximately 15 kg of heroin from an aircraft which was at the hangar in Karachi undergoing [a] ...

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics to include the Kalasha religion on the national census form prior to the second phase of the exercise starting April 25. A two-judge bench of the PHC announced the order while hearing a writ petition filed by members of the Kalash community. The government was represented ...