ABBOTTABAD: All 47 persons on board the ill-fated aircraft PK-661 including five of crew have been confirmed dead on Wednesday after it crashed near Havelian due to a technical snag. ATR-42 also known as PK-661 was enroute Islamabad from Chitral in the evening today when it lost communication with air traffic control and crashed some ten kilometers of Havelian. Authorities ...

Pop singer turned religious leader Junaid Jamshed and wife have been reportedly killed in PIA PK-661 plane crash . Close friends of Junaid Jamshed saying he along with his wife was also traveling on PIA plane crashed coming from Chitral to Islamabad — Hamid Mir حامد میر (@HamidMirPAK) December 7, 2016 Brother of Junaid Jamshed has confirmed the reports of Junaid ...

At least 12 people were killed and 75 others injured when a huge fire erupted at Karachi’s Regent Plaza hotel early Monday, police and a doctor said. The blaze broke out in the kitchen located at the ground floor of the four-star hotel located on the city’s Shahrah-i-Faisal, and swept through the building, trapping scores of hotel guests in their ...

From an Indian context, Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa’s assumption of the post of Pakistan Army chief ominously coincided with a brazen attack on an Indian Army camp at Nagrota in Jammu and Kashmir that left seven soldiers dead. There was even speculation the assault was a parting shot from the outgoing army chief, Gen Raheel Sharif, who had warned that ...

That visiting leaders and officials complain about inadequate arrangements or restrictions is not new, especially when it concerns India-Pakistan ties. The visit of Pakistani prime minister’s foreign affairs advisor Sartaj Aziz to Amritsar was no exception with Pakistani media complaining about a host of issues, including Aziz not being allowed to visit the Golden Temple and visiting mediapersons not being ...

KARACHI: Baloch social worker Abdul Wahid returned to his home in Karachi’s Lyari area on Monday after allegedly being taken into custody in July this year, family sources told Dawn. Missing since July 26, social activist and writer Abdul Wahid Baloch was taken away by two men in plain clothes while travelling on a bus en route to Karachi with ...

Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, who concluded his two-day visit to India Sunday, said India’ s efforts to divide Pakistan and Afghanistan on peace initiative “won’t go very far in the future”. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Sartaj said member countries unanimously adopted the “balanced declaration” at the end of the sixth Heart of Asia ministerial conference. “Member ...

At least 12 suspected terrorists were reportedly killed in air strikes in the Rajgal valley area of Khyber Agency on Sunday, Media reported. According to security sources several hideouts were also destroyed in the air strikes. Pakistan Air Force jets precisely targeted militant hideouts in Rajgal valley in which 12 militants were killed and several hideouts were destroyed, said security ...

DI KHAN: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has said that China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would create more job opportunities in different parts of the province including DI Khan. He was addressing a public rally here on Saturday. The chief minister also inaugurated Gomal Zam Dam commander area project on this occasion. He said that the government was trying ...

Continuing his tirade against the government, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said he will be contesting in the 2018 general elections and is confident that he will win. “I will become the next prime minister of Pakistan,” Bilawal said addressing party workers in Lahore on Saturday. Criticising Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Bilawal said the premier had failed to ...