Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Saturday said Iran is willing to mediate between Pakistan and India over the long standing issue of Kashmir, reported DawnNews. “The bond we have with India and Pakistan is important to us, we hope for the best for both countries,” said Zarif. “If Iran can be of any help to any of them, we ...

RAWALPINDI (Monitoring Desk): Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said on Friday that every ceasefire violation along the Line of Control (LoC) will be responded to with full force and in an effective manner. During a day-long visit to the 10 Corps Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Gen Bajwa said “Each violation of any kind must be responded to with full force in the most effective manner,” Inter-Services ...

A police officer remained unhurt in a roadside blast targeting his vehicle in Peshawar’s Chamkani area on Friday, police said. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Chamkani Abdul Salam was on a routine patrol when the remote-controlled bomb exploded near his vehicle on the Northern Bypass, Superintendent of Police (SP) rural Furqan Bilal said. However, the police official remained unhurt, Police ...

Pakistan’s Press Information Bureau on Wednesday released a readout of a phone call on Monday between Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, and the U.S. president-elect, Donald Trump. The readout is unusual in that it focuses almost entirely on Trump’s contributions to the conversation, and reproduces them in a voice that is unmistakably his. The readout is reproduced in full below: ...

Sindh is the historical land of the most gracious civilizations on this planet: The Indus Valley Civilization, where the ancient city of “Moenjo Daro” stands still. It’s the cradle of human civilization and culture, the first democratic city-state of the world, which pioneered trade, navigation and the first ever code of laws. Even Hammurabi’s codes and Moses’s ten commandments were ...

A police officer inspects security forces truck after an IED blast in Peshawar. ─AFP A police officer inspects security forces truck after an IED blast in Peshawar. ─AFP  At least three Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel were killed and seven others were injured on Tuesday when a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) blast occurred near their vehicle in Bashirabad area of ...

The White House has said Pakistan ‘can and must’ do more against the terrorist groups operating in its soil, it has been reported. Emphasizing that no state should allow its soil to be used by any terror group to launch attacks on other countries,  a senior White House official has said “Recognising the sacrifices of the people and the security ...

ISLAMABAD: A key government ally Pukhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai on Friday proposed reserve seats for transgenders in parliament. “The government must reserve seats for transgenders in parliament,” said Achakzai while speaking on point of order, condemning the Sialkot incident where around 10 people were arrested after a video of man thrashing a transgender went viral ...

KABUL: Pakistan prime minister’s advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz would participate in two international conferences on Afghanistan in coming months, an official said on Saturday. Addressing a daily press conference, Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakria, told reporter that Sartaj Aziz would attend the Heart of Asia conference in India and suggested the visit could be used to “defuse the ...

The targets may be different but the perpetrators of the two deadly attacks carried out in Balochistan in the space of one month are the same. The responsibility of the carnage at the shrine in Khuzdar as well as the slaughter of police cadets in Quetta have been claimed by the militant Islamic State group and its affiliates. In August ...