PAKISTAN: The son of the former Pakistani Prime Minister who was released during a joint raid by the Afghan and US forces has said his kidnappers hailed from Punjab province of Pakistan. Ali Haidar Gilani was released earlier in the month fo May this year and was handed over to the Pakistani authorities following his release in Afghanistan. Addressing a ...

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh termed Pakistan a ‘terrorist state’ in an anti-Pakistan rant on Sunday, hours after suspected militants attacked in Indian army base in India-held Kashmir (IHK). “Pakistan is a terrorist state and should be identified and isolated as such,” Rajnath tweeted. Pakistan is a terrorist state and it should be identified and isolated as such. — Rajnath ...

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Friday expressed disappointment over the “unhelpful statements” made by the Afghan leadership and termed it “complete disregard to the efforts that Pakistan has made for peace and stability in Afghanistan”. Foreign Office’s statement was in response to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s earlier call to involve India in transit trade with Afghanistan. “We have noted with ...

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber targeted a mosque in Mohmand Agency’s Anbar tehsil during Friday prayers, leaving at least 24 people dead and 31 others injured, official of the political administration said. Assistant Political Agent Naveed Akbar told media that the injured had been transported to hospitals in Bajaur Agency, Charsadda and Peshawar for treatment. The bombing took place in the ...

In this photograph taken on June 28, 2016, a worker checks a line of beer cans at the Muree Brewery Company in Rawalpindi. ─ AFP RAWALPINDI: At Murree Brewery, home of Pakistan’s national lager, vintage copper boilers belch odorous fumes as they churn out 10 million litres of beer each year. Hundreds of tons of gin and whisky are stored ...

PESHAWAR – In what could go down as a first case of using military might on traffic wardens in Pakistan, a squad of army personnel led by a major tortured three Motorway policemen on Grand Trunk or GT Road. Sources told Daily Pakistan that one Sub-Inspector Atif Shehzad on Sunday morning signaled an over speeding car near Nihal Pura, after ...

WASHINGTON: United States lawmakers were warned at a congressional hearing that sanctioning Pakistan or declaring it a state sponsor of terrorism could backfire. A transcript released on Sunday shows a lively debate on the issue at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which held a hearing on US-Pakistan relations. In his opening statement, the committee’s chairman Senator Bob Corker expressed ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani authorities have said the trade route to India for the Afghan traders has not been closed, days after President Ghani warned Pakistan to close the route to Central Asia if Afghan traders are stopped to use Wagah border. “Pakistan is fulfilling its commitment to the Afghan people by providing them a trade transit facility,” Nafees Zakaria, spokesman ...

ANP leader Ameer Haider Hoti addresses a party convention in Buner on Thursday. BUNER: Provincial president of Awami National Party Ameer Haidar Hoti said on Thursday that terrorism had inflicted heavy losses on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the bloodshed of Pakhtuns was still continuing. He was addressing the party workers’ convention at Jewar, Salarzai, in PK-79 here. ANP provincial general secretary ...

MARDAN: A protest rally and condolence meeting was held at Mardan, the second largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, to condemn yesterday’s suicide blast near the main gate of District Mardan Law Chamber that took 13 lives including lawyers, policemen and a prominent political leader of Awami National Party, Arshad Ali Khan. The protest was organized by a youth-led civil ...