ISLAMABAD: Punjab is to benefit most from the projects starting under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), statistics shared with the Parliament revealed. At present, 53 per cent of the total projects are being assigned to Punjab. The provincial government has deployed 6,346 security personnel for the protection of 3,754 Chinese nationals. According to official statistics, out of the total of ...

PESHAWAR: At least 13 people were killed and 41 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the entrance of Mardan’s district and sessions court on Friday, police said. Photo DN The Jamaatul Ahrar (JA) claimed responsibility for the attack. The suicide blast comes just hours after gunmen attacked Peshawar’s Christian Colony, an attack also claimed by JA. ...

GILGIT: Army Chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday warned India’s premier and its spy agency that Pakistan knows its enemies and is fully aware of their nefarious designs. Making a special mention of Indian PM Narendra Modi and the country’s intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Gen Raheel assured the nation that the country’s frontiers are totally secure. The ...

QUETTA: Pakistan reopened its border with Afghanistan at Chaman on Thursday, 14 days after it was closed after an Afghan mob burnt a Pakistani flag and attacked the Friendship Gate. Islamabad agreed to reopen the border on Wednesday after Kabul strongly condemned the burning of the Pakistani flag. Officials from both sides held five meetings to discuss the issue until ...

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali on Wednesday took suo motu notice of the Aug 8 suicide bombing at Quetta Civil Hospital in which 73 people, most of them lawyers, were killed. The CJP took suo motu notice under Article 184 (3) of the Constitution on a note submitted by the Supreme Court registrar Arbab Muhammad ...

I was Afghan, I am Afghan and I will be Afghan, says Asfandyar Wali Khan PESHAWAR: A prominent Pashtun leader and Pakistani politician Asfandyar Wali Khan has proudly declared he is an Afghan as he warned against the harassment of Afghan refugees in the country. In his address during a rally in Swabi, Asfandyar Wali Khan criticized the Interior Ministry ...

WASHINGTON: Baloch separatist leader Brahamdagh Khan Bugti has said that he is not against political dialogue with the Pakistani government but those talks should focus on Baloch demands. Mr Bugti was among half a dozen speakers, including former ambassador Husain Haqqani, who attended an event held to mark the death anniversary of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti here at the National ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government seems to have adopted a contradictory policy for Afghan students as it does the opposite of what it preaches about their admission to schools and colleges in the province. The home and tribal affairs department through a letter issued on August 22 had informed the relevant departments that there was no restriction on the grant ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Friday that Pakistan was playing a key role in the economic development of the South Asian region and to attain the dream of possible regional integration. He was addressing the inaugural session of the eighth meeting of the finance ministers of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries here at a hotel. ...

WASHINGTON: The United States has again urged Afghanistan and Pakistan to jointly fight the scourge of terrorism, refusing to comment on the allegation that Islamabad was involved in this week’s terrorist attack at a university in Kabul. At least 13 were killed and 36 wounded when terrorists attacked the American University in Kabul on Wednesday. On Thursday, Afghan President Ashraf ...