Pashtun leader Mehmud Khan Achakzai says: PM Nawaz should sack officers of intelligence agencies if they fail to trace Quetta attack perpetrators. Intelligence agencies are busy in gathering information about the activities of politicians while terrorists are free to move anywhere. Our intelligence agencies failed to nab terrorists.   ISLAMABAD: Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai on ...

Video link: https://www.facebook.com/PukhtoonSocialMedia/videos/880113365455857/ At least 65 people were killed and scores of others were wounded in an explosion in Quetta city, the provincial capital of Balochistan province of Pakistan. According to the local media reports, the incident took place earlier today inside the Civil Hospital which came shortly after the killing of former president of Balochistan Bar Association Bilal Anwar Kasi. Kasi ...

PAKISTAN: At least 53 people were killed in a suicide bombing inside the Civil Hospital on Monday, hospital officials said. Many others were injured in the attack. There was no claim of responsibility for the blast, which occurred at the gates of the building housing the emergency ward. Bomb Disposal Squad officials confirmed the explosion was a suicide bombing. “The ...

ISLAMABAD: The military’s spokesperson on Saturday rebuffed the claims that Army Chief General Raheel Sharif’s son-in-law is among the seven crew members taken hostage by Taliban militants after a Punjab government’s Mi-17 crash-landed in Afghanistan’s Logar province. A section of local and regional press has been carrying news items, reportedly saying that a son-in-law of Gen Raheel is among the ...

NEW DELHI: The minister spoke a day after he returned after a two-day Pakistan visit during which he attended a meeting of interior ministers of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc). Indian home minister Rajnath Singh on Friday made it clear that he was not treated well in Pakistan, confirming that he skipped a lunch hosted by his ...

WASHINGTON: A day after deducting $300 million from military aid to Pakistan over action against the Afghan Haqqani network, the United States urged Islamabad on Friday to target all militant groups. At a news briefing at the State Department, deputy spokesperson Mark Toner also encouraged closer cooperation between Pakistan and India in the fight against terrorists. “We’ve been very clear ...

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh, a day after a terse war of words with Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar at the South Asian Association for Regional Coop­eration (Saarc) Interior Minis­ters’ meeting in Islamabad on Thursday, apprised the Indian parliament of his visit. “All of our prime ministers have done their best to improve relations with our neighbours, but this neighbour never ...

KABUL: The Pakistani authorities have confirmed a helicopter belonging to the Punjab government has crash-landed in Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Inter Services Public Relations, media wing of the Pakistani military, Gen. Asim Bajwa said the country’s Chief of Army Staff has asked the commander of the NATO-led Resolute Support mission to help in recovery of the crew. He said ...

ISLAMABAD: The interior ministers of both Pakistan and India made critical remarks apparently aimed at each other’s governments on the second day of a Saarc conference here on Thursday, as tensions between the two neighbouring countries run high in the aftermath of weeks-long violence in India-held Kashmir. In his address to the Saarc interior ministers’ conference, India’s home minister made ...

KABUL: A Pakistani helicopter has crash-landed in the central Logar province of Afghanistan earlier today, the provincial council officials said. A member of the provincial council Dr. Abdul Wali Wakil said the helicopter crash-landed in the restive Azra district and all 6 on board were captured by the militants. Provincial governor’s spokesman Salim Saleh has confirmed to RFE that the ...