The blast took place near a bus stand in Peshawar.— Photo by author PESHAWAR: At least three people including a traffic policeman were injured in a roadside blast here on Friday, police said. According to police, the bomb which had been planted on a roadside near Charsadda bus terminal within the jurisdiction of the Faqirabad Police Station went off with ...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday said agreement of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is confidential and cannot be made public. “Agreement of the economic corridor with China is sensitive and it cannot be disclosed,” Iqbal said in the Senate session. However, the minister handed over a sealed copy of the CPEC agreement to Chairman Senate ...

Beauty therapist Samia Shahid, 28, who died while visiting family in Pandori. — Photo courtesy: The Guardian/http://guardian.co.uk ISLAMABAD: British MP Naz Shah has written to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to intervene in the case of a British woman’s alleged honour killing in Pakistan, The Guardian reported. British police started a probe into Samia Shahid’s death after her husband Syed Mukhtar ...

KABUL: Notorious militant commander and head of defunct Lashkar-e-Islam Chief Mangal Bagh has been killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan Nangarhar’s province, Afghan media reported on Sunday. The death has been confirmed by intelligence agencies and the government officials. Bagh was head of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam organisation. He was wanted by Pakistani security forces for involvement in a number ...

Pakistan has never given blessings to Kashmir, only gave terrorists, Sushma Swaraj said. INDIA: Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj today slammed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over its remarks that Pakistan is waiting for the day Kashmir becomes its part and said that its “dangerous, though delusional” dream will never come true. Addressing a press conference on the ongoing Kashmir ...

ISLAMABAD: Ankara expects Pakistan to close down institutions run by Fethullah Gulen, the US-based religious leader accused of masterminding and backing the botched coup attempt in Turkey last week. “We have called on all friendly countries to prevent activities of this (Gulen’s) group,” Turkish Ambassador Sadik Babur Girgin said at a media briefing on the developments in Turkey after the ...

KABUL: Afghan and Pakistani officials to hold first meeting of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on the Durand Line management and security-related issues in Kabul on July 26 (Tuesday), Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said in a media statement. Pakistan delegation to this meeting will be led by Director General Military Operations. The delegations will include representatives of the concerned ministries and ...

PAKISTAN: The US forces commander General John Nicholson has met the Pakistani army chief of staff General Raheel Sharif amid reports the two sides discussed Afghan peace process. According to the local media reports, Gen. Sharif held talks with Gen. Nicholson on returning of their cooperation for Afghan peace. Gen. Nicholson who is also the commander of the NATO-led Resolute ...

BANNU: Around 2,400 families from North Waziristan Agency, which had sought refuge in Afghanistan in the wake of the Zarb-i-Azb military operation, have returned to Bannu, according to an official. He said that 5,000 families belonging to Momedkhel and Madakhel tribes and living near the Afghan border had fled to Afghanistan after the Pakistan Military operation was launched to clear ...

PAKISTAN: A renowned Pakistani religious cleric Mufti Abdul Qavi will be investigated in the murder case of a Pakistani social media sensation Qandeel Baloch who was murdered on Saturday. Mufti Qavi appeared in a video together with Baloch last month which immediately went viral in the internet and media. A senior police official in Multan has said “We have decided ...