PESHAWAR: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested the prime suspect in the murder case of transgender female Alisha, who breathed her last in Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital on Wednesday. SSP operations Abbas Majeed Marwat told media that the the prime suspect in the case, Fazal Gujjar, was arrested from Peshawar’s Qazi village. Alisha, a transgender activist working for Trans ...

One of the least examined problems of our Islamic society is sex, or the lack of it.  As Qandeel puts it: “We keep our mouths shut; we’re good at pretense, all for the sake of social propriety”. Without open discussion or education, it is expected to take care of itself; it is ‘natural’, so why the need to speak about ...

Awami National Party provincial general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak. BUNER: The provincial government has been accused of being hand in glove in various cases of corruption and land grabbing. The allegations were levelled by Awami National Party provincial general secretary Sardar Hussain Babak. The ANP leader was addressing a rally in Totalai, Buner on Wednesday. “The incumbent government has lost the ...

US: The United States has added two Pakistan-based militant groups to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists, the US Department of State said Wednesday. “The Department of State has designated both the Tariq Gidar Group (TGG) and Jama’at ul Dawa al-Qu’ran (JDQ) as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under section 1(b) of Executive Order (E.O.) 13224,” a statement by ...

PESHAWAR: Transgender female Alisha who was allegedly shot eight times earlier this week by a disgruntled customer succumbed to her wounds at Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) on Wednesday. The 25-year-old’s is the fifth reported case of violence against trans people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this year. Adnan, Sameer, Komal and Ayesha were also targeted earlier this year. All are members ...

US envoy David Hale meets Gen Raheel Sharif at GHQ. ─ ISPR RAWALPINDI: The Pakistani Army Chief of Staff General Raheel Sharif has conveyed serious concern to the US Ambassador to Pakistan over a drone strike that targeted the Taliban Chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. According to the local media reports, Gen. Sharif conveyed his concern over the airstrike during a meeting ...

Tariq Fatemi in a meeting US ambassador David Hale. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: The US Ambassador to Pakistan was summoned in the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan for an airstrike that targeted the Taliban Chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. “The Ambassador of the United States Mr. David Hale was called in today by the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, ...

Pakistan has said the airstrike targeting the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was a violation of its sovereignty. “Pakistan wishes to once again state that the drone attack was a violation of its sovereignty, an issue which has been raised with the United States in the past as well,” Pakistan’s foreign ministry said in a statement. The statement further ...

KABUL: The social media have been rife with a viral report suggesting that the successor of Mullah Mohammad Omar had a Pakistani passport. A photograph which purportedly shows a photograph of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor printed in the main page of a Pakistani passport has gone viral on social media following reports of his death in a drone strike. The passport ...

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor’s relations had deteriorated with Pakistan since he assumed the charge of Taliban leadership, succeeding the group’s founder Mullah Mohammad Omar. According to the diplomatic sources quoted in a report by a local newspaper in Pakistan, Mullah Mansoor’s death would not cause any major concerns in Pakistan’s power circles. The sources claimed that ...