The United States will no longer subsidise the sale of 8 F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan amid concerns by the lawmakers that the country is not doing enough to fight militants. A senior official in the State Department has confirmed the report and told BBC that Pakistan would have to bear the full cost of the F-16 fighter jets if ...

CHAKWAL: A man slit the throats of two women after raping one of them in a village of Talagang tehsil, police said on Thursday. The women, who were aged 30 and 26 years, recently moved to the Malkwal village in the jurisdiction of the Talagang Saddar police from Dhoke Syedan locality of Rawalpindi. They got a rented apartment and were ...

KARACHI: Around 78 per cent of Pakistan’s population “strictly supports” that the teachings of Holy Quran should influence the country’s laws, a report said. A research report issued by Pew Research Center on Wednesday titled “Whether Quran should influence laws in countries” posed the question to respondents from 10 countries with significant Muslim populations. The question was posed in the following ...

The Pakistani government officials have said Islamabad is not responsible alone to bring the Afghan Taliban to peace talks table, a day after President Ghani said Afghanistan will no longer expect cooperation from the country in the Afghan peace process. A spokesman for the Foreign office of Pakistan said Islamabad does not differentiate between the terror groups. “Pakistan condemns all ...

BADIN: Two youths travelling in a bus were arrested when the hand-carry ‘luggage’, wrapped in a cloth sheet, they possessed turned out to be the body of an eight-year-old girl. The suspects, Shahid and Ghulam Hussain aka Sawan, had boarded the bus coming from Chambarr town on Monday morning. A policeman travelling in the same bus noticed their suspicious movements ...

LAYYAH: The small, mud house of Umar Hayat in Chak 105-ML, Layyah, has been visited by hundreds of people — first jubilant relatives and now mourners — since Wednesday. As Hayat’s grandson, now named Abdullah, was born on Wednesday, his father Mohammad Sajjad ran to a nearby sweet shop in Chak 111-TDA in the evening, and bought five kilograms of ...

The United States pressed Pakistan to follow up on Islamabad’s expressed commitment not to discriminate between terror groups amid reports that the deadly Kabul attack was plotted and carried out by the notorious Haqqani terrorist network. Elizabeth Trudeau, Director of Press Office for the State Department, said “We have consistently expressed our concerns at the highest level of the Government ...

LAHORE: Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Mehdi Honardoost said on Friday that lack of trade information was a major reason behind low Pak-Iran trade volumes. He was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI). Iranian Consul General Muhammad Hossain Bani Assadi and LCCI office-bearers were also present on the occasion. The ambassador said following Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...

LAHORE: Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Chairman Siddiqul Farooq says that board owns no commercial property in Balochistan, as its all land in the province had been sold by its two former heads, who also were retired military generals, during the Musharraf rule. He told media the two retired military generals had declared the land as “unmanageable” during their tenures. ...

MPA Soran Singh SWAT: Soran Singh, special assistant to chief minister KP on minorities’ affairs and an MPA, was gunned down in a targeted attack near Pir Baba in Buner district on Friday. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the MPA as he was on his way home, said sources. “Soran Singh was shot in the head and eye,” Pir Baba ...