NEW YORK: The Pakistani national al-Qaida operative Abid Naseer was found guilty in a court in Brooklyn on the charges of his involvement in terror-related activities including his material support to a terrorist cell, his involvement in planning of bombing a shopping mall in London and association with men who had conspired to bomb the New York City subway. Naseer, 29, ...

PAKISTAN: National Unity Council, (Mili Yakjehti Council) an umbrella organization of Pakistan Islamist parties and organizations, have warned that they would stop Pakistan from becoming a liberal country. Hafiz Saeed, head of the banned organization of Jamat-ud-Dawa, has said that he has been made surprised by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s statement on the liberalization of the country. The Council has ...

PAKISTAN: A mass burial of 41 militants, all 15-19 in age, has been offered today in Timergara, the capital of Lower Dir. They were received in Timergara by local people wrapped in the flags of al-Badar organization and Jumat-ud-Dawa. 21 among the dead are believed to be from Albadar organization, considered to be droned in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The ...

CHARSADDA: The Awami National Party central president Asfandyar Wali Khan has reiterated that he will not attend any government briefing until his party’s reservations regarding the western route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) were redressed. Addressing a party workers convention at Gulabad here on Friday, the ANP chief demanded that all announcements, including establishment of industrial estates in Khyber ...

PUNJAB: An angry mob set ablaze a factory owned by members of the Ahmadiyya community in Jhelum on Friday. According to sources, the mob attacked the factory after accusing one person who worked there of committing blasphemy. Many workers fled the factory complex, which contains a residential area, with their families, sources said. But some workers were reportedly still inside the ...

Pakistan Peoples Party’s Senior Vice-Chairman and Senator Makhdoom Ameen Faheem died after a prolonged illness late last night in a private hospital in Karachi. He was diagnosed with blood cancer sometime ago and was hospitalised after his condition worsened a few weeks ago. He was 76 and was the spiritual head of Sarwari Jamat. Belonging from Hala, Sindh, he contested ...

WASHINGTON: The US has no role to play in Kashmir issue and it is for India and Pakistan to address the problem through dialogue, a top American official has said. This comes a day after visiting Pakistan Army Chief General Raheel Sharif raised the matter with US Secretary of State John Kerry. Expressing concern over violence on the line of ...

The new report of Human Rights Watch reveals that Pakistan has to take necessary steps to stop the rampant police harassment, abuse, and violence against Afghans living in Pakistan. According to the report, incidents of violence, intimidation and abuse against Afghans have increased in Pakistan after the massacre of Army Public School in Peshawar by the so-called Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. Phelim ...

LONDON: Amidst the speculations over the reasons for break-up between Reham Khan and the former cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan, Reham Khan said that no one but they themselves are responsible for the divorce, as their marriage could never become a personal matter, because everybody had a say in it. in a sense, Reham Khan said, with her marriage the whole ...

PILDAT has requested the Punjab’s Director General of Public Relations an access to the annual expenditure of the Government of Punjab on promotional advertisement. The request has been acknowledged by DGPR. PILDAT has also assessed in its 4th monitor on Right to Information (RTI) the recent directives from the Prime Minister house and the Cabinet Division which ask all information ...