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By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): At least four Pakistani army soldiers were killed during a clash with terrorists in northwestern Waziristan region near the Afghan border, the military said on Friday. The terrorists opened fire on military posts in Makeen area of South Waziristan late Thursday night, the military said in a statement. […]

10th Feb 2021

UN vindicates Pakistan’s stance on terrorism from Afghanistan

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): A new UN report on Daesh/ISIS and al-Qaeda vindicates Pakistan’s longstanding position on the threat of Afghan-based terrorist groups, according to Islamabad. Pakistan has long drawn the international community’s attention to how hostile intelligence agencies are helping Tehreek e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a major terrorist group, and its affiliates based […]

16th Jan 2021

Pakistan: Police fired over Hindu temple attack

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): At least 12 police officers have been sacked for failing to stop a mob from demolishing a Hindu temple in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province last month. The cops showed “cowardice, negligence, and irresponsibility in the discharge of their official obligations,” according to the official inquiry report released on […]

7th Jan 2021

‘Pakistan setting up interfaith harmony bodies to confront sectarianism’

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan is establishing interfaith harmony councils at the local, provincial and national level to promote dialogue and resolve sectarian conflicts, Maulana Tahir Ashrafi, special representative of the prime minister on religious harmony, has revealed. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Ashrafi, who is also the chairman of Pakistan […]

3rd Jan 2021

Pakistan: 11 Hazara miners killed in armed attack in Balochistan

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 11 Hazara Shia Muslim coal miners were kidnapped and later killed in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said. The incident took place in the remote Mach coalfield, about 48km (30 miles) east of the provincial capital, Quetta. of the southwestern Balochistan province, a key route to multi-billion-dollar […]

30th Dec 2020

Pakistan signs letter on railway project with Uzbekistan & Afghanistan

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan signed a joint appeal letter Tuesday seeking a $4.8 billion loan from international financial institutions for a Trans-Afghan railway line project with Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. The rail link would connect Pakistan and Uzbekistan via Afghanistan and later the Central Asian countries. Prime Minister Imran Khan signed the letter […]

17th Dec 2020

Taliban meet top Pakistani diplomat on peace process

By Islamuddin Sajid and Aamir Latif ISLAMABAD/KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): A delegation of the Afghan Taliban met with Pakistan’s top diplomat Wednesday to discuss the ongoing peace process in Afghanistan. The delegation, led by the group’s deputy chief, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, arrived on a three-day visit to Islamabad on Wednesday morning and visited Foreign Minister […]

14th Nov 2020

Kashmir: Border clashes kill 10 civilians

By Nusrat Sidiq and Aamir Latif SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir, India (AA): At least 15 people were killed, including four Indian soldiers and one Pakistani trooper as heavy shelling and gunfire were exchanged Friday between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control, officials said. Official sources from India said four security personnel were […]

29th Oct 2020

Pakistan makes masks mandatory as coronavirus cases climb

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan made it compulsory Wednesday for citizens to wear face masks in public places in an effort to contain a fresh coronavirus outbreak. The government also announced the shutting of all parks and entertainment venues by 6 p.m. and markets, shopping centers, restaurants and banquet halls by 10 […]

27th Oct 2020

Pakistan: Explosion at Islamic Seminary kills 7 children, wounds123 in Peshawar

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): At least seven children were killed and 123 others wounded on Tuesday in an explosion at a religious seminary in northwestern Pakistan, an official said. The bomb went off in Jamia Zuberia [Zubairia] madrasah Dir colony of Peshawar city, Bilal Faizi, spokesman of rescue service 1122, told Anadolu […]

16th Oct 2020

Pakistan: 20 security personnel killed in terror attacks

By Islamuddin Sajid and Aamir Latif ISLAMABAD/KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Twenty security personnel were killed in two separate terrorist attacks in north and southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, officials said. The Baloch Raji Ajoi Sangar (BRAS), a banned terrorist organization, has claimed responsibility for the attack in a tweet. A military convoy was targeted in Razmak […]

14th Sep 2020

Pakistan reopen schools, universities, as Covid-19 shows downward trend

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD (AA): Thousands of schools and colleagues across Pakistan will reopen from Tuesday, ending a six-month long closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Pakistani Education Ministry, all higher education institutions in the country will reopen from Sept. 15, whereas students in grade nine to 12 will also be returning […]

13th Sep 2020

Pakistan urges ASEAN to speak out against Islamophobia

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan(AA): Pakistan on Saturday urged members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to speak out against the rise of Islamophobia and extremist tendencies around the globe. The call was made by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at the 27th ASEAN Regional Forum, which was held online, according to a […]

10th Aug 2020

Pakistan: 58 dead, 100s villages submerged in monsoon rains

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): The death toll from three days of heavy monsoon rains triggering flash floods in Pakistan has risen to at least 58, officials said on Sunday. The southern Sindh and southwestern Balochistan provinces, and the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region have been badly hit by the recent rain spell: flash floods […]

2nd Aug 2020

Pakistan: Teen suicides trigger debate on online gaming

By Kiran Butt LAHORE, Pakistan (AA): Saad*, 18, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his residence in southwestern Pakistan earlier this month. His brother says the teenager committed suicide after missing a task on a famous online video game. Over the next few days, three other youths reportedly committed suicide across the […]

29th Jun 2020

Pakistan: 9 killed as terrorists attack stock exchange

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least nine people were killed as gunmen attacked the Pakistani stock exchange building in the southern port city of Karachi on Monday, police said. The building is in a high-security zone and also houses the head offices of many private banks. The dead include four attackers, four […]

23rd May 2020

Pakistan: 97 killed in plane crash, 2 survive

By Aaamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 97 people were killed and two survived when a plane crashed in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, the army said on Saturday. The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-8303, traveling from the northeastern Lahore, crashed Friday into a residential area near Jinnah International Airport while […]

9th May 2020

Bangladesh: Thousands gather at mosques amid Coronavirus pandemic

By Md. Kamruzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Thousands of Muslims gathered in mosques across Bangladesh for Friday congregational prayers after more than a month, despite the continuing spread of COVID-19 in the country. The government’s decision to allow mass prayer raised eyebrows, as there has been no sign of a slowdown in virus transmission in […]

1st May 2020

Pakistan: Millions of Pakistani laborers struggle amid COVID-19 lockdown

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Hundreds of charged laborers, including women, gathered outside a garment factory in the eastern district of Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi to protest against their forced layoff only a week before the International Labor Day. They, in fact, came to receive their salaries but they were verbally informed that […]

28th Apr 2020

Pakistan: Doctors on hunger strike over lack of PPE

By Kiran Butt LAHORE, Pakistan (AA): More than 30 doctors are on hunger strike in northeastern Punjab province for two weeks, protesting lack of Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE), said an official on Monday. More than 150 doctors and health workers have tested positive for COVID-19 and five have died in Pakistan. “Almost half of […]

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