New Delhi : India’s army said Thursday that it launched “surgical strikes” against suspected militants along the border with Pakistan, but Islamabad rejected the claim, calling it an incident of cross-border firing. The strikes come in the wake of a militant attack on an Indian army base earlier this month in Kashmir that killed 18 […]
New Delhi: Whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Pakistan to attend the SAARC summit later this year will be a “policy decision” a call on which will be taken at the “right time”, government sources said on Wednesday night. “It is something on which we will take a call at the right time,” […]
Islamabad: Former President Pervez Musharraf was today formally arrested and remanded to judicial custody for a fortnight over the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Akbar Bugti in 2006. 69-year-old Musharraf was arrested by a team from the Crime Branch of Balochistan Police. The team was sent from Quetta to Islamabad yesterday after an anti-terrorism court […]
Islamabad : Thousands of protesters braved the bitter cold in Islamabad on Tuesday night to keep up their demands for the removal of Pakistan’s government, which they see as corrupt and incompetent. Many of them are women with young children, like 30-year-old Nasreen Bibi, who travelled to the capital from her home in Attock, 100 […]
Islamabad: Pakistan Taliban on Thursday threatened to attack Indian targets to avenge the execution of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab. The Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist was hanged till death, yesterday, for killing innocents on the streets of Mumbai on 26/11. The deadly terror strike on November 26, 2008 had killed 166 people and scarred hundreds other for life. While […]
ISLAMABAD: (Provisional News) The black box of the plane which crashed in the northeast part of the Pakistani capital Islamabad Wednesday morning has been found and is being decoded by the Pakistani air forces, reported local media. At about 10:00 am local time Wednesday morning, an airbus 320 with flight number ED-202 carrying 152 people […]
