DN: Three policemen allegedly involved in a Karachi ‘encounter’ resulting in the extrajudicial killing of North Waziristan native Naqeebullah Mehsud were picked out by eyewitnesses during an identification parade in court on Wednesday. Assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Allahyar, head constable Muhammad ...
Read More »Afghan security officials visit Pakistan to hand over evidence regarding Kabul attacks
ISLAMABAD: Top Afghan security officials have arrived in Islamabad the capital of Pakistan after a series of deadly attacks in Kabul and other parts of the country left scores of people dead. The two senior security officials, including the intelligence ...
Read More »Main accused in Asma murder case has successfully fled to Saudi Arabia on an Umrah visa: police
Asma was a third-year student at a medical college in Abbottabad — Photo by H. Farhan. A special team was formed on Monday to investigate the killing of Asma Rani, a third-year medical student who was reportedly shot dead in Kohat ...
Read More »ANP vows it will not let democracy to be derailed
PESHAWAR: President Awami National Party Asfandyar Wali Khan said that democratic process has been facing threats, and if this time again attempts are made to derail the system they will resist against it. “Some talk about [installing] technocrats, some about a ...
Read More »Ulema can help end Afghan conflict, says Indonesian President Widodo
PESHAWAR: The Indonesian president has suggested the formation of a three-nation committee of religious scholars to promote peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan. Currently on an official visit to Islamabad, Joko Widodo floated the proposal at a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart ...
Read More »‘Immediately arrest or expel Taliban from your soil,’ says US to Pakistan, after weekend attack in Kabul
NEW DELHI: After the weekend terror attack in Kabul that killed at least 22 people, many of them civilians, the US White House today told Pakistan in no uncertain terms that it needs to immediately arrest or expel the Taliban’s ...
Read More »Pakistan: Student kills college principal, accuses him of blasphemy
PAKISTAN: A grade 12 student at a private college in Charsadda shot his college principal dead on Monday after being censured for skipping school to attend the November 2017 sit-in of religio-political parties in Islamabad’s Faizabad area. In a video acquired ...
Read More »Stop Pashtuns’ Genocide in Pakistan: Pashtun expats in the US condemn Naqeebullah’s extra judicial killing
PHILADELPHIA: Pashtun expats from Swat, Waziristan and Peshawar in the United States held a protest demonstration on Sunday and condemned the brutal and extra-judicial killing of Naseemullah Khan aka Naqeeb Mehsud. The protesters called on the central government and supreme ...
Read More »Shame on Pakistan for suffocating media voice: Media supporters react to Radio Mashal closure in Pakistan
KABUL: The media watchdog organizations reacted to the closure of Radio Mashal/Radio Liberty office in Pakistan, calling it silencing freedom of speech. The South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) claimed that Radio Mashal was closed by Pakistan’s intelligence agency (ISI). ...
Read More »Pakistan: Pir H. Sialvi demands Shariah in seven days
Pir Hameeduddin Sialvi involved in a discussion with other leaders at the stage at Data Darbar before addressing the Khatm-i-Nabuwat conference. — Online LAHORE: Pir Hameeduddin Sialvi on Saturday set yet another deadline for the government, this time for enforcing ...
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