Tag: Pakistan

New Delhi/Islamabad: In an unprecedented move, the UN Watch took a scathing dig at Prime Minister Imran Khan for his intolerant views and Pakistan’s inclusion in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Pakistan was recently re-elected to the UNHRC even as the country’s human rights record is one among the worst in the world. Two […]

Srinagar: The Indian Army foiled an infiltration attempt at the Line of Control in the Keran sector on Friday even as Pakistan resorted to ceasefire violations in multiple sectors up to Uri along the LoC. As per reports, suspicious movement was observed by the Indian troops at the forward posts along the LoC. The alert […]

Srinagar: Around seven Pakistan Army soldiers were killed and a dozen were injured after Indian Army retaliated to Pakistan’s unprovoked ceasefire violation along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Indian Army destroyed various enemy positions, terror launch pads and fuel dumps. India too lost three soldiers in the unprovoked ceasefire violation by Pakistan […]

Quetta: An earthquake of 5.4 magnitude on the Richter scale jolted Balochistan province in Pakistan on Saturday, informed the country’s National Seismic Monitoring Centre. However, no damage has been reported yet. According to the centre, the quake’s epicentre was located 38 km northeast of provincial capital of Quetta and its focal depth was determined as […]

New Delhi: India summoned the Charge d’Affaires of the Pakistan High Commission on Saturday and lodged a strong protest over unprovoked ceasefire violations by Pakistani army in Jammu and Kashmir on the festive occasion of Diwali. The Ministry of External Affairs said it is highly deplorable that Pakistan chose a festive occasion to disrupt peace […]

Islamabad: Duplicitous Pakistan true to its strategic imperative is gearing up to submit its dossier, which it claims has irrefutable proof against India’s involvement in terrorism at the UN and is working up its diplomatic engagement to build its case with the permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) through briefings. Constantly portraying itself […]

New Delhi: Former US President Barack Obama does not have a single positive view on Pakistan in his latest memoir ‘A Promised Land’. Instead, Obama has lumped Pakistan with countries like Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq where millions of young men are “stunted” by religious fundamentalism. Published by a division of Penguin Random House, ‘A Promised […]

Karachi: England will make their first visit to Pakistan in 16 years when they will play two T20Is in Karachi on October 14 and 15 next year. England will arrive in Karachi on October 12, and both the sides will depart for India on October 16 for the T20 World Cup at the end of […]

Lahore: An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan awarded Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed 10 years imprisonment on Thursday in two more terror cases. Saeed, a UN designated terrorist whom the US has placed a USD 10 million bounty on, was arrested on July 17 last year in the terror financing cases. […]

Jammu: Pakistan again violated ceasefire in different sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday eveningwhere an army soldier was killed in the morning in Pakistan firing. A havaldar in the Indian Army was killed and three others, including two women, were injured, informed officials. […]

Auckland: Six members of the Pakistan’s touring squad in New Zealand have tested positive for novel coronavirus, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) informed on Thursday. This was reported to the NZC after some of the members of the touring side, which is currently in isolation at a facility in Christchurch, had “contravened protocols on the first […]

Washington: The US has designated Pakistan and China among eight other countries that are of particular concern for violation of religious freedom, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said. Pakistan and China along with Myanmar, Eritrea, Iran, Nigeria, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were placed in the list for engaging in or tolerating […]

New York: Pakistan is marketing Hindu and Christian women as “concubines” and “forced brides” to China, according to the top US diplomat for religious freedom, Samuel Brownback. One of the sources of “forced brides” for Chinese men are “religious minorities, Christian and Hindu women, being marketed as concubines and as forced as brides into China”, […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that there can be no talks with India under the current deteriorating situation between the two countries. Qureshi also asserted that there was no backdoor or diplomatic dialogue underway between Pakistan and India. “There is no possibility of a backdoor or diplomatic dialogue with India in […]

Lausanne: Football’s world governing body FIFA on Wednesday suspended the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) with immediate effect due to third-party interference. It also banned the Chadian Football Association (FTFA) due…