Tag: Pakistan

Islamabad: Pakistan’s largest religious party Jamat-e-Islami (JI) has come out with serious criticism of the government and opposition political parties, stating that all parties are “pursuing the agenda of British imperialism”, asserting the demand of an Islamic system in the country. Siraj ul Haq, the head of Jamat-e-Islami said that his party “did not believe […]

New Delhi: A gangster, who is suspected to be on the payroll of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence in terror activities, Sukhmeet Pal Singh alias Sukh Bhikhariwal was deported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to India on Thursday for conspiring in the killing of Shaurya Chakra awardee, Indian intelligence agency said. He was wanted by the […]

Peshawar: Over 30 people, mostly members of a radical Islamist party, were arrested after a Hindu temple was vandalised and set on fire by a mob protesting against its expansion work in northwest Pakistan. The attack on the temple in Terri village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Karak district on Wednesday drew strong condemnation from human […]

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday handed over a list of 319 Indian prisoners including 49 civil and 270 fishermen lodged in the country’s jails to the High Commission of India as part of a bilateral agreement. The Foreign Office (FO) said that the step is in consistent with the provisions of the Consular Access Agreement between […]

Lahore: LeT operations commander and 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks planner Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was on Saturday arrested in Pakistan on terror financing charges. Lakhvi, who was on bail since 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province. However, the CTD did not reveal the place of his arrest. […]

Jammu: Around 400 terrorists are currently in launching pads across the Line of Control (LoC), waiting to sneak into Jammu and Kashmir during the winters, after a tight anti-infiltration grid frustrated attempts by Pakistan to push them into the Indian side, according to security officials. A top police official said that Pakistan is trying to […]

Lahore: Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba operations commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was sentenced to 15 years in jail on Friday by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court here in a terror financing case, amidst growing international pressure on Islamabad to bring to justice terrorists roaming free in the country. UN proscribed terrorist Lakhvi, 61, who was on bail […]

Lahore: In a significant development, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for banned Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar on the charges of terror financing. Issuance of arrest warrant is the first small step against the global terrorist. The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Gujranwala issued the warrant during a hearing in a […]

Lahore: UN designated global terrorist Masood Azhar, chief of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), should be arrested by January 18 in connection with a terror financing case, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has asked the Punjab Police, a court official said on Saturday. The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Gujranwala issued an arrest warrant against Azhar in the […]

Islamabad: The Pakistan government has approved Russias Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine for “emergency use authorisation” (EUA) and also gave a go-ahead to a local pharmaceutical company for its import and distribution, an informed official has confirmed. The Sputnik V has become the third vaccine to be approved for emergency use in the country — the […]

Beijing/Singapore: The Indian diaspora in China, Singapore, Australia and several other countries on Tuesday celebrated the 72nd Republic Day in a restricted manner and watched the cultural events virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Beijing, Ambassador Vikram Misri unfurled the national flag at the Indian embassy where the celebrations were restricted to officials of […]

By Lalit K Jha Washington: Voicing outrage over the acquittal of those involved in the brutal murder of Daniel Pearl in 2002, the White House has asked Pakistan to expeditiously review its legal options, including allowing the US to prosecute al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and other suspects to secure justice for the American […]

Islamabad: Pakistan has once again warned the UN and the global community of what it claimed as Indian false flag operations to “justify its aggression” towards Islamabad. In what can be described as typical Pakistan bombast and a combination of lies and prevarications, it once again challenged India’s right over Jammu and Kashmir despite knowing […]

Etawah: Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Etawah, Sarita Bhadauria, has received multiple death threats on WhatsApp from a number with ISD code of Pakistan. The MLA informed the police that she received eight messages on WhatsApp. The messages with the logo of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the intelligence agency of Pakistan, also threatened to kill Prime […]

New Delhi: Pakistan resorted to 5,133 incidents of ceasefire violations last year in which 46 security force personnel were killed, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday, referring to Pakistani hostilities along the Line of Control and International Border in Jammu and Kashmir. In replying to a question in Rajya Sabha, the defence minister said […]