Pakistan

Pakistan’s space agency, SUPARCO, successfully launched its second satellite in a month from a site in China’s Sichuan province on Thursday, VOA reported yesterday. The new satellite, PakSAT-MM1, is a high-power multi-mission communications satellite designed to provide a range of…

A powerful blast ripped through an LPG cylinder filling shop in Hyderabad’s Preetabad area on Thursday, leaving at least 50 people, mostly children, with severe burn injuries, Dawn reported yesterday. The explosion occurred at a ground-floor shop in the Zacha…

A group of armed assailants carried out an arson attack on a girls’ school in North Waziristan, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, abc News reported yesterday. The overnight attack, which took place in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, resulted…

At least 28 lives were tragically lost after a bus plunged into a ravine in Washuk, Balochistan, Pakistan on Wednesday, Dawn reported. According to news agency, the accident occurred when a tire of the vehicle was burst, causing the vehicle…

A militant attack on a Pakistani security outpost near the Afghanistan border has left 5 soldiers and 5 assailants dead, with another 6 soldiers injured, VOA reported today. The attack occurred in the Tirah valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a…

An army captain and a soldier were killed during an intelligence-based operation against terrorists in the Peshawar district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Aaj News reported today. According to the military’s statement, Captain Hussain Jahangir, 25, and Havildar Shafiq Ullah, 36,…

A journalist in Pakistan’s Sindh province has died from gunshot wounds sustained in an attack earlier this week, the fifth media worker reported killed nationwide in 2024, VOA reported yesterday. Nasrullah Gadani, who was critical of powerful feudal lords in…

A severe heat wave has struck Pakistan, with temperatures soaring up to 49°C (120°F) in the city of Mohenjo Daro, the Associate Press reported yesterday. The high temperatures have led to hundreds of heatstroke victims being treated at hospitals across…

In the past month, Pakistan’s military has reported killing nearly 30 “terrorists” in operations against a recent surge in terrorist attacks and militant infiltration attempts from Afghanistan, VOA reported yesterday. The announcement comes a day after a U.S. research group…

Pakistan’s Punjab Assembly approved on Monday the Defamation Bill of 2024, rejecting all amendments proposed by the opposition, Pakistan’s Dawn reported yesterday. The bill was met with protests from the PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) and journalists covering the proceedings.…