Pakistan

Sunni Ulema Council Pakistan Deputy Secretary General Masood-ur-Rehman Usmani was gunned down while his driver was injured in an attack in Ghauri Town on Friday, police said. According to Pakistani media reports, Usmani, one of the prominent figures of the…

Jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party is being targeted by “systematic dismemberment” and “pre-poll rigging”, a rights watchdog said on January 2, casting doubt on the fairness of upcoming elections. Nomination papers for Khan and the majority of…

Pakistan’s counterterrorism police said Monday they arrested 21 members of outlawed militant group, the Pakistani Taliban, which has been behind several deadly attacks across the country. Acting on intelligence information, the arrests were made in the eastern Punjab province over…

Three terrorists attempting to infiltrate the Pakistan-Afghanistan border were killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district, the military’s media affairs wing said on Sunday. Earlier in the day, the Inter-Services Public Relations said five terrorists were killed in an intelligence-based operation…

Pakistan’s military said Saturday its forces had raided a “terrorist” hideout in a volatile region bordering Afghanistan and killed five militants in the ensuing shootout. The “intelligence-based” overnight raid in the militancy-hit North Waziristan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province also…

The caretaker government’s huge deportation drive has forcibly repatriated scores of Afghans awaiting resettlement in the United States, an advocacy group and Afghan applicants say, alleging that authorities often ignored US embassy letters of protection. The move complicates the efforts…

Four people, including two policemen, were injured in two hand-grenade attacks on police vehicles on Tuesday, Dawn newspaper reported. According to officials, unknown miscreants riding motorcycles hurled a grenade at a patrolling police vehicle in the Sariab Road area, which…

A bomb blast claimed the life of the brother of a tribal leader in South Waziristan on Monday, Aaj News reported. According to details, tribal leader Malik Alam Jan was travelling with his brother on a motorcylce through Azam Warsak…

Pakistan this year saw the highest number of suicide attacks across the country in a decade, an Islamabad-based think-tank said on Monday. A total of 29 suicide attacks happened over the past year, marking the highest number since 2014, the…

Two former Pakistani premiers on Friday submitted their nomination papers to again seek seats in the parliament for the Feb. 8 election despite their disqualification. Imran Khan was disqualified by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in August for five…