WASHINGTON – Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo recalled a series of armed clashes consisting of cross-border airstrikes between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India back in 2019. The close aide of former US president Donald Trump mentioned the 2019 tensions in his latest book *Never Give an ...

The Pakistan Cricket Board has formally written to 27 leading departments, seeking their interest in participating in the PCB Domestic Cricket Season 2023-24, which will start in August. The letters were dispatched to the departments on behalf of Mr Najam Sethi, Chair of the PCB Management ...

ISLAMABAD – Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, the former member of the Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court, issued a religious decree rejecting the extremist approach of the terror group, calling them 'rebels'. Addressing the Paigham-e-Pakistan National Conference, the noted scholar said ...

RAWALPINDI – A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred and two others wounded in an exchange of fire with terrorists during an operation in Balochistan district Zhob, the military’s media wing said Sunday. In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said forces launched an operation ...

PESHAWAR – Pakistani security forces have gunned down all militants in an operation aimed at freeing hostages in the northwestern region. Reports in local media said terrorists, who have taken control of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) center in Bannu, have been eliminated and as forces ...

LAHORE – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Sunday that he would not take action against General (r) Qamar Javed Bajwa link he voted to power again after the next general elections. Talking to a delegation of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), the former prime ...

Weeks after Pakistan’s head of mission in Kabul came under a sniper attack, a request from Islamabad to enhance deployments was rejected. Ubaidur Rehman Nizamani, the head of Pakistan’s diplomatic mission in Kabul, had come under sniper attack from the Islamic State. However, the shooters ...

ISLAMABAD – Former chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen (r) Faiz Hameed link has said that he will never join politics. The former top spymaster said that all speculations about him joining politics or becoming part of PTI were totally false, reported The News. He said that ...

A local court in Islamabad on Monday again deferred the indictment of PTI leader Shahbaz Gill in a sedition case. Shahbaz Gill will now be charge-sheeted on December 22. The court, however, accepted Shahbaz Gill’s application seeking exemption from appearance in the court today but rejected ...

ISLAMABAD – Outgoing military chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday handed over the command of the army to Chief of Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir at a ceremony being held at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi. Gen Bajwa passed the baton of command to Gen Asim at a ceremony held ...