ISLAMABAD (AA) – Calm returned to the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Thursday as supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan returned to their homes after a security operation by the government. Businesses and roads inside and outside the capital reopened after Islamabad remained under lockdown for at least four days. However, ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US State Department has urged Pakistani authorities to “respect human rights” and has called on protestors to “demonstrate peacefully” as opposition protestors took to the streets. During a press briefing, Spokesman Matthew Miller said the US supports freedom of expression, peaceful assembly ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has urged economic collaboration among Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states as a two-day leaders’ summit of the organization began in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday. “Investment in regional infrastructure, particularly in the realms of transport and energy is indispensable, for advancing economic ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani authorities suspended mobile internet services in the capital Islamabad and the nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday, ahead of a planned protest rally by former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Police blocked all entry points to Islamabad from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa p...
Islamabad, Pakistan – AFP Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan gathered in Islamabad on Sunday despite authorities’ attempts to block the protesters’ main routes into the capital, AFP journalists noted. The demonstration, led by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, is the ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s capital Islamabad has reported its first poliovirus case in 16 years, taking the tally to 17 across the country this year. The victim is an eight-year-old boy in Islamabad’s Union Council Rural 4, the Pakistan Polio Eradication Program said in a statement. “This is the first human case reported fro...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Thousands marched in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Tuesday in a show of solidarity with Palestinians, amid the Israeli attacks on Gaza. Carrying Palestinian flags and wearing headbands engraved with the slogan “Labbaik ya Gaza,” (We are here, Gaza), marchers, including women and children, chan...
