ANKARA (AA) – Cities across India and Pakistan are struggling with dense smog that has worsened air quality, with authorities declaring a “health crisis” in the latter’s Punjab province. In Pakistan, despite aggressive steps by the Punjab government to curb the hazardous smog blanketing Lahore and surrounding areas over the p...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least seven people, including two army personnel, were killed and three others injured in explosions in southwest Pakistan, the military said Thursday. Two army personnel, including a major, were killed when an improvised explosive device was detonated during a security operation in the Harnai district of sout...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has urged the developed countries to fulfill their financial commitments made during the COP27 and COP 28. Addressing the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, Sharif said that financial support should be grant based for developing countries. “I str...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Violence continued to escalate in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province following the killing of five paramilitary Basij members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday. In a statement, the IRGC’s public relations department said the five local Basij members were killed in a “terr...
ISLAMABAD / ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 26 people were killed and many others injured in a bomb explosion at Quetta city railway station in Pakistan’s Balochistan province early Saturday, police said. So far 26 people have died and 46 others are injured, Muhammad Akram, a local police official, told Anadolu over phone. Earlier, a [&he...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Iran has said that it will “certainly” respond to Israel’s latest attack in a “well-measured” and “well-calculated” manner. “Iran will certainly respond to the October 26 Israeli attack in appropriate time and manner, and in a well-measured and well-calculated way,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said dur...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has expressed “surprise” over the Chinese ambassador’s statement on security issues in the South Asian country. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said the statement by Ambassador Jiang Zaidong “does not reflect Islamabad and Beijing diplomatic tradition.” “Islamabad is fully aware of Beijing’s co...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Five school children were among the seven people killed in a blast that hit a police van guarding a polio team in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, police said. The incident, which also injured 17 others, including four policemen, took place in the Mastung district of Balochistan province. “Terrorists targeted our p...
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused jail authorities of mistreatment, claiming he is being treated “worse than animals.” Khan said he was tortured by being confined in a cage, where electricity to his cell was shut off for five days, “leaving me in complete darkness”. He also alleged he was confined to the [&he...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – More than 60 lawmakers have urged President Joe Biden to pressure Pakistan to release all political prisoners, including former Prime Minister Imran Khan. In a detailed letter addressed to Biden on Wednesday, the lawmakers expressed concerns over human rights situation in the South Asian country and said the elections he...
