ISLAMABAD (AA) – A key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan that remained closed for three days following skirmishes has reopened, an official confirmed. The Torkham border, which connects Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, was shut down on Monday after...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s former spy chief, Lieutenant General (retd) Faiz Hameed, was taken into custody on Monday, and the army announced that the process of his court martial has begun. Hameed, who served as the head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from June 2019 to Oct. 2021, has been taken into custody [&hellip...
Mian Channu, Pakistan – AFP Dozens of villagers gathered in front of the modest home of Pakistan athlete Arshad Nadeem to watch the hulking javelin thrower take part in the Olympic Games final. The event was broadcast live by a digital projector onto a screen hanging on the back of a truck in his farming […]
ISLAMABAD/ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistan has said that it wants to “deepen cooperation” with Bangladesh, a day after Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was sworn in to lead a 17-member transitional government in Dhaka. Extending “heartiest felicitations” to Yunus, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said: “I look forward to working with him to ...
KARACHI, Pakistan ( AA) – Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem on Thursday won the gold medal for the country after 40 years, breaking the Olympic record with a monstrous 92.97m throw in the men’s javelin final at Paris 2024. It was the sixth longest throw of all time, and Asia’s best ever in Olympics. Nadeem, whose first throw was declared [&...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA)- A Pakistani national has been charged with murder-for-hire in an alleged plot to assassinate current and former government officials, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday. Asif Merchant, 46, arrived from Pakistan in April after spending time in Iran. He met an undercover FBI agent posing as a hitman and paid him $...
Drass, India — AFP Indian soldiers and top brass gathered Friday in the remote Himalayan foothills to commemorate a battle remembered among compatriots for acquiring an edge on arch-rival Pakistan. The 1999 Kargil conflict was the last major battle between the two nuclear-armed foes who have fought numerous wars since their partition int...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least eight soldiers and 10 suspected militants were killed in a clash, which included a suicide bombing, in northwestern Pakistan, the military said on Tuesday. A group of heavily-armed militants stormed the cantonment area in the Bannu district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the early hours o...
The Pakistan Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in illegal marriage case. They were accused of marrying before the mandatory three-month waiting period after Bibi’s divorce. Khan’s lawyer celebrated the decision on social media. The couple had been sentenced to s...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s government seeks to ban the party of jailed ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan, and try him along with former President Arif Alvi for treason, the information minister said on Monday, a move likely to further deepen an ongoing political crisis in the South Asian country. Addressing a news conference in...
