Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, May 2 (NNN-APP) – The Pakistani army has arrested seven terrorists, in an operation in the country’s north-west North Waziristan district, said a military statement.

The Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan army, said, the security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation yesterday, on the presence of terrorists in the Miran Shah area of North Waziristan, a district in the north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Islamabad, Apr 30 (PTI) Pakistan President Dr Arif Alvi on Sunday returned a bill to the parliament about changes in the anti-corruption laws with observation that a similar previous amendment was challenged in the Supreme Court and was still sub-judice.

The bill called the National Accountability (Amendment) Bill, 2023 was passed earlier this month by the parliament and it was sent to President Alvi for his endorsement to become an act.

ISLAMABAD, Apr 30 (APP): Due to the successful operation of Pakistani intelligence agency a leaked audio call between Munish Sharma, an Indian journalist, asking one of his subordinates to distort facts about the killing of Mukhtiar Hussain Shah who died in police custody on April 27, has exposed Indian brutalities and human rights violations in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).   

In the audio leak, Shrama could be heard directing Balkar Singh from Amar Ujala Newspaper, Samba, about filing of a news story to cover up the incident.  

Lahore, Apr 29 (PTI) Pakistan police on Saturday booked former Chief Minister of Punjab province and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on terrorism charges and arrested 25 others for resisting his arrest.

Islamabad, Apr 27 (PTI) Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday secured a vote of confidence from the National Assembly, with 180 lawmakers expressing "full confidence" in his leadership, in a surprise development amidst an increasing confrontation between the government and the top judiciary.

Lahore, Apr 27 (PTI) Pakistan's electronic media watchdog on Thursday took action against more than 50 cable operators across the country and seized their equipment for illegally airing Indian channels and content, days after they were warned that stringent action would be taken if they were found violating its orders.

ISLAMABAD, Apr 27 (APP): President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday expressed his gladness as his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan recovered from illness.

“I am glad that our friend Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recovered from an episode of ill health. Alhamdulillah,” the president wrote on Twitter.

He said that more than their personal friendship, the centuries-old love between the two people had been carried well by President Erdogan.

“May Allah keep you safe and healthy,” he remarked.

KARACHI, April 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least seven people were killed after a car on a moving passenger train caught fire overnight in southern Pakistan, officials said Thursday.

Railways official Mohsin Sial said the train caught fire in Khairpur, a district about 500 kilometers north of Karachi, the capital of Sindh province. He said six people were killed in the blaze while a woman died when she jumped from the window of the moving train.

The blaze also badly damaged several other cars in the train, he said, and the cause remained unclear.

ISLAMABAD, April 26 (NNN-XINHUA) — At least nine people were killed late Tuesday night in a road accident in the Thatta district of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, the rescue department told Xinhua on early Wednesday morning.

 Sindh Integrated Emergency & Health Services said that a truck hit a van from the front near the Chillia area of Thatta.

 All nine people on board in the van were killed on the spot after their vehicle was crushed by the speeding truck on the highway.

ISLAMABAD, April 25 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from Monday's twin explosions in a police station in Pakistan's Swat district of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province rose to 17 on Tuesday, with at least 70 others injured, health and police officials said.

Confirming the casualties, KP Health Secretary Mahmood Aslam Wazir told Xinhua that the death toll increased after several injured succumbed to their injuries and more bodies were recovered from the debris of the police station building that collapsed following the powerful blasts.