Pakistan

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s police arrested at least 50 suspects in the kidnapping and lynching of a man already detained on charges of blasphemy, officials said Monday.

A mob of hundreds of enraged Muslims descended on the police station in the Nankana district of eastern Punjab province on Saturday. Members of the mob had been alerted that a man identified only as Waris desecrated a copy of Islam’s holy book, the Quran.

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- A polio vaccination campaign is set to kick off from Monday in 39 districts of Pakistan to vaccinate more than 6 million children under the age of five, the Pakistani Health Ministry said.

The five-day polio drive has been primarily initiated after sewage samples in the country's eastern Lahore city tested positive for wild poliovirus last month, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

ISLAMABAD, Feb 11 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday called Syrian Arab Republic Prime Minister Hussein Arnous to extend heartfelt sympathies to the brotherly Syrian people on the human and material loss in the wake of recent devastating earthquake.

The prime minister offered all possible support in the relief efforts, PM Office Media Wing said in a press release.

LAHORE, Feb 10 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said Pakistan would extend every possible support to Turkiye in the wake of catastrophic earthquake that killed and injured thousands and urged the people to donate to the Prime Minister’s relief fund.

Talking to media here at the Lahore airport, the prime minister handed over 100 tonnes relief goods including food, medicines and winterized tents for the people of Turkiye.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Hundreds of Afghans, including women and children, dashed toward the Kabul airport after a false rumor spread that flights were leaving for Turkey to help rescue earthquake victims.

Videos and photos posted on social media since Wednesday showed dozens of desperate people running on foot in the darkness and cold towards the airport.

ISLAMABAD, Feb 8 (NNN-APP) – Twelve terrorists were killed in an armed offensive of the Pakistani army, in the country’s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said, in a statement today.

In the overnight operation, the security forces targeted a vehicle of the terrorists, associated with the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, by acting on an intelligence tip-off, the military’s media wing, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.

ISLAMABAD, Feb 7 (APP): Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K) is under unprecedented censorship and facing Israeli Style Settler colonialism since India unilaterally and illegally revoked its Special Status under Article 370 and 35-A, said a fact sheet report issued by Legal Forum for Kashmir (LFK).

ISLAMABAD, Feb 7 (APP): Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Masood Khan telephoned his Turkish counterpart in Washington DC and expressed his heartfelt sympathies and deep condolences over the loss of precious lives and massive destruction caused by the devastating earthquake.

In his telephonic conversation with Ambassador Hasan Murat Mercan, Masood Khan said that he was shocked and saddened to see the tragic devastation in Türkiye.

06 Feb 2023; MEMO: The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has banned Wikipedia for not complying with a request to remove content deemed "blasphemous" from the site.

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed and 12 others injured in a road accident in Khanewal district of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province on Sunday, rescuers told media.

According to the rescue team, the accident took place after a passenger van collided with a truck near Shamkot interchange on the motorway in the district, resulting in the casualties.

The rescue team reached the site and shifted the victims to a local hospital. All the deceased were from the same family.