Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 20 people and wounding as many as 96 worshippers, officials said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, said Saddique Khan, a senior police official in Peshawar who gave the latest casualty tolls, but the Pakistani Taliban have been blamed in similar suicide attacks in the past.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 29 (NNN-APP) – Sixteen children were rescued from a boat that capsized in Kohat district of Pakistan’s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, today, an official said.

The boat, with 25 children onboard capsized in the Tanda Dam of the district, earlier in the morning, and divers recovered 16 children, while nine were still missing, deputy commissioner of Kohat district, Furqan Ashraf, said.

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- At least 40 people were killed and four others injured after a passenger bus fell on Sunday morning in a ditch in the Lasbela district of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, government authorities said.

According to the reports, the coach crashed into the pillar of a bridge while it was taking a U-turn near the Chinki stop in Bela area of the district and eventually fell into a ravine and caught fire.

The authorities said that the accident took place due to over-speeding.

ISLAMABAD, January 28 (APP): Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will undertake an official visit to Moscow from 29-30 January, at the invitation of Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov.

“The Foreign Minister will hold official talks with his Russian counterpart where the two sides would deliberate upon the entire spectrum of bilateral relations and exchange views on the regional and international issues of mutual interest,” the Foreign Office Spokesperson said in a press release on Saturday.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 28 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan yesterday, strongly condemned Israel’s attack on the occupied northern West Bank, according to the country’s Foreign Ministry.

The Israeli armed forces stormed the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank on Thursday, and killed nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, and wounded 16, four of them in serious condition.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 25 (APP):Pakistan on Wednesday strongly condemned the despicable act of desecration of the Holy Quran in the Netherlands on January 22, 2023.

“It is undoubtedly a provocative Islamophobic hate crime committed under the guise of freedom of expression. Such offensive acts deeply hurt the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims around the world and can create disharmony among the international community,” the Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement.

RAHIM YAR KHAN, Jan 25 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday met President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan wherein the two leaders expressed their resolve to further enhance brotherly bilateral relations.

The meeting took place here as the UAE president arrived in Pakistan on a private visit, a PM Office statement said.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 22 (APP): Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has testified to the fact that the British government had conducted an investigation on its own into 2002 Gujarat riots in India after the large-scale violence created ripples in the UK.

He said the investigation was carried out after citizens of Gujarati Muslim origin in the UK were worried about their loved ones in India and were making representations to that effect to the then Tony Blair’s government.

ISLAMABAD: , Jan 22 (APP) :: Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Illayas on Sunday said AJK was enriched with vast potential for youth to flourish in various fields of professional life.

He was talking to a delegation of National Youth Empowerment called on him under the headship of its CEO Rana Ghulam Muzaffar at Jammu Kashmir House in Islamabad.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 21 (APP): Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said on Saturday that Imran’s motive for rejoining the National Assembly (NA) after dissolving two provincial assemblies was to create political rumpus.

Talking to a private media channel, Ahsan Iqbal said that Imran Khan does not believe in political harmony and solving political issues through dialogue.