LAHORE (PAKISTAN (TIP): A Pakistani court on August 13 restrained a cricketerturned politician and a Canada-based populist cleric from launching a march on Islamabad in an unconstitutional way, a lawyer said. The Lahore high court’s […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s government has deployed thousands of security personnel and put up barricades to deny entry to protesters who want to march into Islamabad. Cricketer-turned-politician and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Dark clouds of political unrest hung over the solemn celebrations of Independence of Pakistan on Thursday, August 14. President Mamnoon Hussain said the country was in a state of war and terrorism was […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Indian Army Naib Subedar Patan Kumar Poddar became the victim of his carnal desires and greed for money. The 40-year-old Poddar,who was posted at 151 MC/MF detachment at the Secunderabad railway station, was […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday rejected allegations from Kabul that it was involved in terrorist attacks and insurgent activities on Afghan soil. Foreign office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said in her weekly briefing that Afghanistan has been […]
ISLAMABAD: Unidentified gunmen attacked members of the Sikh community in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday killing one on the spot while injuring two others. Police officials said that the attack occurred at a […]
By Farahnaz Ispahani The desire of Islamist extremists to ‘purify’ Pakistan has resulted in a major catastrophe for the minorities. The country cannot emerge as a modern pluralist state until the reversal of this culture […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): A Pakistani mob killed a woman member of a religious sect and two of her granddaughters after a sect member was accused of posting blasphemous material on Facebook, police said on Monday, the […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): The Pakistan government on Friday handed over federal capital Islamabad’s security to the army for three months. The move is seen in light of opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s call for […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Samina Baig became the first Pakistani woman to climb seven highest peaks in seven continents in under eight months, media reported on Sunday. Baig, 23, has completed the challenge of climbing seven of […]
Dalbir Singh Suhag takes over as new Army chief Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag has taken over as the head of the 1.3 million strong Indian Army, succeeding General Bikram Singh. Suhag, whose appointment had […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Even as Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif reached out to his counterpart Narendra Modi by dispatching gifts for the Indian PM’s mother, Pakistani media reported that he was “not too happy” with the […]
DHAKA (TIP): A Pakistani national was detained at the Shahjalal International Airport on July 20 for carrying a large sum of Indian currency. The airport officials said Abdur Rahim,35, came to Bangladesh on a Qatar […]
KARACHI (TIP): Five infants died in a hospital in Pakistan’s largest city allegedly due to medical negligence after a power cut stopped the oxygen supply to the incubators. According to sources, the five children were […]
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN (TIP): Militants killed eight members of a government paramilitary force in a midnight attack on a security checkpoint in Pakistan’s restive northwest, security officials said Friday. The militants bombarded the checkpoint with rocket-propelled […]
LAHORE (TIP): Pakistani security forces laid siege on Thursday to a suspected militant hideout just a few kilometres from the family home of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said. […]
BANNU: A US drone strike hit a suspected militant compound in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people, officials said. The attack came in North Waziristan, where the Pakistani military is […]
BANNU (TIP): The number of displaced people from North Waziristan, where the Pakistan army has launched a major anti-terror operation, has almost doubled to over 900,000 in the last few days. Most of them complain […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Amid an allout military operation against the Taliban in North Waziristan, Pakistan’s parliament passed a controversial anti-terror law on July 2, giving security forces unbridled powers, including shoot-at-sight suspects involved in terrorism, arson […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan launched a ground offensive against militant strongholds near the Afghan border on July 1 after evacuating nearly half a million people from the tribal region, the army said. The ground offensive is […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): As President Barack Obama announced plans for Afghanistan after ending US combat mission by year end, the US hoped India, Pakistan and Afghanistan would help provide greater stability and security in the region. […]
Pakistan condemns US drone strikes in Waziristan ISLAMABAD (TIP): A missile strike from a suspected US drone has targeted a compound in a northwestern tribal district in Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing at least […]
AMRITSAR (TIP): Aaghaz-e-Dosti, a joint body comprising India-based Mission Bharatiyam and Pakistan-based The Catalyst, has released a list of Pakistani prisoners languishing in Indian jails on public domain. It will also release a list of […]
ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan court on June 05 ordered police to lodge an FIR against former CIA station chief for killing civilians in US drone strikes in the volatile northwestern tribal regions stretching along the border […]
LAHORE (TIP): Iranian authorities refused to fuel the aircraft of Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif during his visit to Tehran last month to make the state-run PIA clear its dues amounting to just over $5,000. “The […]
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