Pakistani security forces have been targeted in a series of attacks across Balochistan, with various armed groups claiming responsibility. In Kech district’s Zamuran area, a bomb struck Pakistani military personnel patrolling on foot in Kontagan. Local sources said the attack caused fatalities among the forces, but no group has claimed responsibility. Officials have yet to release...
The Pakistani Army and terror outfits need jihad against India not for Islam, but to maintain their high-profile lifestyle and sponsor the education of their children abroad, according to intelligence sources from India. “Jihad and non-state actors complement each other. Generals need jihadis and jihadis need Generals for their lifestyle....
At the recent NATO summit in Vilnius, world leaders expressed concern over Russia’s nuclear posture and the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, given the ongoing conflict between Russia and Western-backed Ukraine. Yet the international community also ought to pay attention to equally-as-important developments in the Indian subcontinent....
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, HRCP, has voiced concern over the worsening security and human rights situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, highlighting a situation of fear, lawlessness and erosion of civilian authorities in the province.   In its latest fact-finding report titled ‘Caught in the Crossfire’, the HRCP stated that nearly...
In response to non-violent protests by Mahrang Baloch, the Pakistani military is contemplating new tactics, including the establishment of new internment centres in Balochistan, similar to those set up in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Reports suggest that these proposed centres in Balochistan would operate like the Guantanamo Bay prison complex or the...
In another offbeat remark, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Friday again stroked a controversy after he claimed that the Pakistani Army purposely did not intercept the Indian drones as their retaliation would have given away the defence positions to the Indian forces. The minister’s comments came in reference to...
Washington DC , July 10: Highlighting religious discrimination in Pakistan, human rights activists raised concern over the decline in the percentage of minorities in Pakistan. Naveed Walter, the President of Human Rights Focus Pakistan said that the population of minorities in Pakistan has come down to 3 per cent from 23 per cent since its independence...
Fifty miles—and five years—separate Imran Khan’s greatest political triumph and the nadir, for now, of his political career. At one end is Parliament House in Islamabad, where the assembly that elected him prime minister of Pakistan in 2018 wrapped up its term on August 9th, with power due to...
Islamabad , September 11: An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 on the Richter Scale jolted Pakistan on Wednesday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. According to NCS, the epicentre of the earthquake was located in Pakistan at a depth of 33 kilometres at around 12:58 pm (IST). In a post on...
Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ishaq Dar, recently faced public embarrassment after citing a fabricated news article in the Senate. He presented an AI-generated image mimicking the front page of The Daily Telegraph, falsely claiming that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was hailed as the "undisputed king...