The outgoing government of Pakistan has passed a raft of legislation during the last 30 days. Many parliamentarians have complained that some of those Bills were not properly debated and oftentimes not even referred to parliamentary committees – sparking fears about the setting of negative precedents in the South Asian country.
At...
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is set to dissolve parliament days before his term expires at the end of the week, a development that comes shortly after popular former leader Imran Khan was imprisoned in a graft case.
“I will dissolve my government and the National Assembly on August 9,”...
In the most recent attack on law enforcement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a police vehicle in Peshawar’s Badaber was attacked, due to which one policeman embraced martyrdom and two others received injuries.
After the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) broke its truce with Islamabad, a number of terror attacks occurred in the...
Anyone expecting chaos and mayhem on Pakistan’s streets following the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Imran Khan’s arrest on Saturday 5 August in Lahore must have been disappointed. There was silence and people went about their business.
This was not the case on 9 May or earlier in March when the cricketer-turned-politician’s...
A Bomb went off near a vehicle in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, killing at least seven people including a local politician, government officials and police said.
The incident took place late on Monday night when a roadside bomb hit the vehicle of a chairman of a union council and others...
New Delhi, Aug 7: Pakistan-based crime syndicates are using Nepal as a conduit for smuggling weapons into India.
Criminals operating from Pakistan, reportedly supported by the ISI, purportedly employ air cargo to transport weapons, including Zigana pistols and Chinese-made AK-47 rifles, concealed within specially designed iron boxes, said a source...
Apparently, the act of suicide bombing reflects the mindlessness of the bomber. The suicide bomber takes his own life – a life which represents the fundamental material interest of any thinking and living being. In this way, the bomber goes against their own interest in an inherently mindless manner....
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Iftikhar Durrani was “picked up” from his residence in the wee hours of Thursday, the former ruling party claimed.
In a tweet, which included a video of Durrani's house allegedly ransacked by law enforces, posted on the party’s official Twitter handle, the PTI stated that "law...
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial on Thursday said the armed forces would not be allowed to take “unconstitutional steps” as a six-judge bench indefinitely adjourned the hearing on a set of petitions challenging the trials of civilians in military courts.
The bench, headed by the top judge,...
The Islamic State-Khorasan claimed responsibility for a bombing at a political rally months before a national vote.
The group’s Khorasan Province branch said Monday that the attack is part of its efforts to stop forms of democracy it deems against Islam. The bombing was at a rally for the Jamiat...
