A convoy of oil tankers was attacked by unidentified armed men in the troubled northwest Pakistan to disrupt the supply of diesel and petrol to Kurram district, police said.
Gunmen opened fire on the convoy in the Bagan area on Monday. However, no damage was reported, with oil carriers...
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party has decided to walk out of talks with the government aimed at defusing tensions that have dominated the country’s political landscape for the past three years, prompting fears of new street confrontations between the opposition party and law enforcement.
After three rounds of...
Pakistan’s political landscape has long been marred by a disturbing and powerful contradiction: a so-called democracy that is, in practice, under the suffocating control of its military. While the country has seen the rise of civilian governments, the military continues to pull the strings behind the scenes, stifling free...
The Taliban claims that members of ISIS and other “destabilizing” groups, with the “indirect support of certain factions,” have established themselves in Balochistan and some tribal regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
In its annual security report published on Wednesday, January 22, the Central Commission for Security and Purging of the...
Pakistan is facing a revenue shortfall of PKR 385 billion for the period between July and December 2024
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended that Pakistan implement a mini-budget to address the gap, but the Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has rejected this suggestion. Instead, he has directed Pakistan's...
Amnesty International South Asia has condemned the 'heavy-handed crackdown' by the police on Baloch protesters in Lyari region of Pakistan during a peaceful mobilization campaign hosted by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC).
In a statement, Amnesty International South Asia said: "The heavy-handed crackdown by the police against Baloch protesters in...
Pakistan’s trade deficit with nine neighbouring countries surged by 43.22 per cent to $5.328 billion during the first half of the current fiscal year (FY25) from $3.72bn in the corresponding period last year.
The trade gap with the regional countries widened mainly due to higher imports from China, India and...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised cash-strapped Pakistan’s economic outlook, downgrading its projected Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for 2025 to 3%, down from 3.2% forecasted just three months ago, according to a media report on Saturday.
The adjustment comes amid a broader global economic assessment presented in...
In a controversial act on the night of January 16–17, 2025, authorities in Daska demolished a historic Ahmadi place of worship. This mosque, built before 1947 by Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, a prominent leader in Pakistan’s independence movement, held profound historical and spiritual significance for the Ahmadi community.
The mosque, commissioned...
Sardar Ahmad Shakib, the Taliban Ambassador in Islamabad, stated that Pakistani police have banned the exit of Afghans from the capital, Islamabad, and Rawalpindi after January 15.
The Taliban Embassy in Islamabad announced on Wednesday, January 15, that the ambassador had met with Filippo Grandi, the High Commissioner for Refugees...
