Nationwide power blackout in Pakistan, 210 mil in the dark
Power was gradually being restored to major cities across Pakistan yesterday after it was hit by a massive electricity blackout, officials said.
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Indian army officer accused of planting weapons on civilians
Indian police on Sunday accused an army officer and two associates of planting weapons on the bodies of three labourers killed in Kashmir to make it look as though they were militants in a staged gun battle.
Pakistan president approves new anti-rape law
The law which will speed up convictions and launch national sex offenders registry.
Failure to nail Pakistan for Mumbai terrorist attacks unacceptable
Just like 9/11 did to the US, 26/11 changed India forever. The dastardly attacks still evoke deep emotions across India.
New script in Pakistan as criticisms against military arise
For a country as famously unpredictable as Pakistan, the regularity of its dispiriting pattern of politics can be hard to explain.
Obama’s intriguing silence on Pakistan
However, the one question Obama doesn’t answer — or even address — is about Pakistan’s role. Was Pakistan hiding bin Laden and, therefore, complicit?
Punishing Pakistan for Mumbai attack, imperative
Pakistan’s involvement in the dastardly terrorist attack on Mumbai on November 26, 2008, remains a telling reminder for the world how the rogue nation has singularly compromised the global campaign against terrorism.
Pakistan: Where fact and fiction come together
Fiction: Osama Barakzai was appointed to head the Intelligence outfit in the Guards by the Chief Akram Moghul in 1990.
India slams Pakistan over missing 26/11 attack conspirators from terror list
India has rejected Pakistan’s latest list of terrorists involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, saying it “glaringly omits” the mastermind and key conspirators of the terror strike.
Fresh military crisis in Kashmir can help Pakistan test Biden’s South Asia policies
As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take charge of America on January 20, Pakistan hopes to reset bilateral relations with the US and draw Washington into the Kashmir dispute with India.
When UK tried to protect Pakistan
The UK found reason to support China and Pakistan, a main espouser of terrorism, against India, a huge and common stakeholder in the fight against terrorism.
In Pakistan, a new battle takes shape
The Pakistan army and the country’s principal opposition parties are on a collision course. Despite the army’s warning not to drag it into politics, these parties have publicly complained about its political role.
Pakistan may not be able to deal with Arab-Israel thaw
Pakistan joined Turkey and Malaysia, earlier this year, to hold a “separate” Islamic summit to signal to the Semites of the Middle East that it can go its own way.
Pakistan sees its face in the mirror and doesn’t like what it sees
Most ideologues possess a kind of certitude, not just that utopia can be built but that it is destined to be built. Nothing promotes aggression more than certitude.
In Pakistan-Saudi clash, India has an opportunity
Pakistan’s foreign minister criticises Saudi Arabia over its aloofness and inability to conduct a meeting on Kashmir in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Pakistan needs to grasp strategy in Arab-Israeli detente
Pakistan is greatly perturbed by the introverted policies followed by Saudi Arabia and its neighbours with regard to India and simply can’t comprehend the inaction of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over Kashmir.
Monsoon triggers flash floods killing over 60
At least 64 people are killed and dozens injured in floods in Pakistan.
Pakistan’s education ‘reforms’ are privileging the madrassa system
It is curious that English and its “logical-sequential” discourse should disturb Imran Khan, who frequently lambasts modern “liberal” Pakistanis.
Pakistan’s information war against India needs attention
There has been a sharp increase in Pakistan’s vicious information war campaign against India. An analysis would reveal three triggers.
Pakistan to relocate abused jumbo to Cambodia
A Pakistani court approved the relocation of a lonely and mistreated elephant to Cambodia on Saturday after the pachyderm became the subject of a high-profile rights campaign backed by music star Cher.
Khan urges ‘simplicity’ to slow virus over festival
Pakistanis should celebrate the upcoming Eid festival with “simplicity” to prevent a spike in new coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Imran Khan said Friday.
Security Council condemns terrorist attack in Karachi
The Security Council on Wednesday condemned Monday’s terrorist attack in Karachi, Pakistan, which resulted in several deaths.
Six people killed in attack on Pakistan Stock Exchange
At least six people were killed when gunmen attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi on Monday, with a policeman among the dead after the assailants opened fire and hurled a grenade at the trading floor, police said.
India protests desecration of Buddhist structures in ‘Pakistan-held’ Kashmir
India protests over the destruction of Indian-Buddhist heritage in the region.
‘Martyr bin Laden’ and Khan’s ‘slip of the tongue’
He blames the United States for destabilising the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and justifies the Taliban militancy as a reaction to an imperialist invasion.
Jammu and Kashmir: Resistant Front seeks new image
The Resistance Front (TRF) is the product of one of the several efforts, often repeated over the past two decades by Rawalpindi, to give terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) an “indigenous” face and to provide Pakistan’s deep state an alibi.
Imran Khan anti-graft drive hits glass ceiling
Even Imran Khan didn’t realise how deeply vested the interests of the army are in the matters of the state when he decided to move his crusade against corruption to the next level.
Pakistan warns coronavirus will peak at more than a million cases
Pakistan’s planning minister warned Sunday that the number of coronavirus cases in the country could double by the end of June and peak at more than a million infections just a month later.
WHO calls for new lockdowns in Pakistan as virus surges
The World Health Organisation has told Pakistan it should implement “intermittent” lockdowns to counter a surge in coronavirus infections that has come as the country loosens restrictions, officials said.
Pakistan’s COVID-19 cases pass 100,000 mark
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan rose to 103,671 with 2,067 deaths, according to the data updated by the country’s health ministry on Monday morning.
