
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.
Power was gradually being restored to major cities across Pakistan yesterday after it was hit by a massive electricity blackout, officials said.
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.
The law which will speed up convictions and launch national sex offenders registry.
Just like 9/11 did to the US, 26/11 changed India forever. The dastardly attacks still evoke deep emotions across India.
For a country as famously unpredictable as Pakistan, the regularity of its dispiriting pattern of politics can be hard to explain.
However, the one question Obama doesn’t answer — or even address — is about Pakistan’s role. Was Pakistan hiding bin Laden and, therefore, complicit?
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.
Fiction: Osama Barakzai was appointed to head the Intelligence outfit in the Guards by the Chief Akram Moghul in 1990.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
At least 64 people are killed and dozens injured in floods in Pakistan.
It is curious that English and its “logical-sequential” discourse should disturb Imran Khan, who frequently lambasts modern “liberal” Pakistanis.
There has been a sharp increase in Pakistan’s vicious information war campaign against India. An analysis would reveal three triggers.
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.
Pakistanis should celebrate the upcoming Eid festival with “simplicity” to prevent a spike in new coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Imran Khan said Friday.
The Security Council on Wednesday condemned Monday’s terrorist attack in Karachi, Pakistan, which resulted in several deaths.
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 over the destruction of Indian-Buddhist heritage in the region.
He blames the United States for destabilising the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and justifies the Taliban militancy as a reaction to an imperialist invasion.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.