Alerts
The army’s top brass on Friday warned that any attempt at creating agitation or a “May 9-like situation” would be dealt with “decisive force”, according to the military’s media wing. The warning came during the 277th Corps Commanders’ Conference in Rawalpindi, which was presided over by Chief of Def...
State-run Radio Pakistan reported on Friday that two unarmed Pakistani civilians were martyred and another was injured in firing by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) near the border in Kasur. Citing security sources, the report said that three residents of Ladhar village went a few steps ahead of ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Friday that a meeting of Makkah Defence Alliance’s Strategic Political Defence Committee (SPDC) would take place in Riyadh next week, adding that it would focus on Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia. He made the remarks while addressing a pres...
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French high school students lit fires outside schools and faced off with police on Friday as a protest movement that has forced the closure of some 400 establishments showed no sign of abating. The movement, which began last week in the Paris region and rapidly spread nationwide, has seen teenage pu...
Pakistan’s wait for a men’s squash team gold at the Asian Games goes on. Sixteen years after beating Malaysia 2-0 in Guangzhou for their last title in the event, Pakistan found the result reversed at the Nagoya Kinjo Futo Arena on Friday, losing the final 2-0 to the same opponents and settling for s...
The first two of a batch of 66 new F-16V Block 70 fighter jets ordered in 2019 arrived in Taiwan on Friday after months of delays, helping to strengthen an air force that has to scramble almost daily to shadow China’s military. Taipei has complained of repeated delays to weapons ordered from the Un...
Two new islands have emerged in waters surrounding Mount Anak Krakatau following a major eruption last month that grounded flights for days, the head of Indonesia’s volcano monitoring agency said Friday. The islands were spotted in satellite images of the water-filled caldera in which Anak Krakatau ...
Saudi authorities on Friday denied reports of a suicide bomber at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, saying a man was arrested for harassing passersby and causing panic. “Security authorities in the holy capital arrested a person for harassing passersby and spreading fear and panic among them, and he was d...
Seven terrorists were killed in the Eidak area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district during an intelligence-based operation (IBO), state media reported on Friday, citing security sources. “Security forces pursued the terrorists of Fitna al Khawarij with determination and combat skills an...
Lahore has once again emerged as the most polluted city in the world, with its air quality classified as “unhealthy”, according to air quality monitoring platform IQAir, as Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz said the government was making efforts to address environmental issues. In the past few years, air ...
A delegation of the opposition alliance Tehreek-i-Tahafuz-Ayin-i-Pakistan (TTAP), including Senate opposition leader Senator Allama Raja Nasir Abbas and PTI leaders, on Friday invited Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman to participate in a multiparty conference proposed by the opposition...
