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      Pakistan is in constant touch with the interim government of Afghanistan regarding the resurgence of terrorist incidents and cross-border violence, the Foreign Office said Thursday. “We have agreed to continue established institutional mechanism with Afghanistan to prevent such incidents,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said at …

Former head of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) Amrullah Saleh-File Former head of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) Amrullah Saleh continues to spit venom at Pakistan by maligning state, army and intelligence agency through social media, just to appease India, showing indifference to the miseries of the Afghan …

Chief of Army Staff ( COAS) General Syed Asim Munir on Wednesday visited CMH Rawalpindi and met officers and soldiers who got injured during CTD complex Bannu operation-ISPR Chief of Army Staff ( COAS) General Syed Asim Munir on Wednesday visited CMH Rawalpindi and met officers and soldiers who got …

ECC  of the Cabinet here on approved technical supplementary grants of Rs1022.750 million for Baluchistan fishermen and Ghurki Trust teaching Hospital (GTTH), Lahore. According to press statement issued by finance ministry, Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar presided over the meeting. Considering the summary of Ministry …

 Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif  confirmed that all the terrorists of banned TTP who had taken hostage at Counter Terrorism Department ( C T D ) c e n t r e in Bannu were killed. T h e minister, speaking at the joint sitting of the parliament, informed …

  The United States has offered its ‘assistance’ to Pakistan in fighting terrorism, particularly amid the rising incidents of militancy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, saying that defeating terrorism was a ‘shared goal’ of both the countries. In a press briefing here yesterday, US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price, while …

   Former prime minis­ter and Pakistan Teh­reek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that he has a “personal” dispute with former army chief Gen­eral (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa but he will not take any action against him if he comes into power again. While talking to a delegation of Coun­cil …

The federal government  announced closure of restaurants and markets across the country by 8pm as a new plan for energy conservation has been unveiled. Defence Minister Khwaja Asif briefied the media on the decision taken by the federal cabinet at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. He said …

The Joint Session of the parliament (Majlis-e-Shoora)  passed the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Bill, 2022 to repeal the Federal Medical Teaching Institutes Act, 2021 commonly known as the MTI act. The bill, which was moved by Dr. Mahreen Razzaq Bhutto and passed by the parliament’s joint sitting, restored …

Pakistan needs “strong” support from the international community to deal with the vast devastation left behind by the unprecedented floods in August, pointing out that three times the area of his country — Portugal — was under water, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “There is a huge responsibility of the …