Pakistan supplied munitions and arms to Ukraine in return for the recent bailout to the South Asian country by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a deal brokered by the United States, leaked documents have revealed. According to an investigation by The Intercept, two sources with knowledge of the arrangement, as[…]
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday was arrested from his residence in Lahore after he was handed a jail term in a corruption case, said a senior leader of his party, Anadolu reports. Farrukh Habib, former state minister for information, said on X, formerly Twitter, that the Punjab police[…]
Pakistan has decided to charge the suspected human traffickers involved in last month’s shipwreck off the coast of Greece under the country’s anti-money laundering law, an official statement said on Monday, Anadolu Agency reports. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), which is investigating the gory incident in which some 350 Pakistanis were among[…]
Sitting under a white canopy encrusted with fairy lights at a training session in London for Hajj, Shakil Ahsan listens patiently to the imam as he explains the rites of the pilgrimage in Urdu. The 42-year-old council worker has dreamed of doing the Hajj pilgrimage for several years, and now[…]
Calling it “undeclared martial law,” Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, on Thursday approached the top court against the deployment of armed forces in parts of the country, requesting it to term the move unconstitutional, Anadolu Agency reports. The army was deployed in the provinces of Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and[…]
Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement to finance a Pakistani dam project, worth over $240 million. According to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the Mohmand Hydropower Dam Project on the Swat River in north-west Pakistan is to be funded through a “soft development loan.” Financed by the Saudi Fund for Development[…]
Gulf states have condemned the bombing of a mosque inside a police compound on Monday in Pakistan that has left over 60 people dead, most of them police, and prompted the government to put the country on high alert. The attack happened during afternoon prayers in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close[…]
Protests have erupted in several cities across Pakistan after police took into custody the leader of a far-right religious party known for holding mass demonstrations over the issue of “blasphemy”. On Monday evening, several major intercity highways were closed by police as protests broke out in Pakistan’s largest city of[…]
About 24 hours after military chiefs from India and Pakistan surprised the world last month with a rare joint commitment to respect a 2003 cease-fire agreement, the top diplomat of the United Arab Emirates popped over to New Delhi for a quick one-day visit. The official UAE readout of the[…]
Police say they have found the body of a Pakistani dissident living in the Canadian city of Toronto on refugee status, with rights group Amnesty International and others calling for a full and transparent investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death. The body of 37-year-old Karima Mehrab Baloch was found[…]
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