Iranians harassed, questioned at US border: CAIR
ISLAMABAD: Dozens of Iranians and Iranian-Americans have reported being harassed or questioned for hours at the US border following heightened tensions over the US killing of Iranian General…
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ECNEC approves Southern Punjab Poverty Alleviation Project
ISLAMABAD: The Executive committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) at the Cabinet Division approved the Southern Punjab Poverty Alleviation Project (SPPAP)-IFAD that will cost…
Pakistan releases 20 Indian prisoners
ISLAMABAD: The Government of Pakistan yesteray released 20 Indian prisoners (fishermen) to be repatriated via Wagah Border.
These prisoners have been released upon completion of their…
Sarfaraz Ahmed meets Pakistan U19 World Cup squad
Lahore, 6 January 2020: Sarfaraz Ahmed, the captain of the Pakistan side which lifted the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup in 2006, made a visit to the ongoing Pakistan U19 camp at the National…
FO condemns BJP’s smear campaign against Pakistan
The BJP government's mischievous portrayal of isolated law and order incidents in Peshawar and Nankana Sahib as alleged ‘persecution’ of minorities is part of its smear campaign against…
Defiant Trump doubles down on threat to Iran cultural sites
US President Donald Trump doubled down Sunday on a threat to attack Iranian cultural sites despite accusations that any such strike would amount to a war crime.
After his top diplomat, Mike…
Pakistan will not become part of any regional conflict: FM Qureshi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan would neither let its soil be used against any other State nor become part of any regional conflict, said Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday.
According to a…
What India stands to lose
By: Amman Bari
With a population of 201 million Muslims, 28 million Christians and 24 million Sikhs, India can boast of a religious diversity that far outstrips Pakistan’s. But in its…
Kashmiris observe 71st anniversary of UN resolution on Kashmir’s…
SRI NAGAR: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi reaffirmed Pakistan’s political, diplomatic and moral support to the valiant Kashmiri people in their just struggle for human dignity and…
Nankana Sahib incident was scuffle between two Muslim groups: FO
ISLAMABAD: The provincial authorities in the Punjab province have informed that there was scuffle in the city of Nankana Sahib today, between two Muslim groups on a minor incident at a…
Critics challenge Pence’s claim Soleimani facilitated 9/11 hijackers
An assertion by US Vice President Mike Pence that Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, who died Friday in an American attack in Iraq, had helped the September 11 terrorists has been sharply…
US targeting 52 sites in Iran, warns Trump
President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the US is targeting 52 sites in Iran and will hit them "very fast and very hard" if the Islamic republic attacks American personnel or assets.
In…
Bilawal Bhutto pays tributes to ex-PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the legacy of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was not his name or personality but rather the leftist ideology…
Thousands in Iraq mourn top Iranian general killed by US; rockets fired in Baghdad
REUTERS: With shouts of “Death to America”, tens of thousands of people marched in Iraq on Saturday to mourn Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and an Iraqi militia leader who were…
Pakistan Navy’s aerial fleet strengthened with induction of High-tech maritime…
KARACHI: At a ceremony held in the city Saturday, high-tech maritime patrol and drones were inducted into the aerial fleet of the Pakistan Navy, according to the ISPR.
Chief of the Naval…