13-08-2024 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former spymaster who was once tipped for the army’s top job – has been taken into military custody. Lt Gen Faiz Hameed has been accused of abusing his power and raiding a private property development business during his time as head of …

06-08-2024 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has now been behind bars for a year although there are times you would barely know it. Khan is still the dominant force of Pakistan’s opposition politics; his name still in the papers and the courts. His social …

18-07-2024 By SJA Jafri + Agencies MUSCAT/ KARACHI: Nine (9) people, including a policeman, have been killed and 28 others injured in a rare shooting attack near a Shia Muslim mosque in Oman’s capital, Muscat, police say. The three attackers were also killed by security forces during the incident in …

16-07-2024 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government has said it plans to ban Pakistan Terheek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The announcement by Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Monday came days after the Supreme Court handed a major legal victory to the PTI by …

14-07-2024 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD: A court in Pakistan has acquitted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife on charges of unlawful marriage, according to his party and lawyer. Khan and his wife Bushra Khan, also known as Bushra Bibi, were sentenced to seven years in prison, days before …

03-07-2024 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistan will continue to launch attacks against Afghanistan as part of a new military operation aimed at countering terrorism, the country’s defence minister has told media. Khawaja Asif said the aerial strikes were targeting groups which Pakistan accuses of targeting security forces …

02-07-2024 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistan is set to start the second phase of a controversial plan to send undocumented Afghan refugees back to their country. Beginning Sunday, authorities are likely to expel more than 800,000 Afghans from the country, after about 541,000 were forced to leave in the …

29-06-2024 By SJA Jafri KARACHI: Karachi, the port city that once gleamed with state-of-the-art infrastructure and modern education, has been ranked as the least liveable city in global survey once again. The Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister organization to The Economist, has ranked 173 cities across the globe on a …

27-06-2024 By SJA Jafri + Agencies KARACHI: As the temperatures rose in southern Pakistan, so did the body count. The Edhi ambulance service says it usually takes around 30 to 40 people to the Karachi city morgue daily but over the last six days, it has collected some 568 bodies, …

22-06-2024 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ SWAT: A tourist has been dragged from a police station and killed by a mob in north-west Pakistan after being accused of blasphemy. The police had been attempting to protect the man from the large group in the town of Madyan, a town in Swat …