28-05-2024 Bu SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ PESHAWAR: Five Pakistani soldiers were martyred in gun-battles with Islamist militants in the country’s northwest bordering Afghanistan on Monday, the Pakistan Army said. The statement said the deaths were in addition to two other soldiers, including an officer, who were martyred the previous …

12-05-2024 By SJA Jafri GAZA CITY/ LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: Thousands of Palestinians are also celebrating Mother’s Day like millions enjoying across the world under the umbrellas of fears, tears, thirst, hungers and apathetic of entire Muslim Ummah, sources, victims and participants told PMI. Not a public holiday, but a …

By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: The United States has warned Pakistan of the risk of sanctions after it promised greater security and economic cooperation with Iran during a visit by President Ebrahim Raisi. The first Iranian president to visit the South Asian country in eight …

23-04-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistan and Iran have agreed to increase the volume of bilateral trade to $10 billion in the next five years following the signing of as many as eight agreements and memorandums of understanding (MoUs) for cooperation in different areas. Speaking after …

20-04-2024 By SJA Jafri KARACHI: Five (5) Japanese nationals in Pakistan escaped unhurt on Friday from a suicide bomb attack on their vehicle as police shot down a gunman accompanying the bomber, a police spokesperson said, but two bystanders were among the three injured. Islamist militants seeking to overthrow the …

29-03-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will set up an inquiry commission to investigate accusations by six High Court judges of interference and intimidation by the country’s powerful intelligence agencies in judicial decisions, the law minister said on Thursday. Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar made the …

27-03-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ PESHAWAR: Five Chinese nationals and a Pakistani man have been killed after a suicide attacker rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into their convoy near Besham city in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in northwest Pakistan. The incident happened on Tuesday when …

19-03-2024 By SJA Jafri KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Eight people, including five women and three children, have been killed in two airstrikes carried out by Pakistan Army in the border region of Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said. Retaliating the attack, Afghanistan security forces have launched heavy weapons at the Pakistani military. …

11-03-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, who was elected as the 14th president of the country with a big margin a day earlier, has taken oath as the head of state today (Sunday). Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi …

07-03-2024 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD: A court in Pakistan is set to hear the bail petition of Aliya Hamza Malik, a former parliamentarian who has been in jail for nearly 10 months for protesting against the arrest of her Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s founder and …