14-10-2025 By SJA Jafri+ Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistan’s military says it has killed more than 200 Afghan fighters while Afghanistan claims it killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in cross-border clashes along their frontier. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for Afghanistan’s Taliban government, on Sunday said 30 other Pakistani soldiers were …

12-10-2025 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: The Taliban government has confirmed that it attacked Pakistani troops in multiple mountainous locations on the northern border. Casualties are not yet clear in what the Taliban government called “retaliatory operations”, after it claimed Pakistan had violated Afghan airspace and bombed a …

10-09-2025 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ NEW DELHI: Four million people have been affected by devastating floods in Pakistan and thousands of farmers across the border in India are also experiencing the loss of their crops as experts say global warming has worsened the scale of …

20-08-2025 By SJA Jafri KARACHI: Authorities in Pakistan’s Sindh province have imposed an emergency in Karachi, the country’s largest city and commercial capital, after flash floods triggered by heavy rain inundated vast swathes of the metropolis, killing dozens people in separate incidents. The downpour on Tuesday brought life to a …

19-08-2025 By SJA Jafri PESHAWAR/ BAYSHONAI KALAY: Aziz Ahmed, a local schoolteacher in Buner, northwestern Pakistan said the thunder accompanying recent torrential rains was so loud he thought the “end of the world had come”. Water, rocks and trees were swept down the mountainside after two days of intense monsoon …

13-08-2025 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ WASHINGTON: The United States has upped pressure on the Pakistan-based Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), labelling it a “foreign terrorist” organization. The designation, announced by the Department of State on Monday, comes after the BLA, which is also known as the Majeed Brigade, was …

07-08-2025 By SJA Jafri LAHORE: Thousands of supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan are rallying across the country to demand his release on the second anniversary of his imprisonment. Security officials on Tuesday said dozens of activists belonging to Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party have been arrested, with …

31-07-2025 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ RAWALPINDI: The father and ex-husband of a victim allegedly killed on the orders of a local council are among nine people arrested in eastern Pakistan in connection with the young woman’s death. Police said Sidra Bibi, 18, was killed allegedly on the orders of a …

23-07-2025 By SJA Jafri + Agencies QUETTA: Pakistani authorities have arrested at least 13 individuals, including a tribal leader, in connection with the killing of a couple in the southwestern province of Balochistan. The arrests followed nationwide outrage over a video depicting the murders went viral on social media, with …

21-06-2025 By SJA Jafri ISLAMABAD/ QUETTA/ KARACHI: In January 2024, Pakistan and Iran fired missiles into each other’s territory in a brief military escalation between the neighbors. Yet 17 months later, after Israel attacked Iran with strikes on the latter’s nuclear facilities, and assassinated multiple Iranian generals and nuclear scientists, …