Over 400 people were killed and thousands injured when a devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Iran in a region bordering Iraq, damaging hundreds of buildings and causing massive destruction. The death toll could rise, officials warned on Monday. Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) news agency raised the death[Read More…]
Tag: Pakistan
Masood Azhar’s nephew among 3 JeM militants killed in Pulwama gunfight
Three Jaish-e-Muhammad militants, including the nephew of terror outfit chief Masood Azhar, were killed in an overnight gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said on Tuesday. Quoting a JeM statement, local news agency GNS said Talha Rasheed, nephew of Azhar, was among the three militants[Read More…]
CIA releases files recovered in Osama bin Laden raid
The CIA has released thousands of files seized during the May 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, including personal photographs of his family and insight into the Al Qaeda’s global leadership, the media reported. The massive amount of new material released on Wednesday contains nearly 470,000[Read More…]
Pakistan releases 68 Indian fishermen as goodwill gesture
Islamabad: Pakistan released 68 Indian fishermen on Sunday as a goodwill gesture, officials said. The Indian fishermen had been arrested for intrusion into Pakistani waters for illegal fishing and were freed from a prison in the Pakistani port city Karachi, Xinhua news agency reported. They will be handed over to Indian[Read More…]
Pakistan: Elections will be held on time, says PM Abbasi
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said the next general election would be held on time next year and advised his political opponents to wait patiently till the PML-N completes its term. “I am 100 per cent sure that elections will be held in 2018,” he told PTV in[Read More…]
Sushma Swaraj grants medical visa to Pak girl for treatment in India
External affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, on Wednesday offered help and granted visa to 7-year-old Pakistani girl from Karachi to undergo an open heart surgery in India. Swaraj shared this information on Twitter. She accepted Nida Shoaib’s request for granting visa for her daughter’s treatment. Nida had applied for the visa[Read More…]
From jihad to terrorism, here is all that Sushma Swaraj said at UN General Assembly
In her address to the United Nations General Assembly, union minister, Sushma Swaraj, said that the priority of India, since independence, has been to lift its people out of poverty. Swaraj also listed the steps taken by the Narendra Modi government towards financial inclusion, poverty alleviation and introducing social and[Read More…]
Dawood Ibrahim runs business from Pakistan: Iqbal Kaskar
Underworld don, Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar’s younger brother, Iqbal Kaskar, claims that his elder brother is in Pakistan. Iqbal, who is currently in the custody of Thane Police after being arrested in connection with an extortion case, told investigators that Dawood has changed his location in Pakistan four times since 2014.[Read More…]
Vicky Kaushal to play lead in film on Indian surgical strike in Pakistan
The incident of India’s surgical strike on terrorist hubs in Pakistan is being made into a film. Produced by Ronnie Screwvala, actor Vicky Kaushal will play the lead role in the movie that has been titled, “Uri“. “Today we are a confident, aggressive and new age India – standing up[Read More…]
About 14 shopkeepers arrested for selling ‘bras, panties’ in open
About 14 shopkeepers were arrested by the district administration of Buner in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa for selling women’s undergarments in the open, The Express Tribune reported. “We received complaints from locals about open showcasing of women’s undergarments, including bras, panties and other materials,” Buner additional assistant commissioner, Zahid Usman Kakakhel said.[Read More…]
This Pak girl creates board game on arranged marriage to empower women
An 18-year old girl from Pakistan has designed a board game, that is about the system of arranged marriages in her country. The idea struck Nashra Balagamwala, when she was approached for marriage five years ago. A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, Nashra first came up with the idea[Read More…]
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[Watch] Pak students sing Indian national anthem as ‘return gift’
Days after an Indian music group gave a beautiful birthday present to Pakistan on its 70th Independence Day by singing their national anthem, the students of Lahore’s Forman Christian University (FCU) came together to perform renditions of Indian National Anthem as a “return gift”. The video was uploaded on Voice[Read More…]
Pakistan to nominate judge for ICJ team
The government of Pakistan has begun consultations on nomination of an ad hoc judge for the Kulbhushan Jadhav case being heard at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), local media reported on Tuesday. The move is intended to strengthen Pakistan’s legal team fighting the case at the ICJ. Jadhav was[Read More…]
Why Pakistan celebrates Independence Day on 14th August and not 15th?
Although India got divided into two states, India and Pakistan on the same day, the neighboring country marks 14th of August as its independence day, while India celebrates its independence day on 15th of August. This has puzzled many and most of the youth are busy googgling the reason behind it. So,[Read More…]
Indian music group wishes ‘Independence day’ to Pak in video, gets appreciation
An Indian musical group has given a beautiful present to Pakistan as the neighbouring country celebrates its 70th Independence Day on Monday. Voxchord, an Indian acapella group has sung Pak’s national anthem, Pak Sarzamin. The video was uploaded by the group on Friday and has already garnered more than 57,000[Read More…]
Pakistan hoists flag taller than India’s at Wagah border
Pakistan hoisted the tallest flag, which is 120 by 180 feet and was installed on a 400 feet pole, in South Asia on its 70th Independence Day. The flag was hoisted by Pakistan Army chief, general Qamar Javed Bajwa at 12 in the midnight. Notably, the tallest flag was planned[Read More…]
Bihar minister ask journos if they support ‘Pakistan’ after they didn’t chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’
Bihar minister, Vinod Kumar Singh on Tuesday triggered a controversy as he asked if people who hadn’t raised their arms while shouting “Bharat Mata ki Jai” were Pakistan supporters. His remark was hinted towards media persons present there. The minister for mines and geology was speaking during a Bharatiya Janata[Read More…]
Pakistan gets its first Hindu minister after 20 years
After a span of almost two decade, a Hindu politician, Darshan Lal, was given the role of a cabinet minister in Pakistan. The decision was declared on Friday as the new Prime Minister, Shahaid Khaqan Abbasi formed his cabinet. As per the government official, Abbasi has appointed 65-year old Lal[Read More…]
Pakistani school textbooks blame Hindus for partition bloodshed
Pakistani textbooks are blaming Hindus for the bloodshed that took place at the time of partition. History books in Pakistan are claiming that “traitorous” Hindus are to blame for the bloodshed that took place after British India was divided into two nations 70 years ago. This biased narrative of such[Read More…]
Foreign Terrorist Fighters: India as a victim
Who does not know the role played by state sponsored terrorism of Pakistan to the Indian state of Kashmir and the rest of the country? Wars, guerilla dramas, non-state actors, kidnappings, hijack, bombings by Pakistan or foreign terrorist is common in India from Delhi to Mumbai to Hyderabad. Former National[Read More…]
Pakistan: PTI lawmaker accuses Imran Khan of harassing women party leaders
An alienated woman, Ayesha Gulaili, a lawmaker of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Tuesday accused party chief Imran Khan of harassing women leaders in the party. Ayesha, who hails from South Waziristan tribal region, at a press conference alleged that “honor” of women affiliated with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was not safe. Announcing to[Read More…]
Following Sharif’s ouster, Pakistan will elect new Prime Minister on Tuesday
Replacing ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s parliament will elect his successor on Tuesday. Pakistan SC on Friday disqualified Sharif for being dishonest and ruled that corruption cases be filed against him and his children over the Panama Papers scandal. This made him quit office as the PM. President Mamnoon[Read More…]
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi made interim Prime Minister of Pakistan
Pakistan Muslim League (PM-L) senior leader and former petroleum minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will run the PML-N government as interim prime minister of Pakistan until Nawaz Sharif’s brother Shahbaz is elected as member of parliament, Pakistan media reported. “Abbasi would serve as the chief executive of Pakistan for 45 days.[Read More…]
Panama paper: ‘Hum Haare Huye States Jeet Rahe, Tu Jeeta Hua Haar Gaya’ Indians reacted to Sharif’s disqualification
Soon after the Pakistan Supreme Court ruled that Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, who was named in the Panama Papers investigation, has been disqualified from holding office, Indians on Twitter started questioning when the bigwig here named in the panama paper case will get convicted. Besides, #panamapaper is also trending after[Read More…]
Even Pakistan has better military industrial base than India, says Army Vice Chief
Pakistan has a better military industrial base and exports more defence equipment than India said a top Army general as he came down heavily on ordnance factories that manufacture weapons for the forces. General Sarath Chand, Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS), said the ordnance factories have failed to keep[Read More…]