KOHAT FORT: Following three-week long parleys the two warring (Shia and Non-Shia) tribes have signed a 14-point peace accord here on Wednesday (1st Jan 2025). According to details tribal elders converged at Kohat Fort where GCO 9 Division Major General Zulfiqar Bhatti had arranged a meeting (jirga) to figure out a way to end the […]
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KARACHI: Since the activists of politico-religious Party MWM refused to pay heed to the appeals of the authority to end sit-ins that had caused embouteillages all over the Metropolis for eight days, the city Police initiated crackdown on Tuesday (31st Dec, 2024) in order to clear the main arteries. At Malir No. 15, unknown gunmen […]
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ISLAMABAD: NA Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has convened an in-camera meeting of PTI and Govt representatives at Parliament House 11am Thursday (2nd January, 2025). The upcoming meeting is a continuation of the rendezvous of 23rd Dec, 2024. Earlier, SIC’s Sahibzada Hamid Raza, PTI’s Omar Ayub Khan and Asad Qaisar (SIC) Sahibzada Hamid Raza held a […]
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PLAINS (GEORGIA): James Earl Carter Jr (Jimmy Carter), the longest-lived president of USA, peacefully called it a day on 29th Dec, 2024, at his home here surrounded by his family. He is survived by his 4 children, 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren: “My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who […]
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MUAN CITY (S. KOREA): Jeju Air flight 7C2216, carrying 181 people (175 voyageurs/6 crew) from Bangkok, turned into a fireball while crash landing at Muan International Airport (289km from Seoul) killing all onboard sauf two here at 9am (local time) Sunday (29th Dec 2024). According to sources the fifteen-year-old Boeing 737-800 jet’s landing gear malfunctioned, […]
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MOSCOW: Sans admitting that Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane crashed (killing 38) due to Russian Air Defense System (meant to contain Ukrainian drones) President Vladimir Putin apologised to President Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev here on Saturday (28th Dec, 2024) for the ‘tragic accident’. Kremlin stated: “(President) Vladimir Putin apologised for the tragic incident that occurred in […]
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KARACHI: Some people remain alive and immortal, even after death, in the pages of history.Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed was also one of them. The daughter of Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, entered practical politics at the age of twenty-four.Like her father, she was known for principled politics.Sorrows overshadowed contentment in Benazir Bhutto’s political life.Despite execution […]
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RAWALPINDI: Military Courts, that had sentenced 25 civilians on 21st December, 2024, had convicted another 60 civilians who were accused of involvement in 9th May, 2023 riots. It may be recalled that after SCP’s 13th Dec, 2024 decision, allowing Military Courts to announce verdicts apropos 85 individuals nabbed in the case of 9th May, 2023 […]
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KABUL: Foreign Office of Afghanistan interim govt summoned the Pakistani head of diplomatic mission here on Wednesday (25th Dec, 2024) to deliver a formal protest over strikes carried out by the PAF jets inside their territory. 46 TTP militants lost their lives when Pakistani Air Force Jets bombarded their hideouts in Paktika province here on […]
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KARACHI: Members of Christian community in Pakistan are all set to observe Christmas with religious fervor on Wednesday (25th of Dec). It may be recalled that Founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had proclaimed: “You are free to go to your place of worship, you are free to go to your mosques, you are […]
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