Khan’s demands—the dissolution of the national assembly and the announcement of the next general elections—will further create political instability and could also affect the government’s ability to take economic reform measures and critical decisions.
Days after Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi reiterated an amnesty offer for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a banned militant group, also known as the Pakistan Taliban, the latter on Friday rejected the idea and said they will "continue to fight" for the "implementation of Sharia laws" in Pakistan
There is trouble brewing from Pakistan - a possible fallout from Afghanistan's volatility. Seven more members of Pakistan security forces and five insurgents were killed in the country’s northwest region of Waziristan in what the Pakistan military described as “an intelligence-based operation.”
Underlining Pakistan’s enhanced engagement with the Central Asian countries, Prime Minister Imran Khan will leave on a two-day visit to Tajikistan on Thursday
The pace of the attacks by the Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistan Taliban, has increased drastically in the last few weeks
The United States will be looking at its relationship with Pakistan in the coming weeks, US State Secretary Antony Blinken said, to formulate what role the US would want Islamabad to play in the future of Afghanistan
Thousands of journalists took to the streets in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, protesting against a draft bill that they say will seriously undermine press freedom
At least two soldiers of the Pakistan security forces died in an attack in the country’s restive province of Baluchistan, Pakistan Military confirmed, making it the third attack in a week’s time on its security forces
Pakistan has fully vaccinated over 20 million people, or roughly 14 percent of the total eligible population, Planning Minister Asad Umar said, adding the government aimed to fully vaccinate half of the eligible people ( roughly 70 million) by the end of the year
Pakistan’s education authorities have ordered female teachers not to wear jeans and tights and banned their male counterparts from wearing jeans and t-shirts
At least two members of security forces were killed in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region in an IED attack, Pakistan's military confirmed. This is the second attack after Sunday last week when four soldiers were killed in Quetta
At least three security personnel were killed and 20 were wounded in a suicide bombing on Sunday in Pakistan’s northwestern Baluchistan province
Pakistan’s trade deficit increased--for the second consecutive month--to $4.05 billion in August, registering around 133 percent increase in comparison to July, as imports grew by almost three times than that of exports, showed the data released by the government
In an apparent bid to prevent the leak of official information and documents, the Pakistani government has barred all its employees from using social media platforms and warned of disciplinary action in case of violation of its order
In a further indication of Islamabad’s growing diplomatic heft after the Taliban’s return in Afghanistan, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and exchanged views on the volatile Afghan situation
Facing criticism in the international media over the forced conversion of girls from minority religious communities into Islam, the Pakistan government has circulated a draft anti-forced conversion bill, which has met with disapproval from Muslim clerics and religious scholars
