投稿者: Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad
Pakistani capital in pandemic-style limbo as people work from home, public transport is closed and businesses shutMiddle East crisis – live updatesAcross Islamabad, there is lockdown. The streets of the Pakistani capital have been empty for days, shops…
Officials say calm restored to province day after dozens killed in suicide and gun attacks in at least 10 citiesPakistan’s security forces have intensified their operations against separatist militants in Balochistan province who launched a large-scale…
PTI reports Pakistan’s jailed former PM being denied proper medical treatment and visits from family and lawyers Pakistan’s incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan is facing severe eye damage and is being denied proper access to medical treatment…
Record temperatures and seasonal downpours raise fears of a repeat of the devastating flooding in 2022Glaciers across northern Pakistan have been melting at an accelerated pace as a result of record-breaking summer temperatures, leading to deadly flash…
Family dies in Swat River, with witnesses saying they waited to be rescued for more than an hourAt least 32 people have been killed in Pakistan in recent flash flooding caused by heavy rains, including a family of tourists who died after being swept aw…
Pakistani government had credited US president with ‘pivotal leadership’ in its ceasefire negotiations with IndiaMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump’s intervention into the Iran-Israel war, and brokering then announcing a ceasefire, has drawn…
Indus treaty, which had survived 65 years and three wars between countries, has been paused after Kashmir attackIn July 2023, Ali Haider Dogar was one of tens of thousands of farmers in central-eastern Pakistan whose crops were submerged after India re…
Security services claim to have rescued about 190 people being held by Baloch Liberation Army in remote areaAn operation to rescue hundreds of people taken hostage when a train was hijacked by a separatist militant group in remote south-west Pakistan h…
Baloch Liberation Army claims to have killed 30 military personnel after blowing up tracks in Balochistan regionA separatist militant group in Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province says it has taken 214 hostages including military personnel aft…
Key roads closed in Kurram, a hotbed of sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni Muslims for decadesAt least 30 children have died due to drug shortages in part of north-west Pakistan after the regional government closed key roads in and out of the di…
Move comes after supreme court ruling makes PTI largest party in parliamentPakistan’s government is seeking to ban the party of the imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan.The move comes days after a supreme court ruling made the Pakistan Tehreek-e…
Seventh and most recent victim was ambushed while driving, as most cases thought likely to be work-relatedSeven reporters have been killed in Pakistan in the first six months of 2024, a record annual number with half a year still to go.The most recent …
Ahmad Farhad was pushed into vehicle hours after posting about threats from country’s spy agency, says Syeda Urooj ZainabThe wife of a Pakistani poet and journalist who was abducted from outside his house last week has accused the country’s spy agency …
The families of thousands of people who have gone missing in Balochistan province spend their lives in sit-ins and ralliesWhen people filled the streets and parks to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Pakistan earlier this month, Sammi Deen Baloch was not among …
High court members allege ISI put cameras in their bedrooms and tortured a relative to make them hear an appeal against ex-PMClaims by senior Pakistani judges that the intelligence agencies put pressure on them in cases involving the former prime minis…