Pakistan

Islamabad, Mar 11 (PTI) Pakistan’s ex-premier Imran Khan on Saturday accused the Punjab caretaker government of covering up the death of one of his party workers and demanded a judicial probe into his killing.

Ali Bilal, also known as Zillay Shah, died, while several others were injured on March 8 as the Punjab government used force to block a rally staged to launch Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s campaign for the April 30 elections in the province.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 10 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday felicitated China’s President Xi Jinping on being elected for the position for third time.

“The confidence of the Chinese people and parliament in President Xi Jinping is a recognition of his extraordinary leadership skills,” the Prime Minister said in a message of greetings on behalf of the government and people of Pakistan.

President Xi Jinping was voted unanimously by the People National People’s Congress (NPC), as the President of China for the next five years.

9 Mar 2023; MEMO: Pakistan, on Thursday, dispatched another shipment of over 1,200 tons of relief goods for people affected by twin earthquakes in Turkiye and Syria, an official said, Anadolu News Agency reports.

ISLAMABAD, Mar 9 (APP): Jamaat ul Ahrar, a militant outfit Thursday accepted responsibility for the suicide bomb blast that killed Governor of Balkh province in Afghanistan Mulla Mohammad Dawood Muzammil , said a spokesman of Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan.
Seven people including the governor were killed and nine others were injured in the bomb blast.
Mulla Dawood was the leading figure of Taliban.
The Jamaat ul Ahrar had differences with the governor over the rule in the Balkh province.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the country has become the most repressive in the world for women and girls, deprived of many of their basic rights, the United Nations said Wednesday.

In a statement released on the International Women’s Day, the U.N. mission said that Afghanistan’s new rulers have shown an almost “singular focus on imposing rules that leave most women and girls effectively trapped in their homes.”

ISLAMABAD, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Nine security personnel were killed and 10 others injured when a suicide bomber hit their vehicle in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Monday, officials said.

The incident happened in Bolan district where the bomber rammed his explosive-laden motorbike into the truck of paramilitary troops Balochistan Constabulary at the border area with Sibi district, District Police Officer of Sibi Yousuf Karim Bhanghar confirmed in talks with Xinhua.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s media regulator banned broadcasts of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speeches as police arrived at one of his homes to deliver another court summons for the ousted premier, officials said Monday.

The development is the latest in a political tug of war between the former cricket star turned Islamist politician and the government of his successor, Shahbaz Sharif, as Khan campaigns for early elections.

ISLAMABAD, March 5 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people were killed and 23 others injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan in the last 24 hours, the rescue service reported.

At least four people were killed on Saturday evening when a truck collided with a container truck in Zhob district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, the rescue service told media.

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani national soccer team player who died in a migrant shipwreck off of Italy’s southern coast embarked on the voyage to find medical treatment for her disabled 3-year-old son, her sister and a friend said Saturday. Hospitals had told her that help overseas could be her only option.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Two senior regional members of the Islamic State group have been killed in Afghanistan in recent weeks in separate operations by the Taliban security forces, a Taliban spokesman said Tuesday.

Taliban forces killed Qari Fateh, the regional IS intelligence and operations chief, during a raid in Kabul over the weekend, Zabihullah Mujahid, the main spokesman for the Taliban government, said in a statement.

Earlier this month in a separate operation in Kabul, three IS members — including senior IS leader Ijaz Amin Ahingar — were killed.