Pakistan

Lahore/Islamabad, Apr 5 (PTI) Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that he was ready to wait till October if the ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement-led coalition government shares a roadmap with him for holding fair general elections.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Khan has been demanding early national elections since his ouster in April last year after he lost a confidence vote in Parliament.

05 Apr 2023; MEMO: Pakistan and Indonesia, on Wednesday, strongly condemned an Israeli police raid on Palestinian worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem, which resulted in injuries and large-scale arrests, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Pakistani Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, in a statement blamed "impunity granted to Israel", which has "emboldened Tel Aviv to violate basic human rights with abandon."

Islamabad, Apr 4 (PTI) Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday termed as "unconstitutional" the election body's decision to postpone polls in Punjab till October 8 and fixed May 14 as the date for polls in the province, in a major blow to the federal government that has been trying to delay the election citing security issues and the economic crisis.

ISLAMABAD, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan will vaccinate over 4 million children under the age of five against the incurable polio virus in the second phase of an anti-polio drive in two provinces of Pakistan, the country's health ministry said on Tuesday.

More than 4.12 million children will be vaccinated in the immunization campaign that began on Monday in 12 districts of southwest Balochistan and 26 districts of northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces of the country, a spokesperson for the ministry said.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An overnight raid by Taliban forces in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province killed six members of the extremist Islamic State group, a Taliban spokesman said Tuesday.

The regional affiliate of the IS group — known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province — has been the key rival of the Taliban since their takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021. The militant group has increased its attacks, targeting both Taliban patrols and members of Afghanistan’s Shiite minority.

Lahore, Apr 3 (PTI) In a fresh attack on Pakistan's powerful military, ousted prime minister Imran Khan on Monday said the country is left with two choices -- either follow Turkiye or become another Myanmar.

In Myanmar, the military ousted democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021 while in Turkiye, a bloody military coup to topple the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2016 was foiled after people came out on the streets and resisted a regime change.

Islamabad, Apr 3 (PTI) Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday hit back at Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial for his critical remarks, taking the polarisation in the coup-prone country to new limits amid economic meltdown and bitter political divide.

Lahore, Apr 2 (PTI) Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan has claimed that the then Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa had put pressure on him to develop friendly ties with India.

Relations between India and Pakistan have often been strained over the Kashmir issue... However, their ties nose-dived after India abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution, revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcating the State into two Union Territories on August 5, 2019.

Islamabad, Apr 2 (PTI) Cash-strapped Pakistan plans to place its first order for Russian crude oil next month and it will take about four weeks for the commodity to reach the country, Minister of State for Petroleum Musadik Malik said.

Pakistan, which is currently grappling with high external debt and a weak local currency, is desperate to purchase cheap crude at discounted rates from Russia.

02 Apr 2023; MEMO: Pakistan has today denied reports of trade relations with Israel and has vowed to investigate any goods allegedly "exported" to the occupation state, with which Islamabad has no diplomatic relations.