Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Nov 09 (APP): Speakers at a webinar while expressing serious concerns over India’s noncompliance with the recommendations agreed during UPR’s 3rd cycle, have said that despite strong protests from human rights organizations including the United Nations and the OIC, the Indian Government has failed to address the key human rights concerns expressed during third Universal Periodic Review.

ISLAMABAD, Nov 9 (NNN-APP) – At least two policemen were killed and three others injured, in a terrorist attack last night, in the South Waziristan district of Pakistan’s north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said the police.

Unknown terrorists attacked a police station in the district’s Raghzai area, at midnight, resulting in casualties of policemen, the media reported.

Police said, the terrorists burnt an ambulance and torched the police station.

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- A policeman and a wanted terrorist were killed in a counter-terror operation in the Khyber district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police said on Monday.

The operation was jointly conducted by the CTD and security agencies in the Ghariza area of the district, according to the CTD officials.

Islamabad, Nov 7 (PTI) Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial is likely to deliberate Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's request for the constitution of a “full court commission” to probe his predecessor Imran Khan's allegations that he was among the three people who plotted the assassination bid on him, a media report said on Monday.

Islamabad, Nov 7 (PTI) Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Inspector General of the Punjab province to register a case on the gun attack on Imran Khan within 24 hours, a directive hailed by the former prime minister's party as a “first step towards justice”.

On Sunday, Khan said that an FIR has not been registered on the botched "assassination attempt" on his life as authorities are refusing to file the case unless he removes an Army general's name from the complaint.

Islamabad, Nov 7 (PTI) Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has called on President Arif Alvi to "act now" and stop the massive "abuse" of citizens at the hands of "rogue elements" in the government.

In a letter to the president on Sunday, Khan stated that since the removal of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, the country has been “confronted with an ever-increasing scale of false allegations, harassment, arrests, and custodial torture”.

MIRPUR (AJK): Nov 06 (APP): US President Joe Biden has said “defending democracy, promoting freedom, human rights, respecting the rule of law and treating everyone with dignity are the important part of core values of foreign policy of the United States and American society”.

The US President Biden expressed these views in his recent letter to Raja Muzaffar, a Washington-based veteran Kashmiri leader, according to a message released to the media, here, on Sunday.

06 Nov 2022; MEMO: China and Saudi Arabia have guaranteed $13 billion in funding to Pakistan as it continues to struggle with economic and environmental crises.

According to the newspaper Dawn, Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar told reporters that China said it will provide $4 billion worth of sovereign loans to the country, as well as refinancing a further $3.3 billion in commercial bank borrowings and increasing currency swaps by up to $1.45 billion.

LAHORE, Nov 5 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Saturday appealed to the Chief Justice Supreme Court to establish a full apex court commission to investigate the incident of attack on Imran Khan in Wazirabad and the ensuing allegations levelled by the chairman of Pakistan Tehrik i Insaf (PTI).

Addressing a press conference here, he said commission should probe the allegations of Imran Khan against him, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and a high-ranking army officer.

Islamabad/Lahore, Nov 4 (PTI) Angry supporters of Imran Khan took to the streets across Pakistan after Friday prayers to protest against the assassination bid on the ousted prime minister who, in a dramatic address to the nation from a hospital, vowed to resume his march to Islamabad demanding fresh general elections.