ISLAMABAD — Pakistani police Monday freed 290 Baloch activists who were arrested when they attempted to hold a protest last week in the capital, Islamabad. Their release came days after protest organizers gave authorities a deadline to release all those detained. The activists had traveled 1,600 kilometers (about 1,000 miles) on Thursday from Turbat, a … Read more
MILAN — A court in northern Italy convicted the parents and an uncle of an 18-year-Pakistani woman for her murder in Italy after she refused her family’s demands to marry a cousin in their homeland. Saman Abbas’ body was dug up in November 2022 in an abandoned farmhouse near the fields where her father worked … Read more
A Pakistani court has ordered a public trial in prison of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on charges of revealing official secrets ByMUNIR AHMED Associated Press November 28, 2023, 3:43 AM FILE – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan gestures during talk with reporters regarding the current political situation and the ongoing cases against him … Read more
Pakistan’s military says security forces killed four militants in a shootout during an overnight raid in the country’s northwest ByThe Associated Press November 19, 2023, 3:13 AM ISLAMABAD — Pakistan security forces killed four militants in a shootout during an overnight raid in the country’s northwest near the border with Afghanistan, the military said Sunday. … Read more
KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistani police are arresting Afghan women and children in southern Sindh province as part of a government crackdown on migrants, activists said Saturday. More than 250,000 Afghans have left Pakistan in recent weeks as the government rounded up, arrested and kicked out foreign nationals without papers. It set an Oct. 31 deadline … Read more
Pakistani officials, who thought that the Pakistani Taliban no longer posed a serious threat, have been stunned by the violence November 10, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. EST Police n Peshawar, Pakistan, gather Sept. 28 to pay tribute to those killed in a January attack on a mosque inside the police compound. (Saiyna Bashir for The … Read more
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s prime minister on Wednesday sought to reassure Afghans waiting in Pakistan for resettlement in the United States that they won’t be deported as part of his government’s widely criticized crackdown on undocumented migrants in the country. Islamabad this month launched a crackdown on illegal migration, saying any unregistered foreign national and migrant … Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya — The widow of a prominent Pakistani journalist who was killed a year ago in Kenya filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against an elite Kenyan police unit she accuses of the wrongful death of her husband. Javeria Siddique said she filed the lawsuit in Nairobi to get justice for her husband Arshad Sharif, … Read more
Pakistan’s military says security forces killed six militants and wounded eight others in a shootout during an overnight raid in the country’s northwest ByThe Associated Press October 15, 2023, 4:41 AM PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan security forces killed six militants and wounded eight others in a shootout during an overnight raid in the country’s northwest, … Read more
ISLAMABAD — A prominent Pakistani television journalist who went missing more than four months ago after being arrested by police returned home Monday after being freed, police and his colleagues said. It is widely believed that Imran Riaz Khan, known for publicly supporting jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, was being held by security agencies. … Read more