The United Nations Security Council has urged India and Pakistan to ease tension and avoid military conflict, Pakistan said yesterday, as hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals surge after a deadly attack on tourists in disputed Kashmir.
Seven Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed and five others wounded yesterday in a homemade bomb attack on a convoy in southwestern Balochistan province, officials said.
Pakistan yesterday conducted a second missile test and India ordered civil defence drills in an escalating stand-off over contested Kashmir that the UN said has brought the two nations to the brink of war.
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu addressed a press conference for nearly 15 hours, his office said yesterday, claiming it broke a previous record held by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
Pakistan’s military said it carried out a “training launch” of a surface-to-surface missile weapons system yesterday, further heightening tensions with India after last month’s deadly attack in disputed Kashmir.
Pakistan yesterday said it had “credible intelligence” that India was planning an imminent military strike and vowed to retaliate, as worries of spiralling conflict grew over a deadly attack in Kashmir.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the country's military "operational freedom" to respond to a deadly attack in Kashmir last week, a senior government source told AFP yesterday, after New Delhi blamed it on arch-rival Pakistan.
Pakistan's military shot down an Indian drone along the de facto Kashmir border, state radio in Islamabad reported
Pakistan wakes to electoral chaos with the outgoing ruling party denouncing "blatant rigging" in the pivotal general election and rejecting unofficial, partial results suggesting victory for former cricket champion Imran Khan.
Like the PML-N, the PPP and several other parties expresses serious concerns over the delay in the release of official results and the alleged expulsion of their polling agents from polling stations during counting of the votes for general elections 2018.
With counting of votes still underway, the PTI is currently in the lead, followed by the PML-N and the PPP, based on results from 26 percent of polling stations nationwide. Rigging is alleged each time, but the sheer scale of it is what casts a shadow on these elections. Dawn talked to their analysts for their take on the elections.
Imran Khan’s wish — a set of wishes including one where he asked for a government without difficult allies — has come true. Amid protestations in a shocked Lahore by the Pakistan Muslim League-N, the signs are that they are going to have the same Pakistan running through from Chitral to Sadiqabad. This is quite a remarkable capture given how fractured the Punjab-Khyber Pakhtunkhwa stretch has appeared politically over the last few years.
Throughout the day today, citizens, journalists and political parties complained about the slow voting process.
Massive delays and allegations of rigging dominate the early hours of Thursday in Pakistan, where official election results are still not announced even 15 hours after polling ended. Preliminary results, however, indicate that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has obtained a clear edge over other parties as results trickle in.
Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad yesterday said the largest expense with regards to the
Women in Dir, Kohistan, and North and South Waziristan made history yesterday when they cast their votes for the first time.
Pakistani cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan led in projected partial results of a general election yesterday, as the party of his jailed chief rival, ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, rejected the eventual result as "blatantly" rigged.
Pakistani women who had pledged to defy men in their village by voting for the first time ultimately did not exercise their democratic right in yesterday's election, citing intimidation by their husbands.
