Recent News Headlines : Khairpur - Pakistan

PAKISTANI ACTIVIST RAZA KHAN REPORTED MISSING


A Pakistani peace activist has been abducted in the eastern city of Lahore, prompting fears for his safety, his family and fellow activists confirmed on Wednesday... READ MORE

6th December, 2017 1303

PENTAGON CHIEF JIM MATTIS PRESSES PAKISTAN TO 'REDOUBLE' WAR ON TERROR AND INSURGENTS IN SAFE HAVENS


Defense Secretary Jim Mattis pressed top Pakistani leaders Monday to redouble efforts to go after insurgents operating in safe havens, the Pentagon said,... READ MORE

4th December, 2017 0

U.S. DEFENSE CHIEF URGES PAKISTAN TO REDOUBLE EFFORTS AGAINST MILITANTS


While the Trump administration has used tougher words with Pakistan, it is has yet to change Islamabad's calculus... READ MORE

4th December, 2017 150

AT LEAST NINE PEOPLE DEAD AFTER BURQA-CLAD MILITANTS OPEN FIRE AT PAKISTAN COLLEGE


At least nine people were killed and dozens were injured in a training institute shooting carried out by four burqa-clad militants, according to Pakistan authorities... READ MORE

1st December, 2017 0

BAD TERMS: PAKISTAN'S RAW DEAL WITH CHINA OVER GWADAR PORT


The numbers were revealed by Pakistan's federal minister for ports and shipping, Mir Hasil Bizenjo, in the Pakistan Senate last Friday... READ MORE

29th November, 2017 14827

WHY WAS PAKISTAN GENERAL GIVING MONEY TO PROTESTERS?


A video showing a senior Pakistani army officer distributing money to anti-government protesters in Islamabad has prompted a fierce reaction on social media... READ MORE

29th November, 2017 2298

"OUR APPROACH TO SOUTH ASIA AND SPECIFICALLY AFGHANISTAN MEANS NEW APPROACHES WITH INDIA AND PAKISTAN TO DENY SAFE HAVENS TO TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS," STATE DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR GENERAL STEVE A. LINICK SAID.


The report pointed out that the State Department has no staff in Pakistan for verifying satisfactory contractor performance or monitoring whether required reports were submitted... READ MORE

28th November, 2017 0

PAKISTAN'S DELICATE POSITION IN SAUDI-LED MILITARY COALITION


The Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition, an initiative of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, forces Pakistan to balance ties between Tehran and Riyadh... READ MORE

28th November, 2017 144

PAKISTAN MINISTER RESIGNS AFTER VIOLENT ISLAMIST PROTESTS


The clashes fuelled more protests in other cities, including Pakistan's two largest Karachi and Lahore, and saw thousands more demonstrators arrive on the streets of Islamabad... READ MORE

28th November, 2017 11

PAKISTAN STRIKES DEAL WITH ISLAMIST PROTESTERS IN CAPITAL


The embattled law minister, Zahid Hamid, whom protesters had accused of blasphemy, resigned as part of negotiations overseen by Pakistan's military, officials said... READ MORE

28th November, 2017 1530

POLICE EXHUME PAKISTANI COUPLE'S BODIES SUSPECTING HONOUR KILLING


The couple were from the Kohistan tribal district of northwest Pakistan... READ MORE

28th November, 2017 34

PAKISTANI ISLAMISTS TO CALL OFF PROTEST AFTER MINISTER RESIGNS


Law Minister Zahid Hamid has resigned, state-run news channel PTV said on Monday... READ MORE

27th November, 2017 16

PAKISTANI POLICE FIRE TEAR GAS TO BREAK UP ISLAMISTS' SIT-IN


Tehreek-e-Labaik considers Taseer's killer, who was executed for murder last year, a hero of Islam... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 0

PAKISTANI ISLAMISTS CLASH WITH POLICE, PARALYSE CITIES


Smoke billowed from the charred remains of a car and three motorcycles burned on Sunday morning near the protest camp... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 809

PAKISTAN CALLS ARMY IN AS 'BLASPHEMY' CLASHES RAGE


Pakistan's government has called on the army to deploy, after police were unable to break up a sit-in by religious hardliners. Islamist party activists on... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 55

PAKISTAN CALLS IN ARMY TO END ANTI-BLASPHEMY PROTESTS


Pakistan's Government calls for troops to be deployed in the capital, Islamabad, after violence breaks out during protests by Islamists... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 162

PROTESTS ENTER 2ND DAY IN PAKISTAN, BUT REMAIN LARGELY PEACEFUL


It is part of the mainstream Barelvi sect of Sunni Islam, has disavowed violence and focuses on reverence for Muhammad... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 124

PAKISTAN BRACES FOR MILITARY RESPONSE AFTER VIOLENT CLASHES WITH ISLAMISTS


Pakistan's capital was bracing Sunday for a possible military response to anti-blasphemy protests by Islamists that have already claimed at least half a dozen lives... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 82

PAKISTAN DEPLOYS MILITARY TROOPS AFTER VIOLENT CLASHES IN ISLAMABAD


The Islamabad high court ordered the government last week to clear the interchange... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 334

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By late afternoon, Tehreek-e-Labaik supporters were coming out on the streets in other Pakistani cities in support... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 105

PAKISTAN ANTI-BLASPHEMY ROW CONTINUES AFTER CRACKDOWN


Hundreds of anti-blasphemy protesters continue to block Islamabad highway after police action kills five people... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 2841

PAKISTAN CAPITAL TENSE AS MILITARY SILENT ON PROTESTS


Only Allah is running this country, he added, complaining that the only channel working was Pakistan state TV... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 0

PAKISTAN CAPITAL TENSE AS MILITARY SILENT ON PROTESTS


Only Allah is running this country, he added, complaining that the only channel working was Pakistan state TV... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 0

CRACKDOWN ON HARDLINERS TRIGGERS VIOLENT CLASHES ACROSS PAKISTAN


Violent clashes broke out in cities across Pakistan on Saturday after police moved to clear out a sit-in protest by hardline Islamists in the capital Islamabad... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 342

BALOCHISTAN JOURNALISTS 'BETWEEN THE STICK AND THE GUN'


More than a dozen towns, cities and districts in Pakistan's restive province of Balochistan have been without newspapers for the past month... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 326

PAKISTAN ARMY CALLED ON TO STOP 'BLASPHEMY' CLASHES IN ISLAMABAD


Pakistani media report that demonstrators also broke into the minister's residence in Punjab province... READ MORE

25th November, 2017 1960

PAKISTAN CALLS IN ARMY TO END ANTI-BLASPHEMY PROTESTS


Akram and two other policemen were then taken hostage and held by the protesters for five hours, he said... READ MORE

25th November, 2017 2838

DEADLY CLASHES AS PAKISTANI POLICE DISPERSE ISLAMIST DEMONSTRATORS


But government inaction has drawn the fury of the courts as well as millions of residents in Islamabad and neighbouring Rawalpindi... READ MORE

25th November, 2017 393

US EXPRESSES 'DEEP CONCERN' OVER HAFIZ SAEED RELEASE


Kumar accused Pakistan of shielding and supporting non-state actors ... READ MORE

24th November, 2017 2938

SOCIAL MEDIA CRACKDOWN STIFLES DISSENT IN PAKISTAN


One of the hopes of a return to civilian rule in Pakistan was a restoration of people's rights... READ MORE

24th November, 2017 1028

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TALIBAN HOSTAGE FAMILY FREED BY PAKISTANI TROOPS


A North American family of five are released from Afghan Taliban captivity by Pakistani troops... READ MORE

13th October, 2017 26659

REPORTER READS NEWS MINUTES AFTER ISIL ATTACKS STATION


Defiant Parwiz Sapy appeared calm and collected on Shamshad TV as he announced to viewers on Tuesday The attack has ended... READ MORE

9th November, 2017 18004

'STUPIDITY AND EVIL': FORMER HOSTAGE JOSHUA BOYLE SAYS TALIBAN-LINKED CAPTORS KILLED INFANT, RAPED HIS WIFE


Boyle said he travelled to the country to help the most neglected minority group in the world, those ordinary villagers who live deep inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan... READ MORE

14th October, 2017 7333

NANCY DUPREE: RENOWNED US HISTORIAN DIES IN AFGHANISTAN


She also established the Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree Foundation, which promotes the history and culture of Afghanistan... READ MORE

10th September, 2017 7236

'INDIA IS MOTHER OF TERRORISM IN SOUTH ASIA'


Published September 24, 2017 1 53 pm India's Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj left and Pakistan's ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi... READ MORE

24th September, 2017 6416

CANADIAN SAYS CHILD KILLED, WIFE RAPED IN AFGHANISTAN


Former hostage Joshua Boyle says Haqqani network killed his infant daughter and raped his wife while in captivity... READ MORE

14th October, 2017 6232

KIDNAPPED CANADIAN-AMERICAN FAMILY FREED IN PAKISTAN GUN BATTLE AFTER 5 YEARS IN CAPTIVITY


I've personally written to several of the most senior government officials in Afghanistan, those with great power over the execution of your brothers, Patrick Boyle says... READ MORE

12th October, 2017 6224

A TURKISH FAMILY HAS DISAPPEARED IN PAKISTAN, AND SUSPICION TURNS TO INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES


PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A commotion in the downstairs unit of a house shared by schoolteachers from Turkey woke the neighbors... READ MORE

12th October, 2017 5761

IN LAHORE PAKISTAN SMOG HAS BECOME A FIFTH SEASON


One is Mr. Omar, who installed air monitors in Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and Karachi, where he lives... READ MORE

10th November, 2017 4281

PAKISTANIS HAIL INTERNATIONAL WORLD XI CRICKET SERIES


Ramiz Raja, another former Pakistan test cricketer and now television commentator, also celebrated the return of international cricket at home... READ MORE

11th September, 2017 4107

PAKISTANI POLICE ARREST MEN FOR MARCHING GIRL NAKED THROUGH VILLAGE


Pakistani police have arrested eight men for marching a 14-year-old girl naked through a village in revenge for her brother allegedly tarnishing their family honour... READ MORE

2nd November, 2017 3811

CANADIAN AMERICAN FAMILY RESCUED AFTER FIVE YEARS AS CAPTIVES IN AFGHANISTAN


Caitlan Coleman, Joshua Boyle and three children freed after couple were abducted by Taliban-linked group in Afghanistan and had children in captivity... READ MORE

12th October, 2017 3654

AFGHAN MILITANT GROUP KILLED OUR INFANT DAUGHTER


U.S. officials have long accused Pakistan of ignoring groups like the Haqqani network, which was holding the family... READ MORE

14th October, 2017 3604

GUNMEN ATTACK HAZARA SHIA MUSLIMS IN QUETTA CITY


So far this year, at least 14 Hazaras have been killed in such targeted attacks, according to the SATP... READ MORE

9th October, 2017 3293

ANALYSIS | WHAT WERE CAITLAN COLEMAN AND JOSHUA BOYLE REALLY DOING IN AFGHANISTAN?


Why did Boyle and Coleman, seven months pregnant, decide to go to Kabul?... READ MORE

14th October, 2017 3043

INDIAN TROOPS AND REBELS KILLED IN KASHMIR GUN BATTLE


At least two security personnel and two rebels killed in a gun battle in Bandipora area of Indian-administered Kashmir... READ MORE

11th October, 2017 3032

MILITANTS ATTACK KABUL AIRPORT DURING MATTIS VISIT US STRIKE HITS CIVILIANS


Ghani said his government remains open to talks with the Taliban as well as a peace strategy involving Pakistan... READ MORE

29th September, 2017 3016

PAKISTAN BLOGGER AASIM SAEED SAYS HE WAS TORTURED


Aasim Saeed was one of a group of five liberal social media activists who were abducted in Pakistan in January 2017 before being released after several weeks... READ MORE

25th October, 2017 2981

PAKISTAN USES FAKE PICTURE AT UN


Pakistan uses fake picture at UN Will 'certainly think' about how to deal with it, says UNGA president... READ MORE

28th September, 2017 2898

ROADSIDE BOMB KILLS TRIBAL OFFICIALS IN PAKISTAN


A Pakistani official says a roadside bomb has killed a senior tribal government administrator and four tribal police near the Afghan border... READ MORE

17th September, 2017 2838

CAITLAN COLEMAN AND JOSHUA BOYLE ARE FREE. THEIR MYSTERIOUS STORY IS RAISING NEW QUESTIONS.


The patriarch of the Khadr family was killed in 2003, along with al-Qaeda and Taliban members, in a shootout with Pakistani security forces near the Afghanistan border... READ MORE

14th October, 2017 2658

AMERICAN CAITLAN COLEMAN, FAMILY LEAVE PAKISTAN AFTER BEING HELD BY MILITANTS FOR FIVE YEARS


American Caitlan Coleman, family leave Pakistan after being held by militants for five years... READ MORE

12th October, 2017 2630

PAKISTAN CALLS INDIA 'MOTHER OF TERRORISM' IN RESPONSE TO SUSHMA SWARAJ'S UNGA ADDRESS


All this establishes that India is the mother of terrorism in South Asia, alleged Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi... READ MORE

24th September, 2017 2531

JOSHUA BOYLE SAYS TALIBAN-LINKED CAPTORS RAPED CAITLAN COLEMAN, KILLED INFANT DAUGHTER


Coleman and Boyle were abducted in October 2012 while traveling in a remote area of Afghanistan outside Kabul... READ MORE

14th October, 2017 2362

AFGHAN SUICIDE MOSQUE ATTACKS KILL SCORES OF WORSHIPPERS


Some 60 people have been killed in two separate attacks on mosques in Afghanistan, officials say... READ MORE

20th October, 2017 2034

SARMAD MASUD ON FEMINISM, MY PURE LAND, AND PAKISTAN


Al Jazeera speaks to Masud about his debut feature film, his relationship with Pakistan and why he chose Nazo's story... READ MORE

2nd October, 2017 2005

SUICIDE ATTACK KILLS SENIOR POLICE OFFICIAL IN PESHAWAR


Senior police official and guard killed after their vehicle is hit by suicide attacker in northwestern Pakistani city... READ MORE

24th November, 2017 2003

FALLOUT FROM THE UN SPEECH BY PAKISTAN'S MALEEHA LODHI


Kashmir fake photo Fallout from the UN speech by Pakistan's Maleeha Lodhi... READ MORE

30th September, 2017 1898

ANTI-BLASPHEMY PROTESTERS BLOCK ENTRANCE TO ISLAMABAD


Led by Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the leader of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan political party, the protesters' sit-in on a major highway entered its sixth day on Monday... READ MORE

13th November, 2017 1820

MILLI MUSLIM LEAGUE REGISTRATION REJECTED BY ECP


The MML registration rejection comes days before another by-election, in the northwestern city of Peshawar, where the party is fielding its candidate as an independent... READ MORE

12th October, 2017 1678


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