KABUL: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to extend the scope of their transit trade agreement to include Tajikistan as part of the overall effort to promote regional economic cooperation. A joint statement, issued simultaneously from Kabul and Islamabad at the culmination of talks between Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and President Hamid Karzai, said the […]
CHITRAL, July 18: Taliban from Afghanistan side attacked a security forces checkpost at Langorbut near in Arandu on Tuesday. But the security forces retaliated and killed six of them, said the ISPR. However, there was no casualty from the security forces side. A spokesman for the ISPR at Swat told this scribe that some terrorists
GILGIT: Governor Gilgit-Baltistan Syed Pir Karam Ali Shah has been admitted to the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, said a press release issued from the governor secretariat here. “He is in a good state of health and hospitalized for proper check-up and complete examination,” the press release said. It added that the governor went
LAHORE, July 12: One of the nine police and prison staff shot dead in Ichra area of Lahore on Thursday morning belonged to Chitral. Police said the dawn attack, in which 10 gunmen stormed a residential property housing officers from the northwest who were in the city for training, bore the hallmarks of a similar
GILGIT, July 11: For the first time, the Imamat Day of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan was officially celebrated in Gilgit-Baltistan on July 11. In this regard, the provincial government had already declared public holiday on July 11 to facilitate the community in observing the day in a befitting manner. The main feature of
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