SENIOR military commanders from Pakistan and India will hold talks via telephone on Monday to extend a U.S.-brokered ceasefire along the disputed Kashmir region. The Directors-General of Military Operations (DGMOs) will discuss measures to ensure the ceasefire, effective since Saturday, stays in place beyond Monday. The agreement follows days of escalated tensions, including drone, missile, … Read more
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Saturday’s pronouncements of an end to hostilities between India and Pakistan. The UN chief’s welcomed this after a decision by the neighbouring nuclear powers to de-escalate a situation that had caused widespread alarm in recent days. Guterres said the organisation stood ready to support efforts aimed at promoting peace … Read more
Pakistan’s military spokesperson and Director General of ISPR, Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry has confirmed Indian missile strikes, claiming that 24 impacts have been reported. Addressing a press conference at 4:08 AM on Wednesday, “A total of 24 impacts have been reported by India, with different weapons.” The DG ISPR said that so far 8 … Read more
THE UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has expressed deep concerns after India launched missile attacks on Pakistan in the early hours of Wednesday. Guterres, in a note to UN correspondents issued by his spokesperson in New York, called for military restraint from both countries. There had been escalating tensions between India and Pakistan had overApril 22 … Read more
THE Pakistan military said Monday that it had successfully conducted a second missile test with a range of 120 kilometres, the second in two days amid soaring tensions with India after terrorists shot dead 26 people in Jammu and Kashmir on April 22. The security agencies have said that some digital footprints and markers … Read more
Pakistan has barred Indian flag carriers from entering its ports and ordered Pakistani vessels to avoid Indian docks, a retaliatory move that followed New Delhi’s sweeping ban on imports and port access for ships from the neighbouring country in the wake of the deadly Pahalgam terror attack. Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that … Read more
Pakistan security forces have killed 54 terrorists during an infiltration attempt at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in North Waziristan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa district, the military’s media wing reported late on Sunday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the death toll marks the highest number of terrorists killed by security forces in a single encounter during the … Read more
THE Trump administration is considering imposing travel restrictions on citizens from 41 countries, according to an internal memo seen by a media agency. A US official, speaking anonymously, stated that the list is still under review and has not yet been approved by the administration, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The draft proposal categorizes … Read more
PAKISTAN commenced its two-year tenure as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on 1 January, with Ambassador Munir Akram vowing that the Pakistani delegation would play an “active and constructive” role in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges. “Our presence will be felt in the Security Council,” Ambassador Akram, Pakistan’s … Read more
THE government is mulling over winding up Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services Corporation (Passco) as its role in wheat procurement will come to an end after the proposed creation of a free market. Additionally, the government has decided to draw up a policy on sugarcane crushing and sugar exports. Sources told The Express Tribune that … Read more