An anti-terrorism court in the federal capital on Tuesday approved the bail petition of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Information Secretary Raoof Hasan in a terror financing case. ATC Judge Tahir Abbas Sipra approved the PTI politician’s bail petition against surety bonds worth Rs200,000. Hasan was named in the case in light of the statement of co-accused
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Tuesday approved a two-day physical remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Information Secretary Raoof Hasan in a new terrorism case a day after a district and sessions court in the federal capital sent him, along with other suspects, on a 14-day judicial remand in the anti-state propaganda case. The
Pakistan has rebuffed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “belligerent remarks,” dubbing them as “totally counter-productive” to resolving disputes between the two countries and reminding India of its own terrorism campaign. Speaking at an event earlier today, Modi alleged that Pakistan was trying to stay relevant through “terrorism” and “proxy war” and added that such a
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena sanctioned the prosecution of Indian author Arundhati Roy under India’s strict Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) over her purportedly “provocative” speech during a conference on Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) in 2010, India Today reported. Saxena also approved the prosecution of former Kashmir law professor Sheikh Showkat
Pakistan’s security forces have carried out as many as 7,745 anti-terror operations from April 1 to June 10 in their bid to curb the scourge of terrorism faced by the country, sources told Geo News on Wednesday. These operations were carried out in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh — of which the most 4,902 were
A $2.58 million compensation package is set to be approved by the government for the employees of a Chinese company who were killed in the terror attack on March 26 in Dasu. A senior official of the Cabinet Division told The News that the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) is likely to greenlight the package in
Pakistan and the United States have underscored the importance of bilateral cooperation in addressing the most pressing challenges to regional and global security, including the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Daesh. According to a statement issued by the Foreign Office on Monday, Additional Foreign Secretary for the UN and OIC, Ambassador Syed Haider Shah, and US
Afghanistan faces a mounting terror threat, with the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) orchestrating a series of deadly attacks across the nation. The surge in violence, spanning from 2021 to 2024, has claimed hundreds of lives and left communities reeling. Most recently, on May 8, 2024, a bomb blast in Badakhshan resulted in the death
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah welcomed an offer made by a 22-member delegation from the Pakistani-American Law Enforcement Society (PALES) of the New York Police Department (NYPD) to help train personnel of the Sindh police for combatting street crime and terrorism in the province. During the meeting in Karachi, PALES offered to train provincial
Pakistani forces this morning carried out intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in the border regions inside Afghanistan against terrorists launching attacks in Pakistan from Afghan soil, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said on Monday. The target of today’s operation was the terrorists belonging to Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group, which along with the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),