Balochistan CM Sarfraz Bugti addresses the Balochistan Assembly session on March 12, 2025. — Screengrab via Geo News Condemning the terrorist attack on the Jaffar Express train, Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti vowed on Wednesday that whoever takes up arms and talks about breaking the state will be eliminated. “Why are we afraid to name…
Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Lieutenant General Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry addresses a press conference on September 5, 2024. — Screengrab via Facebook/OfficialDGISPR Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director-General Major General Ahmed Sharif stated on Wednesday that all passengers remained unharmed during the clearance operation launched to free hostages taken hostage by terrorists in Balochistan’s…
At least 190 passengers have been freed and 30 terrorists killed, security sources said, as a rescue operation enters its “final stages” after terrorists hijacked the Jaffar Express near Balochistan’s Bolan district, state media reported on Wednesday. State media reported that casualties were being determined. The unprecedented hostage situation began on Tuesday near the Mashkaf…
An American dog owner was shot by his pet after it jumped on his bed and set off a loaded gun, police said on Wednesday. The man, from Memphis, Tennessee, was asleep beside his female partner when he was shot early on Monday morning, escaping with a graze to his left thigh that was treated…
At least 190 passengers have been freed and 30 terrorists killed, security sources said, as a rescue operation enters its “final stages,” after terrorists hijacked the Jaffar Express near Balochistan’s Bolan district, state media reported on Wednesday. The unprecedented hostage situation began on Tuesday near the Mashkaf Tunnel, about 157 kilometres from Quetta, when terrorists…
Security forces have rescued at least 190 passengers and killed 30 terrorists as a rescue operation enters its “final stages,” the government said, after terrorists hijacked the Jaffar Express near Balochistan’s Bolan district, state media reported on Wednesday. The unprecedented hostage situation began on Tuesday near the Mashkaf Tunnel, about 157 kilometres from Quetta, when…
Palestinians who say they suffered brutal beatings and sexual abuse in Israeli detention and at the hands of Israeli settlers testified about their ordeals at the United Nations this week. “I was humiliated and tortured,” said Said Abdel Fattah, a 28-year-old nurse detained in November 2023 near Gaza City’s Al Shifa hospital where he worked….
India imposes ban on Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Awami Action Committee in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). — AFP/File Pakistan has slammed the Indian authorities for imposing a five-year ban on two Kashmiri organisations in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), terming it an act to “suppress political activities and stifle…
Panic gripped Sehwan city when an armed group of people attacked a government boys high school on Wednesday, according to police. Hyderabad Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Tariq Dharejo confirmed to Dawn that two groups of the Rind community were involved in some dispute and one of them resorted to firing on the school…
Security forces have rescued at least 190 passengers and killed 30 terrorists as a rescue operation continues into its second day after terrorists hijacked the Jaffer Express train near Balochistan’s Bolan district, state media said on Wednesday. The unprecedented hostage situation began on Tuesday near the Mashkaf Tunnel, about 157 kilometres from Quetta, when terrorists…