1+ hour, 31+ min ago   (531+ words) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's military said on Thursday it had killed 13 militants in two intelligence-based operations in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as security forces continued counterterrorism efforts in areas bordering Afghanistan. According to a statement issued by the military's media…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (363+ words) CAIRO: A senior figure in the armed wing of Hamas was among seven people killed on Thursday in a pair "of Israeli airstrikes in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, a Hamas source said. The Israeli military did not…...

6+ hour, 27+ min ago   (325+ words) DODOMA, Tanzania: Tanzania's president has, for the first time since the disputed October election, commented on a six-day Internet shutdown as the country went through its worst postelection violence. President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Thursday expressed "sympathy" to diplomats and…...

7+ hour, 22+ min ago   (400+ words) JERUSALEM: A top United Nations official on Thursday called for accelerating reconstruction work in Gaza, saying Palestinians there were living in "inhumane" conditions, even as a US-backed truce entered its second phase. "I wouldn't have imagined what I saw today,…...

7+ hour, 51+ min ago   (684+ words) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and seven other Muslim-majority countries on Thursday welcomed the formation of a temporary Palestinian technocratic body to administer Gaza, stressing that it must manage daily civilian affairs while preserving the institutional and territorial link between the Gaza Strip…...

10+ hour, 24+ min ago   (648+ words) In the past year, Pakistan has emerged as a country not just strategically relevant and part of the South Asian political chessboard, but also one that is becoming increasingly intertwined in the geopolitics and security dynamics of the broader Middle…...

10+ hour, 51+ min ago   (523+ words) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Bahrain agreed to enhance counterterrorism and counternarcotics cooperation in talks between President Asif Ali Zardari and Bahrain Interior Minister Lt Gen Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa on Thursday, said an official statement. The Pakistani president is…...

10+ hour, 58+ min ago   (204+ words) All nations in Iran's vicinity are closely watching the situation evolving there as well. Iran's detractors think that an opportune moment for regime change may have arrived. Perhaps Pakistan and the GCC countries know that a regime change in Iran…...

12+ hour, 34+ min ago   (217+ words) MOSCOW: Russia said on Thursday that it was unacceptable for the West to keep claiming that Russia and China threatened Greenland, and said the crisis over the territory showed the inconsistency of the West's implementation of the "so-called "rules-based" order....

14+ hour, 57+ min ago   (391+ words) GAZA: A senior Hamas official on Thursday welcomed the formation of a technocratic committee to govern post-war Gaza, saying it would help consolidate the ceasefire and prevent a return to fighting. Egypt, a mediator in indirect ceasefire talks between Israel…...