On Friday, earthquake tremors were detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat district and surrounding regions. The magnitude of the earthquake was 4.4 on the Richter scale, the depth was 124 km underground, and the epicentre was near the border region of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, according to the Seismological Centre. TheRead More →

Ali Muhammad Khan, the head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was detained again on Friday, two days after the Peshawar High Court (PHC) granted his release. Mr Khan was also named in a corruption investigation, according to police. Mr Khan had previously been ordered released by the PHC after beingRead More →

On Wednesday, a much-anticipated meeting between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and deputy leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Lahore’s Zaman Park ended without the release of a “joint statement.” Mr Qureshi, who was freed from jail after nearly a month the other day, stayed with the party president for about anRead More →

The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) central executive committee was scheduled to convene on Saturday to discuss the nation’s political climate. The meeting of the central executive committee will take place on June 10 in Peshawar’s Mufti Mehmood Centre, according to JUI-F spokesperson Aslam Ghauri. Maulana Fazlur Rehman, head of the JUI,Read More →

The new Pakistani embassy in Baghdad’s foundation stone was laid on Tuesday by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. Fuad Hussein, the deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of Iraq, joined Mr. Bhutto-Zardari at the foundation-stone-laying event. Both the Iraqi ambassador, Hamid Abbas Lafta, and the ambassador of Pakistan, AhmedRead More →