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Pakistan supplied arms to Ukraine in return for IMF bailout with help of US – report

Pakistan supplied munitions and arms to Ukraine in return for the recent bailout to the South Asian country by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a deal brokered by the United States, leaked documents have revealed. According to an investigation by The Intercept, two sources with knowledge of the arrangement, as well as internal Pakistani and American government documents, revealed that Pakistan had succumbed to US pressure to covertly support Ukraine […]

19 September 2023

International

Pakistan’s ex-Premier Khan arrested after sentenced to jail in corruption case

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday was arrested from his residence in Lahore after he was handed a jail term in a corruption case, said a senior leader of his party, Anadolu reports. Farrukh Habib, former state minister for information, said on X, formerly Twitter, that the Punjab police arrested Khan, the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf (PTI), and will shift him later to Islamabad. According to Khan's […]

5 August 2023

International

Pakistan moves to charge traffickers with money laundering over Greece boat tragedy

Pakistan has decided to charge the suspected human traffickers involved in last month's shipwreck off the coast of Greece under the country's anti-money laundering law, an official statement said on Monday, Anadolu Agency reports. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), which is investigating the gory incident in which some 350 Pakistanis were among over 800 onboard a fishing trawler that sank, said in a statement that the passports of the suspected traffickers will […]

4 July 2023

International

Hajj: Why Pakistanis in the West are ‘going home’ to apply for the pilgrimage

Sitting under a white canopy encrusted with fairy lights at a training session in London for Hajj, Shakil Ahsan listens patiently to the imam as he explains the rites of the pilgrimage in Urdu. The 42-year-old council worker has dreamed of doing the Hajj pilgrimage for several years, and now his hopes of sitting under a canopy in Mina, Saudi Arabia, are coming to fruition. The pandemic and inability to […]

22 June 2023

International

Pakistan Imran Khan approaches top court against military deployment

Calling it "undeclared martial law," Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, on Thursday approached the top court against the deployment of armed forces in parts of the country, requesting it to term the move unconstitutional, Anadolu Agency reports. The army was deployed in the provinces of Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the capital, Islamabad, over violence after Khan's controversial arrest on 9 May. His brief detention, which was later declared illegal, […]

26 May 2023

International

Saudi Arabia to finance $240 million Pakistan dam project

Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement to finance a Pakistani dam project, worth over $240 million. According to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the Mohmand Hydropower Dam Project on the Swat River in north-west Pakistan is to be funded through a "soft development loan." Financed by the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), the project reportedly aims to enhance the supply of energy and water for agriculture and daily consumption, strengthen protection […]

9 April 2023

International

Condemnation and condolences from Gulf states after deadly Pakistan bombing

Gulf states have condemned the bombing of a mosque inside a police compound on Monday in Pakistan that has left over 60 people dead, most of them police, and prompted the government to put the country on high alert. The attack happened during afternoon prayers in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close to the tribal areas along the Afghan border where militancy has been steadily rising. A frantic rescue mission was underway […]

31 January 2023

International News

Protests across Pakistan after far-right TLP leader arrested

Protests have erupted in several cities across Pakistan after police took into custody the leader of a far-right religious party known for holding mass demonstrations over the issue of “blasphemy”. On Monday evening, several major intercity highways were closed by police as protests broke out in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi, the eastern city of Lahore, outside the capital Islamabad and in several other areas. Local media reported clashes between […]

13 April 2021

International News

UAE brokering secret India-Pakistan peace roadmap: Officials

About 24 hours after military chiefs from India and Pakistan surprised the world last month with a rare joint commitment to respect a 2003 cease-fire agreement, the top diplomat of the United Arab Emirates popped over to New Delhi for a quick one-day visit. The official UAE readout of the Feb. 26 meeting gave few clues of what Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed spoke about with Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam […]

22 March 2021

Pakistan

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