Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (APP): Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov here on the sidelines of the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Council of Foreign Ministers being held in Goa, India.

During the meeting, they discussed bilateral, regional and international matters of mutual interest.

Foreign Minister Bilawal assured to work closely for further deepening cooperation in food security, energy and people-to-people contacts.

ISLAMABAD, May 4 (Xinhua) -- At least seven teachers were shot dead on Thursday by unknown gunmen in a school in Kurram district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.

According to local police, some unknown armed men entered the Government High School Tari Mangal and killed seven teachers on the spot.

Police and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the bodies to a hospital.

Police added that the teachers were present in the staff room of the school when the miscreants entered and opened fire at them.

SWABI, Pakistan, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Nasrullah Khan, a 42-year-old Pakistani mechanic who worked in Sudan, experienced the real adversity of life for the first time since his birth when sitting anguished and penniless in Port Sudan in recent days.

Now safely in his home in Swabi, a city in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, he recalled the intense and moving experience, saying that "the Pakistan-China ironclad friendship helped him out of danger."

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen stormed a school in Pakistan’s volatile northwest on Thursday, killing seven teachers and gunning down another teacher from the school in a separate attack. Earlier in the day, a shootout with militants elsewhere in the region killed six Pakistani soldiers.

The violence underscores the challenges the government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif is facing amid a surge in militant attacks across the country in recent months.

ISLAMABAD, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan is taking special measures to bring its underprivileged districts at par with other developed areas of the country for sustainable growth, Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal said on Wednesday.

"Passing on the benefits of development to individuals, communities, and under-developed localities is imperative for achieving sustainable national progress," the minister said while chairing a meeting on development projects of backward districts.

ISLAMABAD, May 2 (NNN-APP) – The Pakistani army has arrested seven terrorists, in an operation in the country’s north-west North Waziristan district, said a military statement.

The Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan army, said, the security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation yesterday, on the presence of terrorists in the Miran Shah area of North Waziristan, a district in the north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Islamabad, Apr 30 (PTI) Pakistan President Dr Arif Alvi on Sunday returned a bill to the parliament about changes in the anti-corruption laws with observation that a similar previous amendment was challenged in the Supreme Court and was still sub-judice.

The bill called the National Accountability (Amendment) Bill, 2023 was passed earlier this month by the parliament and it was sent to President Alvi for his endorsement to become an act.

ISLAMABAD, Apr 30 (APP): Due to the successful operation of Pakistani intelligence agency a leaked audio call between Munish Sharma, an Indian journalist, asking one of his subordinates to distort facts about the killing of Mukhtiar Hussain Shah who died in police custody on April 27, has exposed Indian brutalities and human rights violations in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).   

In the audio leak, Shrama could be heard directing Balkar Singh from Amar Ujala Newspaper, Samba, about filing of a news story to cover up the incident.  

Lahore, Apr 29 (PTI) Pakistan police on Saturday booked former Chief Minister of Punjab province and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on terrorism charges and arrested 25 others for resisting his arrest.

Islamabad, Apr 27 (PTI) Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday secured a vote of confidence from the National Assembly, with 180 lawmakers expressing "full confidence" in his leadership, in a surprise development amidst an increasing confrontation between the government and the top judiciary.