During an intelligence-base operation (IBO) in Khyber District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan Army’s Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Hassan Haider and three other soldiers were martyred in a gunfight with the terrorists, the Inter-Services Public Relations announced on Monday. Three militants were killed and three others were injured during the IBO carried out by the security forces under the command of Lt-Col Haider in the Tirah. “During the conduct of the operation, own troops led by Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Hassan Haider, effectively engaged the terrorists’ location as a result of which three terrorists were sent to hell, while three terrorists got injured,” the media arm of the military said. The soldiers martyred in the operation were identified as Naik Khushdil Khan, 31, from...
Murtaza Solangi, minister for information and broadcasting, stated here on Monday that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting will take a more active role in helping Chinese enterprises develop greater understanding and cooperation in areas of shared interest as China-Pakistan cooperation continues to deepen. The Minister of Information and its affiliated organisations, such as Pakistan Television, Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, and Associated Press of Pakistan, are already working with their counterparts in a structured framework to improve media cooperation, he said during his speech at the launch of the report on the ten years of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which was organised by the All Pakistan China Enterprises Association and the Pakistan China Institute.
It was revealed on Monday that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have decided to collaborate in order to save the state by making crucial decisions. Sources claim that the development occurred during a phone call between PPP Co-Chair Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif. Following a four-year self-imposed exile in London, the PML-N supremo returned to the country on October 21. The PPP leader congratulated him on his return. The sources also stated that both leaders concurred that each stakeholder will contribute in some way to the state’s rescue. The leaders of the nation’s two largest political parties also decided to make crucial choices that would help the people affected by inflation.
The Senate received sixteen private member bills.ISLAMABAD: On Monday, the Senate received up to 16 private member bills, while the House rejected a resolution to propose a bill establishing the Pakistan Future Council with 25 votes against and 16 votes in favour. Sarfraz Bugti, the acting interior minister, did not object to Senator Sania Nishtar’s proposal to present the Pakistan Future Council Bill, 2023. The majority of senators, however, referred to it as the establishment of a supra-body over already-existing organisations like the Planning and Development Commission. The motion was put to a vote by the chairman at Sania Nishtar’s request. A total of 16 senators voted in favour of it while about 25 senators opposed it.
Dr. Reza Amiri Moghaddam, the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Pakistan, paid Muhammad Ali, the acting federal minister for power and petroleum, a visit on Monday. According to a statement released here, they talked about fostering fraternal ties between the two nations and areas of shared interest.
Since October 7, Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed at least 10,022 Palestinians, including 4,104 children, according to the health ministry in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas. The US Navy has announced in public that a nuclear submarine is being sent to the Middle East, more precisely to the US Central Command’s area of responsibility. This is an unprecedented move. Although the report did not identify the sub, it is thought to be one of the four guided missile submarines (SSGNs) of the Ohio class that the US Navy possesses. Originally designed as ballistic missile submarines, these SSGNs were modified to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles. Amid rising tensions in the Middle East, this move is widely perceived as a clear deterrent to regional adversaries, especially Iran.
MULTAN: Maulana Tahir Ashrafi, chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC), has said that Pakistanis have a firm view on the Palestine problem that is in line with Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s initial attitude. During his speech at the conference, he expressed his support for the Palestinian people. The two main concerns facing the Muslim world are Kashmir and Palestine. He said that Pakistan aspires to give the people of Palestine and Kashmir full justice. According to Ashrafi, we want Palestine to be a sovereign state with its capital located in Al-Quds Al-Sharif. On the other hand, he was hoping for positive news from the next Arab meeting on the Palestine problem in Riaz, Saudi Arabia.
Masood Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, stated that the country is entering a new phase of the digital industry and that tech entrepreneurship in Pakistan has flourished. Speaking as the keynote speaker at a special session in San Francisco, California, he noted that young people in Pakistan who are graduating from universities are engaging in the digital economy, which is changing the course of the country’s economy. Masood Khan stated that in light of the tech and IT sector’s enormous potential, the government of Pakistan has established an atmosphere that is conducive to its expansion. He noted that the IT industry was one of the top priorities of the nation’s newly established Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC).
According to sources in the Petroleum Division, the caretaker administration has chosen to increase the nation’s strategic petroleum reserves while hostilities still encircle the Middle East. The government’s action comes in response to Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, which started about a month ago with a surprise attack by the resistance organisation Hamas, which is fighting for a free Palestine, on an Israeli kibbutz. The sources stated that because Pakistan imports its fuel from other nations, there is an urgent need to boost the storage capacity of petroleum reserves. According to the sources, a comprehensive evaluation of the nation’s needs is necessary before determining the ultimate reserves and the amount of time they can last.
A court in the federal capital granted a two-day remand for the politician Fawad Chaudhry, a former federal minister who had been arrested the day before from his Islamabad apartment. Chaudhry was then turned over to the police. The lawmaker was ordered to undergo a medical examination by the court at the District Judicial Complex, and the police were instructed to arrange for a meeting between him and his family. The directives were issued in response to Fawad’s arrest on Saturday, which his wife Hiba said was carried out for no apparent cause. It was eventually disclosed, nevertheless, that the lawmaker had been arrested following the filing of a complaint at the Aabpara Police Station in Islamabad, alleging that he had asked for a bribe of Rs. 5 million in exchange for a job.
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