Afghanistan officials handed over the bodies of five martyred personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) as well as an injured soldier to the elders of Kurram Agency in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on April 16 as talks continued between the two sides to deescalate tension along the border, reports Dawn. According to reports, 10 attackers from the Afghan side […]

More Pakistanis died in what were dubbed, by law enforcers, as encounter killings than in gun violence or suicide attacks in 2017, reveals the annual report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), Daily Times reported on April 17. The 29th annual report – dedicated to the memory of veteran human rights activist Asma Jahangir – was launched at […]

37 Taliban militants and one Policeman were killed and seven militants and two Policemen were injured in joint air-strikes conducted by Afghan and United States (US) Forces in Farah District the capital of Farah Province on April 16, reports Khaama Press. The air-strikes were conducted after Taliban militants launched an attack on security posts in the outskirts of the Farah […]

Afghanistan said that 24 militants were killed and 43 others were injured in operations conducted by Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) with support of Air and Artillery Forces in Nangarhar, Kapisa, Khost, Logar, Paktia, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Herat, Farah, Badghis, Ghor, Faryab, Kunduz, Baghlan and Helmand Provinces in the last 24 hours, reports Bakhtar News on April 16.

Life in Kashmir valley was disrupted on April 12 due to shutdown against civilian killings in Kulgam District even as authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar and closed colleges and schools, reports Daily Excelsior. The shutdown was called by separatists to protest against the killings. Shops and business establishments remained closed in most parts of Valley while public transport […]

According to the latest report of UNAMA, from 1 January to 31 March 2018, UNAMA documented 2,258 civilian casualties (763 deaths and 1,495 injured), reports Khaama Press on April 12. The report further adds that quarterly report describes civilian casualties from suicide improvised explosive devices (IED) and complex attacks as the leading cause of civilian casualties, a new trend observed […]

The United States (US) on Tuesday decided to impose new restrictions on Pakistani diplomats in the US ‘to limit their movement’. The US have prepared a code of conduct according to which the Pakistani diplomats would not be allowed to move outside the designated 45-kilometre radius from the embassy.

Japan’s foreign minister was in South Korea for a rare visit Wednesday (Apr 11), armed with a list of issues Tokyo wants to push onto the agenda of a looming summit between North and South Korea. The first such visit in more than two years comes at a time of frenetic diplomatic activity in Northeast Asia, ahead of the North’s […]