Pakistan hopeful intra-Afghan talks will begin soon
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday looked hopeful about intra-Afghan talks commencing soon. “After listening to Taliban delegation, I’m optimistic of progress in the near future despite problems and the presence of spoilers. Hopefully a way out would be found,” Mr Qureshi said while talking to journalists after meeting an Afghan Taliban delegation […]
No plans of sacking Misbah as chief selector: PCB sources
KARACHI: It appears as if the clouds of uncertainty that have been looming over Misbah ul Haq’s future as chief selector for the past few days are finally fading away. Misbah will stay as chief selector of Pakistan men’s national team, Dawn has learnt. According to a reliable source in the PCB, the reports of replacing Misbah […]
Flood-like situation, landslides continue to cause havoc in PeerPanjal region
Flood like situations in PeerPanjal region due to heavy rainfall from last night. A 35 year old man Mohd Shokit Son Mohd Hussain Resident of Gola Nari village of Manjakote tehsil died when a Cattle Shed Collapse . His body was removed from the debris site by locals of the area, said officials. Similarly, in […]
CRPF arrests Kashmiri youth in Delhi
Srinagar: A youth hailing from Central Kashmir’s Budgam district has been arrested by Central Reserve Police Force while roaming outside Parliament House in New Delhi, media reports said on Wednesday. Reports said that the youth was roaming around Delhi’s Vijay Chowk, when CRPF nabbed him on the allegations that he made a couple of rounds […]
Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remains blocked, clearance work continues
Jammu and Kashmir police said on Wednesday (August 26) that Jammu-Srinagar National Highway (NHW-44) continued to remain blocked as clearance work following landslide and heavy rains in the area is still underway.
Heavy rainfall triggers fresh landslide in Rajouri; 35-yr-old killed
A 35-year-old man was killed after a fresh landslide triggered by heavy rainfall hit Kotli village of Manjkote in Rajouri district on Wednesday. The fresh landslides triggered by the heavy rainfall also damaged numbers of roads and bridges partially in Rajouri and Poonch district areas. Unnamed officials told a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer […]
Residential house gutted in Uri fire
A residential house was on Wednesday partially damaged in a fire incident in Noorkha village of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, reported a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO). Unnamed officials told the agency that mysterious fire was broke out from a residential house of Syed Zulfikar, son of Sayed Altaf Hussain, leaving […]
Ram Madhav to visit Srinagar tomorrow, will review security of party workers
Srinagar: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Ram Madhav is scheduled to visit Srinagar to check party pulse tomorrow, sources in the party revealed on Wednesday. They told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that Madhav will arrive in Srinagar tomorrow morning and right away chair party workers meeting to check the party pulse. “He will […]
Will raise ‘Gupkar Declaration’ in Parliament: Farooq
National Conference president and three-time Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, who recently reiterated the ‘Gupkar Declaration’ of August 4 of last year in launching what he called struggle for the restoration of the special status of J&K, said on Tuesday that he was not concerned by Delhi’s silence to […]
Afghanistan asks Pakistan to carry out UN sanctions on Taliban
Afghanistan asked Pakistan on Tuesday to fully implement UN Security Council sanctions on terrorist groups and individuals even as foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held talks with a Taliban delegation that included several sanctioned leaders. On August 18, Pakistan’s Foreign Office issued a statutory regulatory order to enforce UN sanctions, which include a freeze on […]