ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in more than a week of fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday. It is the deadliest crisis between the two countries in several years. The...
BUNER, Pakistan (AP) — Rescue workers in northwestern Pakistan expanded relief operations Sunday after flash floods killed more than 220 people in a single district, officials said. Buner, a mountainous district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was struck by cloudbursts and torrential monsoon...
A president of an Indian-Filipino business group condemned on Saturday, May 10, the attacks executed by the Pakistani Army on the Jammu and Kashmir districts amid heightened tensions and retaliatory measures over the past week. Local residents and members of the media examine a building damaged by...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Wednesday, May 7, that there are no reports of Filipino casualties in the airstrikes launched by India on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Local residents and members of the media examine a building damaged by a suspected Indian missile...
The Philippine Embassy in Islamabad has cancelled a scheduled consular and overseas voting mission in Lahore in the province of Punjab in Pakistan, citing security concerns amid the ongoing tensions in the India-Pakistan border. A relative wails during the funeral procession of Adil Hussain Shah,...
Minority Leader 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan (Facebook) The Department of Justice (DOJ) must step up in order to identify and prosecute the masterminds behind the P2.7-billion "shabu" shipment from Karachi, Pakistan, that...
NEW DELHI (AFP) -- India may be forced to forfeit a Davis Cup playoff hosted by rival Pakistan, with the local tennis association saying on Thursday, Dec. 28, the team was waiting on New Delhi's approval to travel. The nuclear-armed neighbors have fought several wars since winning independence from...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The death toll from the suicide attack at a political gathering in the Bajaur district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday jumped to 54 after more injured succumbed to their injuries, a police official said on Monday. Â Additional Inspector General...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- At least eight people were killed and four went missing on Wednesday after a wall collapsed due to rain in Rawalpindi city of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, the rescue service reported. Â Â Â The rescue service said that the incident took place in the morning on...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Police in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi arrested a high-profile terrorist on Thursday, an official statement said. Â Â Â The terrorist, who belonged to the banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was arrested by the counter-terrorism department (CTD)...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Four people from the same family drowned in a dam in Jhelum district of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, the rescue service reported. According to the reports, the incident took place on Thursday when a man along with his two sons and a brother-in-law were swimming in Raja...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - At least 14 people were killed and six others injured in rain-related accidents in different areas of Pakistan during the last 24 hours, officials said on Monday. Â Â Â Deputy Commissioner of Narowal district of the eastern Punjab province Muhammad Ashraf told Xinhua...
