Commanders vow to decimate India-backed terror proxies By: Agencies on May 23, 2025The armed forces have vowed to prevent the country’s peace being compromised by externally-sponsored terrorism, the military’s media wing said on Thursday. At least six people, including three students, were martyred while over 40 others – mostly students – were injured on Wednesday after a bomb targeted a school bus near Zero Point in Khuzdar […]
COAS Asim Munir formally receives ‘Baton of Field Marshal’ By: Agencies on May 23, 2025Chief of the Army Staff General Asim Munir was formally handed the ‘Baton of Field Marshal’ at a special ceremony held at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad Thursday evening. Attendees at the ceremony included President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, members of his cabinet, PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto, provincial governors and […]
Pakistan warns of taking control of Kashmir rivers if India violates IWT By: Agencies on May 23, 2025Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry warned India that Pakistan will take control of all six rivers flowing from Kashmir if it violated the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT). In an interview with Al Jazeera TV, the ISPR DG said that the Pakistan’s armed forces gave befitting reply to Indian aggression. […]
Pakistan will not get water over which India has rights: Modi By: Agencies on May 23, 2025Pakistan will not get water from rivers over which India has rights, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, a month after a deadly attack in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) led New Delhi to suspend a key river water-sharing treaty between the neighbours. The suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), […]
Punjab CM likens India’s aggression to May 9 attacks By: News Desk on May 23, 2025In her speech at the Laptop and Honahar Scholarship distribution ceremony at the University of Sargodha, Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif announced to further increase the number of meritorious scholarships from next year. She also announced to establish charging stations for students’ electric bikes, besides building AI and computer labs in 6,000 government schools, […]
India will never forget defeat in briefest yet effecive war: PM By: Agencies on May 23, 2025Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday that the perception of India’s superiority in conventional warfare was proven wrong by Pakistan during the recent war between the two nuclear powers in South Asia. The prime minister made the remarks while addressing a ceremony for distribution of compensation cheques among the families of those martyred in […]
Major diplomatic security milestones achieved during China visit, says Dar By: APP on May 23, 2025Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister (DPM/FM) Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Thursday calling his recent three-day China visit “highly successful,” said that Pakistan had achieved significant progress on diplomatic, strategic and economic fronts during the engagements held in Beijing. The deputy prime minister, addressing a news conference, said that it was not a routine […]
Pakistan kicks out another Indian diplomat By: Agencies on May 23, 2025Declaring another Indian High Commission staffer as persona non grata, Pakistan has expelled the diplomat asking him to leave the country within 24 hours, the second such expulsion in this month. The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday summoned Charge d’Affaires Geetika Srivastava and handed her a protest demarche. According to a statement released by the […]
Qalandars eliminate Kings from PSL 10 By: Agencies on May 23, 2025Lahore Qalandars knocked Karachi Kings out of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 10 after winning the Eliminator by six wickets at the Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday. Set to chase 191, Qalandars got over the line over the loss of four wickets in 18.4 overs, with eight balls to spare. Earlier, fifty from skipper David Warner […]
PM vows swift reforms as IMF lauds economic progress By: APP on May 23, 2025Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday reaffirmed his government’s commitment to fast-track institutional reforms alongside macroeconomic stabilization, asserting that Pakistan was now firmly on the path to economic development, following a period of recovery and stability. The Prime Minister expressed these remarks during high-level meeting with a delegation from International Monetary Fund (IMF) led […]