Pakistan

Tehran said it had targeted two camps of the Jaish al-Adl terror group - which it has previously linked to attacks on its security forces - but Islamabad condemned the attack.

The incident happened Saturday in Kech district of the turbulent province, where the military has been fighting a low-level insurgency for decades.

The incident happened when unidentified terrorists attacked Laachi toll plaza in Kohat district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday morning.

In December, India asked Pakistan to extradite Saeed, a United Nations-proscribed terrorist, who is wanted by Indian probe agencies in a number of terror cases.

Three-time prime minister Sharif—regarded as the favourite in Khan's absence—was last ousted by the Supreme Court in 2017, and a subsequent ruling saw him barred from office for life over graft.

The three shepherd children, between the ages of five and 15 years, were grazing goats in the fields in the Khajori area and were killed when one of them stepped on a landmine.

Currently over 10,000 PTI workers and leaders are languishing in jails in different parts of the country after May 9 events.

In 2023, security and law enforcement agencies intensified anti-militant kinetic actions with 129 operational strikes, compared to 87 in 2022, resulting in 425 deaths and 51 injuries.

On Wednesday, Khan, through his counsels, challenged the RO's decision to reject his nomination papers for NA-122 Lahore and NA-89 Mianwali.

Khan is in prison serving a three-year sentence for corruption and also faces a stack of other charges, making it difficult for him to run for office. But he still filed nomination papers.

The cipher case pertains to the alleged mishandling of a diplomatic document sent by the Pakistan embassy in March last year.

Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide bomb blast-cum-gun shooting attack outside the famous Liaquat Bagh as she was about to depart after addressing an election rally.

The 73-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo is the only Pakistani politician who became the prime minister of the coup-prone country thrice.

The 67-year-old two-time former foreign minister was incarcerated in jail along with Khan in the cipher case but the apex court granted them bail in the case last week.

The petition was filed with a plea to overturn the August 5 conviction of Khan by an additional sessions judge of the IHC for illegally selling state gifts, Dawn News reported.

Early this week, Sharif had said neither India nor the United States are behind Pakistan's miseries. "No one else but we are responsible for our downfall as we shot ourselves in the foot."

Similarly, he said, France was also struggling, while Italy had expressed fears that it might become Europe's refugee camp.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo lashed out at former ISI chief Gen Faiz Hamid for his role in ousting him from power in 2017.

According to the National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC), the tremor occurred at a depth of 133 km and its epicentre was Jammu and Kashmir in India.

The replicated voice of Imran Khan was used to address a virtual event on social media watched by more than a million people. The four-minute speech was written by Khan in prison and delivered by AI.