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Pakistan said on Sunday that it carried out strikes along the border with Afghanistan, targeting hideouts of Pakistani militants it blames for recent attacks inside the country. Pakistani authorities did not say in precisely which areas the strikes were carried out or provide additional details. Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar wrote on X that the army carried out intelligence based selective targeting of seven camps and hideouts belonging to Pakistani Taliban and its affiliates.He added that an affiliate of ISIS group was also targeted in the border region. In October, Pakistan also conducted strikes deep inside Afghanistan to target militant hideouts as part of its efforts to contain security threats. “Pakistan has always strived for maintaining peace and stability in the region, but at the same time the safety and security of our citizens remains our top priority,” the Information Minister said. Source link
Rescue workers recover a victim’s body amid the debris of a collapsed building following an explosion, in Karachi on February 19, 2026. (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM…
File photo shows President Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif shake hands as they pose for a photo, at a world leaders’ summit on…
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 24, 2019, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a press conference at the United Nations Headquarters in…
Supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party carry a poster of him during a protest in Karachi over concerns about their…
Local residents look at a damaged bank on the outskirts of Quetta Sunday, a day after an attack by Baloch separatists. Pakistan forces were hunting for…
Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar discussed regional developments in a telephone call today with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi. According to Associated Press of Pakistan, Dar expressed his concern about the evolving regional situation, emphasizing that dialogue and diplomacy remain the only viable way forward. Source link
Pakistani firefighters yesterday retrieved the bodies of up to 25 people from the debris of a shopping mall fire in Karachi, taking the death toll to around 50. The port city’s largest fire in more than a decade broke out late on Saturday and quickly spread through the sprawling Gul Plaza shopping complex, famous for its 1,200 family-owned stores selling wedding clothes, toys, crockery and other goods. “We have found 20 to 25 dead bodies, or you call them remains,” deputy commissioner Javed Nabi Khoso told reporters. He said the remains had been taken to a hospital for DNA matching. Due to the difficulties in identification, he said it was hard to give a precise update on the death toll, which stood at 29 on Tuesday. A small crowd paying tribute to the victims lit candles near the site, with some holding images of those presumed killed. Firefighters had been battling the inferno inside the mall until Tuesday. By the time it was brought under control, Gul Plaza was reduced to a pile of ash and debris. A total of 84 people had been registered missing,according to a state-run rescue service. Police have said most of the missing are feared dead, meaning the toll could rise still further. “It is a ghastly scenario,” said shopkeeper Rehmat Khan after seeing inside what was left of the plaza. He said around 18 to 20 people had been in the shop, including six staff, when the fire erupted in the mall. All of them were missing, he said. Source link
Firefighters search for more than 60 missingRescue efforts hampered by unstable structure and debriAnger rising over response speed, government orders inquiry Pakistani firefighters began pulling bodies from the smouldering remains of a sprawling Karachi shopping mall on Monday where more than 60 people were still missing after a massive fire that killed at least 21.The city’s biggest fire in over a decade started late on Saturday at Gul Plaza, which houses 1,200 shops in a multi-storey complex spread across an area larger than a football field. The blaze in Karachi’s historic centre raged for more than 24 hours before it was mostly extinguished. Rescue workers use heavy machinery to remove rubble from the Gul Plaza Shopping Mall in Karachi. – Reuters Videos showed flames ripping through the building as firefighters laboured through the night to put out the blaze. On Monday, they began cooling the structure and clearing twisted metal and debris strewn across the street, along with fallen air-conditioning units and shop signboards.Most of the building had crumbled by Monday afternoon; cranes demolished the remaining structure amid fears it might collapse.Qasir Khan said his wife, daughter-in-law and her mother had gone to the mall on Saturday evening and were among those still missing. Emergency personnel remove human remains from…
Firefighters douse a fire that broke out at a shopping mall in Karachi Sunday. – AFP Firefighters in Pakistan’s largest city were fighting to extinguish a massive blaze Sunday that has killed six people and reduced parts of a shopping mall to rubble in Karachi’s historic downtown.Videos showed flames rising from the building as firefighters laboured through the night to stop the fire from spreading in the dense business district. Hundreds of people had gathered around the building, including distraught store owners whose businesses had turned to ash.The fire erupted on Saturday night, with rescue services receiving a call at 10:38 p.m. (1738 GMT) reporting that ground floor shops at Gul Plaza were ablaze.”When we arrived, the fire from the ground floor had spread to the upper floors, and almost the entire building was already engulfed in flames,” Rescue 1122 spokesperson Hassanul Haseeb Khan told Reuters.Police surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed said six bodies had been brought to Karachi’s Civil Hospital and 11 people who had been injured, adding that police were “invoking mass disaster protocols”.Images of the mall’s interior revealed the charred remains of stores and a bright orange glow as flames continued to rise throughout the building.Local media reported that parts of the building had started to collapse and rescue officials feared the whole structure could come down. Related Story Source link
