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Iran’s foreign minister leaves Islamabad after talks with Pakistani officials: State media

Iran’s foreign minister leaves Islamabad after talks with Pakistani officials: State media

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OPENING HORMUZ “VITAL” Iran’s military, meanwhile, remained defiant on Saturday. In a statement carried by state media, the military’s central command said that if “the invading US military continues blockading, banditry, and piracy in the region, they should be certain that they will face a response from Iran’s powerful armed forces”. Tehran’s defence ministry, in a statement carried by news agency ISNA, said: “Our military power today is a dominant force, and the enemy is looking for a face-saving way to escape the war quagmire it has become trapped in.” Since the last round of talks, efforts to bring the two sides back to the table have hit an impasse, with Iran refusing to participate as long as a US naval blockade on its ports remains in place. Iran has imposed a de facto blockade of its own on the Strait of Hormuz, allowing only a trickle of ships to pass through the vital waterway, throwing global energy markets into turmoil. Oil prices slid on Friday amid hopes that fresh peace talks would see an …

Pakistani army chief visits Tehran in hopes for renewed talks between US and Iran

Pakistani army chief visits Tehran in hopes for renewed talks between US and Iran

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Pakistan’s army chief is set to meet with Iranian officials in Tehran on Thursday in a bid to extend the ceasefire which paused almost seven weeks of war between Israel, the US and Iran that have killed thousands of people and upended global markets by disrupting the flow of oil. The meeting comes as President Donald Trump announced the leaders of Israel and Lebanon will speak later on Thursday about halting the fighting between them. Source link

Pakistani Warplanes Land In Saudi Arabia For Start Of Mutual Defense Pact

Pakistani Warplanes Land In Saudi Arabia For Start Of Mutual Defense Pact

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Via The Cradle A Pakistani military force arrived at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz Air Base on Saturday, as part of a strategic defense pact between the two countries, the kingdom’s defense ministry has announced. The Pakistani force includes air force fighter jets and support aircraft. It was sent to Saudi Arabia to “enhance joint military cooperation, raise operational readiness, and support security and stability in the region,” the ministry’s statement said. Pakistan Air Force image The military deployment arrived following five weeks of US-Israeli attacks on Iran, and as ceasefire talks take place in Islamabad. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a strategic defense agreement last year involving joint deployments, intelligence sharing, and coordinated responses to regional threats. The pact commits both states to treat any attack on one as an attack on both, allowing the Gulf kingdom to benefit from the protection afforded by Pakistan’s nuclear weapons arsenal. In January, Pakistani F-16 fighter aircraft participated in a multinational air combat exercise in Saudi Arabia. The Spears of Victory-2026 exercise also involved military forces from France, Italy, Greece, Qatar, …

Afghan mother seeks justice after Pakistani bombing kills hundreds

Afghan mother seeks justice after Pakistani bombing kills hundreds

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LITTLE CHANCE OF PROSECUTIONS Seventeen international humanitarian NGOs, including War Child UK, condemned the bombing, noting that hospitals must not be attacked. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights have called for an independent investigation. The latter said those responsible should be “held to account in line with international standards”. The Taliban government told AFP that it has given media, diplomats and NGOs access to the site and has “shared the evidence”. Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur on Afghanistan, told AFP: “The initial responsibility actually falls on the alleged perpetrator of human rights violations, which is Pakistan.” Kenneth Roth, a visiting professor at Princeton University in the United States, said he “would hope that Pakistan would want to know what went wrong” after “many innocent people died”.  States are generally reluctant to question themselves, but “even the Pentagon investigates why it struck and killed so many children in a school in Iran”, said Roth, a longtime former Human Rights Watch executive director. Several victims’ relatives said they would …

Pakistani Convicted of Plotting to Kill Trump Over Death of Iran Commander

Pakistani Convicted of Plotting to Kill Trump Over Death of Iran Commander

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WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) – A Pakistani man ⁠was ⁠convicted on Friday of planning to ⁠kill President Donald Trump and other prominent U.S. politicians two years ​ago at the behest of Iran, the Department of Justice said. Asif Merchant was accused of trying to ‌recruit people in the U.S. ‌in a plan targeting Trump and others in retaliation for Washington’s killing of Iranian military ⁠commander Qassem ⁠Soleimani in 2020, when Trump was in his first term. Targets in the ​2024 plot also included then-President Joe Biden and Nikki Haley, who ran against Trump that year for the Republican presidential nomination, federal prosecutors said. Merchant was convicted of “murder for hire and attempting to commit an ​act of terrorism transcending national boundaries,” directed by the Iranian authorities, the DOJ said in ⁠a ⁠statement. The trial in the New ⁠York City ​borough of Brooklyn started last week, days before Trump ordered an assault on Iran, carried ​out with Israel, that has ⁠expanded into the region’s biggest war in years. Merchant admitted to joining the plot with Iran’s …

‘We were just praying’: Pakistani students recount escape from war-hit Iran | Israel-Iran conflict News

‘We were just praying’: Pakistani students recount escape from war-hit Iran | Israel-Iran conflict News

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Islamabad, Pakistan – It was the first working day of the week and Muhammad Raza, a 23-year-old Pakistani medical student, was assisting the doctors treating patients at Tehran University of Medical Sciences hospital in the Iranian capital. A loud explosion brought the ward to a halt. Israel and the United States had began bombing Iran in a joint operation on the morning of February 28. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list “We had been hearing about an imminent attack, and when it did strike, it sent a surge of anxiety and panic through my body,” Raza told Al Jazeera from inside a bus on his way to Islamabad on Tuesday. As chaos and fear gripped Tehran following the bombings, Raza rushed to his hostel near the hospital compound and immediately called the Pakistani embassy, less than 2km (1.2 miles) away. The mission instructed him and other students to gather with essential belongings by the evening before arrangements could be made to send them home. “It was really scary. All of us were afraid of …

Afghan labourers say Pakistani strikes hit migrants’ site

Afghan labourers say Pakistani strikes hit migrants’ site

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TAKHTA PUL: Afghan construction workers in rural Kandahar said they were building homes for migrants who had recently returned to the country when Pakistani air strikes hit the area on Saturday (February 28). A major escalation following months of cross-border violence has seen deadly fighting along the frontier and multiple Pakistani strikes on Afghanistan since Thursday. Construction worker Noor Agha, 21, said he was busy tiling “when the Pakistani planes attacked” the site near Takhta Pul village on Saturday. “They bombarded the sheds, then we went inside the mountain,” he told AFP, with hills visible in the distance. “Some people were martyred, two or three were wounded.” The head of the facility gave a figure of three killed and seven wounded. Agha said two strikes hit the site, where a destroyed car sat in front of a building covered in shrapnel marks. The Pakistani military did not respond to an AFP request to comment on the incident. Construction was underway to support Afghan returnees from Pakistan and Iran, local officials said. Around 5.4 million Afghans …

‘Lali’ Film Trailer for First Pakistani Movie at Berlin Film Festival

‘Lali’ Film Trailer for First Pakistani Movie at Berlin Film Festival

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A man pretends to be possessed to try to control his wife, who has a reputation for being a cursed bride, in Lali, the first all-Pakistani feature at the Berlin International Film Festival (the festival has in the past featured Pakistani co-productions). Audiences can actually celebrate Valentine’s Day with this cinematic reminder that love can be a battlefield. After all, the darkly comic new movie from writer-director Sarmad Sultan Khoosat (Circus of Life, Joyland, both of which were Pakistan’s official Oscar submissions, with the latter winning the jury prize at Cannes) gets its world premiere in Berlin’s Panorama section on Feb. 14. The film tells the story of Zeba, who is newly married to man-child Sajawal after having three suitors who ended up dying. She seeks refuge in two women. The one is Sohni Ammi, her feisty mother-in-law, whose sharp tongue hides a big heart, while the other is Bholi, a quiet and wise neighbor. But Sajawal is haunted by paranoia. Mamya Shajaffar, Channan Hanif, Rasti Farooq, Farazeh Syed, and Mehr Bano star in the exploration …

Pakistani military orders evacuations ahead of security sweep in Tirah | Pakistan Taliban

Pakistani military orders evacuations ahead of security sweep in Tirah | Pakistan Taliban

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NewsFeed The Pakistani military is forcing thousands of families to evacuate from Khyber District’s Tirah Valley ahead of a security operation it says will target Pakistani Taliban fighters who now control parts of the region. Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder filed this report. Published On 23 Jan 202623 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Source link