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Arif Alvi, currently serving as the president of Pakistan, called for additional training in emerging technologies including blockchain, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity while meeting with a delegation of blockchain technology experts.

TTP outfit were killed by Pakistan police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in different engagements from January 1 to March 15, official data released on Thursday said. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police lost 26 policemen in the line of duty while fighting against terrorists during the same period, according to the data released by the Central Police Line here. The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is a militant group having ideological similarities with Afghan Taliban. Pakistan has witnessed an uptick in terror activities recently, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, after the TTP group ended its ceasefire with the government in November 2022. Giving the break-up of those injured, the Central Police Line data said, 31 were injured in gunbattles. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police faced 29 attacks on their installations in January, 24 in February and 15 till March 15 this year. The number of attacks on police posts made in the same period are 16 while seven police stations were attacked too.

State-run Pakistan International Airlines has resumed direct flights to Europe following a decision by the European Union’s aviation safety agency to lift a four-year ban over safety standards

Pakistan’s railways has suspended all train services to and from a restive southwestern province where a suicide bombing at a train station over the weekend killed 26 people, including soldiers and railway staff

Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi led a high-level meeting at the Chief Minister's Secretariat to discuss the province's law and order situation following the recent blast incident at Quetta railway station. A preliminary report was also presented and discussed in the meeting, ARY News reported. A devastating blast at Quetta Railway Station in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Saturday claimed at least 26 lives and injured 62 others, according to local authorities and hospital officials, Dawn reported. It was decided in the meeting that decisive steps would be taken with full force to crush the terrorists and intelligence-based operations would be expanded to thwart the nefarious designs of anti-state elements, as per ARY News.

Officials say a massive explosion outside Pakistan's Karachi Airport has killed two workers from China and injured several others

Pakistan faces a rise in terrorist attacks over the past few years, its troubled Balochistan province was hit this week by a series of assaults that have resulted in over 70 fatalities. The coordinated attacks, possibly the most extensive of their kind in recent history, were carried out by the separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA). These events have once again highlighted the Baloch insurgency, driven by long-standing neglect and the exploitation of Balochistan's natural resources, revealing the province as a vulnerable point for Pakistan. The attacks, which saw BLA targeting police stations and taking control of major highways, coincided with the death anniversary of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, who was killed 18 years ago in one of then president Pervez Musharraf's counter-insurgency operations. Bugti's death only highlighted the shortcomings of military action, as it failed to address the true needs and aspirations of the tribal population. This lack of genuine engagement led to the rise of additional armed separatist groups, which now not only target Pakistani security forces and Chinese interests but also attack Punjabi and Sindhi migrant workers.

Traders in Pakistan are observing a daylong strike by shutting down their businesses in all major cities and urban areas to protest a rise in electricity costs and new taxes imposed on shop owners

Pakistan's ethnic Baloch protestors have decided to call off a nearly week-long sit-in in the coastal city of Gwadar against alleged human rights violations in the resource-rich Balochistan province after «successful negotiations» with the provincial government, the authorities said on Friday. The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) had been holding protests at the city's Marine Drive area against the alleged human rights violations, enforced disappearances and alleged extrajudicial killings in Balochistan. Balochistan's interior minister Mir Zia Ullah Langov held talks with BYC leader Dr Mahrang Baloch, a young woman from the province, and the two sides signed a seven-point agreement. «Negotiations between the Baloch Yakjehti Committee and the district administration have been successful and the organisers of the committee have agreed to end their sit-ins across the province,» Langov said in a statement.

Balochistan province over the administration’s decision to turn the area around the China-built Gwadar port into a military installation zone.

The protesters also ransacked the station's neighbouring administrative office in Thursday night's incident in rural Sibi, in southern Balochistan province, where temperatures peaked at 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). «People stormed the electricity supply office and ransacked it last night and a case has been lodged against them,» police official Anayatullah Bungulzai told AFP, adding that the group numbered up to 800 people.

death toll due to heavy rains and hailstorm in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province has increased to 22, the provincial disaster management cell said on Sunday. Heavy rains and thunderstorm caused flash floods and urban flooding in many districts of Balochistan, including its capital city, Quetta on Saturday. «So far the number of people killed due to rain, thunderstorm and hailstorm has touched 22. These deaths were reported in the last 48 hours,» said the department in a statement.

Pakistan government has finally approved the commencement of the much-delayed construction work on its segment of the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline which will help address the increasing energy needs of the cash-strapped country. The approval, which came after a delay of several years, for the first phase of the 80-km segment inside Pakistan was given by the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) of the interim government just days before the new government takes office after the February 8 elections. «The Pakistan government has approved the start of construction work on its segment of the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline,» said an official statement.

National Defence University, due to the fear of possible attacks by the militants. The move by the Pakistani authorities to temporarily close down the armed forces run National Defense University, Air University and Bahria University in addition to other institutions, came after a security alert was issued by intelligence organisations about a possible attack on military-linked educational institutions of higher learning. «At least three armed forces-run universities that include the National Defense University, Air University and Bahria University and a few other higher institutions were shut temporarily after intelligence was received about a possible attack on them,» said a source.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard conducted a bold attack on militant bases in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Tuesday, escalating tensions in an already volatile region. The attack, which involved missiles and drones, targeted the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl.

Pakistan surged 34 per cent in November, with 63 militant attacks recorded in the country during the month, a think-tank report said on Sunday. The 63 militant attacks in November resulted in 83 deaths, including that of 37 security forces personnel and 33 civilians, the Dawn newspaper reported, citing data by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) think tank. Additionally, 89 individuals, including 53 civilians and 36 security forces personnel, sustained injuries, according to the Islamabad-based think tank.

Pakistan airbase attack LIVE: Six militants attacked an air force training base in the central Pakistani area of Mianwali, Punjab on Saturday morning. According to the Reuters news agency, three militants were killed before they entered the base and the other three had been cornered.

Balochistan province this year where separatists and militants have stepped up their attacks since a ceasefire deal between the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Pakistan government ended in November 2022. According to a statement by the Pakistan Army, the incident happened when terrorists ambushed two vehicles carrying soldiers from Pasni to the Ormara area of Gwadar district of the province. The sanitisation operation is being carried out in the area and perpetrators of the heinous act will be hunted down and brought to justice, the statement said.

Reuters as saying. The blast took place in Tank Adda in the city near a police van, Geo TV reported on Friday. According to the report, those injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, while some of them remain critical.

illegal immigrants living here in Pakistan's biggest city are spending their days and nights in fear following the government's announcement that some 1.7 illegal Afghan refugees will be sent back to their country by the end of this month. For most of the Afghan men, women and children living in the Hijra Colony and Afghan Basti nestled on the northern outskirts of Karachi, life has become hell since the government announcement as, according to them, the police have started a witch-hunt against them.

Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, according to media reports. The explosion occurred in the Mastung district, Geo News reported. An official said that the explosion took place near the mosque where people were gathering to mark Eid Miladun Nabi, the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad. Mastung Assistant Commissioner Atta Ul Munim said that the explosion, which seems to be of a «massive» nature, took place near Madina Mosque. At least 13 people were killed and 70 others injured in the blast, the Dawn newspaper reported. Station House Officer (SHO) Javed Lehri said that the wounded are being shifted to a medical facility while an emergency has been imposed in the hospitals. «Some of the injured are in critical condition,» the administration added

China on Monday asserted that its «ironclad friendship» with Islamabad will always remain «rock-firm and unbreakable» irrespective of any changes in the international landscape and the domestic situation in Pakistan, as it congratulates Anwarul Haq Kakar on his appointment as caretaker prime minister. Earlier in the day in Islamabad, 52-year-old Kakar, an ethnic Pushtun leader who is considered close to the powerful military, was sworn in as Pakistan's caretaker prime minister to head a neutral political set-up to run the cash-strapped country and conduct the next general elections.