Noontime News Recap: Pakistan strikes Afghanistan as UN diplomacy, regional tensions and security alerts mount
Pakistan said it carried out air strikes on 10 sites in Afghanistan early on Thursday, saying the action was retaliation for drone attacks on a border post, while Afghan officials reported civilian deaths. The strikes sharply escalated already tense cross border relations. 🔗In Pakistan, authorities also blocked major highways into Islamabad and set up container barriers ahead of a planned Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf march demanding the release of Imran Khan, underlining the political pressure facing the government. 🔗At the United Nations in New York, Venezuela's Delcy Rodriguez used her General Assembly speech to thank Donald Trump after years of... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews Recap | 24 Sep 2026 12:25 LONDON
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Pakistan blocks roads and deploys barriers ahead of PTI march for Imran Khan
Pakistan has closed major highways into Islamabad and erected container barriers ahead of a planned protest by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party demanding the release of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan. The measures were in place on Thursday as authorities prepared for a march scheduled for Sunday, September 27. Police and local reports said the operation was aimed at limiting access to the capital before the demonstration.According to a police notification, the motorway linking Islamabad with Peshawar was closed to all traffic until further notice. Other routes shut included the highway toward Dera Ismail Khan, the Hazara motorway and the... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 24 Sep 2026 11:11 LONDON
Pakistan launches air strikes in Afghanistan as civilian deaths reported
Pakistan said it carried out air strikes on 10 sites in Afghanistan early on Thursday, in what it described as retaliation for drone attacks on a border post. Afghan officials said the strikes hit the southern and eastern provinces of Kandahar, Paktia and Khost, and killed four civilians. The competing accounts point to a sharp escalation in cross-border violence between the two neighbours.Pakistan's information minister, Attaullah Tarar, said the strikes were "deliberate, precise, calibrated, and proportionate" and were limited to identified military objectives. He said they followed what Islamabad described as a drone incursion from Afghanistan a day earlier. Afghan... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 24 Sep 2026 09:59 LONDON
Pakistan-administered Kashmir lawmakers vote for president amid months of unrest
Lawmakers in Pakistan-administered Kashmir are voting on Thursday to elect a president, filling the region's last vacant constitutional office nearly eight months after it fell empty. The vote is taking place in Muzaffarabad at the assembly secretariat between 10am and 1pm local time. It comes despite seven assembly seats remaining vacant in districts at the centre of months of unrest.Najeeb Naqi Khan, the candidate backed by the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, is expected to win. The party and its allies hold 32 of the 46 occupied seats in the 53-member Legislative Assembly, which is enough to secure the 27 votes... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 24 Sep 2026 08:03 LONDON
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Iran and Pakistan hold talks in Tehran as US tensions rise
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has held talks in Tehran with Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi as regional diplomacy continues amid rising tensions with the United States. The meeting came as Pakistan and Qatar seek to revive diplomatic efforts around the crisis, with Tehran warning that the situation could intensify further. Naqvi's visit was his sixth to the Iranian capital since the war between the United States and Israel on Iran began in February.The talks took place a day after Tehran said it had received intelligence that the United States was planning new attacks on Iran. Pezeshkian said he hoped for... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 22 Sep 2026 09:30 LONDON
Imran Khan's sister arrested in Lahore ahead of planned Pakistan protests
Aleema Khanum, the sister of Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, has been arrested in the eastern city of Lahore ahead of planned protests in support of him next week. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the party founded by Imran Khan, said she was detained on Sunday afternoon and described the move as an illegal detention. A police official confirmed the arrest, while Khanum's family said earlier in the day that they had no contact or news of her whereabouts.The arrest order, issued by Lahore's deputy commissioner, said Khanum had been mobilising supporters through social media and public meetings. It alleged that... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 20 Sep 2026 20:30 LONDON
Death toll rises to 31 in Pakistan police headquarters attack in Kohat
The death toll from the attack on a police headquarters complex in Kohat, in Pakistan's north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has risen to at least 31. Local officials said more than 100 people have been injured, and fighting was still under way inside the compound. The assault targeted the Old Police Lines complex, a district-level police headquarters in the town of about 220,000 people.Officials said attackers rammed a car packed with explosives into the police facility while officers and their families were praying in a mosque. A local official said at least 31 people, including 16 police personnel, had been killed... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 19 Sep 2026 05:59 LONDON
India-Pakistan naval collision in the Arabian Sea raises escalation fears
Pakistan and India have traded fresh accusations after their naval vessels collided in the Arabian Sea, prompting both governments to summon each other's diplomats. Pakistan said the Indian warship entered its exclusive economic zone, while India said the collision took place in international waters. The incident has sharpened concern about unintended escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbours, coming more than a year after their four-day air war in May 2025.According to the supplied material, the collision happened on Tuesday and the diplomatic protests followed on Wednesday. Pakistan's Foreign Office said its navy had been conducting the biennial SEASPARK-26 exercise inside its... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 17 Sep 2026 15:00 LONDON
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