SYDNEY: Australia has foiled an Islamist-inspired terrorist plot to bring down an aircraft with an improvised explosive device, authorities said on Sunday, after four people were arrested in raids across Sydney...
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the plot appeared to be “elaborate” rather than planned by a lone wolf, as security was strengthened at major domestic and international airports across the nation
THE solar-powered aeroplane on a globe-circling voyage that began more than a year ago in the UAE reached a milestone on Saturday, completing a trip across the US with a Statue of Liberty fly-by before landing in New York...
GAZA CITY: The family of a Palestinian professor and Hamas member accused Israel’s Mossad spy agency of assassinating him on the streets of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday...
In a statement from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the victim’s family said: “We accuse the Mossad of being behind the assassination...
"Majd had been found guilty of receiving large sums of money from both the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's Mossad," said the spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili...
Soleimani headed the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
DUBAI: The outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear programme and a military scientist...
WASHINGTON: Pakistan Navy has placed an order for two 75m Swift Corvettes from a US-based shipbuilding company, Swiftships, said the company’s Chief Executive Officer Shehraze Shah...
In an interview with a defence and security magazine Mönch, Mr Shah said that the Pakistan Navy had also purchased Swiftships’ 11m Special Operation Craft Riverine, which was deployed for counterinsurgency and drug-interdiction missions...
Bank of China has formally launched its operations in Pakistan, with its first branch inaugurated in Karachi on Tuesday...
Speaking to the inauguration ceremony in Islamabad, Bank of China Chairman Chen Siqing said it was "a great honour" for the bank to be launching in Pakistan, observing that the Karachi branch was its first in South Asia...
ISLAMABAD: Bank of China (BoC) formally began its operations in Pakistan on Tuesday, with the official launch performed by President Mamnoon Hussain at Aiwan-e-Sadr...
The opening of BoC indicates the benefits of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project — which transformed from a dream into reality in the last few years — would soon start reaching the masses and give impetus to active political and economic relations...
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday said that stability is returning to Pakistan as a result of army operations and that a peaceful environment in and around Pakistan is the army's "top priority"...
General Raheel also said "no challenge is insurmountable", adding that the youth is Pakistan's "greatest asset" and must be "encouraged and honed"...
This is the second Chinese bank which has been allowed to operate in Pakistan...
“In Pakistan, the BoC aims to provide specialised banking services to serve the financing needs of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) related projects by leveraging on its experience and global technology platform,” said the SBP...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Navy continued its humanitarian assistance and relief operations in Sri Lanka from its ship Zulfiquar which has been deployed there for the purpose...
According to a message received here on Thursday, Pakistan Navy’s relief team set up three medical camps on May 31 across the severely affected districts of Horana, Malwana and Raxapana...
Five terrorists were killed and 11 apprehended during search and intelligence-based operations carried out in different parts of the country during the last 24 hours, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement released today...
ISPR, the military’s media wing, stated that security forces conducted 29 cordon and search operations and 12 intelligence-based operations in parts of Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan...
Uber's launch comes shortly after rival service Easy Taxi, backed by German firm Rocket Internet, pulled out of Pakistan amid a broad exit from Asia, where competition from local ride-hailing start-ups including Singapore-based Grab Taxi and China's Didi Kuaidi is strong...
In Pakistan, Uber must contend with one of the lowest Internet penetration rates in Asia...
LAHORE: A Malaysian airline is going to start its operations in Pakistan from March, Malaysian High Commissioner to Pakistan Hasrul Sani Mujtabar disclosed on Monday, as part of increased people-to-people and business-to-business contacts between two countries...
He said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would open up various opportunities and Malaysia wanted to be a part of this new era of economic development in...
KARACHI: Former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal said on Sunday that army operations alone will not solve the multiple problems facing the country...
"Army operations alone will not solve the problems facing Pakistan, but will create space for the government to practice good governance," stated Kamal...