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  • Police post torched in GB’s Ghizer Valley

    GILGIT: A temporary check-post in Saingal village of Ghizer district was torched on Sunday night by suspected militants who escaped after snatching ammunition from security personnel...

    According to sources, 12 attackers opened fire on a contingent of police deployed at the check-post situated 50km away from Gahkuch, the district headquarters of Ghizer, before setting the post alight...

  • Avalanche kills climber, injures six others in Ghizer valley

    GILGIT: A local climber was killed while six, including foreigners, were injured when a snow avalanche hit a Pakistan-Italian friendship expedition while scaling a 5,300-metre high peak situated in Ishkoman valley of Ghizer district on Monday...

    Adventure Tours of Pakistan, which has organised the expedition, said if weather permitted two army helicopters would start rescue operation to airlift the injured mountaineers and the body on...

  • Married couple shot dead in Ghizer

    GILGIT: A couple was shot dead for marrying of their own free will in Ghizer district here the other day...

    Police suspected relatives of the girl to be involved in the murder, which took place in Gahckuch, the district headquarters of Ghizer...

  • Ghizer’s frozen lake hosts winter sports competitions

    GILGIT: Winter sports competitions were held at the frozen Khalti Lake in Ghizer district on Friday, providing excitement and joy to the people...

    The closing ceremony was held at the lake, attended among others by chief minister‘s adviser Ghulam Mohammad, Ghizer deputy commissioner Dildar Malikand and other government officials...

  • Nine suspected terrorists killed in Tirah valley air strikes

    PESHAWAR: At least nine suspected terrorists were killed in air strikes in the Tirah valley area of Khyber Agency on Friday...

    Pakistan Air Force jets precisely targeted militant hideouts in Kukikhel area of Tirah valley in which nine militants were killed and two hideouts were destroyed, said security officials...

  • Seven suspected militants killed in Tirah valley air strikes

    PESHAWAR: At least seven suspected militants were killed in air strikes carried out by Pakistan Air Force jets in the Tirah valley area of Khyber Agency on Monday...

    "Pakistan Air Force jets targeted militant hideouts in the Kokikhel area of Tirah valley, and at least seven militants were killed and three two hideouts were destroyed," said security officials...

  • Air Marshal Asghar Khan: my role model, father of Pakistan Air Force, and the protégé of Jinnah

    I have many reasons to write in memory of the venerated Air Marshal Asghar Khan — a protégé of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, he was my role model from the age of 19 when I joined the Royal Pakistan Air Force (RPAF) in 1952...

    I first heard about Asghar Khan, who was at the time a wing commander, from my instructor at the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Academy in Risalpur, who narrated to me the historic event of Jinnah’s visit to...

  • Pakistan asks India to lift blockade of valley to curb spread of coronavirus

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday again called on India to lift communication blockade on occupied Jammu and Kashmir and ensure supplies of essential commodities in the valley to contain the spread of COVID-19 and mitigate the suffering of Kashmiris...

    Especially in view of the outbreak of COVID-19 and reported cases of affected people in IOK, Pakistan urges India to lift the blockade in the region in order to obtain full information...

  • China may be developing new long-range air-to-air missile

    China may be testing a new, long-range air-to-air missile that could take out early warning aircraft and aerial refuelling aircraft, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday, after pictures of the new missile surfaced online...

    Air force researcher Fu Qianshao told the newspaper he believed the missile was designed to hit distant high-value targets, such as early warning aircraft, normally outside actual combat zones...

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