The blast occurred on late Friday when the security forces were on patrolling duty in Sra Bangla and Tarkhanan area of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The police has initiated an investigation to hunt down the perpetrators of the attack on the Pakistan Army.
The court said that insufficient evidence was presented in the cases of long march and violation of Article 144 against Imran Khan. On May 9 last year, the supporters of Imran Khan's party vandalised over 20 military installations and buildings over the PTI founder's arrest.
China has been diligently enhancing the defence capacities of the Pakistani army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir for the past three years. This effort encompasses the establishment of steelhead bunkers and the supply of Unmanned Aerial and Combat Aerial Vehicles.
Pakistan has been facing a resurgent Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which allegedly has a strong presence in Afghanistan and uses its territory to hide and train and also launch cross-border attacks.
The accountability court in Islamabad said Imran made "provocative political statements" that threatened judicial decorum and obstructed the dispensation of justice. The former Pakistan PM had made several strong claims about rigging in claims and the treatment of his jailed wife.
Several disturbing videos of Pakistani police officials being tortured by Army personnel went viral on social media, raising speculation. Reports suggested that the "face-off" began with the "illegal detention" of an Army official's relative for possession of an unlicensed firearm.
Despite an Army-backed crackdown, Imran Khan's PTI-backed candidates won 93 seats in the elections marred by allegations of rigging and violence. Astonishingly, the PML-N was expected to win outrightly with the support of the military but lagged far behind the independents.
Nawaz Sharif sacrificed his ambition to become the Pakistan prime minister for the fourth time for his daughter Maryam, sources said, adding that he was given two options by the Pakistani army -- either to become premier or leave it to make his daughter CM of Punjab province.
Out of the 253 seats whose results have been declared, PTI-backed candidates have won 100 seats, while Nawaz's party won 71 seats and Bilawal's PPP got 54 seats. None of the parties have gone past the majority mark, indicating a hung parliament and a possible coalition government.
The rockets were fired from nearby mountains and exploded in different areas of Mach town. After firing rockets, terrorists attacked a camp of the security forces near the central jail and also entered the Mach railway station.
Earlier, the PML-N supremo said that neither India nor the United States are responsible for Pakistan's current problems. He blamed the country's military establishment of worsening Pakistan's economic problems and making the lives of the citizens unbearably miserable.
These reports come in wake of two cases of suicide blasts in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which killed 65 people. Pakistan has vowed to strike all terrorist groups, including the Islamic State (ISIS) and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack, in which four Pakistani soldiers and 12 Taliban terrorists were killed.
While the locals and the school children were on their way to the school, the wires of the cable car snapped and is now dangling in the middle of a ravine surrounded by mountains.
Her mother Shireen Mazari, who quit the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, alleged that her daughter’s arrest was an “abduction” and said that plain-clothed people “took my daughter away after breaking down our front door”.
The Pakistan Army has sacked several top officers, including a Lieutenant-General, for failing to protect military installations during the May 9 violent protests after the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan.
The officials suggested that Chinese experts were digging some tunnels in the Leepa Valley located in PoK, preparatory to building an all-weather road that will serve as an alternative route to reach the Karakoram highway.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan will appear before the court in Islamabad on May 23 to join the probe in the Al Qadir trust case.
Punjab Police, Rangers and other security personnel waited for the Friday prayers to be over, before entering the former PM’s residence.
"Who wants to fight the army? Whoever fights the army will only lose the country … all this that is being done, only the PDM will benefit from it,” said PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
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