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How SCO Summit, Chinese PM visit has locked down Islamabad for 3 days

Islamabad is on lockdown amid Pakistan holding the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit and the visit of China's Li Qiang — the first by a Chinese premier in 11 years. The government has announced a three-day public holiday in the city with schools and businesses shut and large contingents of police and paramilitary forces deployed

Premier Li inaugurates China-funded Gwadar airport but doesn’t travel to Balochistan

Chinese Premier Li Qiang virtually inaugurated a Beijing-funded airport in Gwadar at a ceremony in Islamabad but did not travel to Balochistan

SCO: A Chinese premier in Islamabad after 11 years, Pakistan deploys Army to secure capital

Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan government has put capital Islamabad under strict security lockdown as Chinese Premier Li Qiang landed in the city on Monday ahead of 2024 SCO Summit

Mandate was to acquit former ISI chief: Pak Chief Justice slams probe into 20-day sit-in that paralysed Islamabad

Established in November of last year, the Faizabad Dharna Commission was tasked with looking into the TLP's 20-day sit-in, which caused chaos in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The radical religious group was opposing purported modifications to the oath taken by legislators

Pakistan polls: How another weak coalition in Islamabad will open a floodgate of issues for India

China is already well entrenched across the country. Others, like the US, will use a weak government for its own (diverse) interests. Writing off Pakistan as a nuisance to be simply set aside is the laziest of analyses

Vantage | What Satendra Siwal spying case tells India about ISI's game

The targets are carefully picked because, behind all spying operations, the objective is to get access to India's military secrets

Pakistan: Baloch activists allege camp attacked at midnight, women harassed

The Baloch Yakjahti Committee called for an end to the harassment of peaceful Baloch protestors by the Islamabad Police, blaming them for the incident

Pakistan wants orderly departure of illegal Afghans, says Foreign Office

Pakistan’s announcement on Tuesday of a November 1 deadline for people to leave or face forcible expulsion has frayed already soured relations with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, who said the threat to force out Afghan migrants was “unacceptable”

Imran Khan lost weight in jail, not given enough space for exercise, claims sister Aleema

Khan, 70, was arrested on August 5, 2023, and shifted to Attock jail after a court sentenced him to three years in prison in the Toshakhana (national treasury gifts) graft case. Following the suspension of the sentence by the Islamabad High Court, he was re-arrested in the cipher case

Hitting new low with Kabul, Pakistan orders illegal immigrants, including 1.73 million Afghans, to leave

Islamabad has received the largest influx of Afghan refugees since the Soviet invasion of Kabul in 1979. Violence in Pakistan has increased since local Taliban known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, an umbrella group of hardline Sunni Islamist militants, revoked a ceasefire with the government in 2022