S.Muddasir Ali Shah

India struck several Pakistani cities before dawn on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 35 others, officials said.

Unidentified gunmen have taken five police personnel captive in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province.

Three security personnel have been killed and two others wounded in a clash with suspected militants in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

More than 150 Afghan nationals have voluntarily returned from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kohat district, getting free transportation from the government.

Amid a renewed diplomatic push, Islamabad and Kabul are set to explore ways of removing impediments to bilateral and transit trade.

An Afghan woman journalist arrested from her residence in Islamabad could be deported from Pakistan, a media report said on Wednesday.

As the repatriation process continues, notices have been served on Afghan citizens residing illegally in Khyber tribal district to leave the country.

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Leaders of Pakistan’s Pakhtun nationalist parties have called for an immediate halt to the ongoing deportations of Afghan refugees. They issued the call

Pakistan has intensified a crackdown on illegal migrants, deporting around 1,100 Afghans via the Torkham crossing over the past 24 hours, officials say.

A veteran Pakistani Pakhtun nationalist leader has voiced aversion to the government’s ongoing campaign to deport Afghan refugees.

Amid an ongoing crackdown on illegal migrants, Pakistani security forces have rounded up and deported hundreds of Afghan citizens, officials say.

Pakistan embarked on the second phase of repatriating Afghan refugees on Thursday.