Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed regret for Pakistan’s participation in US’ 20-year-long “war on terror” in Afghanistan, saying that the country joined only for “dollars” and not in the “public intertest.”
While addressing the officers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad, Khan said, “And so, I am well aware of what considerations there were behind the decision. Unfortunately, the people of Pakistan were not a consideration.”
The former chief of Pakistan’s tax agency, Shabbar Zaidi, has said that the Islamist nation has gone bankrupt and that the government had been lying about the country's prosperity.
Speaking on Pakistan's economic condition at Hamdard University on Wednesday, the former chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue said that the country was not in a state of “going concern” an accounting terminology referring to a business that is operating and making a profit.
Pakistan has recorded its first “suspected” case of Omicron variant of COVID-19, the health authorities informed on Thursday.
The patient is a 57-year-old woman from Karachi city who is unvaccinated. The infected woman had been admitted for treatment at Aga Khan University Hospital.
The authorities have said that the patient has no travel history, reports Geo News.
The health officials said that the patient has not been showing any symptoms of the virus and has been sent home to isolate.
The remains of a Sri Lankan man, who was brutally tortured to death and set ablaze in Pakistan, were sent to Colombo from Lahore airport on Monday.
The Sri Lankan embassy officials had gone to the hospital to escort Priyantha Kumara's body to the airport and laid flowers over it.
Priyantha's last rites will be performed upon the arrival of his body in Sri Lanka.
Meanwhile, 26 suspects arrested in connection with the lynching of the Sri Lankan factory manager have been remanded into police custody, according to local media.
On the 13th anniversary of the dastardly 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, India summoned a senior diplomat of the Pakistani High Commission and asked Islamabad to ensure expeditious trial in the case.
Around 166 people, including 25 foreigners, died in the attack carried out by 10 Pakistani militants associated with the terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba between November 26 and November 29.