Blaze News - Pakistan

Four terrorists were killed during a joint intelligence-based operation (IBO) carried out by the Karak and Kohat police in the Khattak Dam area along the Karak-Kohat border, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Police said on Friday. According to a statement, the operation was launched at around 5am after police received credible intelligence regarding the presence of terrorists in the area. During the operation, the terrorists opened fire on the police party, prompting an effective retaliatory response in which four terrorists belonging to the Commander Zahid group were killed. Read: 14 killed in suicide attack on PPP leader's residence It added that the group was involved in the killings of Station House Officer Banda Umar Nawaz in Karak district and Inspector Tahir Nawaz in Kohat district in 2025, as well as Deputy Superintendent of Police Asad Mehmood, Sub-Inspector Anar Gul and other police officers and personnel in 2026. The statement said police had cordoned off the area and lau...

Belgium's prime minister was a little surprised on landing back home from Wednesday's NATO summit in Turkey to find that he had a handgun and ammunition in his luggage. After NATO leaders gathered ​for Wednesday's fractious summit in Ankara, their host, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, handed each an unusual parting gift: ‌a vintage revolver, along with live ammunition indicating it was not just for show. Erdogan wanted to showcase Turkey's defence industry, which has become a key export and foreign policy tool. Images shared by the office of Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda showed what appeared to be the Gumusay .357 Magnum, a rare six-shooter ​produced by Turkish arms maker MKE in the 1990s. It was set in a wooden display box featuring Turkey's flag ​and the NATO logo as well as a placard inscribed "Gumusay, the first revolver-type handgun produced in ⁠our country" in Turkish and English. A gun gifted by Tur...

China on Thursday issued a strong warning against Japan’s growing military ambitions in space, cautioning that Tokyo’s latest defence reforms risk accelerating the weaponisation of space and fuelling a broader global arms race, Xinhua news agency reported. Senior Colonel Chen Xi, spokesperson for China’s Ministry of National Defence, sharply criticised Japan’s recent legislative move to rename its Air Self-Defence Force as the Aerospace Self-Defence Force and establish a specialised Space Operations Wing. Responding to media queries, Xi said that Japan has “openly designated space as an operational domain” and is actively pursuing a military build-up beyond Earth’s atmosphere — a shift that Beijing views with deep concern. Read: Japan rejects 'new militarism', accuses China of rapidly arming “Over the past five years, Japan’s military spending in relevant fields has increased tenfold, while its operational...

The residence of Baloch leader Mir Shafiq Mengal in Khuzdar came under a coordinated terrorist assault by the proscribed Balochistan Liberation Army terrorist group on Wednesday. According to initial reports, the attack began with two vehicle-borne improvised explosive device blasts, believed to be suicide car bombs, used to breach the compound's perimeter. A total of 12 terrorists took part in the operation: seven militants entered the compound, while five others provided outer cordon and covering fire. Mengal and his security team repelled the assault, neutralising all seven terrorists who had entered the residence, including the two suicide bombers.  Reinforcements from the Quick Response Force arrived and eliminated the remaining five attackers positioned outside the compound. The operation has now concluded. Twelve members of Mengal’s security detail were killed in the fierce gun battle while he was reported to be safe. No further details on the casual...

Pakistan urged restraint from both sides on Wednesday after a fresh round of hostilities between the United States and Iran threatened to undo weeks of efforts to achieve peace through the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).  The interim ceasefire agreement signed between Washington and Tehran — under the mediation of Pakistan — was intended to provide a 60-day window for negotiations on a permanent agreement, but indirect talks in Qatar ended last week with no sign of headway and the US military unleashed a new wave of strikes against Iran on Tuesday. Iran subsequently said it had targeted US military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait and that it had shot down a US MQ-9 drone attempting to interfere in the operation. Bahrain's army ​later said it had thwarted Iranian attacks. Trump has since threatened a new volley of attacks tonight.  In a response issued today on the situation, the Foreign Office (FO) said: "Pakistan expresses ...

A six-year-old boy who went missing two days ago was found dead in Karachi's Old City area, police confirmed on Wednesday. The victim had disappeared from outside his home on Monday. After frantic but unsuccessful efforts by family members and residents to locate him, a kidnapping case was registered at the Napier Police Station. Police said the child’s body was recovered stuffed in a sack near Old Haji Camp in the Lea Market area on Tuesday night. According to officials, the victim’s family grew suspicious of a neighbour and detained him before handing him over to the police. South Deputy Inspector General of Police Asad Raza confirmed the arrest, adding that the suspect had confessed to the crime. “Further investigation is underway,” he said. Family members alleged that the child was murdered inside the suspect’s residence. They claimed the body was mutilated, stuffed into a sack and thrown from a three-storey building...