Everything you need to know about Aasfabad Chaman: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Aasfabad Chaman: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Quetta, May 22 (ANI): The NATO and US troops have started withdrawal of their equipment from Afghanistan after more than ten years of war.
Islamabad, Jan 2 (ANI): Pakistan has allowed the US cargo including military vehicles for transit to Afghanistan via Torkham and Chaman.
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday cautioned Delhi Police against implicating "innocents" for the attack on Constable Subhash Chand Tomar during protests Monday against the brutal gang-rape of a woman Dec 16. Tomar died early Tuesday.
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Five people, including two women, burnt alive a shopkeeper when he objected to the women putting up a stall outside his shop, police said Friday.
Islamabad, Sept. 19 (ANI): A Pakistani man has died after inhaling smoke from burning U.S. flags during a protest rally against the anti-Islam film - Innocence of Muslims.
Islamabad, Sept. 7 (ANI): The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has agreed to help repair the damage caused by NATO containers plying on the National Highway road network, Pakistan's Minister for Communication has told the National Assembly.
Islamabad, Aug. 7 (ANI): Baloch nationalists have strongly rejected Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik's statement that the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), the Baloch Republican Army (BRA), the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and foreign agencies are behind the unrest in Balochistan.
Islamabad, July 27 (ANI): A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Pakistan and the U.S. states that there will be no tax or duty charged on containers carrying goods for NATO troops stationed in Afghanistan.
Jammu, July 15 (IANS) Seven legislators, who were expelled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for cross-voting in the Jammu and Kashmir legislative council elections last year, have pledged support to former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma in the July 19 presidential poll.
Islamabad, July 10 (ANI): Religious parties along with thousands of right-wing supporters reached Islamabad on Monday midnight amid heightened security measures, to mark the 'long march' against the reopening of NATO supply routes by Pakistan.
Islamabad, July 9 (IANS) At least 14 people, including three women and two children, were killed while seven others injured after a landmine blast occurred in the border town of Chaman Sunday, Geo News reported.
Islamabad, July 9 (IANS) At least 14 people, including three women and two children, were killed and seven injured in a landmine blast Sunday in Pakistan's border town of Chaman, Geo News reported.
Islamabad, July 1 (ANI): NATO forces have stepped up operations against the Taliban, and are making full preparations for a major military action against the militant group near Pakistan border.
Srinagar, June 13 (IANS) As the news of Mehdi Hassan's death spread in Kashmir Wednesday, a pall of gloom descended on the artistic fraternity and ghazal lovers here.
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Four people have been arrested for the attack on three judges and their driver here in an incident of road rage, while lawyers in all six district courts of Delhi observed a day-long strike, paralysing judicial work Friday.
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Four people have been arrested for the attack on three judges and their driver here in an incident of road rage, police said Friday.
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Protesting the attack on three judges by bike-borne men in yet another incident of road rage in the capital, lawyers in all the six district courts of Delhi Friday observed a one-day strike, paralysing legal work, a lawyers' body said.
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) To protest an attack on three Delhi judges by four bikers in a road rage incident in south Delhi, lawyers at the Saket district courts complex called for strike Friday if police fail to act against the attackers.
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) In yet another case of road rage in the capital, four young men on two motorbikes Thursday viciously attacked three judges, leaving one of them and their driver seriously injured.
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Islamabad, Mar 5 (ANI): Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said Afghanistan has closed training camps of Baloch separatists, allegedly on the intervention of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Islamabad, Mar 5 (ANI): Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said Afghanistan has closed training camps of Baloch separatists, allegedly on the intervention of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Washington, Feb 26 (ANI): An unmanned US aircraft crashed in the Machikhel area of North Waziristan, officials have said.
Islamabad, Jan 21 (ANI): U.S. military trainers would reportedly be invited back into Pakistan "as early as April or May," but the nation has ruled out allowing CIA drones back into the country.
Karachi, Jan 15 (ANI): The last convoy of NATO containers parked at Afghan-Pakistan border for several days has returned to Karachi.
Karachi, Jan 15 (ANI): The last convoy of NATO containers parked at Afghan-Pakistan border for several days has returned to Karachi.
Washington, Dec 22(ANI): The Pentagon has expressed confidence that US-Pak ties can be improved, and hoped that Islamabad will re-open NATO supply route on a border with Afghanistan.
Washington, Dec 22(ANI): The Pentagon has expressed confidence that US-Pak ties can be improved, and hoped that Islamabad will re-open NATO supply route on a border with Afghanistan.
New Delhi, Dec.2 (ANI): When 9/11 happened, the Americans were livid and they descended on Islamabad, Rambo style, threatening General Musharraf with the famous "either you are with us or against us" threat.
Washington, Nov 30 (ANI): Pakistan might have cut its supply lines for the US military in Afghanistan following last Saturday's NATO attack that claimed around 28 Pakistani soldier's lives, but this is not the end for Washington to make sure that their soldiers there are safe in the war-torn country.
Karachi, Oct 28(ANI): The Taliban in Afghanistan have for the first time publicly admitted receiving help from members of Pakistan's ruling establishment, according to a media report.
Quetta, Oct 20(ANI): Pakistan has decided to restore biometric system on its border with Afghanistan from November 30 to stop illegal crossing from both sides, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said.
Islamabad, Oct 4(ANI): The relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan is at a very low ebb once again, in the wake of intensifying Afghan accusations that High Peace Council leader Burhanuddin Rabbani's assassination was planned in Quetta, an editorial in a Pakistani newspaper has said.
Multan, Sept 1(ANI): A company in Pakistan produces huge quantities of calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which is the main ingredient in most of the homemade bombs that have killed hundreds of American troops in Afghanistan.
Quetta, August 26(ANI): A US surveillance drone has crashed near the Frontier Corps (FC) Cantonment in Chaman, a Pakistani town bordering Afghanistan.
Kabul, Aug 5 (ANI): Hundreds of madrassa students from Chaman and the adjoining tribal regions of Balochistan are reportedly being engaged by Afghan farmers for poppy cultivation in the two major heroin-producing provinces of Helmand and Kandahar for the past three months.
Quetta, July 14(ANI): At least four people were killed in a blast in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Thursday.
Peshawar, June 9(ANI): A NATO oil tanker has been destroyed following an explosion in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region.
Chaman, June 6 (ANI): Atleast 14 passengers were killed and ten injured when a minibus slid off a mountainous road and fell into a ravine in Chaman in southwest Pakistan on Monday.
Islamabad, May 11(ANI): In the latest attack on convoys in Pakistan carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, unidentified miscreants torched two NATO containers at Mastung in Balochistan on Wednesday.
Jammu, Mar 5 (ANI): There was chaos in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Saturday as the Opposition staged a walk out over alleged misappropriation and discriminatory allocation of funds in various assembly segments in the state.
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir), Feb.28 (ANI): Lawmakers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party and Jammu State Morcha boycotted Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra's address in the state assembly on Monday.
Quetta, Feb 28(ANI): Two NATO containers have been torched by unidentified armed men in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
Quetta, Feb 28(ANI): Two NATO containers have been torched by unidentified armed men in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
Quetta, Feb 16(ANI): Pakistan's airspace was yet again violated by NATO as its fighter jets and a drone were seen hovering over Chaman and its suburbs, according to sources.
Quetta, Jan 29(ANI): In the latest attack on convoys in Pakistan carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, unidentified men torched two NATO oil tankers in the Pinjra Pul area of Dhaddar in Balochistan.
Quetta, Jan 4 (ANI): Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) leader Shahzain Bugti and his 26 security guards, who were arrested last month for allegedly carrying a huge cache of arms and ammunition, have been remanded to judicial custody by a judicial magistrate.
Peshawar, Jan 3(ANI): A NATO oil tanker was destroyed completely in a bomb explosion in Pakistan's Khyber Agency, however, no casualties have been reported.
Quetta, Jan 3(ANI): Afghan transit trade through Gwadar port can boost economic activities in Balochistan, Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has said.
Quetta, Jan 1(ANI): An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has ordered that the case registered against Jamhoori Watan Party (Balochistan) chief Shahzain Bugti be transferred to a sessions court.
Karachi, Nov 17 (ANI): Two important Al Qaeda figures have been arrested from Karachi's Sohrab Goth area by law enforcement agencies, who have shifted them to Islamabad for investigation.
Quetta, Oct 13 (ANI): After assuring Pakistan of no more intrusions into its territory, two NATO helicopters again violated Pakistani airspace in Chaman area, a bordering town of Balochistan with Afghanistan.
Quetta, Oct 11(ANI): Pakistan has initiated a probe into the disappearance of 500 oil tankers and containers carrying supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Lahore, Oct 10 (ANI): The Pakistan government is cogitating about imposing a tax on NATO supply trucks going into Afghanistan from Pakistan, a TV channel has reported.
Islamabad, Oct 9 (ANI): The Pakistan government has decided in principle to reopen the Torkham border route for supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan, following apologies by the United States and the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) command over the death of three Pakistani troops in one of its cross-border air strikes last week.
Islamabad, Sep 22 (ANI): The Afghan government may have used a significant number of unregistered Afghan voters, mostly refugees from Pakistan, to cast votes in favour of government-backed electoral candidates, suggest reports received from United Nations (UN) Afghanistan.
Islamabad, Sept 16 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that Afghanistan is acting as a sanctuary for the terrorists functioning against Pakistan.
Jammu, Mar 13 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly witnessed an uproar on Saturday as the People's Democratic Party (PDP) member Murtaza Khan introduced a bill which bars women who marry outside the State from continuing as state subjects.
Islamabad, Mar.9 (ANI): The United States has rejected reports regarding NATO aircraft violating Pakistan's airspace over Balochistan.
Lahore, Mar. 8 (ANI): Jamaat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawwar Hasan has warned that the US is conspiring to extend its never-ending war on terror to Punjab, Karachi and Quetta.
Islamabad, Feb.5 (ANI): The porous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan provide an easy route to the extremists based in the region to hop in and out giving the security forces a miss.
Islamabad, Dec.29 (ANI): Unidentified miscreants attacked two NATO oil tankers injuring one of the drivers in Sibi, Balochistan on Tuesday.
Islamabad, Nov.7 (ANI): A former prisoner, who was kept behind bars at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay for six years, has vowed to lodge a criminal case against former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf for arresting him illegally.
Quetta, Oct.13 (ANI): Refugee camps created along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border after the exit of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1979-80, have become breeding grounds for Taleban, reports The Times.
Islamabad, Sep 17 (ANI): The Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) has only punished 64 junior officers for their involvement in the power theft scandal involving former President Pervez Musharraf, Shaukat Aziz and others in the luxurious Chak Shahzad farmhouses.
Quetta, Sep 10(ANI): Quetta police has arrested three people and seized hundreds of wireless sets, which were stolen from NATO supply containers, during a raid on a warehouse in Pakistan's Spini area.
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) Two men have been arrested for manufacturing the spurious liquor that caused death of over 30 people in the capital during the last two months, police said Tuesday.
Vashisht (Kullu), May 5 (ANI): Residents of Vashisht and several other villages in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh have resolved to boycott the general elections on May 13 as a mark of protest against the construction of mini-hydro project, which they claim has usurped area of religious importance to them.
Jammu, March 31 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jammu and Kashmir may be facing trouble from one its best known faces - former central minister of state for defence Chaman Lal Gupta.
Quetta (Pakistan), Mar.15 (ANI): A mysterious insurgent group has said that it is ready to trade John Solecki, the American chief of the U.N. refugee office for the 1,100 people who have gone missing since 2000.
Shimla, Feb 20 9ANI): Himachal Pradesh is planning grow apple varieties imported from the United States. The state horticulture department is distributing root stock plants to orchard owners for a better yield of the fruit in the state.
Islamabad, Dec 31 (DPA) Pakistani helicopter gunships Wednesday pounded militant hideouts in the country's northwest as tanks rumbled in to secure the vital supply link for Western troops in landlocked Afghanistan.
Jammu, Dec 30 (IANS) People in this Hindu-majority region of Jammu and Kashmir hope that the new National Conference-Congress government will take care of their interests.
Jammu, Dec 28 (IANS) After making considerable gains in Jammu region, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday ruled out support to the regional parties of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or the National Conference and said it would sit in the opposition.
Islamabad, Dec 19 (IANS) Hundreds of people held an anti-India demonstration in Pakistan's Balochistan province Friday to protest the neighbour 'stealing' water of common rivers that flow from India's Jammu and Kashmir state, media reports said.
Karachi, Dec. 19 (ANI): Karachi drivers are increasingly growing reluctant to transport logistics to NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan fearing militant attacks.
Islamabad, Dec 16 (ANI): Pakistan has denied reports that the country's airspace had been violated along the Pak-Afghan border.
Islamabad, Nov 28 (ANI): Pakistani intelligence agencies are learnt to have gathered credible information on the influx of foreign militants and sophisticated weapons into Pashtun areas of Balochistan PROVINCE via the Pak-Afghan border.
Peshawar (Pakistan), Nov.17 (ANI): American and NATO troops deployed in war-ravaged Afghanistan faced an unexpected crisis on Sunday after Pakistan temporarily stopped oil tankers and container trucks from passing through a key passageway into the a country, threatening a critical supply route and raising more fears about security in the region.
Jammu, Nov 14 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday released its manifesto for Jammu and Kashmir elections beginning Monday, but the document, which talks tough on dealing with terrorism, made no mention of Article 370 of the Indian constitution that grants special status to the state.
Jammu, Nov 14 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday released its manifesto for Jammu and Kashmir elections beginning Monday, but the document made no mention of Article 370 of the Indian constitution that grants special status to the state.
Chandigarh, Nov 13 (IANS) Seventy-seven years after he was hanged by the British, Bhagat Singh's family and several eminent persons say he has been wronged even after death as officialdom continues to distort the image of one of India's best known martyrs.
Karachi, Nov 10 (ANI): CDs containing hate material like macabre documentaries of beheading and attacks, with "holy" tabla music in the background, are abundant and easily available across the shelf in Pakistani cities of Karachi, Quetta and Peshawar.
Jammu, Nov 6 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership in Jammu and Kashmir Thursday described as 'dangerous' US president-elect Barack Obama's statement about sending a special envoy to resolve the Kashmir dispute.
Washington, Oct 7 (IANS) As global markets reeled and Dow Jones index plunged below 10,000 for the first time in four years, Neel Kashkari, a 35-year old Indian American, was put at centre stage of US efforts to rescue the economy from a deepening crisis.
Mumbai, Sep 27 (IANS) As India's melody queen Lata Mangeshkar enters her 80th year Sunday, noted writer and poet Javed Akhtar says that she is the only artiste to have achieved perfection and that her body of work is 'beyond awesome'.
Mamond Agency (Pak), Sept 29 (ANI): Despite unhappiness expressed by Pakistan over US' air strikes over the past few weeks, the US and NATO spy planes and helicopters continued to violate Pakistan's airspace on Sunday.
Mamond Agency (Pak), Sept 29 (ANI): Despite unhappiness expressed by Pakistan over US' air strikes over the past few weeks, the US and NATO spy planes and helicopters continued to violate Pakistan's airspace on Sunday.
Mumbai, Sep 27 (IANS) As India's melody queen Lata Mangeshkar enters her 80th year Sunday, noted writer and poet Javed Akhtar says that she is the only artiste to have achieved perfection and that her body of work is 'beyond awesome'.
Peshawar, Sept 6 (ANI): Citing "security reasons" following Taliban threats, Pakistan has reportedly stopped supplies to the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan through its western Torkham border, with effect from Friday.
Srinagar, July 27 (ANI): Violence rocks Jammu as protesters defy curfew and take to the streets protesting against the revocation of land allotted to Sri Amarnath shrine board on Sunday.
Budding Delhi shooters Rohit Choudhary and Loveleen Kaur gave good account of themselves on the concluding day of Delhi State
