Multiple bomb explosions at a Muslim gathering in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore have left at least 28 people dead and 200 others wounded. Three bombs went off in quick succession during a crowded mourning procession in the Karbla Game Shah area of Lahore on Wednesday, a Press TV correspondent reported. “The three explosions [...]

The Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People has criticized international organizations for failing to administer aid to flooded Pakistan, urging Muslims’ quick assistance to help recover the country. “Unfortunately, international organizations have not carried out their duties well to render services to disaster-stricken people, which itself needs to be analyzed and scrutinized,” Imam [...]

Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar is set to visit flood-ravaged Pakistan on Thursday to assess the extent of damage in the country. “The interior minister, along with a group of representatives of the Leader of the Islamic Ummah and Opressed People Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, as well [...]

Pakistani jets kill at least 55 civilians and destroy their hideouts in the Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Tuesday, security officials said. Pakistani air force jets and helicopter gunships pounded suspected militants hideouts in Nare Baba and Sheen Drand villages in Teerah Valley on Tuesday and killed thirty militants, local officials said. Pakistani Intelligence [...]

Officials in Pakistan have ordered thousands of residents in a number of towns in southern parts of the country to evacuate as floodwaters submerge new areas. Floodwaters are currently threatening the Pakistani towns of Jati and Choohar Jamali, forcing more than 100,000 people to flee their homes. “We are making efforts to save the two [...]

Iran has rejected reports that the survivors of Pakistan’s devastating floods have thronged behind Iran’s borders, trying to enter the country. “We have not received any news concerning the surge of flood-hit people of Pakistan to Iran’s borders and the security officials of the Interior Ministry have not confirmed the case whatsoever,” Iranian Foreign Ministry [...]

As the month-long floods in Pakistan continue to devastate more areas, an Iranian lawmaker says the Islamic Republic can play a more effective role in dispatching aid. “The Islamic Republic of Iran can play a more significant role in sending relief aid to the flood-hit Pakistani people,” a member of the National Security and Foreign [...]

Iranian ambassador to Pakistan says the Islamic Republic is readiness to transit the relief aid of regional countries to the flood-hit nation by land. Mashallah Shakeri said on Sunday that Pakistan currently needs tents, water pumps, water filtering equipment, drinking water, medicine and canned food. He added that “the high tide in the recent days [...]

Dozens have taken to streets of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir to protest India’s arrest of a leading separatist leader as police were deployed to thwart the rally. Authorities in restive Indian Kashmir deployed police and paramilitary troops Saturday to block the protesters who demanded the release of Asiya Andrabi, head of Dukhtaran-e-Millat. Indian security forces arrested Andrabi [...]

Iran is ready to dispatch humanitarian aid to Pakistan and help reconstruct its flood-ravaged regions, the Islamic Republic’s Interior Ministry says. Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar made the remarks on Friday on the sidelines of his tour of Iran’s headquarters for public donations to the flood-stricken people of Pakistan, IRNA reported. He noted that President [...]

Iran’s parliamentary delegation to Pakistan’s flood-hit areas has assured Islamabad of the full support of its western neighbor. Ali Aqaee, heading the delegation, talked with the Pakistani chairman of the Senate, Farooq Naek, on the phone on Friday as reported by Pakistan’s Daily Times. The Iranian representative expressed deep sadness over the tragic loss and [...]

At least six people have been killed and several others wounded in a US drone attack in the Kurram Agency in northwest Pakistan, Afghan local officials say. A US drone fired four missiles on two vehicles in the Shaidano Dand area in Lower Kurram tehsil of the Kurram Agency on Friday night. The death toll [...]

The Red Crescent Society of Iran’s Hamedan province has set up various centers across the province for collecting voluntary donations for flood-stricken Pakistan. As in many other Iranian provinces, the Red Crescent Society of Hamedan has made extensive efforts to setup centers in major squares and plazas to collect donations in forms of money, medicine, [...]

The United Nations has warned that more than 3.5 million survivors of Pakistan’s massive floods do not have access to clean drinking water. “Millions of people are still faced with the dilemma of drinking contaminated water, putting them at risk of diarrheal diseases,” DPA quoted Karen Allen, deputy country representative of UNICEF in Pakistan, as [...]

The head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society says the presence of American forces in Pakistan has disrupted the process of international aid to the flood-stricken people. “Western countries only make decisions on paper, and have not provided the flood-stricken people of Pakistan with enough help,” IRCS Secretary General Zaher Rostami said on Thursday. Rostami said [...]

The deputy consul general of Iran in Pakistan has visited flood-stricken areas of the country to assess how to provide medical services to the affected people. Hadi Sheikh Ghafouri, accompanied by a team of doctors, visited Sukkur town in southern Pakistan, where he was briefed about relief and rescue work and medical assistance provided to [...]

Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has criticized the US for indiscriminate killings in the so-called war on terror in the country. “Americans are using indiscriminately the drones to hit what they called high-value targets that killed so many people,” Wajid Shamsul Hassan made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Press TV. He [...]

Pakistani authorities are trying to protect areas threatened by more devastating flood waters as the UN warned 800,000 people remain stranded. The officials warned that the Indus River may reach very high levels near the city of Hyderabad in Sindh Province this week. Thousands of people have been evacuated from flood-threatened areas near the city [...]

Iran is one of the three countries to send the highest amount of relief aid to the flood-inundated Pakistan, Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar says. So far, Iran has sent more than 200 tons in aid for the flood-ravaged people of Pakistan, Mohammad Najjar said at a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malek [...]

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik says Islamabad will not allow its soil to be used for terroristic attacks against other nations, including Iran. “There is a triangular area between Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan which is used by drug and human traffickers, and to confront these issues, borders should be controlled carefully,” Malik said in a [...]