Pakistan’s Minister of Information, Atta Tarar, announced the latest details of Operation Radd ul Fasaad, stating that the operation has resulted in the deaths of 796 terrorists and 1043 injured. According to Tarar, Pakistan has destroyed 286 checkposts of the Afghan Taliban regime and taken control of 44. Tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and drones have been destroyed, he added. The minister said that 81 hideouts of terrorists and their facilitators across Afghanistan were targeted in an air operation.
On the night of April 3, the Afghan Taliban and Fidayeen-e-Khawarij attempted to attack a border post in the Ghulam Khan sector. Tarar revealed that the attack was completely foiled, resulting in heavy losses for the Afghan Taliban and Fidayeen-e-Khawarij, with 37 killed and over 80 injured.
In other news, the Senate Committee on Petroleum Prices has directed the Minister of Finance, Senator Mohsin Aziz, to brief the committee on the details of the country’s oil reserves. The Pakistan Armed Forces and Egyptian Armed Forces conducted a joint anti-terrorism exercise, Thunder-II.
Following the Prime Minister’s Shahbaz Sharif’s directives, the Petroleum Products Prices have been capped, with bakeries, restaurants, and marriage halls to be closed at 10 pm from April 7. In a separate incident, a man was found hanged from a bridge in Rawalpindi with a banner bearing the name of former Governor Kamran Tessori.
Ali Pervez Malik stated that many countries, including the US, have imposed restrictions on the sale of petroleum products, while Pakistan has taken steps to alternate arrangements, involving the Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar spoke with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi over the phone, discussing the current situation in the Middle East and the broader region.
In a separate incident, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation, Qamar Raza, visited the Japanese National Diet with Board of Governors member Chaudhry Asif Mahmood and Pakistan’s Ambassador to Japan, Abdul Hamid. In compliance with the directives of the Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Murad Ali Shah, the rental charges for school vans have been capped.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced its candidate for the Senate seat, Afzan Salim, after receiving nomination papers from 54 candidates. A case has been registered against a 15-year-old girl in Dhimal, Rawalpindi, for alleged harassment. The PTI has announced a public gathering at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on April 9.
The JUI-F leader, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, announced a protest against the increase in petroleum prices. In a briefing, it was stated that 15 electric vehicles will be provided to the Islamabad Traffic Police in the first phase. The Pakistan Meteorological Department has released its climate summary for March 2026.
According to the Karachi Meteorological Department, the minimum temperature in March was 2.7 degrees Celsius higher than normal. The driver of a car that collided with a motorcycle has been arrested.
A mechanism has been developed to provide subsidies to citizens on petroleum products. According to the Ministry of IT, there is an app for providing subsidies, and there will be no rationing of petrol.
The US President, Donald Trump, stated that the April 4 deadline is the final deadline, and the US military is the greatest military in the world.
According to an American newspaper, the mission was conducted during which the planes, which had landed on an inactive airbase, crashed into the ground, resulting in the destruction of the planes.
The Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif-headed meeting on petroleum products has decided to close bakeries, restaurants, and marriage halls at 10 pm from April 7.
According to the Israeli media, the Israeli defense system is failing due to repeated attacks from different directions, and it takes time to load interceptors.
A US Congressman compared the Sharif University to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the top technology universities in the US.
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