Regional powers and European allies pledge diplomacy over force after first joint Istanbul talks
ISLAMABAD: Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Egypt and their counterparts from Britain, France, Germany and Italy have agreed on the “urgent need” to tackle the Middle East’s conflicts through dialogue, diplomacy and de-escalation, after talks in Istanbul.
Pakistan rejects former US envoy Khalilzad’s claim it is arming Afghans to fight the Taliban
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dismissed claims by Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington’s former special representative for Afghanistan, that it is arming Afghans to fight the Taliban, accusing him of using “baseless and misleading allegations” to serve a personal agenda.
Pakistan condemns “heinous” attack on church funeral in Jordan that killed seven
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has condemned the “heinous terrorist attack” on a funeral procession at a church in Jordan’s Karak governorate, in which seven people were killed, and pledged its solidarity with Amman.
BITES
- Mobile broadband services restored
- LPG prices rise by 29.2pc for February
- Cabinet swells to 75 members
- Govt allows TCP to import wheat via all ports
- World Bank approves $200 million in loan for Punjab’s farm development project
- PM Sharif’s party decides to get tough on hecklers
- Apex court overturns PHC ban on poultry exports
- Shahbaz Gill declined bail
- IHC disposes of PTI employees petition against FIA notices
- Rupee plumbs new lows against dollar
- Punjab gets new policy chief
- Loans under Mera Ghar scheme to continue
- Senior army official shot dead in Balochistan rescue operation
- Bani Gala Firing: Man shot, wounded by PTI leader’s gunman
- Turkish commander calls on CJCSC
- Inquiry commission to probe reasons of energy crisis
- ANP set to fly Sharif’s coop
- Member Communist Party of China calls on COAS
- CHE to be renamed, HQ shifted to Karachi
- Pakistan to import high-quality Afghan coal in rupees
- IHC chucks plea to interfere with legislation
- Saudi Arabia confers King Abdulaziz medal on General Bajwa
- Interior Minister no-show at drugs case hearing
- Pakistan hopes early, successful visit by FATF team
- Pakistan commiserates with Afghanistan over quake, flood destruction
Pakistan reopens Gabd-Rimdan border crossing with Iran, freeing stranded LPG trucks – report
QUETTA: Pakistan reopened its Gabd-Rimdan crossing with Iran to commercial traffic on Saturday, freeing liquefied petroleum gas tankers and food trucks that had been stranded for a week, Dawn newspaper reported.
Sindh forms intelligence-backed inquiry into Mir Raza Ali killing police called suicide
KARACHI: The Sindh government has formed a joint investigation team, led by a senior police officer and including representatives of Pakistan’s main intelligence agencies, to investigate the murder of Karachi entrepreneur Mir Raza Ali, whose death police first declared a suicide.