Iran shuts Strait of Hormuz again as Israel kills 32 in Lebanon — and the peace deal teeters
ISLAMABAD: Iran announced on Saturday that it was once again closing the Strait of Hormuz to maritime traffic, citing Israel’s relentless bombardment of southern Lebanon as a violation of the memorandum of understanding signed with the United States only days ago.
Pakistan shoots down Afghan drone as Kabul’s ‘airstrike’ claims dismissed as propaganda
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has shot down an Afghan Taliban drone that crossed into its airspace on Friday, hours after Kabul claimed its air force had struck Islamic State hideouts inside Pakistani territory — claims Islamabad dismissed as deliberate disinformation from a regime it accuses of sheltering the very groups it claims to be targeting.
Twin blasts in Bannu kill seven after militants target passengers, then their rescuers
ISLAMABAD: Seven civilians have been killed and three others wounded in twin bomb attacks on passenger vehicles in a remote mountain district of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in an assault deliberately timed to strike not only ordinary travellers but those rushing to their aid.
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- 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 bets on bond markets as Gulf alliances show signs of strain
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is preparing to raise more than $4.5 billion from international bond markets and foreign commercial banks in the coming fiscal year — a sharp and deliberate pivot away from the bilateral financing arrangements with Gulf states and China that have kept the country solvent for much of the past decade.
Four PTI leaders jailed for decade over May 9 riots as Qureshi walks free
LAHORE: Four senior leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have been sentenced to ten years in prison each by an anti-terrorism court in Lahore, while former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was acquitted on Saturday in the latest verdict to emerge from the country’s sweeping judicial reckoning over the May 9, 2023 riots.