Pakistan’s army chief heads to Tehran in new push to revive US-Iran peace talks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, will travel to Tehran on Monday for talks with senior Iranian officials, according to a statement from Iran’s foreign ministry, in the latest sign that Islamabad is trying to keep alive a fragile diplomatic channel between Washington and Tehran even as the two governments show little appetite for direct talks.
Dar heads to London as hostage crisis with Somali pirates drags on
ISLAMABAD: Ishaq Dar, the deputy prime minister and foreign minister, will travel to the United Kingdom this week for a five-day diplomatic mission that will put him face to face with the officials he hopes can help free ten Pakistani sailors still held captive by Somali pirates more than four months after their ship was seized.
Snowstorm strands rescue team, delays return of mountaineer Asma Mushtaq’s body from Karakoram peak
GILGIT: A punishing snowstorm swept across one of Pakistan’s most formidable peaks on Sunday, driving back a six-member rescue team for the second time in three days and leaving the body of a British-trained Pakistani physician stranded above 20,000 feet, more than 72 hours after she collapsed during her descent from the summit.
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 opens crypto licensing regime, bets on blockchain to cut remittance costs
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan formally launched a licensing regime for virtual asset firms on Saturday, a step officials cast as the foundation for a broader effort to route billions of dollars in remittances and trade finance through blockchain-based systems.
Cricket greats urge Pakistan PM to honour court order on Imran Khan’s medical care
Twenty-two former international cricketers, including 21 who captained their countries, have written to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, urging his government to comply fully with a Supreme Court order on the medical treatment of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan.