Trump and Iran sign Islamabad accord to end four-month war — with Pakistan taking a bow
ISLAMABAD: Donald Trump put his signature to a ceasefire agreement with Iran at a candlelit dinner in the Palace of Versailles on Wednesday night, bringing to a formal close a four-month conflict that has convulsed energy markets, stoked inflation and pushed the Middle East to the edge of a broader catastrophe — while warning, in the same breath, that he was ready to resume bombing if Tehran failed to comply.
Six militants killed in twin counter-terrorism raids across Pakistan’s restive northwest
PESHAWAR: The security forces have killed six suspected militants in two separate intelligence-led operations across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday night, as authorities pressed ahead with a campaign against the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan network.
Nine-year-old Australian girl struck by ten bullets as police officers open fire on family car in case of mistaken identity
CHAKWAL: A post-mortem examination has confirmed that Hania Ahmed, a nine-year-old Australian national killed during a botched police operation in Pakistan last week, sustained ten gunshot wounds — five bullets, each passing clean through her small body, leaving both entry and exit wounds.
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 gets $700 million ADB loan to fix one of Asia’s most underpenetrated insurance markets
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank has approved a $700 million policy-based loan to restructure Pakistan’s chronically underdeveloped insurance sector, the Manila-based lender said, as Islamabad accelerates a push to modernise financial markets that remain almost entirely dominated by banks.
Pakistan maps 130 dangerous glacial lakes as El Niño threatens to deepen climate crisis
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s space agency has identified 130 glacial lakes capable of unleashing catastrophic floods on downstream communities, as the country simultaneously faces warnings of a weakened monsoon season, intensifying heatwaves and drought driven by the onset of El Niño.