Pakistan backs Saudi Arabia after Houthi drone strike near Al-Masjid an-Nabawi
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has condemned a drone attack on a power distribution station that supplies electricity to the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, calling it a “grave provocation” and reaffirming its support for Saudi Arabia as fighting in Yemen intensifies.
Military warns of ‘decisive force’ against any repeat of May 9 violence days before Imran Khan’s party marches on Islamabad
Pakistan’s most senior army officers have warned that any attempt to stir unrest or recreate the violence of 9 May 2023 will be met with “decisive force”, days before the party of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan sets out on a march towards the capital.
Govt, PTI talks stretch into weekend with Khan’s party still set on Islamabad march
ISLAMABAD: The coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the party of jailed former premier Imran Khan ended their first day of talks on Friday without agreement, with the two sides due to meet again on Saturday afternoon ahead of the party’s planned march on Islamabad the following day.
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’s September trade gap widens to $3.56 billion on faster import growth
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s merchandise trade deficit widened in September as a rebound in exports failed to keep pace with a larger rise in imports, leaving the shortfall for the first three months of the fiscal year more than $1.4 billion wider than a year earlier.
Lahore named world’s most polluted major city again, days after chief minister claims “less smog”
LAHORE: Lahore was ranked the most polluted major city in the world on Friday morning, as its air quality fell into the “unhealthy” category and Punjab’s government ordered emergency anti-smog operations across the city’s worst-hit districts.