Pakistan warns Iran to rein in Houthis as Saudi attacks escalate, testing new defence pact
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has delivered a pointed warning to Iran to restrain its Houthi allies in Yemen, after a surge of missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia left dozens wounded and threatened to pull the newly formed Makkah Defence Alliance into its first real test.
Family detentions mark escalating crackdown ahead of PTI march
ISLAMABAD: Police in Punjab province have detained elderly parents and siblings of opposition activists who evaded arrest, including a 93-year-old man held until officials were informed of his failing health, as authorities mount an escalating campaign to stop a nationwide protest planned for Sept. 27, local media reported.
Lahore High Court halts order to expel Afghan medical students
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court judge on Friday suspended government directives ordering Afghan medical students to leave Pakistan, granting at least temporary relief to 13 students who argued they had been expelled from their colleges without being given a chance to respond.
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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 heads into IMF review with revenue and reform gaps
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is preparing for a pivotal encounter with the International Monetary Fund this month, as a staff mission arrives to assess whether the South Asian nation has done enough to keep its $7 billion bailout on track despite a persistent revenue shortfall and stalled anti-corruption reforms.
Cricketer Rizwan, Haq grilled by cyber crime agency over alleged dressing-room leaks
LAHORE: Two of Pakistan’s most prominent cricketers, Mohammad Rizwan and Imam-ul-Haq, presented themselves before the country’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency in Lahore on Thursday, as officials pressed ahead with an inquiry into alleged leaks from the team’s dressing room during its troubled tour of England.