After legal win in The Hague, Pakistan tells India at SCO not to weaponise water
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told leaders of a major Asian security bloc on Tuesday that water “must never be weaponised,” using a summit stage to press neighbouring India on a decades-old river-sharing treaty just a day after an international tribunal ruled that India could not unilaterally suspend it.
Five security personnel, customs official martyred in Balochistan attack; 21 militants killed
QUETTA: Five security personnel, including two officers, and one customs official were martyred overnight on Monday when militants stormed a customs facility in the country’s restive southwestern Balochistan province, part of a wave of violence that left 21 terrorists killed across two districts, the military said on Tuesday.
Pakistan court orders jail not to keep Imran Khan, wife in isolation
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court ruled on Tuesday that petitions alleging former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were being held in solitary confinement at Adiala jail could proceed, and ordered prison officials to ensure neither is kept in isolation going forward.
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 second Eurobond of 2026 tests investors’ appetite for longer debt
Pakistan is asking bond investors for a longer commitment this time. The government began marketing a dual-tranche dollar bond with five- and 10-year maturities on Tuesday, its second international debt sale this year and a bet that improving credit ratings will persuade money managers to hold its debt further out on the curve than they did in April.
Torrential rains paralyse twin cities, force school closures
ISLAMABAD: A punishing overnight deluge sent floodwaters surging through Pakistan’s twin cities on Tuesday, submerging roads, breaching sealed basements and pushing a critical drainage channel to its highest level in three years, prompting authorities to shutter schools and mobilise the army alongside emergency crews.