PM Sharif offers PTI fresh talks if it halts long march on Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said the government will sit down again with the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) only if it ends a march on Islamabad, as a convoy led by a provincial chief minister pushed on through the north-west towards the capital to demand the release of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan.
Guterres praises Pakistan’s mediation effort, urges US and Iran to return to diplomacy
ISLAMABAD: Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary general, has praised Pakistan’s “pivotal role” in mediating between the United States and Iran and told both sides from Islamabad to end the conflict, return to diplomacy and restore navigational rights under international law.
Four customs officials, policeman killed in attacks in Dera Ismail Khan
PESHAWAR: Four customs officials and a traffic policeman were shot dead in two separate attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, the same day security forces said they killed five militants in a raid in North Waziristan.
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
Petrol up, diesel down, price gap narrows to Re1
ISLAMABAD: The government raised petrol prices by Rs1.19 a liter and cut diesel by Rs1.91 on Tuesday, the latest adjustment under a daily pricing system that has left both fuels more than 40% above where they stood when the US-Iran war began on Feb. 28.
Pakistan test-fires longer-range version of Fatah-4 cruise missile
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has test-launched an extended version of its home-built Fatah-4 ground-launched cruise missile, the military said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of weapons tests this year.