Singapore praises Pakistan’s Gulf mediation on first foreign minister visit in two decades
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Singapore’s foreign minister has publicly thanked Pakistan for its mediation in the Gulf crisis, telling his counterpart in Islamabad on Friday
Pakistan destroys Afghan Taliban border posts in fresh clashes
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army destroyed several Afghan Taliban posts near South Waziristan and Parachinar, state media reported on Friday, the latest flare-up on a border where fighting has persisted for months.
CDA gives Maulana Fazlur Rehman 15 days to remove alleged encroachments from Islamabad home
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has given 15 days for alleged encroachments to be removed from the Islamabad home of Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief, in a move his party calls political retaliation.
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 offers Saudi Arabia tax-free oil storage to hedge Hormuz risk
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan offered Saudi Arabia tax-free space to store oil on its territory, pitching itself as a hedge against disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea.
Home from India’s prisons, the fishermen who strayed across a sea border
KARACHI: Eleven Pakistani fishermen who spent between four and nine years in Indian jails after their boats strayed into Indian waters were reunited with their families in Karachi on Friday.