Iran insists Pakistan remains lead mediator with US, as Trump threatens Tehran with ‘total surrender’
ISLAMABAD: Iran on Monday moved to quash speculation that China had stepped in as a mediator with the United States, insisting that Pakistan remains the principal channel for indirect contacts between Tehran and Washington, even as President Donald Trump accused the Islamic Republic of “duplicity” for denying that talks were taking place.
AJK election body says PML-N wins 14 of 18 seats as coalition ally PPP cries foul
MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan’s ruling party moved a step closer to forming the next government in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, after unofficial results from the second phase of the territory’s legislative elections handed the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz 14 of the 18 seats declared, extending a lead that has now drawn sustained allegations of rigging from its main rival — and coalition partner in Islamabad — the Pakistan Peoples Party.
Pakistani Taliban claims Swat police station bombing that killed 17
SWAT: The death toll from a suicide bombing outside a police station in Swat Valley rose to 17 on Monday, as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for an attack that struck during a rally against lawlessness in the restive region.
BITES
- Mobile broadband services restoredÂ
- 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 July inflation cools to single digits, but energy risks cloud outlook
KARACHI: Pakistan’s consumer prices rose 9.2% in July from a year earlier, a slowdown from June’s pace that nonetheless left policymakers wary that higher energy costs could reignite inflationary pressures across South Asia’s second-largest economy.
UAE resumes visit visas for Pakistani families as months-long delays begin to ease
ISLAMABAD: The United Arab Emirates has resumed issuing visit visas to Pakistani nationals who apply through registered travel agents, according to industry representatives and an embassy official, bringing relief after months of delays that had unsettled one of Pakistan’s most important travel and remittance corridors.