President Zardari signs off on emergency, governor’s rule in Imran Khan-Party stronghold of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistan imposed an emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, a sharp escalation in the federal government’s standoff with the opposition party that runs the northwestern province, after President Asif Ali Zardari approved a recommendation from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s cabinet.
Pakistan deploys army to province under emergency rule, Peshawar sealed off
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: The federal government has authorised the deployment of army troops and assets across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, hours after imposing emergency and governor’s rule in the province run by Imran Khan’s party.
PTI says Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister, provincial president arrested hours after emergency rule
By Staff Reporter PESHAWAR: Leaders of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said on Sunday that the party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister, Sohail Afridi, and its
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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
Aurangzeb courts investors, rating firms at IMF-World Bank gathering in Bangkok after Fund staff deal
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is heading to Bangkok for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank with
Pakistan says 12 militants killed in attempted border infiltration in Kurram
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army said on Sunday that 12 militants and Afghan Taliban fighters had been killed and one of its own soldiers was martyred when troops repelled an attempt to cross the border from Afghanistan into Kurram district.