Iran, US agree halt to attacks, Doha talks set for Tuesday amid Hormuz standoff
ISLAMABAD: Iran and the United States have agreed to halt military strikes against each other and will meet in Qatar on Tuesday for direct negotiations over control of the Strait of Hormuz, US media reported on Sunday, offering a fragile opening after one of the most dangerous weekends of a conflict that has shaken global energy markets and rattled shipping throughout the Gulf.
Pakistan strikes Afghan border targets, kills 29 militants after Karachi Rangers attack
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed 29 militants in an intelligence-led ground operation and precision air strikes along the Afghan border overnight, the government said on Sunday, retaliating hours after gunmen attacked a paramilitary camp in Karachi and killed three soldiers.
Arrested attacker says Karachi Rangers camp attack planned from Afghanistan, trained by militant group
KARACHI: An injured militant captured after a deadly assault on a Pakistan Rangers camp in Karachi has told interrogators that he and his accomplices were trained in Afghanistan and crossed into Pakistan under a logistics network organised by the banned Jamaat-ul-Ahrar group, security sources said on Sunday.
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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
Pakistan eyes Iranian crude as US sanctions waiver opens supply window
LAHORE: Pakistan is weighing the purchase of discounted Iranian crude oil and gas following the easing of US sanctions on Tehran under a landmark ceasefire agreement brokered by Islamabad, Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik said on Sunday.
Pakistan orders mass arrest of undocumented Afghans from July 10, demands daily deportation tallies
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry has ordered the immediate arrest of any Afghan national found in the country without a valid visa from July 10, in the most explicit enforcement directive yet issued under a deportation campaign that has already displaced more than a million people in the past year alone.