Pakistan delivers sealed message to Iran’s wounded supreme leader as Middle East war enters its 100th day
ISLAMABAD: A sealed brown envelope changed hands in Tehran on Sunday. In it, according to Iranian state media, was a written message from Pakistan’s prime minister addressed to Iran’s supreme leader — a man who has not been seen in public since he was wounded in the opening hours of a war that has now dragged on for one hundred days.
Gilgit-Baltistan goes to the polls for first time in six years as PPP cries foul over missing vote count forms
GILGIT: Polling for Gilgit-Baltistan’s legislative assembly concluded on Sunday after a day of largely uninterrupted voting across one of Pakistan’s most strategically significant and geographically forbidding territories — though the relative calm of the contest itself was punctured almost immediately as the Pakistan Peoples Party began alleging systematic attempts to withhold vote count documentation and manipulate the result.
AJK Supreme Court rules refugee assembly seats can only be removed by elected parliament — not by protest
MUZAFFARABAD: The Supreme Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir has delivered a pointed constitutional rebuke to a banned protest movement demanding the abolition of reserved seats for Kashmiri refugees, ruling that the twelve contested places in the region’s legislative assembly enjoy full constitutional protection and can be removed only through formal parliamentary amendment — not through street agitation or political pressure.
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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, Saudi Arabia sign deal to develop 140-acre Karachi Port waterfront
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has signed a preliminary agreement with a Saudi-linked investment group and two domestic firms to explore developing a 140-acre commercial district on prime waterfront land controlled by the Karachi Port Trust, as Islamabad deepens its courtship of Gulf capital for large-scale infrastructure.
Temperatures to hit 51°C as Pakistan faces severe heatwave through mid-June
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national weather authority issued a sweeping heatwave warning Saturday covering most of the country, forecasting temperatures that in some districts of Sindh and Balochistan could climb as high as 51 degrees Celsius — a level of heat that poses acute risks to human life — and cautioning that the scorching conditions would persist through at least June 12.