Twelve soldiers among 15 dead as Taliban militants ram explosives-laden vehicle into Tank checkpost near Afghan border
PESHAWAR: Fifteen people, among them 12 soldiers, two police officers and a forestry official, were killed after militants stormed a joint security checkpost in northwestern Pakistan overnight, in an assault that has again exposed the scale of the militant threat facing the country’s western border regions.
As US-Iran conflict deepens, Pakistan explores a path back to talks
ISLAMABAD: Drones packed with explosives were shot down over the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Friday morning, the latest sign that the war between the United States and Iran is spilling ever further beyond Iranian territory nearly five months after it began.
Pakistan monsoon death toll rises to 86 as fresh flooding warning issued for weekend
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s monsoon death toll has climbed to 86 after five more people were killed in rain-related incidents over the past 24 hours, disaster management officials said on Friday, as forecasters warned that a fresh spell of heavy rain could bring urban flooding and flash floods to large parts of the country over the coming days.
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- 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 to import 1 million tons of wheat as prices surge, shortages spread
KARACHI: Pakistan will import one million tons of wheat and release existing government stockpiles to its provinces, as the South Asian nation grapples with a supply shortfall that has driven up flour prices and squeezed household budgets.
New nuclear oversight body gets its first chief as Pakistan’s military restructuring takes shape
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan promoted Lieutenant General Aamer Raza to four-star general on Friday and named him the first commander of the National Strategic Command, the newly established military body that will oversee the country’s nuclear arsenal and wider strategic capabilities.