In Lahore abduction case, a minister’s family name and a scramble to contain the fallout
LAHORE: The car was supposed to be headed for the airport. That, at least, is what the man driving it had told the two women in the back seat, according to Lahore police: that a ransom had been paid, that they were free, that their ordeal was over.
Clashes erupt in part of Azad Kashmir amid regionwide strike, protests
MIRPUR: A general strike shut businesses across Azad Kashmir on Sunday and protesters clashed with police in several towns, as demonstrations organised by a banned political group entered their second month and a month-long internet blackout showed no sign of ending.
Air Force officer Tariq dies shielding stranger on Islamabad avenue
ISLAMABAD: Group Captain Asim Tariq had just left his house near Shaheen Chowk on Sunday, driving through the capital, when something on the road ahead made him turn around.
BITES
- 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’s June LNG prices jumped 15 percent after Gulf conflict hit Qatar supplies
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s energy regulator raised the price of regasified liquefied natural gas by roughly 15% for June, as the country’s two state-linked gas utilities were forced into costlier spot-market purchases after the war between the US and Iran disrupted contracted supplies from Qatar, Dawn newspaper reported on Monday.
Pakistan recalls Babar Azam as test captain for West Indies, England tours
LAHORE: Pakistan’s cricket selectors reinstated Babar Azam as Test captain on Sunday, naming him to lead the team on upcoming tours of the West Indies and England as the board seeks to arrest a decline in results under his predecessor.