Pakistan vows to use ‘whatever means’ to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthis
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has said it will use “whatever means are available” to defend Saudi Arabia against Iran-backed Houthi rebels, signalling that the nuclear-armed country could be drawn directly into the widening Middle East conflict.
Emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa “seriously” under consideration, minister says
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is “seriously considering” declaring an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a senior minister has said, escalating a confrontation with the opposition-run province days before Imran Khan’s party marches on the capital.
Pakistan works to bring home bodies of sailors killed by Somali pirates
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Pakistan said on Wednesday it was working to repatriate the bodies of three sailors killed by Somali pirates, and to bring home the survivors of the hijacked oil tanker MT Honour 25, a day after Puntland forces retook the vessel following five months of captivity.
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 weighs letting private firms import LNG directly
KARACHI: Pakistan is considering allowing power plants and other private companies to import liquefied natural gas directly, a move that would loosen the state’s hold on LNG procurement as the government tries to shore up supplies without straining public finances, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
Punjab reschedules Basant for January and lengthens festival threefold
LAHORE: Lahore’s kite festival Basant will run for 10 days next year, a sharp extension of the revival held in February, after Punjab’s chief minister approved a new schedule on Wednesday.